Timmy B 🇺🇦🗳️🎃

The better phrase to encapsulate the reactionary view of justice is Wilhoit's Law: "[Authoritarianism] consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

This also explains why it is that the people you keep seeing shoved in your face as "liberal thought leaders" are always pushing moderate conservatism and placating reactionaries: -Steven Pinker -Matt Yglesias -Noah Smith -Malcolm Gladwell -Jonathan Haidt -Ezra Klein ...

Editor Commentary: The solutions are simple, if humanity in 21st Century America is able to regain its grasp. We stop providing a market for hate and a politics of corruption and cruelty, and start giving our attention to each other as full human beings. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/20/t...

I wrote about Elon Musk's fake flying car and its mid-air collision with lazy "CEO said a thing!" pseudo-journalism:

Washington has discovered a brilliant financial strategy. Cut benefits for people who need them, cut taxes for people who don't, and borrow the difference from people who aren't old enough to vote.

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories... "But this alliance now exists." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

In case facts still matter…

Americans, please don’t worry about your child coming home from school a different sex. Worry about your child not coming home from school because they were shot to death.

Don’t worry Donnie, I am.

To be clear, there is zero chance Zacharia took the Chinese bar exam. She doesn't speak Chinese and only Chinese citizens can take it.

New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia is a conspiracy kook. She embodies the disturbing reality that the GOP wants everyone to accept. My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Sacrificing my own back to not drop the baby was one of the scariest moments of my political career, but I never stopped fighting.

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

US military spending isn't just DOD. As David Vine writes in @motherjones.com, it is spread across at least 15 other federal agencies, and the total likely exceeds the combined military budgets of every other nation on Earth. These figures are "likely to stun most Americans,” notes one expert.

everyone who's ever joined in an online pile on should read this.

Cascade performing on a 'Chapman Stick'🎸 🎶'Little Wing' #bluesmusic

SIR WHICH VOYAGER SPACE PROBE ARE YOU SLOWLY SHUTTING DOWN LIKE?!

So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...

This, my friends, is gaslighting. Congress is the top three or four of all time only on abdicating its responsibilities. 

Remember, Trump relishes a fight with the media to distract from $7 diesel, Epstein, corruption, agents at the polls and his atrocious polling numbers. 🇺🇸

He fucked it up so badly they had to explain it with crayons.

This is the most masculine video on the internet right now

Really can’t get over the fact that in the Supreme Court’s mail-in ballots case, Sam Alito’s official position is “I know this rule would disenfranchise millions, and I know the law says I’m supposed to consider that fact, but I don’t care and won’t do it”

📌All the bigots asking why the mayor of New York City is presiding over the remembrance of the 9/11 attacks, need to shut up and explain to us why they support the traitor who attacked us Jan. 6.

Tomorrow the MSM and politicians will talk about the anniversary of the worst foreign terrorist attack in our nation’s history. But they will continue to ignore or downplay the worst domestic terrorist attacks in our nation’s history, the Civil War and the January 6th insurrection.

It is a broken Christianity that desperately looks for Jesus returning in the clouds but refuses to recognize him in the faces of the poor, the sick, the homeless, the immigrant, the bombed, the starving, the marginalized, and the oppressed.

Trumpian Doublespeak strikes again: The "Votesafe . org" website sounds like a helpful site intended to promote voting registration. It is actually a Musk and "America PAC" created monster for stealing data. Users must provide extensive personal information, and the site then plants trackers.

People in the '60s dropped acid to make the world seem weird but now all we have to do is watch a Trump press conference.

I keep telling you…he just doesn’t understand how the economy works.

A must-read article by @mjtoma.bsky.social just posted. We - and especially the mass media - have to stop avoiding the glaring truth presented daily. The president of the United States is quite likely insane. He is not just lying; he believes the fantasies he spins. newrepublic.com/article/2149...

When asked why he wasn’t going to attend the 25 year Memorial of the 9/11 attacks, Trump replied “I lost interest once it hit 15.”

The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.

Relatedly my healthcare startup Lecter is gonna have a stellar launch.

OPINION | Our government is braindead, writes David Rothkopf. If they get their way, we’re next.

This is good, and I missed it when it first came out. Philosophical zombie indeed.

It begins

Governor Beshear... Get in your car. Drive to the hospital. Demand to speak to the Senator. No more waffling, no more waiting for them to reply. "I see the Senator now, or I assume he's not coming back and call an election when I leave."

Lindsey Graham wasn't always a Trump sycophant. He wasn't always a fascist. This piece by the Bulwark is a must read & share study about the rise of authoritarianism & a man who once said Joe Biden is "as good a man as God ever created." specialto.thebulwark.com/p/the-corrup... Drannieandrews.com

(via @belgiumtouch.bsky.social) 🇧🇪

It was Trump. He is the one who vandalized the Reflecting Pool.

I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The UFC fight at the White House was meant to make Trump and his Cabinet look tough through proximity. Instead, it highlighted how frail Trump is. But beyond that, it showed how MAGA masculinity itself is weak. Especially while losing the Iran war. www.salon.com/2026/06/17/u...