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They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.

“This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison”

These people are freaks.

“We’re the hottest country in the world right now. We went from a dead country a year ago to the hottest country in the world.”

- 10/8/25

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows "exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation," with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty." Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down." The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote. Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Pope Leo is spitting.

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I wrote about the Bari Weiss take over of CBS News as part of a broader trend away from the pretense of liberal institutionalism into a genuinely post-reality tabloidism, marked by AI slop, unsophisticated Trumpian-Likudite propaganda and consolidation of traditional and social media.

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...

Particularly given that he's otherwise busy doing shit like this:

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Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

Ran into Speaker Johnson and told him exactly how I feel about Republicans shutting down the government to protect pedophiles and jack up health care costs for 24 million Americans.

The pope has instructed U.S. bishops to take a stronger public stand against the president’s hardline immigration policies

A state of denial Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation

Netanyahu’s onslaught against Gaza has been genocidal, but Israelis refuse to see it, writes @omerbartov.bsky.social. This has historical parallels—and roots in Israel’s foundation.

"The department’s actions and policies reflect a disdain for public schools and a desire to dismantle that system in favor of a range of other options — private, Christian and virtual schools or homeschooling."

soybean farmers are panicking over loss of Chinese buyers, declare possible 'bloodbath'

Trump assault on wind projects hits red states hardest

businesses that depend on government contracts are already feeling the pain of the shutdown

no official jobs numbers during shutdown means Wall Street is turning to alternative measures -- and they show the situation is bad

If the economy could be represented by a giant dashboard of lights, they'd all be flashing red

DHS trolls Zach Bryan with his own lyrics after his new song draws ire from MAGA Bryan teased new music Friday on social media and has since found himself in hot water with Republicans

www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Hanania continues to rebrand as a serious person. He's also the guy whose 2019 study claimed that Twitter was 21x more likely to "censor" "conservatives," 14 of which were literal Nazis, as he himself had been. That study was cited endlessly to prove that social media were systematically biased...

Benny Johnson posts AI video of himself as Batman beating up women in sombreros Benny Johnson’s AI-altered Dark Knight is seen delivering a right cross directly to the face of a woman, whose hat comes flying off as she staggers to the ground, all while a “BONK!” graphic comes fly...

Gestapo wanna-be Benny Johnson spent the weekend tagging along with Nazi Noem, wearing a Border Patrol flack jacket, and taking pictures with masked federal agents in full military garb.

He now poasted an AI video depicting himself as a pro-ICE Batman punching an Asian woman.

Fascinating to witness certain figures making this journey in realtime...

APOLLO: “Bank of America data shows that the labor market continued to deteriorate in September.” 👀

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Jake Tapper is doing text message based with "interviews" with Trump without explaining how he verified the answers were actually from Trump?

The double standard with which reporters like Tapper are treating Trump compared to how they treated Biden re age/mental capacity is beyond astonishing.

Federal immigration agents in Chicago are drawing outrage over increasingly militarized tactics, including helicopter raids, tear gas near schools, and the handcuffing of a city council member. On the South Side, immigration agents tried to abduct a man before residents intervened to stop it...

you absolutely did vote for this, you craven dorks

that mcmorrow feels the need to do this is one of the clearest signs yet that genocide denial and pro-israel politics are well on their way to becoming losing issues in democratic primaries