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The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition

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They protested outdoor dining and open streets. They can't stand people enjoying the city. They don't want more housing or more people. It's the lower case c conservativism inherent in a decent number of people who have lived here their whole lives. I'll never understand it.

emerging reports about possibly imminent US military attack on venezuela. there can be no doubt about it, certainly not in the coverage: such an attack would be an act of aggression, lacking any basis in international law. we'll get sophistic arguments about self-defense but none will be legit.

Holocaust history shows LGBTQ+ people have always been their own heroes Queer historians are using LGBTQ+ History Month to reflect on the often forgotten but powerful resistance against the Nazis.

It is unknown just how many LGBTQ+ people were detained or died in concentration camps during World War II. But contrary to often dominant perceptions, many were women and nonbinary.

Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape.

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When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

The predictable path to this was in part paved by big liberal electeds, responding to liberal voter demands, doing softer gentler less ambitious versions of this, and expecting that the other party wouldn’t have the pornographic version to the Dems’ erotica

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

Really excellent @tressiemcphd.bsky.social this morning on Platner:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

The far left have taken control of the Democratic party platform, and it’s turning voters off Research reveals a disconnect between Democratic elites and voters, and recommends that the party shift away from far-left issues and focus on affordability and public safety.

I'd like you to show me ANY U.S. journalism coverage of this report that mentions the electorate's beliefs (especially what dems stand for) are primarily being shaped by a massive and hugely effective right wing propaganda campaign across AM radio, local broadcast TV, cable, and the internet

We live in a country where the media is focused more on who a Democratic mayoral candidate defines as his ‘aunt’ than on the DHS Twitter account putting out white nationalist propaganda and replying to Nazis online.

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

(6) This idea that democrats should abandon trans people and immigrants and climate change (in 2025!) is just unconscionably dumb.

Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.

Try standing for something. See how it feels.

TAPPER: What do you hear from trans individuals who maybe aren't as outspoken as you are, but see ads like this during the 2024 election cycle? Because we should know this isn't just a one-off. I think this is one of the main ads the Trump campaign airs. MOLLOY: Yeah, I mean, they've spent tens of millions of dollars doing this. And it's not just the Trump campaign. It's Republicans across the country have been running ads making these similar points. They see trans people as a small group of just 1% of the population who's easy to demonize. And in talking to trans people, they've been very frustrated to deal with this. It's made a lot of people I know scared. And one thing that people are worried about is if the election does go to Trump, the trans people will be blamed for this outcome.

One year ago, I went on CNN and expressed my concern that if Harris lost after not defending trans people that somehow the takeaway would still be that trans people were the reason. I hate being right! www.readtpa.com/p/watch-the-...

even the democratic consultants are evaluating the democratic party according to the caricatures put out by republican-aligned media

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes

a day in an american life

You're a regular person, not a pollster or pundit. You can just post whatever the heck you want on social media and you can stick to your principles, lol.

Yes, they’re using the shutdown to turn off SNAP benefits.

No, they don’t have to.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

CNN Boss Ordered Teardown Censorship After West Wing Visit CNN CEO said to be the latest media boss bending the knee before Donald Trump.

CNN chief Mark Thompson reportedly told the cable network’s reporters to ease up on coverage of the demolition of the White House’s East Wing after a visit to the White House.

What do these corporate donors expect in return for their money?

It looks like bribery for special favors from the Trump administration.

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?

If I have to hear one more time about what Ezra Klein, a man who said to Ta-Nehisi Coates "I don’t know what my role is anymore," has to say about politics I stg. He said, in so many words, he doesn't know what he's doing! A couple of weeks ago he said this!

i think i would honestly find this whole discourse more tolerable if people simply said what they were actually saying, which is that they think the Democratic Party is too associated with femininity (and secondarily, with black people) and that they want to correct this

Is removing Nazi tattoos too woke? We asked some Germans living in Argentina.

ah but i was told the administration would be good on antitrust

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

Obama wore a tan suit.

Back when I was infiltrating early Nazi Telegram, I very quickly came to the conclusion that it is outright DANGEROUS to cultivate on-background relationships with Nazis as sources.

Because I encountered too many researchers who were clearly compromised as a result of that sort of contact.

I for one and pretty sick of the “I voted for the Trump in my imagination” excuse.

Voters are never going to study policy statements on websites; that’s not a realistic standard. But if you can’t even get the vague *gist* of what a candidate wants to do, that’s a You problem. Skill issue.

Whenever you hear someone invoke the unitary executive, remember the image below.

This was an inevitable result of the unitary executive theory:
Empowering a president to tyrannically destroy institutions that ensured our government reflects the rule of law rather than his personal whim.