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To be a bird licking a rainbow popsicle on a hot July day

Hey no big deal and all but... Senate Republicans just confirmed Joe Kent, a conspiracy theorist with alarming ties to white nationalists and far-right groups, to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

"We have since learned new information, including from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that Anne Frank was suffering from typhus, and have updated our story to add context about her health problems."

There was a three week news cycle dedicated to this complete vaporware

Fox News is very mad that Zohran Mamdani *checks notes* embraced the father of the NYPD officer who was killed in Monday's mass shooting.

The guy who stole people was my very good close friend until he stole one of my own personal people and then I said to him, I said, hey, listen,

the Republican goal here is to drive more money and power to right wing propaganda companies pretending to be local news broadcasters (like Sinclair broadcasting) but as usual a reader would have absolutely no idea of this reading U.S. journalism coverage of it

Senate Democrats are introducing a bill today to require a sweeping audit of the federal govt's computer systems, to figure out if the DOGE Bros left your sensitive data vulnerable and are potentially selling it to Big Tech and AI. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Doesn't this quote essentially admit that the CBS News settlement was a bribe to get the Paramount merger through? www.ft.com/content/b077...

Every once in a while I’ll see someone talking about “they used to be so many serial killers in the 70s and 80s and 90s, where did they all go?” and I’m pretty sure they just all became tech billionaires.

is the muslim guy visiting family in uganda responsible for the shooting in new york? we put the question to the Times’ new Thin Blue Chatbot and the answer…might surprise you

all im saying is i want the next democratic administration explaining in front of a judge how sorry they are that tom homan was dropped off in the middle of the arizona desert, they just have no idea how it happened and it mustve just been a paperwork mixup

Nice to see that he's bringing up Epstein on his own in response to any question. Keep it up. Ignore any Dem strategist who says otherwise.

The Trump administration has quietly released the first stage of its plan to revoke birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants. It uses dry legalese to conceal the barbaric reality of ICE agents in maternity wards and deportation flights for babies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

always good to see voters reject corrupt politicians' bids to divide and scapegoat www.newsweek.com/zohran-mamda...

The ONLY REASON Trump could give Emil Bove this spot on the 3rd Circuit is because cowardly Democratic senators refused to confirm Biden's nominee to the seat following a bad-faith, Islamophobic smear campaign by Republicans. Utterly shameful and self-defeating. slate.com/news-and-pol...

“Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israeli Defence Forces, without a doubt. Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.”

the thing with creating a media drumbeat is you have to keep repeating yourself. conservatives are very good at this. liberals are not. we have to train up those muscles. no, "everybody" hasn't seen it already. feel free to keep repeating shit and going to the same well over and over.

In a friend-of-the-court brief representing 157 members of Congress, the Brennan Center explains how the administration's withholding of congressionally appropriated funds violates the Constitution. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

if buttigieg had said some people are uncomfortable with black kids playing sports with white kids would it be ok? thats how we need to deal with anti-trans bigotry the line must be drawn

One last set of thoughts on impeachment after writing this essay on why it is a sworn duty for those whose sworn duty it is, and why the reasons to not fulfill that duty are all bad. In response I heard reasons to not impeach, all of which were also bad.

Despite manufacturing most of its vehicles in the USA… The company said tariff-related costs will cut about $2 billion from its annual earnings, more than the $1.5 billion it predicted three months ago.” www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Just another reminder that Elon Musk is a white supremacist.

the amoral engagement chasing executives at substack (who openly embraced white supremacist writers and have paid huge cash advances to some of the internet's biggest bigots and trolls for years) did a whoops a daisy!

It seems like “a Democratic party campaign consultant” is somebody who professionally pushes Republican framing and messaging about Democrats in order to try make Democrats act like more like Republicans.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Remember when Trump — of course, with no evidence at all except his own bigotry — blamed DEI for a deadly airplane collision? A new study shows female pilots may do better in high-pressure situations than their male counterparts. uwaterloo.ca/news/media/f...

every billionaire friend group has that one blowup where the sex trafficking friend steals a 16 year old masseuse from the pedophile friend

The last thing I’d want to do is interrupt the President’s historic corruption sweep.

here's a useful critical annotation of zuck's "superintelligence" memo sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

And that one or two elected Republicans a week being arrested for sex crimes doesn't reflect on the party.

