Herd Mendacity

Repeat after me: Russia has no legitimate security concerns; only its neighbours do. Russia has been the only one invading others.

These racist, festering lesions don’t get to dictate what it means to be an American.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Youthful, ambitious Secretary of State looking for discrete connection

As usual, Chris' characterization of the merits is pretty on the nose. The suit will not succeed. But as with much of Trump driven litigation, it's not about winning - it's about making news, draining resources, and casting doubt.

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

This is one of the crazier persistent Republican talking points, and like many, many others fails the very basic and common-sensical "why would anyone want to do that?" test.

There is genuine public rage about Musk, which is what Congress is responding to, so when he says he will come for the people pulling the strings, he means the voters.

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Zelenskyy on Trump: "I hope that he will change his decisions, because I think it's all mistakes. It will not help us and it will not help the United States. But it's not my choice. And I hope he will change his attitude to Putin ... we can't compare me and Putin. He's the aggressor."

Q: There's a Minnesotan, Pete Hegseth, who is the secretary of defense. How do you assess his performance? TAFOYA: Uh, the grade is incomplete Q: Peggy Flanagan? FLANAGAN: F. And frankly, he should be impeached. Incomplete? The people of Minnesota have seen enough.

The interesting thing about Elon‘s rocket car is that he’s a war criminal 

we don't really talk enough about how ridiculous and sad a character Steven Cheung is

Prayers up for SS-Schütze Morgan

Gosh, this clip is from 2024. I wonder what it could be that’s causing it to go viral today?? What could it possibly be? 🤔🤔🤔

This was my last straw too. One of his myriad Great Replacement/white supremacist tweets crossed my feed and I thought: “How the hell can I justify donating free labor that helps increase this guy’s wealth & relevance even infinitessimally?”

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

There are literally none.

Trump begging Putin for a symbolic (and illegal) gift of diesel fuel shows only that he wants others to feel as grateful to Putin as he does.

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

He makes a good point.

This is going to get people killed.

This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end

Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

Someone should do an analysis of all Trump's speeches over the last 10 years and determine how often he says "they're laughing at us."

we should normalize the social shaming of bad people. sorry you don't think your Maine summers are as idyllic as they used to be, John Roberts. but you sold democracy to the highest bidders among your friends you don't get to summer without sometimes seeing a kayaker with a poster that says you suck

Prosecutors looking at the same defendant do, in fact, coordinate sometimes to avoid stepping on each other’s toes. There wouldn’t be a gotcha here even if Schmitt hadn’t comically bungled the facts.

😂😂😂

This has been the pattern for a while. Lots of reasonable pundits cautioning against reading too much into the dogwhistle while the actual out-and-proud Nazis cheer “One of us! One of us!”

I’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do.

Who's that Nixon advisor again? Oh yeah this guy: theintercept.com/2022/08/25/s...

Streisand Effect, Activate.

Zelensky’s communications adviser Dmytro Lytvyn denied a Bloomberg report that Trump urged Zelensky to travel to Moscow. He called it false.