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X post by Jeff Flake captioned, "C'mon, fellow Republicans, we're better than this." Image is screenshot of CNN with chyron, "Trump posts fake, AI video of Jeffries & Schumer"

This post is getting ratioed on X because all the Democrats are like "no they're not" and all the Republicans are like "no we're not"

Imagine getting owned this hard by Hakeem Jeffries

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals QUANTICO, VA—Racking his brain for answers as he gazed out at the high-ranking officers gathered before him, a visibly hungover Pete Hegseth reportedly struggled Tuesday to remember exactly how he end...

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

The War on the Woke Trumps the Truth for Many Heterodox Thinkers Their flagship publication, The Free Press’, failure to correct an error-filled defense of George Floyd’s killer demonstrates that they are just another partisan tribe

In any event, if you want a sense of what kind of journalistic standards CBS will now have, here's @radleybalko.bsky.social's detailed takedown at @theunpopulist.net about how her Free Press pushes diatribes riddled with falsehoods, to which the response was basically 'how dare you fact check us.'

The shamelessness is the point. There are plenty of hacks out there nobody's ever heard of but who on paper have reasonable credentials for the job, and would do all the same Trump-friendly distortion of their coverage. But you have to make a show of subservience, a spectacle of your bootlicking.

Here’s 3 full minutes of @kaitlancollins trying to get @SpeakerJohnson to admit undocumented people can’t get federal health care, and Johnson repeating the lie over and over anyway.

Republicans are kicking people off insurance then lying about who they’re doing it to.

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.

I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

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Death of CBS News as a legitimate news organization. It’ll basically be OANN after.

AOC: "This will experiences the consequences of this, but we have to be the consequence. Which is why we have to stand tall right now alongside everyday Americans who want us to be standing up."

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

My whole life I was told that the left hates America, but it’s MAGA that declared war on American cities.

DHS said “defund the police” (w alt text added)

Rep. AOC: This is not a fight over tax credits. This is a fight over your ability to go to a pharmacy and afford your insulin. When Republicans use a legislative mechanism to gut the American health care system, we have to use a legislative mechanism in order to restore it

Can anyone explain the value of having someone on a panel show that just casually lies like this? What benefit is it to the audience? This isn't a difference of opinion on whether cutting taxes will be stimulatory or something, its just outright lying about objective reality.

A surprising defining text for the modern right is PATTON (1970). Ronald Reagan said it was his favorite movie of all time. In the first act of the movie, Patton turns a defeated army of losers into killing machines by forcing them to tuck in their shirts and show up on time for meals.

Trump defund police

The Catholic Church is more in line with science than the current administration and holy shit

U.S. soybean exports are gone for good. They're not coming back. But this isn't the 1st time America has been burned by idiotic agricultural policies. In the lead up to the Civil War, the South played a cotton gambit that backfired so that Egypt became the world's leading cotton exporter...

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

as long as you "earnestly" stacked Gitmo inmates into a naked pyramid "for the clicks," you're cool with me, says Pete "I do my best drinking at work" Hegseth

Trump effectively declared civil war today. He told the top brass of the military that there's a war within Democratic-run cities and it's their mission to fight it. The whole performance was so ridiculous it takes a while for the gravity of that to sink in.

BREAKING: A second Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has been disqualified after a federal judge ruled her appointment invalid.

Sigal Chattah is out as US attorney in Nevada, just like Alina Habba in NJ: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism There are growing signs that American civil society is becoming more vulnerable to the president’s preferences and dictates – something that happens in authoritarian countries.

Civil society helps uphold democracy and provides built-in resistance to authoritarianism
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My thoughts exactly

The Ukrainian military—the toughest, most experienced, most adaptable, most successful on the modern battlefield—is beardy old men, women, artists, gamers who can’t deadlift sh*t but can fly a drone into a Russian helicopter rotor

Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory

You don’t have to swallow frogs Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played.

I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]

"no more superficial individual expression"