If you put in your newscast that President Trump says he will “probably“not run again, and then you don’t follow it by saying he is constitutionally barred from doing so, you are failing.

Before they remove her page, here is Dr. Erika McEntarfer's BLS bio page. She's a 20-year career official PhD labor economist.

Circle this date.

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Monday night’s one hour rainfall in NYC ranked 2nd…Only behind Ida. That this happened without a tropical system is significant and shows our new reality. The top 3 wettest one hour rainfalls for NYC in the past 156 years have all happened in the past four years.

With Pete Hegseth in the pews, a Christian nationalist church plant launches in DC WASHINGTON (RNS) — Christ Kirk DC is the latest example of pastor Doug Wilson's growing sphere of influence among a cadre of conservatives sometimes described as the 'New Right.'

NEW from me: My dispatch from the first worship service of Christian nationalist Doug Wilson’s new church plant in DC over the weekend, where Pete Hegseth sat near the front and the pastor preached beneath an American flag.

“Worship is warfare,” the pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/07/14/w...

This Is The Beginning of The End of The 9/11 Era Capital and nativism will fight even harder against Zohran Mamdani now. But in capital's seat of power, socialism defeated barbarism. I fucking love New York

@timmiller.bsky.social it would be top 10 brilliant to welcome @attackerman.bsky.social to the pod and get a substantially different view

www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...

this is media theory class folks. please watch. it isnt 1992 anymore.

OMB's Russell Vought, the Christian 'nation-ist' driving Project 2025 and DOGE WASHINGTON (RNS) — The director of the US budget has declared that Christians should be 'stewards of a blessing that has been God-given: to live in this land, this particular land.'

NEW from me: A deep dive into OMB Director Russell Vought — specifically, how his plan to reshape the government is rooted in a specific ideology: Christian nationalism.

Also, his favorite religious quote from an early president may be, uh…not true. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/r...

LA is YouTube
New York is TikTok
DC is LinkedIn
Chicago is Bluesky
Miami is Instagram
Phoenix is Facebook
San Francisco is NextDoor
Salt Lake City is Pornhub
Berlin's Führerbunker in 1945 is Twitter

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

Here is three straight minutes of Donald Trump saying things will be happening “in two weeks” (spoiler alert: none of them ever happened)

Since we’re discussing how stupid the Iraq War era was, here’s a photo of a ballpark concession in South Carolina in *2006*.

sign reading NO FRENCH PRODUCTS SOLD HERE, "GOD BLESS AMERICA"

since younger people are asking how shockingly stupid things were in 2003, may I present to you this circa-03 sign that I bought from a local restaurant and their (unrelated) going out of business sale a few years later

Get your war on 1 #1 A three panel comic showing a white clipart business man having a phone conversation with a Black clipart businessman sitting at a computer. Panel 1: White man says "Oh yeah! Operation Enduring Freedom is in the house" Panel 2: Black man says "Oh yeah! Operation Enduring Our Freedom is in the motherfucking house! Panel 3: White man says "Yes! Operation: Enduring Our Freedom to Bomb the Living Fuck Out of You is in the house!!!

There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes.

A clipart comic called Get Your War On.

Click on through:
www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...

yeah baby the old iraq war hits ARE BACK

"Was this posted somewhere because I would be horrified? Yikes?"

Yesterday it seemed that Meta tried to clean this feature up, but it did not. This morning, I heard audio of a woman asking the AI what the statute of limitations for domestic violence is in Indiana and a depressed person explaining why she was depressed, followed by this:

Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a worse actor than Meta, or a worse product that the AI Discover feed.

Meta's AI discover feed is (still!) leaking user conversations with its AI. With its scale/import in shaping people's perception of reality, it is hard to think of a worse actor in the AI space than Meta, or to imagine a more invasive, user-hostile product than this

www.404media.co/meta-invents...

US Attorney says it is "way too speculative" to assign motive to Vance Boelter's actions.

Yes, speculation is not helpful AND there are clear threads laying in plain sight for us to consider. There is a violent strand in American Christianity that is NOT universal, but keeps showing itself. See @jeffsharlet.bsky.social latest: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966. Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:

“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Was it this one?

There’s a great Lucas Zelnick standup crowd work incident about this…

Two seriously news organizations, probably more that I haven’t seen, referring to Afrikaners as refugees feels like confirmation we are living in the worst doublespeak simulation

SV elites: we should use tech and AI to revolutionize education (but their kids go to private schools that don't do this), college isn't important (but their kids go to the best ones), and everyone's jobs can/should be replaced (but not the ones for them or their kids)

This is true, but the larger scam pattern (web3/metaverse/crypto/etc) is what many of us are trying to give voice to — folks have to recognize that letting those bad actors define "tech" is just like media letting bad actors frame every other "debate". It's losing before we even start.

Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Was Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects A federal judge in Louisiana said the deportation of the child to Honduras with her mother, even though her father had filed an emergency petition, appeared to be “illegal and unconstitutional.”

The cruelty is the point.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...