Colby Townsend

calling trump “incompetent” alone would’ve been enough to trigger him, but “he’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory” is what will truly send him over the edge (gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...)

One day a reporter will finally snap back “shut the fuck up, grandpa” and become the first GoFundMe billionaire

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Trump and Elon can point fingers at each other all they want but this has endangered soldiers and civilians in Ukraine.

No private citizen, let alone a trillionaire, should be able to order or direct vital national security actions to appease a President’s grudges.

JD Vance just defended Vivek Ramaswamy's ad paying Amy Acton’s estranged mother — who stayed married to Amy’s rapist — to attack her own daughter. The entire Republican Party owns this now.

The fact that not a single staffer has resigned from Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign since this disgusting Amy Acton ad dropped is shocking. If any client I ever worked with did something even a fraction as disgusting as this, I would have quit and burned down their entire fucking campaign.

NEW: California warns the DOJ is twisting a voting law to force election officials into disenfranchising 20k people the department alleges may be noncitizens. “This amounts to suspending voting rights for thousands of voters who are only suspected of being noncitizens.” https://demdock.com/3VUUCEc

If we tax Elon Musk and his fellow billionaires appropriately, every child in America can have healthcare, education, and a well funded social safety net instead of some racist billionaire’s pathetic pr stunt

The former senator has always been wrong about everything

BRAZIL 🇧🇷: A judge ordered META to stop intentionally helping Bolsonaro (son of an insurrectionist) against Progressive President Lula. Tech oligarchs meddling with elections across the globe. www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

Remember that Elon Musk bought Twitter on the basis of bullshit claims that its algorithm was not promoting conservative accounts fairly, and now we're seeing the tech right clamp down on liberals and the left across the board

It’s taking a long time for people to wake up to the fact that these platforms are not public forums but privately owned companies with terrible agendas and total control. If you lay down with these dogs…

Given the news that Meta throttled Lula in Brazil and stories like this one below every Dem state legislature should open an investigation into whether the platforms have attempted to influence elections in their states.

Mike Johnson threatens us with a good time: "If this group took over, they would turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They'd spend every day investigating the president, the first family, the cabinet, donors to the party, leaders of business ... "

JUST IN: Mag. judge in EDVA clears former FEMA CFO Mary Comans of claims she directed tens of millions in payments for housing undocumented immigrants in NYC. Judge: Statements by Musk & others were 'little more than state-sanctioned intimidation.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

It’s always good when an undergrad says on your birthday that they thought you were 28. I’ll take it.

For this Indigenous Peoples Day, your astonishing artifact is the earliest known Indigenous depiction of a European — a wood carving from Nunavut dated to 1350. 🧪🏺

🚨 WOW: WSJ reports Ken Paxton partied in a luxury Dubai high-rise with 2 FUGITIVES, Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail, facing fed charges over an alleged $15 MILLION hospital embezzlement scheme — alongside his gf (not his wife). Ahmed donated $190K to Paxton, including $25K AFTER his indictment.

The Republican Party is chock full of Nazis. The government has Nazis in senior administration positions. The Republican Party’s largest donor is a neo-Nazi. David Brooks might not want to admit it, but that’s why it’s long past time for him to shut up.

A GOP-led purge of Democratic voters is underway in New Jersey — and voters are fighting back in court. In one stark example, a Democratic voter received a “Gilmore Letter” questioning their eligibility to vote. Their Republican spouse did not: https://demdock.com/4yCxbOh

NEW: “The core belief of the MAGA movement is we won the 2020 election,” Steve Bannon said on CBS' Sunday Morning News show. The interview is the latest evidence that Bannon and MAGA are committed to sowing as much chaos as needed to subvert democracy and disrupt the midterms.

Marc Elias has a prediction for the midterms: “If Democrats win, it is 100% certain that Donald Trump will say they were not honest.” Voting rules are being rewritten right now. Stay a step ahead: https://demdock.com/4yhBJbZ

‼️ Some of ICE’s election day plans are documented in a new Democracy Forward report, shared exclusively with Democracy Docket. DF says Americans are being left in the dark about what ICE plans to do as voters begin casting ballots. Here’s how they’re fighting back: https://demdock.com/4zhkjx0

This public execution is CRAZY! It’s disgusting, barbaric, soul-crushing!!!! It should bring everyone out of their homes into the streets, like everything else. Where is the outcry!? This regime disgusts me.

Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.

"Needing the ICC" is hardly the point. First, no govt whose officials are accused of international crime "needs" it - it's the victims who need it. Second, the US has not just taken itself out of the ICC (it was never in) but it seeks to shut it down so the rest of us, who do need it, can't use it.

Just a reminder that multiple members of Donald Trump's family and administration helped bring the Tate brothers back to the United States after it was already clear they were human traffickers and sexual abusers. They should all be investigated by Congress immediately, including Barron Trump.

"As a parent investing hard-earned money into tuition for your child, would you feel more or less confident if someone who knows nothing about curriculum design and has no training in a content area–say, engineering–begins to dictate what an intro engineering course must cover?"

"De-Trumpification" has to be one of the top agenda items if Dems win power. All the lawlessness and every last one of his efforts to turn DC into an imperial capital should be undone.

This is a very good story. Yet it's amazing to see the New York Times continually miss the forest for the trees.

I actually don't think the Republican Senator mixed up "Hawks" and "Hawkeyes." Going by his own statements, it appears his staff saw he went to a basketball game on that date and googled basketball games and found the only men's game that night in the whole country was in Atlanta.

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Historian here UT Austin has eliminated courses on slavery, civil rights, the Holocaust and women from its core curriculum. We know the kind of people who have censored history in the past. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

I am on Mastodon purely for the University Press Sales Bot. Any one of the other 218 followers on here?

There was a bloom of stories maybe ten years ago about older professors creating problems for the job market by not retiring, and just checking in now to point out that they’ve since retired and almost none of their jobs continue to exist.

i strongly suspect the reason that they are hiding this is not because cops are moonlighting for ICE contractors off duty but because many of them are working for ICE contractors *while clocked in*

We can just repeat this analysis from a year ago.

Economy tanking, fruitless war in Middle East, allies turning from us; and Trump is poring over construction pics to make sure he gets Corinthian columns and not too many women’s toilets. Peak fiddling while Rome burns 😳😳😳

I'm still promoting my new book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." With Don Jr.'s wedding, new Russian disinfo attacks on the midterms & Kushner siding w/ Putin re the war in Ukraine, it's damn timely Check out: HowRussiaWon.com.

It's not a crackdown on the free press! It's a justified assault on the lügenpresse!

“School choice” is pernicious inequality rebranded as a type of consumer-based freedom.

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1