White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta A second update on Elon Musk's coup from our intrepid imaginary foreign correspondent

Following on the overwhelming response to last week's column, I wrote a second dispatch imagining how the Musk takeover would be covered by the US media if it was happening overseas, and they felt comfortable calling a spade a spade.... www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...

"Big city subways and light rail have color designations. Maybe if we do that with our busses we'll look grown up too!"

Who gets the benefit of the doubt?A teenager tagged by cops as a gang member b/c he shops at a particular bodega or wears the wrong color? A Black man the NYPD decides is “furtively walking”? OR a white man from apartheid S.A. who posts antisemitic/racist stereotypes & endorses the Nazi adjacent 1/

You're so awesome. Keep up the fight. We're proud of you.

History Will Judge the Complicit Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

In 2020, I asked why so many Republicans had abandoned the values they had previously held. Still relevant.

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Are they distractions or not? We're told not to fall for distractions but maybe they are all misdirections instead

Listen and read what @fpwellman.bsky.social has to say. He knows what he’s talking about and he says it clearly and with intent.

The distraction and rage bait cycles are meant to tear and wear us down. Be smart and keep your emotions focused.

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Multiple commands to drop the weapon, because he was white.
There, I fixed the story up a bit.

Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does

The owner of a car company is controlling the House of Representatives from a social media app.

Trump’s Rage at Liz Cheney Takes a Dark Turn—and Wrecks a Big GOP Lie Trump says Cheney might be “in trouble,” based on something cooked up by House Republicans. That demolishes the GOP’s spin about Kash Patel’s plans for the FBI.

Trump’s Rage at Liz Cheney Takes a Dark Turn—and Wrecks a Big GOP Lie newrepublic.com/article/1895... via @newrepublic.com

MEMPHIS @BlackClergy901 PETITION: “We call on @mayorpaulyoung to negotiate and enter a consent decree with the Department of Justice to end the Memphis Police Department's pattern or practice of violating our constitutional rights.” actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...

The reason generative AI is banned in my classroom is both that process is part of learning and also using some programs' words without attribution is wrong, of course, AND ALSO it is a bullshit generator powered by intellectual property theft.

We have high administrative costs because every part of healthcare is for profit. Healthcare as a service, by right, is much less costly to administer.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

Women: men are easy. They always going!

Men: No we ain’t.

Also men:

Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

The following is the text of the email that Penelope Hegseth sent to her son, Pete Hegseth, on April 30, 2018, as he was in the middle of divorcing his wife, Samantha. One sentence was redacted by The New York Times for privacy reasons.

Son, I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out.. You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. I am not a saint, far from it.. so don't throw that in my face, but your abuse over the years to women (dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling) needs to be called out.

Sam is a good mother and a good person (under the circumstances that you created) and I know deep down you know that. For you to try to label her as "unstable" for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you? She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand. Neither did Meredith. I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side... bunk... we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont' care) Don't you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us... that's what babies do. It's time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women

We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted] And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply) I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But... On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself... Mom

a man who gets an email like this from his own mother should be legally required to reveal it to every woman he ever meets ever ever

True to our roots

An I.V.F. Mixup, a Shocking Discovery and an Unbearable Choice Two couples in California discovered they were raising each other’s genetic children. Should they switch their girls?

After two families learned that they were not the genetic parents of the babies they loved, due to a mixup during the in vitro fertilization process, they faced a devastating question. Should they switch their girls?

We aren't moving there, but really have enjoyed visiting a lot. The discussion was very interesting. Thanks for putting that together and sharing.

We build at the speed of trust or, The limits of doing your own research | Shay Stewart-Bouley Once upon a time, when I would get annoyed by someone’s actions—particularly online—I would feel the immediate need to respond, but with age comes the ability to sit with things. To think about whethe...

My latest on the blog, inspired by comments I received after my last post on HR9495.

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The WSJ is not recognizing the "gift"

Good morning democracy defenders! Just a reminder that the circus Trump is creating around the cabinet nominations is a feature, not a bug. He wants to distract with chaos so you can't focus. Don't fall for it.

This Nancy Mace thing is going to be a defining moment for the Democratic Party. Mace is deliberately bullying another person, one of their colleagues. And if House Dems are too chickenshit to defend their own colleague over this open, blatant hate, what the hell is the point of them anymore.

Tweet from Jasmine Crockett: If @HouseGOP really wanted to protect women, they'd release the Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz' alleged sex trafficking - not try to ban their colleagues from using the bathroom. Stop the bigotry and release the report.

Rep. Jasmin Crockett is always 🔥

Post by Taniel: A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans. Get this: Judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.

Talk about self-owns! This is rather amazing news on the abortion rights front.

In other words, we need a coherent and strategic campaign to counter the lies about the Democratic Party.