Tommy Tuberville on the 2020 census: "The Democrats were letting illegals come in for a different count. They obviously had a census going that was all rigged. The 2020 election basically was rigged."

(Believe it or not, Donald Trump was president in 2020.)

Would be an amazing career progression for the guy who shot Bin Laden to be the human most desperate to get on Fox News.

(Bottom one is a fake.)

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punk rock af

Reagan can be best understood as white voters rejecting the New Deal if they had to share it with Black people

You don't have to swallow frogs Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

Pay close attention to who wants you to do The Reading and who only wants you to read their interpretation

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

“The world is upside down, I’m agreeing with Candace Owens.”

You don’t agree with Candace Owens.

She talks about the Palestinian cause because she believes in and benefits from conspiracies about Jews.

You talk about the Palestinian cause because you have empathy.

You are not the same.

frame: democrats are to blame for a government shutdown

negation: no, actually republicans are to blame for the shutdown

kirby:

"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

President Trump is so far gone that he is pushing an obviously fake AI video of *himself*

He can’t even discern what’s true about his own words and his own actions.

@anthonymoser.com's Kirby frame meme for troops in cities

frame: crime / antifa, troops needed

negate frame: debunk crime stats, photos of peaceful scenes, etc.

Kirby (& Gov Pritzker): normalizing presence of troops prepares for autocratic escalation including interfering with elections

i made a helpful reference

Well don't I feel stupid

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

The Simpsons old man sitting on a stump telling a story but all the kids have been replaced with headstones

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

absolutely! just for the 'ōlelo alone.

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active
opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

Trump Just Went on Fox and Issued an Unnerving Threat Against Liberals At a time when right-wing extremists are calling for open season on liberals and the left, the president of the United States just told them: Hey, go for it.

“When certain far-right voices vow retribution in response to Kirk’s murder, they’re seizing on it as a bad-faith pretext to wage open warfare on liberals and leftists who are not guilty of any political violence at all.” @gregsargent.bsky.social absolutely nails it

newrepublic.com/article/2004...

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

I loved Tommy Cash’s rendition at Eurovision this year.

This is the most pathetic and undignified thing I've ever seen a US president do in the area of foreign policy. It makes George Bush Snr throwing up over the Japanese Prime Minister look like an act of brilliant diplomacy.

Hm. Was literally just this week teaching about the Bell Riots.

In 1987, there were 27 California Condors in the world, all captive.

In 2024, there were 566.

369 of them fly free.

We did that. We fixed it.

more here: aetherograph.tumblr.com/post/7871117...

Naaaaailed it.

HE FUCKING TURNED HIMSELF IN.