Thomas

fucking embarrassing

At least the families of the fallen have this to comfort them.

Links from today's NYT morning newsletter: "Here are columns by Thomas Friedman and Bret Stephens on Trump’s war with Iran."

Hi Jill,

What is your defense of the NYT's flagship morning newsletter promoting columns on Iran by opinion writers who have been catastrophically wrong about foreign policy for decades? In what way does this serve the public interest?

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

The only chance of a modicum of redemption available to you is to resign immediately.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

You're a fucking freak

I wonder if she realizes that, to the extent she'll be remembered at all, it'll be as an embarrassing disgrace.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats — and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?

this is good. underrated problem with popularism: it is--openly and explicitly--a pathetic, wimpy school of thought www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

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Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing.

"It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

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also, overly online racist grifter & friendly local plumber & dog mom are perfect avatars for the two teams

"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out."

Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian

Anyone with a functioning braincell knows that she's a Christian nationalist fascist, but congrats for once again vomiting out shameless, moronic propaganda

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

We've got beyond the practice of agents wearing masks to outright deception and abuses of trust. The lesson they are teaching the public is to not trust their government.

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

SCOOP: A White House staffer appears to be operating the anonymous pro-Trump X account JohnnyMAGA with nearly 300,000 followers.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

I know it seems pretty hard to believe for some reason, but it looks like the FBI at some point really did want to pursue a criminal child sex trafficking investigation into Donald Trump based on what this woman told them (and may have been able to corroborate to some extent)

As Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s family, we commend the British authorities for taking meaningful action and treating the Epstein files with the urgency they demand. While these arrests aren’t for the underlying exploitation, they are a crucial step toward truth and accountability. The contrast with the continued inaction in the United States is undeniable. Survivors deserve transparency, swift investigation, and real justice, no matter who is implicated. Sky and Amanda Roberts

Virginia Giuffre's family on the arrest of ex-U.K. Ambassador Peter Mandelson:

"The contrast with the continued inaction in the United States is undeniable. Survivors deserve transparency, swift investigation, and real justice, no matter who is implicated."

Full statement

David Brooks: America Needs a Mass Movement -- Now

essay by a guy whose entire media career has been built on hippie punching wondering why more people aren't helping the hippies topple the fascists

a year is a long time in politics