Matt Curtis

Now what were these Antifas up to in the early 1930s? 🤔

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Kavanaugh search and seizures

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

like, i don't really know how to adequately express the anger that i feel watching this video. not showing your face, lazily teargassing random people on a neighborhood street without getting out of your car - the image says more about these goons than i could articulate bsky.app/profile/clan...

Right wingers in 2017: Dumb libs think words are violence
Right wingers in 2025: Words are violence and we're going to throw you in jail for saying the wrong ones, which is terrorism bsky.app/profile/atru...

You're out of your mind with this framing. Utterly disconnected from the event in question.

Republicans continue to destroy basic norms in public health science, like the concept of 'correlation does not equal causation.'

Hell of a way to open a record.

2025, So Far I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Oklahoma, of course, is a deeply red state. But in the wake of Kirk’s death, individuals and institutions across the nation moved not just to condemn his killing and political violence, but to venerate him. It was unsettling to many to see politicians from across the political spectrum speak with reverence about a man who espoused the racist Great Replacement Theory, which argues that white Americans are being systematically replaced by multiculturalism and by brown and Black immigrants; who continuously claimed that “there’s a war on white people in this country; who said it was “a fact” that “prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people”; who gave a platform to people who believe in eugenics and race science; who contended that Black people commit more crime than white people and that the blame lies in a Black culture that accepts that Black men “impregnate women and they don’t stay around”; who referred to a transgender athlete as an “abomination” and called “the transgender thing” a “throbbing middle finger to God”; and who declared that Islam, the world’s second-largest religion, “is not compatible with Western civilization” and that it is a sword being used “to slit the throat of America.”

This is of course the exact reason for the Forced Mourning of Charlie Kirk, to fabricate a bipartisan endorsement of this bigotry and hatred www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

A roster of asshole stand up comedians doing the fucking Riyadh Comedy Festival, many of them jerkoffs who piss and moan that they can't say anything anymore because they're too lazy to be actually funny, meanwhile , there's a list of things these bullshit artists can't say in the contract from the absolute ruler of Saudi Arabia, a country that crushes free speech, tortures, murders journalists and executes nonviolent criminals, has the highest prevalence of modern slavery in the arab states, etc etc. Fuck these hypocritical individuals.

"You'll laugh your heads off!"
Look at these fucking assholes.

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

US Readies $20 Billion Rescue to Help Milei Win in Argentina The US plans to extend a $20 billion swap line to Argentina and is ready to buy the country’s foreign bonds, providing much-needed financial support to President Javier Milei as he tries to regain investor confidence and stem a run on the peso.

Easy messaging win for Dems, "you can't have [good thing] because Trump is spending $20B to subsidize the failures of some libertarian clown abroad."

And, no, Dems shouldn't support it because it's "foreign aid." It's a right-wing clown bailout. Supporting it trivializes and undermines foreign aid.

Kennedy Claimed Autism ‘Destroys’ Lives. Autistic People Disagree.

Amid the [gestures at everything], I've been meaning to re-up this piece from April.

“‘Nonspeaking’ does not mean ‘non-listening,’” a formerly nonspeaking woman told me. “I was aware of the terrible things people were saying about me, when they discussed me like I wasn’t even there.”

There's no question, this is uncontroversial.

I have nothing against crack per se but you all should maybe reconsider being extremely high on crack when you write these stories. Also not sure where to begin with describing autistic people as a 'problem.' Priming us for the Eugenics '26! campaign?

Isaac Chotiner must project a subliminal series of ultra-high frequency tones that affect interviewees like the CIA Havana syndrome ray gun because if I said this I would commit seppuku

Disney reverses course on Kimmel. Lessons:

-Trump's anti-Constitutional stances, anti-1A in this case, are unpopular
-Popular resistance via expression and spending choices can have an impact
-Many corporate leaders are weak, amoral people who'll bow to threats unless they face countervailing ones

Louise Vincent, 49, Drug User Who Led Harm Reduction Movement, Dies

Louise Vincent, one of the best of us, memorialized in the NYT. Harm reduction is always a group endeavor and I resist the ‘hero’ designation, but Louise was one of the real ones. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/h...

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.

Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

X as the locus of authentic public debate is laughable. Go fix the Washington Post and then get back to us about how great the Nazi website is.

Also blue states governors that are constructing alternative public health regimes that expressly counter program Trump/RFK destruction of CDC, with much buy in from medical and scientific establishments

Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject.

Gift link:

The reason the administration is full of people like this is because Trump knows they'll do illegal shit if asked and he can squeeze them if they don't

The worst people continue to one-up each other on how corrupt and depraved they can be.

And by "significant cognitive disadvantage" he means "capable of getting a date"

Oh look what Meta — the company derived from Zuckerberg’s creepy, misogynist Facemash app — is up to.