Kellie Lynch

Andrew Harnik’s photo of President Trump staring into the distance looking unconcerned while people attend to a man having a medical emergency behind him. The man on the ground is labeled “America,” and the people trying to help him are labeled “Democrats,” “Leftists,” “Ethical Republicans,” and “Other Countries.”

I’m in my 40s; I’m allowed to do lame political cartoon memes now.

A screenshot from the animated Disney film The Lion King, showing young Simba curled up next to dead Mufasa. In the foreground is Donald Trump, from Andrew Harnik’s photo of Trump after a man passed out during his press conference. Trump is staring vacantly into the middle distance, looking vaguely annoyed at the situation.

Thank you, Saint Harnik of Getty, for this bountiful meme.

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’

This company has a stock market valuation of $1.6 trillion. More jaw-dropping reporting by @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

“I’m in the ‘Hitler sucks’ wing of the Republican Party,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said over the weekend at the R.J.C. event. “Here’s what I do know: You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things. It’s a free country.”

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

There seriously needs to be a study about how the everyday life friction of increased grift and enshittification in every aspect of life weighs on people’s institutional trust and what effects they may have on political attitudes and participation.

I feel privileged I was one of the few to see it!

Hey, remind me what happened after the Roaring 20s?

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible

I keep thinking, “If they only knew ___, they would understand.” But when I try to tell them, it just rolls off their back. They don’t engage with it at all, they just cling to their misinformation.

I’m mired in this right now. A bunch of polite right-wingers have followed me on TikTok, and trying to reach out to them is maddening. Invariably they’re either so irrationally scared of one thing that it overrides everything else, or completely misinformed and unable to accept their info is wrong.

I’ve had a recent influx of “decent” right-wing followers on TikTok, and I’m trying to reach out to them and finding the same thing. All their political decisions are driven by misinformation (disinformation, really) and fear, and logic can’t reach them. Feels like talking to my schizophrenic mom.

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.

FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

The general inclination to stick one’s head in the sand and pretend that being “not political” is a morally justified position that puts you above the bullshit of Washington is pure centrist masturbation.
Everything is political. Ignoring it makes you a sap, not a sage.

My tinfoil hat theory is they keep the government shut down and hope they can keep Weekend at Bernie’s-ing Trump until January, when Vance can step in, stay in office for 2 years, and still be eligible to run for 2 more terms.

Literally.

no one has ever been more relatable answering a question about AI

So the president took a dementia test, and then they administered an MRI. Where’s the media on this?

A lot of Americans would love to talk about kitchen table issues, unfortunately the kitchen table is being used to barricade the front door because ICE is trying to illegally enter private property to arrest and detain them.

COATES: “Trump’s saying, ‘Y’all, I’m just gonna kill people.’ And the Greatest Deliberative Body has nothing to say about it. Y’all are punk, y’all are cowards.”

What Zohran Mamdani Learned as an Africana Studies Major at Bowdoin

it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way

Pope Leo quietly dying inside.

“A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe…”

Financial Times headline says “critics accuse” Trump of extrajudicial killings

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

The #Liz48 Plan: This Is How We Remove Them—Legally, Quickly, and Nonviolently The way to get rid of Trump—and his entire corrupt, inept Administration—is to cut the line of presidential succession. Here's the entire ten-step process.

File this under “ideas @gregolear.bsky.social has that sound great in theory but will never happen IRL.” This plan is not perfect. But it’s a plan that would work, under current U.S. law. Interesting read.

open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

Using AI slop to make anti-oligarchy memes is a special kind of irony.

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.