David O'Dowd

So among Putin and Trump-backed candidates in Central and Eastern Europe we now have Orban as well as Vucic driven out of power by the kind of popular mobilisation that Putin and Trump do not seem psychologically equipped to understand

I mean come on! Are we really living in Idiocracy?

Straight up Islamophopbia, and, of course, LIES! This wretched man must be stopped.

Know. Your. History!

This is true. Qatar is widely believed to be the biggest financial backer of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Obama argues that we won’t fix our political problems unless we rediscover our moral compass first

Hi. 👋 If you're reporting on the DOJ's latest ridiculous demands, it'd be nice if you added the tiny little tidbit to your headline that election officials don't actually have to respond to a letter from the DOJ that's got no real law behind it. Even when the demands are in bold italics.

The level of hatred and harassment that Trump is directing at Ilhan Omar is appalling. He's inciting some disturbed person to commit violence against her. The entire Republican Party already has blood on its hands, and it's eager for more.

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

10 years would be a good run for them. Time to wrap this up.

In our poll of battleground state voters, 60% said it should be congress' TOP or HIGH priority to investigate Musk and hold him accountable. The people pulling the strings are the voters, dude.

What we are seeing in Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Elizabeth Holmes, et al, is the rise of the ‘technopath’. Beneath their behavior is the same old sociopathy of the world’s monsters only enabled by technology.

THIS is how you deal with a bigot

i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

Excellent, EXCELLENT article from our beloved Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com about this so-called "estrangement" issue. Someday, these MAGA monsters will have to realize THEY ARE THE PROBLEM. Or maybe not. It's not like they're big on learning new facts. evanhurst.substack.com/p/weird-to-w...

I think you’re supposed to read it as it always does for President Donald Trump.

You guys can keep repeating this all you want, but it doesn’t make it true. America was founded as a secular republic, not a Christian nation. The Constitution is pretty clear about that.

It’s that time of year for my 2010 joke.

Sexual assault is so common that I have to assume any man who complains about it or blames victims is guilty of it. Anyone who uses one false accusation to question us. Anyone who asks why she didn't report or requires a criminal conviction. I just assume you're guilty.

Nailed it. 🔨

In 2025 just five companies (Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle) were responsible for 37 percent of the global capex of the top 100 U.S.-listed nonfinancial companies. The last time investment was that concentrated was the early 1970s, when AT&T reigned supreme.

irony is dead -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders is on Fox & Friends decrying "manufactured" conservative outrage

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

This would come across a lot better if he hadn’t just lost a war.

Gretchen,

😂😂😂

My favourite chart this year:

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks.

Joe Rogan: Why are you a Democrat? Talarico: My mother saw Texas Democrats like Ann Richards, people who fought for the little guy. That was the classic Democratic Party. I asked my mom what we were, and she was like, ‘We're Democrats, because Democrats fight for the people.’

if they perfect the sex bots do you think the techbros will start to leave the rest of us alone

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

youtu.be/exWl5bYGHk8?...

Someone tell Trump that the teens are in reach, he'll be so excited!

If you could just become a completely different person at 80, that would be great.

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

People need to understand. The problem is not that we elected Trump once. It's that we rejected him and then elected him again. It will take a least a decade for our allies to trust us again.

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Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

He’s not looking at a placard about lowering grocery prices. He’s not looking at a placard about end the Iran War. He’s not looking at a placard about reining in AI or ending the Canadian Trade War or expanding healthcare. He’s focused on what he thinks matters most: His grievances.