In 1964 conservatives took over the GOP. So far that has led to double presidential terms for Reagan, Bush II and Trump that have utterly fucked America plus a bonus term from Bush I that gave us Clarence Thomas. Please tell me what continuing to prop up the Pelosi/Schumer regime is getting Dems.

Cory Booker yelling at Democrats for not fighting is ironic considering his vote for Trump nominees

The media will literally print verbatim any drool that is regurgitated by a billionaire. Like, some billionaire will say "In 5 years, most vehicles will run on butterfly kisses" and that's what they will run with, with no additional commentary.

this is absolutely emblematic. the US denied entry to him at San Francisco International Airport last month.

“Wave of consequence” is a phrase I’m going to save for future use. Even without a tsunami. I save good phrases for future use—and that’s a great one.

Why do people continue to complain about the firemen who won’t fight fires when the whole building is on fire?

He has disabled quote posts on this (gee I wonder why) but this post from NYT’s @jeffcmays.bsky.social is the “media bias” you’re always hearing about in action. Somehow the shooting is about Mamdani’s views on policing. Not conservatives and gun policy or the the current mayors actions.

It’s….the 3AM club plus an earthquake and tsunami alert (not where I am) Coffee and cookies on the back table.

Josh Divine was one of the lawyers asking Matthew Kacsmaryk to ban the abortion pill. He just withdrew from the case … because Trump made him a judge. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

SAY IT LOUDER FOR ABSOLUTELY FUCKING EVERYBODY

This will cause untold death and human suffering so that cronies can make a few more bucks

Another one! The Washington Post's longtime media columnist Erik Wemple announced today that he's jumping ship and joining the New York Times.

correct! Recent report out of Penn State on this, here: thexlab.org/wp-content/u... Despite the Trump "feud," Republicans want to smother Musk with subsidies while pretending Starlink is some kind of magic broadband band aid

The fascistic and Neo-Nazi ideas at the beating, corroded heart of MAGA are disturbing and people want to pretend they’re not there or that they’re not sincere. They are very real. They are very sincere. They’re not something that will just resolve themselves or go away. They must be crushed.

This is some weak shit

congratulations @repjasmine.bsky.social for triggering the foul cretins at the federalist. you're doing great.

I solemnly swear to behave with decorum at all times on the Alf dong website.

Anyone heard from Bill Barr lately?

Remember when everyone was dead certain they were having an affair and he denied it and the press took his word for it?

ICYMI: Senate Republicans last night confirmed Emil Bove, aka Trump's "enforcer," to a lifetime federal judgeship -- choosing to ignore credible allegations that Bove told DOJ attorneys to defy court orders and say “fuck you” to judges who ruled against them. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

what's that @hypervisible.bsky.social quote about how every future envisioned by a tech company is worse than the last?

ME: You know that you have to actually WIN an election to have any hope of doing anything. DEMS: Meh.

A gorgeous red-spotted purple butterfly in a moment of respite between hops around my back yard.

To most of the msm, if it didn’t happen in NYC it didn’t matter.

Over at the Institute For Local Self Reliance I wrote about how the Trump administration is redirecting a huge portion of the $42.5 billion in infrastructure bill grants to Elon Musk, in exchange for expensive, congested satellite service that can't fix U.S. broadband woes at scale.

Watching local Hawaiian news, as one does.

It's summer, so it means just one thing -- Alan Dershowitz is suffering like no human before as he vacations in Martha's Vineyard. I present you with Pierogi-gate.

I like when I go to a restaurant or doctor and they have prominent "best of" awards hanging on the wall that ominously end about seven years ago.

Three foot tsunami in Hanalei, four foot in Haliewa per the latest TWC update. Small enough that there shouldn't be much damage. Big enough that I'm definitely glad they went ahead and evacuated.

Amazon paid The New York Times $20 million+ to license their content for AI

doing a story on ice abuses and it is very clear that ice/dhs is search engine optimizing pages to come up in the top of results if you search on this issue. years ago i floated the notion that liberals need to get into pumping up pages with info. to no avail, as usual.

In tomorrow’s column, I praise President Trump’s strong and sensible dismembering of the EPA and federal food regulations: “Every morning I wake up, open the doors to my family tire-burning and tainted-meat-sales business and thank God for President Donald J. Trump.”

Today the Senate will vote to confirm Joe Kent -- a guy who said the violent, far-right, neo-fascist Proud Boys are just "a group to scare left-wing people" -- to lead the National Counterterrorism Center. Can't make it up folks. www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-ca...

It’s fine.

