Orla McCool 🇨🇦

Bookmark this. It will come in handy for the next time Trump posts something vile on TS, then tries to blame a staffer.

Which brown nose reporter asked that question? Trump is universally hated. Everyone on the planet (except people who worship assholes like Trump, Farage, Orban etc) is waking up every morning hoping he has died.

My Gen-Z son has never been on social media. Reluctantly had Facebook for group projects in HS but ditched it when no longer required. He still buys and reads physical books.

The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg. But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it.

www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...

WHITE HOUSE: "When you see it on Truth Social, you know it's directly from President Trump."

TRUMP 2 WEEKS AGO: "Somebody posted, a staffer posted ... somebody slipped. I didn't do it. This was done by somebody else."

I just can't with this bitch. 🤬

Man I'm gonna be pissed if people try to do an "oops, we didn't know!" on this stuff. (Not talking about Kat obv.)

The fact that there was a widespread effort to smear Heard, funded by powerful people, was very very obvious at the time.

They were pushing on an open door, of course, because the country remains deeply minsogynst, primed to believe every negative stereotype about any woman who exists in public. We've seen this happen to one young woman after another for years now.

And it's coming for AOC.

If there's anyone out there still denying the authoritarian nature of the Trump regime...I don't know what to say.

Green lettuce moustache.

a woman is holding a canadian flag on a street Alt: a woman is holding a canadian flag is running in circles on a street

Yeah!

Hahahahahahah...no.

a woman is sitting in a pink chair with a vh1 logo on it . Alt: a woman slowly slides off a pink armchair.

Cuteness overload.

Another ally abandoned. The US is untrustworthy. Allies and trading partners will give Trump what he wants, America First, America Alone.

Everlasting shame

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

I think so much is happening at once Trump looting America like a vulture capitalist isn’t really going to sink in until he’s gone and we’re cataloguing the damage to see what can be saved.

somehow these guys are both the first pancake

Don't try to make sense of the nonsense. Just back away slowly and avoid making eye contact.

All dogs are good. Therefore Nazgûl is a good boy. [gavel, gavel] Free to go.

The future of Journalism. Cancelled. That's fitting. It's what she's doing at CBS.

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If you ever find yourself agreeing with kash patel, understand that you have severe brain damage and seek medical attention immediately

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: Trump’s tariffs are a tax on you.

He’s using them as leverage to enrich himself and his family and his friends — and destroy our standing in the world, devastating farmers.

Why aren’t you angrier?

www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

I mean, “Fuck you, billionaires” posted every hour for eternity is tempting.

Shelving thoughts 🤔

YouTube video by Lawyer Oyer The SAVE America Act

The SAVE America Act—a revised version of the SAVE Act—is a voter ID and citizenship proof law that just passed the House of Representatives. Many of you have asked what it means. It’s worse than you think. So let’s make sure it doesn’t get through the Senate. youtube.com/shorts/0a9zL...

Trump abandoning friends and allies. America first! America alone.

U.S. Arms Sale to Taiwan in Limbo Amid Pressure Campaign From China The development follows pressure from Chinese leader Xi Jinping and concerns that the sale would derail President Trump’s coming visit to Beijing.

Exclusive: A major U.S. arms-sales package for Taiwan is in limbo following pressure from Chinese leader Xi Jinping and concerns that it would derail President Trump’s coming visit to Beijing.

Scott Galloway on The Bulwark:

““The Gini coefficient, zero means everyone has the exact same amount. A hundred means one person owns everything. The French Revolution and Marie Antoinette was when they were at 82.

We hit 83 this quarter.”