Jake Vaughn

I made a video explaining how Peter Thiel talks, the rhetorical strategies he uses to convince wealthy rubes he’s a genius. youtu.be/EPupGFFQOpQ?...

That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.

I feel like Pritzker has been fighting harder and better than Newsome for far longer, and has way better politics to boot. Yet he’s getting way less credit. Of course the corpo media is going to champion the guy who is opposed to universal healthcare. All respect to Newsome stepping up, tho

For years people said it was a gross exaggeration to label Nazism and its associated viewpoints within the modern conservative movement and especially online. Now Nazis are openly thriving and their rhetoric is impossible to avoid and many of the people who downplayed it are saying nothing at all

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

I don’t understand how the Epstein stuff can be considered a distraction. It’s a pretty big deal that the president is a child rapist. There also happens to be many other horrible things unfolding at the same time. But the vile complicity of the rich is not a distraction. It’s everything.

MAGA does not care if you’re a liberal, a soc dem, a communist, an anarchist—hell, they don’t care if you’re a Republican. This is a dictatorship, and everyone who’s awake right now needs to start real world community-building seriously. They have a military and every institution. We only have us

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

Choosing to believe my posts don’t get likes because I’m shadowbanned by fascist overlords and not because I’m bad at posting

Think of how many Catholics stayed Catholic after the Boston Globe reports about a systemic, organized cover-up of widespread p*dophilia. Not just Catholics. Southern Baptists, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses. Zealots are groomed to forgive child r*pists.

Remember that episode of The Office where Michael tried to cover up a rumor by starting a bunch of fake rumors to confuse everyone? But it only worked for like ten minutes because it was easy to trace all the fake stuff back to Michael? Been thinking about that for no reason in particular

The Epstein coverage shows you that the media can absolutely exert pressure on the powerful. They could cover our corrupt healthcare industry with similar zeal. They simply choose not to.

Hard to believe our capitalist system, which primarily benefits wealthy sociopaths, could have resulted in a world run by amoral billionaire freaks.

Feels like this would be a good time for hacktivists to do, like, anything

The New York Times Mamdani coverage is worse than you think. I dove deep into their coverage, and their source: Jordan Lasker, AKA Crémieux. youtu.be/UtD-rzFWf9Q?...

February 21: The Epstein client list is on Pam Bondi's desk ready to be reviewed July 7: The Epstein client list does not exist and the case is closed July 12: There is an Epstein file but it's a fake written by Obama, Crooked Hillary, Comey, and Brennan

Metadata shows Lex Luthor’s ‘Raw’ Superman Fortress of Solitude Video Was Likely Modified

#Superman made me feel like I was 6 years old again, while still treating me like an adult. 10/10 keyboard monkeys

Beyond parody. The former reality TV star cosplaying as president asks the former Fox weekend host cosplaying as defense secretary for help in answering a question, and then they both throw it over to the former small town mayor cosplaying as CIA chief who BS-es as much as he can

democrats attacked me over my cousins balls

Has Musk apologized yet for his Hitler-loving AI? I can’t see it if he has. Have Republican and Democratic Party leaders alike demanded an apology from him and an investigation into how it happened? Or is antisemitism just a cudgel used to attack supporters of Palestinians?

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They’ve been using “able-bodied Americans” a lot, because they don’t value humans with disabilities, and want us dead

O'Hickey: We've acknowledged this was an error and have no intention of repeating it… Xinis: You know your own clients have said the opposite to the world? In interviews, congressional testimony?

Xinis: I further find it "highly problematic" that counsel can't provide information about what they knew about proceedings related to securing indictment... At one point as she speaks, Xinis stops and asks Abrego's counsel how they found out about his return Response: "We learned on ABC news"

NEW: NYT Executive Editor Joe Kahn spoke about the Mamdani article at his daily meeting with top editors this morning, praising both the story and the reporting process, a Times source tells me. He also praised Assistant Managing Editor Pat Healy’s explanation of the situation that he posted on X.

The point here isn't to beat up on Jordan Lasker. It's to ask how the NYT called a white supremacist hack an "academic" when his only academic work of note was so awful that its ethical and scientific awfulness was a national scandal. No one even Googled. No one fact-checked this story AT ALL. 5/

Trump just used the anti-semitic term "shylocks" to describe bankers. No outrage, no asks for condemnation, no badgering of Republicans to ask if they support Trump's ugly statement. Nada. Meanwhile, did you hear that Mamdani supports Palestinian rights and criticizes Israel?!?! GET HIM!

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If only the führer knew

One great way to see how the far right is built out of the modern choose-your-own-reality media environment is how MAGA types will argue with Grok for hours about basic facts trying to produce some thin excuse to keep believing what they’re already predisposed to believe

Looking forward to litigating Alligator Alcatraz at Narwhal Nuremberg

Turning into a single issue voter for 2028, where the issue is which Democratic candidate will vow to nominate the most rabidly partisan, vengeful and hate-filled AG you can possibly imagine

Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did

Republicans are doing this because they know there won’t be an election in 2028. Trump has said many times he will run for a third term. SCOTUS has given him carte blanche to do so. Miami GOP is already illegally rescheduling elections. They have consolidated power, and plan to keep it.

All the reactionary centrists attacking Mamdami every day will deny -- to us, even to themselves I think -- that they play a key role in enabling this kind of shit. But that is literally their function in the current US political structure.

republicans operate according to a moral economy where wealthy oligarchs and polluters deserve the collected prosperity of the nation because of their wealth. the job of the rest of us is to toil for their benefit.

My conservative doomsday Christian parents often made me “opt out” of reading certain books in school. Guess what? I turned out to be a bisexual atheist democratic socialist. You cannot prevent your child from learning things you prefer they not learn. You’re just a shitty, cowardly parent.

What matters is that Cuomo and all the people who endorsed him are still going to claim they're the rightful heirs to the Democratic Party, how dare young people challenge them, all of that. The difference is they're now just unaffiliated lunatics, banging on the windows. They're not the party.

So they definitely booted David Hogg because they knew he would succeed

A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible

This video is amazing and terrifying and everyone needs to watch it. AI innovating new ways to break people’s brains