Jenn

People like to believe that humans are smart enough to not be tricked & not fall for propaganda, but we're not. We're all susceptible to messaging. That's why there's an industry in TV commercials; at least the FCC keeps those in check.
There are almost no guard rails for large internet audiences.

Deplatforming Nick Fuentes was what kept him from being mainstreamed, it worked. Elon's replatforming of all of these people and allowing actual Nazis around is why the US government is now publishing white supremacist propaganda regularly.

This is not a new debate. Deplatforming works.

Border Patrol repeatedly punches this man in the head while he’s on the ground in handcuffs.

Also today, an appeals court ruled a federal judge lacks the power to have Bovino explain his men’s conduct on a daily basis.

Crazy…and preventable. Poor babies…

They refuse to swear in an elected dem and they’re trying to jail someone running for office. It’s time to stop with statements and hit the streets

Totalitarian movements seek to merge their party with the state. Only one party allowed, whether it’s the Communists, Nazis or whatever.

Reminds me of the dude I met in Waukesha, Wisconsin, who told me he flew a Trump flag because the Democrats were trying to take away abortion and healthcare. American voters!

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...

Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.

U.S. Military Kills 14 More People Accused of Smuggling Drugs on Boats

More illegal boat strikes by the US, this time killing 14 (with one survivor) in four separate attacks off eastern Mexican coast. Once again, no evidence or legal justification provided. Bears repeating that these strikes are illegal, immoral, and ineffective

say what you will it seems fitting that the NYC mayoral race feels like its determining the broader soul/vibes of the dem party through midterms and the choices are "the most charismatic and effective communicator since obama" and "trump-level repulsive human being" and *its going to be close!*

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

Image of book cover. Blank cover with the text: "On Freedom. Timothy Snyder."

The paperback edition of #OnFreedom is out today. It preserves a positive argument about how to build a better country and has been updated to account for what has happened in 2025.
timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

One great thing to see at the Cincinnati #NoKings rally was lots of people engaging with local organizations that had tables – there were political organizers, labor unions, charitable organizations, human rights groups. Looking for a next step? Reach out to your local organizations.

A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.

if you don’t spend several hours a day on your phone you’ll miss all the Crap and Bullshit

The cost of Cowardice From the killings of anonymous boaters to the destruction of the White House we are witnessing the greatest display of Congressional cowardice in memory

The cost of the cowardice of this Congress is high as our government is being systematically dismantled and they aren’t even showing up for work. Check out my latest open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

A Mystery in Trinidad as Bodies Wash Ashore After U.S. Strikes

Trump’s victims are now washing up in Trinidad:
“The U.S. campaign targeting what it says is drug trafficking from Venezuela has exposed Trinidad to the fallout: unidentified bodies with burn marks and missing limbs showing up in its territory.“

"Nearly everyone involved in this effort is a woman: the work of finding missing family members, like many other forms of labor for incarcerated people, is largely carried by women."

YouTube video by Bloomberg Television How Trump’s Tariffs Upended a Hub of Denim Manufacturing

“Nobody has heard of” Lesotho, President Trump joked, to the laughter of lawmakers. He’d just cut aid to the country.

Weeks later, he announced a 50% tariff on exports from “the denim capital of Africa.”

Today, Lesotho is under a state of disaster.

I recently traveled there for @bloomberg.com:

The callousness takes your breath away. I feel like everything I learned in church and Sunday school as a kid has been deemed erroneous.

we all know where the chick-fil-a cow was on jan 6

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Looks like Russia has exhausted its mercenaries and contract troops—now sending women to the front as cannon fodder.

ATESH Movement agents report that Russia’s 506th Regiment is forming women’s assault units near Pokrovsk to offset heavy losses.
t.me/atesh_ua/8370

INBOX: Border Patrol is staging on Coast Guard Island just north of Alameda. Protestors are facing them down, and have already been subject to flash bangs and tear gas. One elderly woman had a projectile launcher aimed directly at her head from close range.

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

Socialist critic of NATO and EU poised to win Ireland’s presidency Independent socialist Catherine Connolly’s coolness to Brussels and hostility to Donald Trump put her at odds with the Irish government.

She’s slammed NATO, voted against EU treaties, been accused of offering propaganda boosts for dictators from Russia to Syria — and now she’s on track to become Ireland’s next president.

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...

NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Trump Pardons Founder of the Crypto Exchange Binance

NEW: Trump has pardoned Binance founder CZ, wiping away one of the US’s most significant crackdowns on crypto crime.

The pardon is emblematic of Trump’s approach to clemency:

CZ hired lawyers & lobbyists with Trump ties, while Binance struck a business deal with the Trump family’s crypto company.

Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.

Pregnant women detained by ICE report horrifying treatment: shackling, solitary confinement, no prenatal vitamins, inadequate food. ICE's own directives and regulations require the agency to avoid detention of pregnant people in the first place. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...