@jonthomason
Software tech exec, cyclist, guitarist, foreign language enthusiast, history buff, Latter-day Saint, short attention span! Can we get back to valuing intelligence and competence in political leaders? Eisenhower and FDR fan.
When the D.C. Bureau Chief of the Independent drops a truth bomb.
One of the most dangerous myths in American politics today is that authoritarianism is something that happens “over there.”
It doesn’t.
Not anymore.
Not in 2025.
Because the fight for democracy — and against it — is now global.
open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...
Note to Kristi Noem:
It is far better to be mocked in a cartoon for how you look than to be shoved into the back of a U-Haul and kidnapped for how you look.
Everyone should shun Nazi collaborators
A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae
The agreement "WAS NOT PUT IN WRITING"
This is not a serious government, but a mad king making arbitrary decisions with local politicians and foreign governments saying whatever crap they hope will pacify his current obsessions.
No business can make long term investments in such an environment.
JUST IN: Federal judge orders a temporary stop to construction of Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp in Florida amid environmental lawsuit
Good indeed. This could have been what pushed Trump over the edge to win (if he really did legitimately win, something that’s looking more questionable now). Go Bernie!
Imagine this in Russian on Russian state TV
The word for what Jesse Watters is describing here is un-American. A shredding of the constitution.
There nothing funny about it.
“Medium income” 🤡
@megancnbc.bsky.social
NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.
We are going to end up with something like the Waffle House Index to measure distress in the economy
Release ALL the Epstein files. Let the shit fly!
I just fired my car because the odometer differed from my hunch.
The cruelty is always the point with this administration.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "We can, in essence, likely neuter the total number of districts that Trump is looking to get with Abbott in rigging those [Texas] maps, here in the state of California. Hope other governors consider doing similar things. You've got to fight fire with fire."
“The 2020 Senate committee investigation, which interviewed more than 200 witnesses and reviewed a million documents over three years, came to the same conclusion. ...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Just watched a YouTube video about male Gen Z fashion trends and I swear to god the first two things were tucking your socks into your pants then wearing flip-flops on top of your tucked-in socks. The last two things were bowling sneakers and bowling ball bags. I now believe in the fertility crisis.
This is truly insane. We are witnessing one of the most corrupt cover-up schemes in history—and it's all playing out in plain view.
This is too easy.
While the Department of Justice is meeting in secret with Ghislaine Maxwell to coach her on testimony, it is hiding from us three discs containing court-authorized recordings of her phone calls. [Source: ABC News] That is the REAL evidence. And this is a cover-up.
