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damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

Fuck AI overviews. It’s thievery from journalists pure and simple

American journalists need to stop running headlines that are leaks from officials in this administration. I get obtaining leaks make you feel ~special~ but publishing their claims without independent verification means you are literally behaving as the administration's propaganda tool!!!!!

the reason the media doesnt cover stories is because right-wing podcasts funded by billionaires set the information agenda in this country for mainstream media

The Avatar cultural relevance discussion in a nutshell: "It’s irrelevant because I ignore it, and I ignore it because it's irrelevant." This reasoning shows up a lot when popular art collides with critical identity, and it says more about the critic’s limitations than the work's significance.

Oh please just fuck off

If the media is covering a protest it is a right wing astroturf garbage dump. 100% The media literally ignores millions of people protesting if it's any actual issue that effects real people. But if 20 truck drivers suddenly want to dictate national policy on vaccines they get coverage for 6 months.

Stunning development: Senators now confirm the Trump admin’s 28-point “peace plan” for Ukraine wasn’t a U.S. plan at all. It was a Russian wish list. Follow along. This is crazy. 1/

Brett Meiselas: If the Epstein files had all this evidence that showed Trump actually was not involved and it actually incriminated all these Democrats, Trump would be the first to release them. But there is a reason that they are keeping all of this information hidden from the American public.

Capitalism will end. It has zero purpose outside of protecting cruelty, violence and child exploitation. It does not measure any level of merit. The only thing wealth symbolizes is corruption. The only promise of wealth is escaping the harm capitalism creates artificially to sustain its hierarchy.

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Trump and his cronies are now pushing 50-year mortgages. Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.

There's a vicious war on the right. Please join me in praying for our ally, sepsis.

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Evangelicals are hot for starving kids.

Network edits, you say? Lawsuit time.

This is like Drunk History meets This Old House

Turns out the sweetheart deal that Trump's former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave Epstein back in 2008 was even worse than we thought. Epstein's emails show Acosta tanked an investigation that had Epstein dead to rights on money laundering, and other financial crimes.

"We must liberate all that oil!"

Folks, please note this. The top military official overseeing Trump's boat bombings recently resigned with no explanation, and now Republicans in Congress are refusing to press for his testimony even in a classified setting. Lots of new behind-the-scenes reporting in this piece:

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Baloney. The masses used to be able to see the advantages/successes of effective governing. Because it was reported fairly. Modern media is run by corporate power working against the public good. It has spent 50 years trying to sabotage/bury every form of government that serves the public good.

Why bother making an actual trade deal when you can just announce a new “framework” every few months and manipulate the markets?

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

Mad about Trump's destruction of the East Wing? Blame Big Tech. Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the current administration. They all cut checks for the ballroom.

Everybody knows Zohran Mamdani isn't some crazed Stalinist dictator, trying to throw everybody into Gulags. Because if he was that type of leader Fox News and the mainstream media would be supporting him 100%

In 2020 when I said Democrats should refuse to seat Republicans I was told if they did that nothing would stop Republicans from doing the same.

the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted

I think people who constantly view every book they read as some kind of moral or political treatise are highly deceptive individuals with a strong streak of Machiavellianism who are just projecting their own behaviour onto everybody and everything around them.

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Checking in on this

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.

People who don't appreciate the artistry in Argento films are always stupid. Always.

it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”

worth noting the pipeline here: * Trump-supporting anons hack Columbia data * Nazi twitter accounts dig around in the data * NYT picks up on Nazi substack posts, publishes Zohran story to damage his campaign * Chris Rufo immediately boosting the story

The only thing that Democrats have ever been good at, is taking credit for the hard work of unions, socialists and radicals. The "center left" pats itself on the back for winning elections against guys like Dole, McCain and Romney. Hamburger brained grumpy old men with the charisma of driftwood.

BREAKING: A source tells me that the Trump administration has shut down public access to every single National Climate Assessment, the Congressionally-mandated quadrennial report assessing how climate change is affecting the U.S. This is what you get when you try to access them online