Oh one of the “Black Excellence” types ended up secretly harboring ultra right wing views?

Shockerrrrrrrr

The following is the text of the email that Penelope Hegseth sent to her son, Pete Hegseth, on April 30, 2018, as he was in the middle of divorcing his wife, Samantha. One sentence was redacted by The New York Times for privacy reasons.

Son, I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out.. You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth. I am not a saint, far from it.. so don't throw that in my face, but your abuse over the years to women (dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling) needs to be called out.

Sam is a good mother and a good person (under the circumstances that you created) and I know deep down you know that. For you to try to label her as "unstable" for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you? She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand. Neither did Meredith. I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side... bunk... we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont' care) Don't you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us... that's what babies do. It's time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women

We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted] And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply) I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But... On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself... Mom

a man who gets an email like this from his own mother should be legally required to reveal it to every woman he ever meets ever ever

"soak" refers to a 5% tax, how dramatic lmao

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

As a millennial, I spent most of my twenties wiping my ass with toilet paper I stole from public restrooms. I've accumulated and lost three separate retirement investments. I've spent years without health insurance. I'm drowning in student loan and credit card debt. I've witnessed "unprecedented, once-in-a-lifetime" events so often that I'm permanently disassociated. Believe me when I say I am so fucking capable of surviving the collapse of capitalism. I will dance naked in the ashes.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

me: posts an analysis of various revolutions that were built from local councils, including the so-far uncontested fact that the Russian revolution started that way before Lenin consolidated power and disenfranchised the soviets.

bsky: "yeah makes sense"

substack: "sure"

IG: "You are the CIA."

“fact-based feeling” is unfortunately an instant classic

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

So again moderation is turned over to an external source ( usually a woman)

While the data is corrected by an outside source ( usually someone in a heavily colonized country)

While it boils the earth

So one person can have the experience of having a digital yes man …

If they had DEI they’d know it was Targét not Tarzhay

Americans urged to leave Middle East, but many airports are closed and embassy staff is reduced The State Department ordered the mandatory departure of non-emergency personnel and family members in six countries after the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia was struck by two Iranian drones.

It’s so American to be like you should return home via your bootstraps

A oil prices have conveniently skyrocketed and no one can trace the money because its in a Qatari bank account.

You can see the smile creeping on his face as he's talking because he's so proud that he's getting away with something so corrupt.

Senior Trump official said Iran in nuclear talks was trying "to get us into a long, drawn-out process with meetings and experts and something that would have taken time in order to do the third meeting." Iran then gave US a longer, five-page proposal. "We joked that even though we were in Switzerland, the proposal was like Swiss cheese, because there were, you know, a lot of holes that they were able to go through."

The Iranians dared to go to the negotiations with a position paper

We get our daylight back this Sunday!!

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BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

And this is not even a fully comprehensive list.

I also know that he's called NBC News' Kristen Welker and MS Now reporters, among others.

It is one part about trying out different narratives/justifications/timelines, and one part building media buy-in and consensus for the war.

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at hig...

Oh dear.

arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

People are saying folks don’t know. I disagree. If you want to go to Dubai, and you have the funds to go to Dubai, you know enough about Dubai to know how it works.

Who’s Deciding Where the Bombs Drop in Iran? Maybe Not Even Humans. Behind last week’s scrum between the Trump administration and Anthropic lies a deeper question of how warfare is conducted—and whether accountability even exists anymore.

Truly dystopic.

"we are witnessing the fullest expression of the most inhumane weapons of the century: Autonomous bombs and missiles. Their “autonomy” refers to fact that humans need not be in the loop in any meaningful way when deciding where to target or whether to launch such weapons."

Temco drivers unionize despite stiff opposition — a first for a Home Depot subsidiary “We did have management telling us that we were going to lose our jobs and would shut down.”

For the first time ever, workers at a Home Depot company have unionized.

Drivers who deliver building materials for Home Depot’s Temco subsidiary have voted to join the Teamsters.

They did so despite a vicious anti-union campaign from Home Depot and Temco.

atlantaciviccircle.org/2026/02/25/t...

People who don’t care to understand anarchism beyond its stigma say it’s impractically utopian. But for Black people, seeing white supremacy dismantled is impractically utopian. Again & again, nearly all white people prove they prefer to cling to it. And we don’t stop fighting for the world we want.

Viola Davis so happy about Michael B. Jordan winning a SAG award that she transcends time space and white supremacy.

When it finally happens:

The Democratic Party wants you to think there’s nothing they can do as the minority party, something the GOP has proven false over and over and over again.

These Dems are complicit in fascism.

Private equity behind majority of 2025’s largest bankruptcies PESP finds private equity-backed companies drove 54% of the largest U.S. bankruptcies in 2025, including 71% of major retail failures and 60% of major manufacturing bankruptcies

Private equity was behind a majority of 2025’s largest bankruptcies, according to a new report.

PE firms had a hand in 54% of the largest US corporate bankruptcies last year, per @pestakeholder.bsky.social.

These were cases involving $1 billion or more in liabilities at the time of filing.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

Wow. The government just apparently crippled the tool that people are using to track contracts like these DHS ones.

I'm told this is the tool Schiff's office is using to track the ICE contracts for military-style weaponry I reported on in the piece/thread below.

www.404media.co/the-governme...

Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information Its AI chatbot won't discuss the subject with teens—even as Meta fights claims it exposed kids to actual harm.

Grrr...

Leaked documents show Meta cracking down on access to abortion information www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @motherjones.com

"Data collected by Repro Uncensored shows that Meta more than doubled its removal of content related to sexual and reproductive health, the LGBTQ community..."