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we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Imagine if Obama had said this in front of military personnel about Republicans.

Every Trump speech now produces approximately two dozen 30-second clips peppering the feed that each alone should trigger impeachment or 25th amendment proceedings and are indistinguishable from what your worst uncle would produce if he had any idea how to make ai-generated videos

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.

"Oh yeah? Oh yeah, you say Hungry Hungry Hippos aren't _alive_? Then why are they HUNGRY, then? Checkmate, hater."

I don't remember NYT pieces ever asking whether Furbies had emotions, or whether Teddy Ruxpins could feel pain. But "is a.i. alive" is exactly that discourse, just with different buzzwords.

Solenoids do not grant emotions. "Tokens" do not grant sentience. Stop being weird and gullible.

When talking about the batshit beliefs ppl have about "a.i.", I don't know how much blame to assign to the mainstream and tech press but it's certainly not zero. Infinite pieces credulously pondering whether a fuzzy search algorithm has sentience.

if Kash can go back years and fire people for kneeling or displaying a pride flag the absolute least the next Dem admin can do is fire every one of these assholes who are assaulting people on camera

(and then prosecute them)

Some additional translated excerpts of Macron’s remarks:

Endless knee-bending in ways large and small. So much criticism and opposition now being silenced in ways large and small across society for fear of retaliation - goes well beyond "politics" as such.

Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie Best thing about government shutdowns… no chemtrails.

I...uh..wtf, Kentucky?

Both SCOTUS and WH aides are advancing these agendas despite Trump himself being checked out. Does Trump even remember what "TPS" means? Does he care? The justices seem more interested in enabling petty lawlessness for its own sake.

The legitimacy of the power of courts depends on their giving of legal reasons for their decisions. Lacking any democratic authorization, the absence of reasons means it's naked power being asserted, which relieves us of any obligation to obey. We may comply for prudence's sake, but we don't have to

Weeks before his death, you say?

Changing the US motto to "FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT" is extremely Idiocracy.

This is heinous, unforgivable behavior. This is systemic child abuse. This is flagrant disregard for children's humanity and fundamental rights. It is a policy that reveals the thoroughgoing moral depravity of its authors.

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality.

2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

So past few days, he admitted to Gov Kotek he was watching fake videos, then Schumer thought he didn't know about cuts to health care

Now this. All in past week. Trump is clueless. He's not running the place. Who is? Miller. Vought

Not him

it makes me incandescently furious that roberts invented the idea of banning coercive conditions on funding to kill medicaid expansion and refuses to do a single thing about the fact that the trump administration's entire deal is "coercive conditions on funding"

Scammers are using video deepfakes of journalists to peddle products online Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them?

Deepfakes of broadcast journalists are spreading across social media. Many of them are ads selling cryptocurrencies, gambling apps, and snake oil medicines.

Meanwhile, social media companies like Meta profit off the ad dollars. My latest @niemanlab.org. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/scam...

Between this, the epstein list, obsession with trans kids playing sports, & neverending conspiracy theories about what's going on in schoolsin general, you realize that the primary concern of the Republican party and its supporters is their deep desire to abuse children

I'm mad about a lot of things (ha! ha!) but the sheer number of journalists who wrote "There are no plans to implement Project 2025" under the grounds of "well, Trump says there aren't, so..." and still have jobs is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there

A good political message for Dems is that Republicans say they are unwilling to hold Trump/Vought accountable, so elect someone who is.

In hindsight it should have been obvious that Republicans would shut down the whole US govt rather than risk the release of the Epstein files. (Especially once Maxwell piped up to say multiple WH figures were involved.)

This is an automated version of the most common 'psychic' con in existence. We get that, right? It's obvious to everybody, right?

this doesn't get talked about enough

consolidated corporate media owners fired all the beat reporters with informed subject matter expertise because they didn't want to pay them health insurance, which degraded informed consensus and created a media environment easily exploitable by bad actors

Huh, he agrees that Donald is unwell. Doesn't want to do anything about it, mind you, but at least he's acknowledging it!

Crypto's $245 million campaign finance operation filled airwaves with ads not about crypto The crypto sector emerged as a top donor this election cycle, but the ads it funded weren't about digital currencies.

It's kind of wild that crypto scammers became *the single biggest source of political donations* in the last US election and barely anyone even noticed. These dipshits basically own both parties now and are getting whatever they want and there's been zero (0) public deliberation or debate about it.