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Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

If you think a test for dementia is an IQ test, you have dementia. If you don't realize you have been given a test for dementia because your physician suspects you have dementia, you have dementia. If you think being able to tell a giraffe from a whale makes you a genius . . . you have dementia.

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...

Important note: This is what they’ve left themselves to work with - not to GAIN votes, mind you - but to cling desperately to the toxic asshats they have left that still might actually vote for them. Revealing.

Fellow kids, Meta doesn’t want you to see No Kings. That’s how you know it’s the good shit. fr

Trump lied. Again.

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? 🤔🤔🤔

Not a doctor. Not a scientist. Just making money on his lies. No wonder magats are so confused.🤔🙄

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How to defeat tech billionaire power? Look at Solano County. When billionaires invaded their community with plans to build a "tech utopia," Democrats AND Republicans banded together to fight back. In a triumph of local democracy, they stopped the project...for now. 🎁 www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

I’d vote for Ted Cruz before I’d vote for this chucklefuck… and I’d only vote for Ted Cruz if some Republican chucklefuck stole my identity and tried to vote with it.

When he starts using taxpayer money to fund his own campaign madness, that’s when we need to start thinking about an organized, mass-scale tax sit-out. As in, I’ll eventually pay my fair share, but not while he’s doing that shit and not until he pays back every damn nickel, with interest.

It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.

You do understand that everything he's doing to Washington DC is about fortifying the city when he decides he's not leaving office

Yeah just tell everyone where you’re hiding all the munitions, super genius, in a structure probably built and secured by the same incompetents that resurfaced the reflecting pool. This is gonna go GREAT.

And a malignant narcissist is a narcissist who ends up trying to destroy everything he hasn’t contributed to and isn’t entitled to. ht: @narceducator.bsky.social

They weren’t gifts to HIM. And his immensely insecure ass has to tear down legit monuments so the lame-ass ones he does for himself don’t have real ones to be compared to. You can just feel how much the legacy of JFK towers over his fragile little ego.

“Trump’s life … illustrates the typical trajectory of a malignant narcissist. Instrumental lying for personal benefit … ultimately gives way to massive self-deception. … ‘Pathological narcissists … can become dangerously psychotic.’ “And that’s where he is, and we are, today.”

Man, fuck this narcissistic buffoon and the grifters he rode in on. Got duped into this OBVIOUS briar patch by Bibi, doesn’t have the first idea how to extricate from it, and we foot the bill. Oh wait… that’s been the pattern his whole miserable parasitic life.

It’s a sad indictment of the media that a billionaire can compare a 5% wealth tax to the Soviet Union in an interview with the NYT and the NYT journalist does not laugh in their face and write it up as an insight into the mind of somebody who has lost touch with reality

The failure of Biden and Garland to seriously lay down the hammer after J6 on both the insurrectionists, and more importantly, the politicians who enabled them will go down as a failure on par with the failure of reconstruction. A historic fumble I will go to my grave thinking this.

Weekend reading: I wrote about cowardice and conviction, the complicity of conservative elites, and the permission structure that governs the Right. Some thoughts from this week’s piece - on power, opportunism, and ideology in Republican Politics: 🧵

And that, more than anything else, is the promise of Trumpism as a political project: Look at me, Trump says, this is what you can have if you follow me, enable me, elevate me. Complete impunity, shamelessness, domination without restraint. Please consider subscribing:

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...

America can be reassured to know the Republicans in Congress are laser-focused on the issue that matters most: some scapegoat they invented in 2020 so they wouldn't have to blame Trump for the worst COVID response in the rich world.

If your response to the data center backlash is "oh no, those poor hyperscalers! People are using inexact data in their arguments against OpenAI and Grok. Everyone should just let them proceed with their buildouts and focus instead on PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY," then you're either a grifter or a mark.

Never been a better time to be a political cartoonist. (sadly)

The President's war with Iran is such a fiasco that he's now back to threatening to commit war crimes. This is wrong and must stop. Congress needs to end this war, not rubber stamp a $1.5 trillion military budget.

These talking points come from "Unhumans," endorsed by JD Vance. It argues that the USA faces an existential communist threat. Therefore—cue Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt—we must declare a "state of exception" to save the country from...democracy. Danger ahead. www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-...

Peter Thiel’s errand boy sez what???

@warnock.senate.gov on how faith is a commitment to marginalized people: “For me, the asset test of one’s faith is the depth of your commitment to the most marginalized members of the human family.” Interview: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Jesus H. This is what happens when you put a gigantic poser in charge of important shit. He and his “chosen nutjobs” at the pentagon will blow every tax dollar on planet earth on shit that makes HIM feel like a real boy.

I was sunning by the pool when the boxes arrived. And here in my hand is my life’s work: “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.” Coming 8/18. Pre-orders make a huge difference! Make a fascist sweat—pre-order today! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

Thinking how at the end of the Star Wars trilogy an entire galaxy celebrates the death of the emperor without a finger wagging coda where a sad-eyed long haired scold in bespoke clothing warns that this reduces everyone to the same level as the genocidal tyrant who got tossed into a laser shaft.

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

It’s ok to celebrate that feckless or cruel people are no longer around to inflict suffering on the good people that remain. We do it at work all the time. 😉

From Thursday… The story of Angel Jackson, a college star basketball player, and her journey from the SF Bay along the edge of the WNBA to all over the world. Angel is playing summer pro ball at the WPBA @womenspba This piece is a real labor of love and I hope you enjoy it.

This really isn’t hard

The algae always comes back... meidasplus.com

Breaking News: the algae has agreed to accept $300 billion to consider vacating the reflecting pool