Ann Bartow

it is odd in retrospect how easy it was for the “but trump ended his friendship with epstein” narrative to be accepted as fact

Q: Why shouldn't Alaskans find it insulting that the administration is suggesting they can't read the word 'incumbent' on their ballot and know to vote for Sen. Sullivan? JD VANCE: People are busy. People have lives. People have jobs.

🚨 FULTON COUNTY, GEORGIA VOTERS! More than 7K voters had their registrations flagged over questions about their residential addresses, & the ACLU is raising serious concerns about errors. Check your voter status NOW. If it says “Challenged,” contact Fulton County Elections.

Wow! I was not expecting that.

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

#bbcbreakfast Brexit has not been “reopened because of Andy Burnham”, but because: - it’s turned out to be a costly mistake - geopolitics shows we can’t rely on the US, but need to work with our neighbours with whom we share common interests - the public has turned against it

Besides being racist and false, this suggests science is only carried out by a few geniuses who claim prizes, whereas in reality science relies on smart and diligent people committed to collaboration and discovery without special recognition.

no amnesty

this man is a gotdamned patriot

When Joe Biden was losing mental sharpness, he was counseled to step aside and he did. Democrats and Republicans are not the same.

🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

Alaska authorities strongly oppose the Trump DOJ’s attempted “interference” in the election. This is significant because there were concerns the state—which sought to DQ the second Sullivan—would take the same side. But it didn’t. Quite the contrary. buff.ly/EJHtDpX

I honestly was not sure if this was a new or recycled allegation, which says a lot about our President.

somebody just needs to tell them a Black Harvard professor was involved

bring back shame for being a huge fucking racist in public

RFK is of course correct, it has been *checks notes* an entire year since an Arab has won a Nobel Prize

Everybody gets to control their own bodies. Pretty easy bright line most of the time.

Please let this be a trend.

i feel like this evan barker person does not understand the joke obama is making, which rests on being familiar with the cheesecake factory and understanding that it is nice but not opulent.

'Then where does the past exist, if at all?’ ‘In records. It is written down.’ ‘In records. And –?’ ‘In the mind. In human memories.’ ‘In memory. Very well, then. We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?’

Complete and unfettered psychographic segmentation has long been the dream of industries and governments who seek power and control. Some privacy harms can appear to be trifling until seen in the aggregate.

Berkeley costs 54k *in state*???

This was just the CEO and controlling shareholder handing himself money, which you can freely once you've reincorporated out of Delaware and into Nevada, which he caused the company to do. www.wsj.com/business/how...

Now that’s a headline

And if you follow Trump Adminstration politics, Elon will still occasionally tweet angrily at Sean Duffy, www.theguardian.com/science/2025....

DOGE was a coup, DOGE was a coup, DOGE was a coup. I will always weirdly be “ok” with Sean Duffy b/c he was the one Department Head, along with a roided out Scott Bessent, who pushed back at DOGE with a hearty, WTF?

Here’s where I talked to the New York Times about disinformation: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/b... 🗣️📰

The lies that come out of RFK’s mouth per minute is insane. For instance, this is an Administration that is trying to weaken the standards for informed consent in scientific research.

This is so fucking nasty

lemme see if I get it GRU hacks Kushner's iPhone Dutch intelligence (MIVD) then recruits GRU spy, gives them hacked phone MIVD discovers that Kushner has 2 bank accounts (one Azerbaijani, one Israeli) where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposit money

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

OLC, OIRA, ICE. Time to rediscover the subtle art of rat fucking institutions that are designed to screw you and yours.

A sad but perfect metaphor for the Trump Administration. wapo.st/3WF2YQo