Not sure there’s much incentive for whistleblowers these days given how Republicans in Congress are so determined to ignore their warnings.

republicans have done this multiple times - the goldwater moment in 64, the religious right in the 80s, the tea party after obama, and the trumpers. every time the party has gotten more extreme and politically stronger. meanwhile dems keep losing and people shriek if you say "change a little"

holy Freudian slip, Batman!

I think it’s crazy to defend the Dem establishment by saying Republicans never criticize their own when the current head of the Republican Party got to his position by engaging in a full on public destruction of the Bush family while also slagging McCain.

i have often accused democrats of using rhetoric like some judge or referee is going to make a ruling. they should speak about the gop like a lawyer trying to convince a jury to send a serial killer to the chair.

NEW: Senate Republicans are finally standing up to Trump on something instead of bowing to his every demand. And it's... an arcane tradition in the Senate Judiciary Committee called blue slips! www.huffpost.com/entry/chuck-...

Let's be clear about this. This move doesn't reward terror. It didn't come as a response to October 7. It punishes war crimes. It comes as a response to the 2 years since. Had the Israeli government pursued its war in Gaza with any modicum of compliance with International law - & it could have ...

Did we ever get a full accounting of how much Covid money went to scammers in the first season?

“Believe it or not I’m really not a conspiratorial person.” - Donald Trump

A good friend doesn't get mad when you cancel plans. A best friend never makes plans in the first place.

there's also compelling data that these disposable Elon Musk satellites constantly burning up in orbit could erode the progress we made fixing the ozone layer, so that's nice

Good lord. If you can read this without weeping you’re tougher than I am

Fighting scams is part of CyberCivilDefense. I need to get more effective and a lot louder about it. Personally, I haven't fully recovered from two professional dirty tricks operations. I need to move on, and to realize that it’ll never be fair or make sense. www.linkedin.com/pulse/gettin...

donald trump is an old man who watches shit like fox business all day

blue maga is people who think the party is infallible, beyond criticism, and that anyone who deigns to criticize the party is part of some vast conspiracy meant to undermine the universe they are the liberal version of trump cultists who have the same devotion to him

even if youre the worlds biggest pelosi fan i dunno how you can look around and think its all going great

Liberals think everyone watches Maddow every night and is as caught up as they are. It’s so annoying. People just hear fragments of the news at best. If you care at all about this stuff you should be repeating it and amplifying it like Kevin and the rest of us do.

Levin's comments parallels the logic used by COVID minimizers in corporate media to normalize preventable harm against school children and vulnerable adults. The disingenuous argument went something along the lines of "They aren't being hospitalized *by* COVID, they're hospitalized *with* COVID!"

Welp www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

everything about zaid jilani writing in praise of majorie taylor green for jeff bezos’s amusement is hilariously on brand for everyone involved

The fact that the most recent accomplishment in your post is from 15 years ago and you’re arguing that the party is fine kind of makes the point for me.

Booker voted against it lol

Little brothers do not respect boundaries

Sydney Sweeney is really talented. She was hilarious on White Lotus, terrific in Euphoria (a show I didn't like much, but she was good!) & very touching in The Handmaid's Tale, too. People are just crowing sniggering assholes to famous young women, no matter WHAT they look like

and if a democratic candidate ran in 2024 or 2028 opposed to same sex marriage, they wouldnt get support. its like things change over time or something.

Hope everyone in Hawaii is ok

The Dems only picked Obama because enough people ignored the establishment pick

The Sydney Sweeney thing is a great little lesson in how little it takes for the right to run with “the left is out of its mind” that completely overwhelms the reach of the few social media posts they hinge it on.

In a 2-minute span, we have Trump saying: -- "we got rid of the woke, woke is gone -- "prices are WAY down... fuel is down, groceries are down, eggs are WAY down" -- "fuel is $2.35 a gallon... we actually had 4 states where it's $1.99 as opposed to $3 or $4" -- "now we have NO inflation!"

The Washington Post today is regurgitating White House spin that the Epstein scandal is over (NYTimes said the same last week). Meanwhile this happened *yesterday* Trump reveals creepy connection to Epstein victim www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Here’s the best link! m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

Lemme tell you the problem with this take. Some services you can’t pay separately. For example lower taxes that aren’t sufficient to upkeep an electricity grid is something you can’t pay your way out of. See: Texas. That’s why their infrastructure is shoddy

he's right

I think this is an uncontroversial and frankly mild take yet my comments say otherwise