Todd Erickson

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure

Also note the double standard for conservative and liberals: you can say anything offensive on air as a conservative it will be defended as your right to free speech. If you say a true thing that happens to be impolite as a liberal, you get shitcanned

Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family?

It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted

So Pulte accidentally implicated three Trump cabinet members and his own dad, but not the black woman he was trying to help Trump fire.

As a former Evangelical, watching the Evangelical church support the current models for the Anti-Christ and the Beast moving forward is just horrifically fascinating. You played yourselves.

I have read the email from OPM. It is not what has been reported. IT IS NOT A BUY OUT.

It is an exemption from the partially unenforceable return to the office EO until end of the Fiscal Year. You may have to work every single workday until the end of the FY. No guarantees. All discretionary.

It's been less than 10 days and we already might need to discuss Trump-induced food shortages in the United States

by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

A few years ago on Twitter a guy was complaining about how there were no white people on morning shows anymore and posted a picture of a black weatherman. I told him all the other people on that show were white and he said “but ‘they’ wish they weren’t” and I feel like that explains current politics

“Refugees for thee not for me.”

(Thumps hood of Tesla)
"You can fit so much Lebensraum in one of these babies."

A Scandal-Plagued Sheriff Wins Another Term in North Texas Fort Worth advocates who have spent years protesting and demanding outside intervention over rising jail deaths say they’ll keep pursuing other paths for accountability.

I'm thinking of these words from a pastor in Texas, who'd worked to defeat a far-right sheriff who has overseen a surge of deaths in his custody. The sheriff won reelection.

"We are in this work not because we thought we would win elections, but because it’s the right thing to do."

if they want to go back to the 1950s, we’re bringing the cuisine back to the 1950s too. you put me in the kitchen, I will spend 100% of my time in there finding how much horseradish and shrimp I can put in Jello before God personally comes down here to stop me.

Keene man arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 rejects Trump’s pardon On his first day in office this week, President Donald Trump pardoned all rioters at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Jason Riddle served time in jail for his participation in the 2021 riot.

Very moving @nhpr.bsky.social interview with a Jan 6er from Keene, NH, who rejected Trump’s pardon and sounds like he has grown tremendously in 4 years. “One thing I did not believe in was change before this experience…And now I believe change is necessary for survival.” www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

This is such a great thread.

Let me add that there is nothing that you, an individual, can do, that will scale because you are one person. The people arguing that you should only do things that “scale” are justifying not doing anything.

the answer to this sort of insipid bullshit is always to shift focus to the politicians failing to reach those voters. the democrats could have won, laughably easily, with different tactics. they could have not sent bombs to be dropped on kids for a year, for a start. but they didn't want to change

The more I see how the US population reacts to Trump, the more I understand the German population under the Nazi regime and the more confident I am in calling them Nazi.

Really is infuriating how we kept being told by Dems that there was nothing Biden could do about abortion or trans folks for years and now Trump is basically making himself king of the US via executive fiat.

keep seeing commentary on elon morks nazi gesture questioning wether hes just being immature troll or actually has fascist belief. this analysis is the classic 'EVIL OR DUMB?' dichotomy (are they evil, or are they just dumb?) but these commentary folks fail to grasp the obvious answer: elon is both

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the democrats lost because they hid biden was going senile, didn't do a primary, delayed kicking him out while doing a bunch of embarrassing infighting, promoted an unpopular candidate, & had her run as a conservative palling around with the fucking cheneys. they fucked it all by themselves

How it started. How it’s going.

"Americans who work in national security assume that the gov't will protect them against vengeance from terrorists, no matter what. They now have reason to believe that this protection is a conditional perk, like a nice parking space." @gcaw.bsky.social on Trump's order ending Bolton's security.

The expectation that Trumpists would ever admit they were wrong, rather than blame everything on their favorite Emmanuel Goldstein, was always wrong. They would die with Trump’s knife in their back whining about Biden.

Congrats. You played yourself.

Racist as fuck.
But no surprise. For the first "top gun" contest was won by a black pilot with a subpart aircraft and they simply buried the story.

#HegsethPolicies Army now responsible for National Strategic Rohypnol Reserve