T. Otal Filthman

The major "parties" in the US are not actually parties, they are state-regulated ballot lines.
The major "parties" in the US are not actually parties, they are state-regulated ballot lines.
The major "parties" in the US are not actually parties, they are state-regulated ballot lines.

This is what gets me. Trump and RW media successfully convince people we're overrun with criminal immigrants. He wins.

If on day 2 of his administration he announced that he'd deported 10 million criminals on day 1, he'd probably be incredibly popular! Did they end up high on their own supply?

You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets

www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

democrats preserving the fillibuster just for trump to direct republicans to get rid of it was for nothing. democrats should have done this day one in the biden administration but their biggest downfall was assuming that political “norms” were restored after biden won

the revolt of the bosses is probably the single most important social movements since BLM and its actually massively under covered in media (which is not surprising at all)

Polish up that peace prize guys, ol Donnie’s coming!

I think this just means you’re young

Astead @AsteadWH Follow Libs now know they were annoying af during the pandemic but I'd like to clarify that it was wholly clear at the time Astead @AsteadWH • 29 Jul 21 id get a third dose if I could

we have now reached the point where Astead is dunking on libs for… getting vaccinated during a global pandemic

seriously what is wrong with him?

Oh, I'm sorry, did we make you uncomfortable? Well, maybe you should have thought of that before hooting like a bunch of gibbons as you hand out "liberal hunting licenses" to each other, you stupid cucks

Text "analysis of Nokings coverage" over image of NYT front page: https://open.substack.com/pub/mediaanddemocracyproject/p/analysis-of-no-kings-coverage-the?

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See our grades & analysis of 60+ front pages for #NoKings coverage.
Influential news outlets like NYT/ WSJ continue trivialize coverage of the pro-democracy movement & demonstrations like #NoKings. Editors of local outlets did better.
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see: open.substack.com/pub/mediaand...
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When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

A gang of far-right extremists have sent the US military to cities with Democratic mayors and kidnapping people at the behest of a proto-dictator and his white supremacist party and very serious pundits with national platforms take a look and say “hmm yes the left is forcing their views on people.”

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social it is past time to have real law enforcement protect CA citizens from these terrorists.

I'm becoming convinced that most emergent problems in the US and other wealthy democracies stem from extreme decadence in the face unlimited plenty and security.

The rich are bored, lawyers play word games all day, the average American has no idea how anything works. We're destroying ourselves.

He hasn’t done that. He has consistently pushed democrats to deal with the Nazis in this country directly and as an existential threat.

There are plenty of Dems to criticize, singling out will for this issue in particular is just internet brain poisoning

Let the campaigning begin.

A Portland family says their dad was wrongly arrested by ICE. Now he's lost in immigration detention. ICE arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland. Now he's lost in immigration detention as his family fights for answers.

Latest: Feds arrested Juan Barbosa Gomez in Portland on October 15, even though his family says he's got a valid work permit and no criminal record.

But he's not on ICE's detainee locator. His family only could find out his location on a third-party inmate messaging app reason.com/2025/10/30/a...

I think the obv answer there is guilt. People get swept up in mob mentality shit and when everyone around you is braying for blood you bray along with them. Then when faced with the reality of it, some people might feel bad, and it's easiest to just lie and say they were never for it.

The Nazi's on twitter literally made an AI cartoon series about Will because he has criticized them so consistently and for so long, what are you talking about?

If you want your national party to be perceived as moderate, you really oughtn't fixate on candidate-by-candidate issue positioning while the other party seizes the means of media production. That’s different from the question of how candidates win close races. www.offmessage.net/p/two-party-...

100% true, his problem was that he felt like it reflected badly on him, and he's just fundamentally lazy and didn't want to deal with it, so his strategy from early on was to pretend it wasn't happening.

If he had tried to rally the country behind him to deal with it, it was an easy win.

Tolkien was explicit that he was writing a grand mythology for Anglo-Saxons that their culture lacked.

And I’m sure he was racist in some way, but I think the darkness and fallen men stuff was also metaphor for people that start wars, which he did not care for at all.

All while they were masks. It’s intolerable

People need to realize that they mean to kill us all

Federal agents use pepper spray, rubber bullets on Durango protesters Organizers said they planned to remain peaceful while delaying ICE efforts to separate the family. Around 1 a.m. Tuesday, Durango Police Department officers arrived to monitor the situation. The...

"One agent appeared to grab a woman’s phone as she recorded him. When she tried to retrieve her phone, he grabbed her by the hair, pulled her across the road and pushed her to the ground."

Happening in tiny Durango, CO today. www.durangoherald.com/articles/con...

Matty out here saying Dems should go right on climate when people will vote for a socialist because they think he’s antisemitic (he’s not)

Elon setting out to make an explicitly right wing AI that goes on to solicit nudes from minors is an incredible confirmation of pedocon theory

And consistent across countries

One of the most important reasons to be a YIMBY is getting even a few people off the street can turn hundreds of Hitlers back into normie libs

This is a story that got missed, about how the White House is using the shutdown as an excuse to eliminate accountability.

It has shut down Inspectors General websites, meaning that lots of reports about failures have disappeared from govt websites.
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...