Matt Wuerker

Words to live by. Don't boost slop and propaganda!

X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.

I can't prove it, but I suspect we'll learn in the future that a large portion of reply-guy comments on most of the social media hellsites are part of a sophisticated algorithmically boosted psyop aiming to convince people that nothing could possibly be done to stop or slow Trump & his minions.

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

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March Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker

Checks and balances? Anyone?

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Our country is being run by adolescent boys

The US is being run by adolescent boys

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in th...

Cartoonists launch their own torpedos, barbs and lampoons as we go to war yet again

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Justice Department publishes documents with sexual assault allegations against Trump The department shared FBI documents outlining allegations involving Trump.

Pretty damning files finally come out

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What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

Inside the Trump administration’s scramble to support its own war One State Department official said too few people were read in on war plans.

Inside the Trump administration’s scramble to support its own war

Damn, Barbara Starr 🔥

Change of plan....

Cartoon showing the backyard of a house. Two persons are standing next to various thrash bins, while one says: ‘No, that goes into the green bin. C’mon, the govt really want us to get this right’. Behind the backyard, we see massive data centers of Google, Amazon and Meta.

Data centers have a massive environmental impact. Today’s cartoon by @infiniteguff.com. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com

#BigTech #DataCenters #environment #climate

McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

CNN Under Fire For Failing To Disclose Pro-Iran War Panelist Actually Raytheon DeepStrike Missile

CNN Under Fire For Failing To Disclose Pro-Iran War Panelist Actually Raytheon DeepStrike Missile https://theonion.com/cnn-under-fire-for-failing-to-disclose-pro-iran-war-pan-1836887896/

Meanwhile the administration is targeting the free press.

Raskin: “Based on what you know today, were Renée Good and Alex Pretti domestic terrorists?”

Noem: “There's ongoing investigations…I would think you would want there to still be investigations going into these situations.”

Raskin: “You stated [your] conclusion 2 hours after they were killed."

How Lindsey Graham got Trump to yes on Iran The war launched Saturday is a full-circle moment for the veteran GOP senator, who spent decades pushing for military action against the Islamist regime.

Trump’s attack on Iran was a full-circle moment for Lindsey Graham, who has pushed for military action against the regime for decades.

“I told him before he took office … if you can collapse this terrorist regime, that’s Berlin Wall stuff,” Graham told us.

‘MAGA is Trump’: President fires back at right-wing mutiny over Iran Tucker Carlson and other MAGA figures with big online audiences have criticized the assault on Iran, triggering pushback from the president and White House.

There is an “emerging sense that Trump’s centrality to right-wing politics has an endpoint in the not-so-distant future,” @samrosenfeld.bsky.social tells @willoremus.com. “That all serves to loosen Trump’s symbolic grip on the right’s discourse.”

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

‘Pretty Bad for Vance’: The VP’s Silence on Iran Peeves Allies JD Vance used to praise Donald Trump for not starting wars.

JD Vance built his brand praising Donald Trump for having “started no wars.”

Now, after Trump’s attack on Iran, even his allies say the VP’s silence is “pretty bad for Vance.”

Moulton: He ought to think about the war that he didn't go to. That he allowed another American to go to in his place when he dodged the draft, making up some excuse about a sore foot so that he didn't go have to go serve in Vietnam. There is an example of a war where we sought regime change

The corruption of this administration is astonishing.

The answer is no and now they’re all trapped

(cartoon from 2003)

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If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.