Brady DeSanti

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

I found a voter after the 1966 Georgia elections who said he had voted for only two candidates -- segregationist Lester Maddox for governor and civil rights activist Julian Bond for Georgia House of Representatives -- because they were the only ones who seemed sincere.

The Hunger Games Begin 40 million Americans are about to lose food stamps

Your former columnist explains what's going on.
"It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation."

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

Not that most Trump voters have the smarts or decency to read this and understand it, but basically, Trump and Rubio are working to cover up MS-13 crimes in exchange for imprisoning innocent hairdressers and construction workers.

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Double checking there were no violent insurrections, beating up of cops, pro-Nazi shirts, and smearing of shit in state Capitols today across the country during the massive NO KINGS protests, right?

Because that's what Trump supporters did on January 6th to overthrow a free and fair election.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Is anyone really surprised by the racism running rampant in the young republican group chat? The future just imitating the current 😕🥴

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

This photograph was circulated widely during the Civil War, and influenced the movement to make the abolition of enslavement a Union war aim.

The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.

How Charlie Kirk turned to religion to level up his racism The "debate me" bro reveres a minister who claimed God cursed Black people to be "servile"

Charlie Kirk used to be proudly secular, but now he's among the loudest Bible-thumpers.

There's many reasons for this. But I'm going to focus on one: to justify his racism.

He admires a pastor who said God cursed Black people to "perpetual slavery."

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The fact that Republicans are unfazed that Donald Trump is giving special treatment to a woman who ran this country’s most notorious pedophile ring on behalf of its most notorious serial pedophile is the latest sign of the GOP’s complete moral rot.

The animating belief of QAnon was that an elite pedophile ring was being protected by the deep state and Donald Trump was the hero who was going to expose it all.

Which, ironically, is exactly what is happening right now. Only Trump’s not the hero, he’s the deep state.

MAGA’s Martyr: Ghislaine Maxwell, Patron Saint of Pedophiles Plus, dumb quote of the week courtesy of Sen. Mike Rounds

MAGA's martyr: Ghislaine Maxwell, the patron saint of pedophiles open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.

My thoughts on SCOTUS' universal injunctions decision, a thread: Unfortunately there has been widespread misunderstanding of what the Roberts court did today. (1/x)

these days if you tell me you’re into “wellness” i assume you are too stupid to breathe

DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.

Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.

DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.

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British man's tattoo wrongly linked to Venezuelan gang in US government document A tattoo belonging to a man from Derbyshire has appeared in a US government document used to identify members of Tren de Aragua, a notorious Venezuelan gang, despite the man having no connection to th...

"Pete Belton, 44, from Ilkeston says he was shocked to find his forearm featured in a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document used to help identify alleged members of Tren de Aragua (TdA), a transnational criminal organisation." www.bbc.com/news/article...