“That’s how brazen they lie when they know we’ve seen the truth… Imagine how they lie when there’s no evidence to contradict them… There is nothing more dangerous to a regime predicated on lies than witnesses who capture the truth.”
Jon Stewart on Alex Pretti
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Steps in Trump war rhetoric:
1. We don’t have to play by the rules in war
2. We won the war
3. If you go by the rules I just made up we won
4. No fair
Doing systemic racism to eliminate research on systemic racism to make systemic racism easier to hide and deny.
See also: higher taxes on rich people.
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
and they’re STILL mewling about “woke content” and “censorship,” proving once again you can never ever appease them — and if you give even an inch, they’ll bulldoze the whole house
Once I mentioned journalist, I had folks telling me about funding cuts, conditions to improve etc. Just made me think this doesn’t get enough coverage.
I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.
I am sad for Kori and for the Air War students who will miss out, but I am also not at all surprised. Fwiw, in my 21 years as PME faculty no previous administration of either party has made 'criticized the President in some other setting' disqualifying to give an academic talk
Notice that Mike Lee didn’t say, “We must stop fraud.”
He said Republicans might “lose power for a long time.”
That framing says it all.
So… in other words, his concern isn’t about fraudulent voters.👇
Shitting all over our traditional allies for a whole year and then begging them for help is perfect Trump
One of the reasons that threatening our closest NATO allies with conquest should have immediately ended Trump's presidency is that it endangered our national security, & now that we need allies, we are weaker, less secure, & totally flailing.
Dear Brendan Carr, in other words, GO FCC YOURSELF!
Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
If it wasn't disrespectful enough for Donald Trump to wear a baseball cap to the dignified transfer. Now he turns around an does a fundraiser off the backs of our dead military personnel.
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Zelensky states Russia transferred drones to Tehran and is sharing military intelligence on US bases in the Middle East with the Iranian regime. Zelensky said Russia's position is explicit: if Europe and the US share intelligence with Ukraine, Russia will share intelligence with Iran. #Ukraine
F1 cancels Bahrain and Saudi Arabia GPs because of Middle East war
Please note most federal grants *required* information on how the grants would benefit underserved or understudied groups. If you applied for a grant, you *had to* include something that would speak to diversity and equity.
Would you like your MAGA with or without a side of corruption? ICYMI @jilldlawrence.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4b6oaUl
Diplomatic staff at the American consulate in Erbil were also forced to shelter-in-place when the facility came under attack from Iran before they were ultimately flown out of the country by the British Royal Air Force due to constraints on the U.S. military, which would normally carry out such a mission, according to the officials.
Amid discussions on TODAY's call to evacuate, this story from Wednesday did not get enough attention.
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I wrote this essay about the private sector's exploitation of American concentration camps in July 2025. The situation has since advanced much further.
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There is absolutely no bottom.
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A masterclass in dumbfuckery and privilege.
But his friend needs money…
Eh? I'm not commenting on the usefulness of polling in general. I'm pointing out that 30% of pretty much *all* populations are fine with fascism. The trick is to avoid giving those 30%'s preferred candidates unfettered power. Which, eg, Europe largely manages, while the US has clearly failed.
I tried telling people it was a shitty idea to put a mentally disturbed felon in the Oval Office but 70 million assholes didn't listen.00
"Wear the shoes Grandpa got you. He'll be there."
"No. They don't fit."
"I don't care. Just wear the fukkin shoes or he'll bitch about it."
yep. but in fairness its been in plain site for while. Im only laughing about the shoes because it really shows the spineless venom in office with him, fallen so low that they will wear clown shoes for fear of being executed like Kim Jong Un or something
I have nothing to add here. Yes, it’s that bad.
When you surround yourself with dinguses (dingi?) for advisors, you end up with dingus policy.
