Smarl Kith

Kinda strange we have living survivors right here and we’re waiting for what’s left of some files

Escape room where the thing you are trying to escape is reading about Olivia Nuzzi

February 5 Lawyer, National Security Division: Bondi signaled the Foreign Agents Registration Act would be enforced only in very limited circumstances after the Justice Department had done a lot over the last decade to give it teeth. At its core, FARA is a transparency statute, to let the American public know when foreign actors engage in political activities or try to influence U.S. discourse. If you're concerned about foreign money and influence in politics, it's a bad time to go dark.

This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.

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Almost everyone with a high level of racial resentment tended to vote for Trump in the 2024 election, regardless of educational attainment. Conversely, those with a low racial resentment score tended to support Harris, whether they had a college degree or not.

Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

Why the fuck are Democrats trying to make Marjorie Taylor Greene a Democrat?

Maybe they should spend a bit more time accepting that Zohran Mamdani is in their party before going off about welcoming nazis.

polisci and conlaw professors standing round the coffee machine asking what level of functional decline makes congress legally dead for constitutional purposes

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

The entire American experiment is based primarily on the mindless pursuit of wealth resulting in a culture of artifice where unremarkable people who were born or lucked into extreme privilege are treated like kings by armies of sycophants all rushing to the same trough?

James Van Der Beek Auctioning Off Dawson’s Creek Items Amid Cancer Journey James Van Der Beek has put several Dawson’s Creek and Varsity Blues items up for auction as he continues to battle stage 3 colon cancer.

You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Authoritarian Arrogance and the End of the 'Reality-Based Community' | TechPolicy.Press As trolling continues to arrogate power and authority, reality’s move from bent to broken accelerates, writes Paul Elliott Johnson.

Wrote a little bit about our slide into trolling-as-governance and its connection to the now-bonkers concentration of authority amongst autocratic techlords

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even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

i think an especially depressing part of this whole saga is that "we need to win primaries so establishment dems are replaced by true progressives" is a thing we've done before but one of the progressives we worked hard to install over the establishment pick was fetterman

IMO the absolutely vital reason to transform the Democratic Party is so that, once we're back in power, we actually do the radical stuff that needs doing so we don't just end up right back here again

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

The Onion: DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

Crosstitch guide image reads “this machine kills fascists” with clipart images of an onion, a sub and a bottle of mustard

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.

So Schumer never did endorse, huh. Nor Gillibrand. Just irredeemable pieces of shit, the entire NY senate delegation

The Authoritarian Architect: Dick Cheney and the Dystopian World He Built We live in Dick Cheney's America. God help us.

Moderates can try and launder Dick Cheney all they want, but he was a murderous war criminal who laid the tracks for Trump and overt fascism.

We live in Cheney’s America, god help us, and it’s on us to dishonor him by undoing the damage he caused.

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It actually is mind blowing to check out X and see what is essentially 4chan which is also populated with politicians, media figures, "thought leaders" etc.

A dystopian horror, really. Where neo-Nazis now have equal standing with mainstream leaders. There is a reason Fuentes is now so mainstreamed.

Fun!

Rapey, Archie Bunker-brained, nepobaby bankruptcy junkie.

Coke-addled, rhino-killing, crypto-cultist failson.

Muppet-limbed, Dollar-Store-Goebbels sister strangler.

Bee-stung, abuser-banging CECOT fetishist.

War criming, dumb-as-snot chat host with more Norse ink than Ragnar Lothbrok.

*sobs*

“Hey buddy, you really need the tactical gear to arrest that hospice nurse?”

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

BREAKING: The mitochondria have released a statement they are ending their long running symbiotic relationship with humans, citing "increasingly poor use of the energy we provide".

It’s time to force them to do this. I’ve stopped giving to the Democrats because they have no ecosystem and no strategy to create one. I know I would give to an org that competed with them and the Republicans to define the narrative. I bet there are others like me.

Instead of using polls and media appropriately, Democratic consultants waste most of their money on ads, many of which they purchase from Fox, Sinclair, and Nexstar.

Over the decades, Democrats have given hundreds of millions to Sinclair. This company: