Chris Dudas

I'm going to do some meme spreading. The Right has co-opted many cherished symbols of freedom. I've gone hunting around the web looking for replacements. The first I present to you is NO KINGS BUT US. This is an anti-authoritarian slogan and if it hits home with you, please spread them around.

🧵 There's a very unfortunate tendency of some very loyal Democrats to misapply "Murc's Law." For those who don't know of it, Murc's Law is the concept that the mainstream media acts as if only Democrats have agency in politics, and that Republican can't choose to act more rightfully.

True!

A Ukrainian serviceman shot down an incoming Russian FPV drone with a single shot while delivering supplies to front-line positions. Video: vlutkovv / Threads.

1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.

Portrait: Europa and Jupiter - Composite Image - Nasa’s Juno PJ37 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mGHAHC

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI https://theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-she-hooked-up-with-10-years-ago-now-head-of-fbi/

As a new NFL season begins, here’s a reminder: publicly funded stadiums for billionaire sports team owners are a scam. Watch.

@kairyssdal.bsky.social Thoughts on this?

Uh oh.

🚨🚨🚨EXCLUSIVE. Meidas has obtained footage of Trump hiding in the catering truck while switching planes.

👀 Trump and Putin at Amsterdam's 2026 Canal Parade.

Incredible

Right now, everyone faces a hard binary choice between authoritarianism and democracy. If you don’t think it’s a binary choice and that because of your issue or issues that both sides are the same, then you’re part of the problem.

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File under "Really quite disturbing" If the preliminary data for the past few weeks are confirmed, we are now very close to a new world record, and seeing an alarming rate of change climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...

"This was malo because I have una importante meeting el martes with other blancos de Connecticut. ¡Qué disastre! Mi jefe will be angry and also triste. “I’m sorry I forgot inglés,” I’ll say, “but I’ve watched veinte hours of fútbol every día for cinco weeks."

U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week

Fantastic (and depressing) piece from @djrothkopf.bsky.social

The USMNT and all us Team USA fans are now receiving an object lesson in ETTD (Everything Trump Touches Dies).

Now known as the Strait of Warm Ooze.

Contextless conference room

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Hot Pursuit

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Any excuse to re-up this favorite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLf...

It was an honest mistake, okay?

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

A top FEMA official is doubling down on his claims that he teleported to a Waffle House.

Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind #Meta new smart #glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

Marco Rubio was born for this.

This is smart analysis and clever writing. Iran has 5,000+ sea mines. If they truly flush those into the Strait of Hormuz, we will have a long, arduous task clearing them. wapo.st/3PFB6s0

Reporter: “If you could say something to Trump, what would it be?” PA voter: “You're a worthless pile of shit.” Reporter: “How many times did you vote for him?” PA voter: “Three times. That was my bad. Apparently I'm an idiot.”

Well said by Molly Mckew.

Right-wing Christians and even the NRSC have lined up to mock James Talarico’s inclusive, open-hearted Christianity. Some have even called it blasphemy. But the Christ of the outsider and the poor is a threat to their political power. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/right-wing-a...

as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

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This ABC News story about Iran activating sleeper cells sure sounds like what I reported about a Persian-language numbers station today. But if so, there's something off. 🧵

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I wrote a “what if” scenario a few years ago. It looks like it's going to be the reality for most navies operating in the area for some time. Iran fleet IS dangerous, because of its saturation capabilities. "Poussiere navale" or small-craft swarm. www.midshipnews.org/blog/first-w...

Those service members would still be alive if there had been a basic effort by their leaders at hardening/passive defense. No reason to have a makeshift operations center in a war where you determine D-day.