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Banner of Trump being installed on the facade of the Justice Department

Banner of Mussolini installed on the face of Fascist headquarters in Italy.

Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.

What's the difference?

"It is difficult to comprehend the level of state-sponsored criminality we are witnessing because our country has never experienced anything like it."- #NYDailyNews

(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)

#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️

Scott Adams, Disgraced Dilbert Creator, Dies at 68 Scott Adams has died at the age of 68. Adams created the comic 'Dilbert', which became hugely popular in the 1990s. 'Dilbert' was pulled from publication after Adams went on a racist rant in 2023.

over on twitter people are attacking and doxxing the reporter for People who wrote this. i really hope she's doing okay because "disgraced" is really not that out of pocket for an article like this:

people.com/scott-adams-...

The data has been turned into a searchable tool on HaveIBeenFlocked.com, which says it has data on more than 2.3 million license plates and tens of millions of Flock searches. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.

www.404media.co/police-unmas...

The point of Weiss at CBS is not for the network to succeed. Rather, it's for the network to not challenge Trump, if not whitewash his fascism. The real question is how much personal abuse behind closed doors can Weiss take before she cracks.

Remember, she quit NYT because they wouldn't fire her.

Look, people, let’s stop being so judgmental about folks who stay on Twitter/X. There are fewer Nazis here, sure, but if a woman gets murdered by an ICE agent and you want to see her corpse in a bathing suit, where are you on Bluesky? Out of luck, that’s where.

Happy “OUR Criminals Are Heroes” Day

On the fifth anniversary of January 6, President Trump will lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Fake Elector.

GOP-led Oversight Committee says Biden pardons signed by autopen are ‘void’ in final report | CNN Politics Former President Joe Biden experienced such “cognitive decline” while in office that it remains a serious question as to whether he was aware of the substance of the various pardons and commutations s...

I don’t think the Republicans have fully gamed out what it will mean for the current administration down the road if presidential pardons can be invalidated www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...

Scientists claim you can't see the difference between 1440p and 8K at 10 feet in new study on the limits of the human eye — would still be an improvement on the previously-touted upper limit of 60 pix... Measuring the pixel-per-degree of a display, researchers found the human eye can see up to 94 PPD for grey, but as few as 53 for yellow and violet.

Scientists claim you can't see difference between 1440p and 8K at 10ft in study of #human #eye — an improvement on previously-touted upper limit of 60 pixels/degree
Measuring pixel-per-degree eye can see up to 94 PPD for grey, but as few as 53 for yellow & violet
www.tomshardware.com/monitors/sci...

Ohio National Guard member Sgt. Devon Beck was not amused by this satire. On September 11, 2025, Mr. O’Hara saw Sgt. Beck, along with several other Guard members, walking in uniform in the Logan Circle neighborhood, near the intersection of 14th and R Streets NW. Mr. O’Hara calmly walked behind the Guard members, began playing The Imperial March aloud on his phone, and started recording. In less than two minutes, Sgt. Beck turned around and threatened to call D.C. police officers to “handle” Mr. O’Hara if he persisted. Mr. O’Hara continued recording and playing the music. Sgt. Beck contacted the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Defendant MPD Officers Brown, Campbell, Reyes-Benigno, and Lopez Martinez came to the scene and, in essence, did what Sgt. Beck had threatened, putting Mr. O’Hara in handcuffs and preventing him from continuing his peaceful protest.

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

a doctored photo of the back of a $20 bill featuring the White House being demolished by an excavator

ok who did this? ☹️

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Having met with both sides on the current RubyCentral/RubyGems situation, here's my take:

- RubyCentral have managed this exceptionally poorly in many ways including removing literally the most active member of the RubyGems organisation by mistake who has declined to return

No one trolls with street names quite like Prague.

By making jokes about killing innocent brown people at a political rally, JD Vance is doing politics the right way.

—Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA

Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise.

That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump.

My latest

The data doesn't lie; the court order in Los Angeles had a clear and measurable impact.

ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time The texts were sent to a group called “Mass Text” and show ICE using DMV and license plate reader data in an attempt to find their target, copies of the messages obtained by 404 Media show.

ICE is now clean on OPSEC.

www.404media.co/ice-adds-ran...

Letter to the Smithsonian: Internal Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions and Materials The Honorable Lonnie G. Bunch III Secretary, Smithsonian Institution 1000 Jefferson Dr SW Washington, DC 20560 Subject: Internal Review of Smithsonian

Does anybody know if @datarescueproject.org has a team at the Smithsonian right now? We're gonna need 'em. 🤬😥
#RewritingHistory #AlternateReality

www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Nonprofit Refuses $1.5M Science Grant Due To New Federal DEI Rules A coding nonprofit turned down a $1.5M NSF grant after new DEI restrictions, highlighting the clash between federal policy and scientific community values.

📢 The Carpentries is in Forbes!

Our Directors @drkariljordan.bsky.social @erinstellabecker.bsky.social were interviewed by @jdrakephd.bsky.social for Forbes on The Carpentries' decision to withdrew from the $1.5M science grant due to new federal DEI rules: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

There was basically no job growth in New York City in the first half of the year: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...

Screenshot of a Fox Business News broadcast on Inauguration Day 2025, where EJ Antoni has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

YouTube screenshot of EJ Antoni doing a Main Street Matters interview on the Job Creators Network, where he has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

YouTube screenshot of EJ Antoni doing an interview with @kitco, where he has Nazi battleship art on his wall.

Screenshot of the Nazi battleship art for sale online.

This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.

And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.

Stay salty DC 🔥

Trump: It looks like it’s about $3.1 billion

Powell: I’m not aware of that.

Trump: It just came out

Powell: You just added in a third building

Trump: It’s a building that’s being built

Powell: It was built five years ago.

Powell would rather be having a root canal. Without anesthesia