Cortisol-Infused Jeremy

Here's your fascism survival guide.

Never forget.

FLASHBACK — Republican Paul Weyrich (co-founder of the Heritage Foundation & ALEC): “I don’t want everybody to vote… our leverage in elections goes up as the voting populace goes down.” They’ve been saying it out loud for years. Please vote. 🗳️ 🇺🇸

Hello, new followers. I track ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. This is what the ICE Air operation looked like yesterday, Oct. 23, 2026. --88 flights --14 removal stops --3 third-country removal stops --Nearly all adult passengers shackled at the ankles, wrists & waist.

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

For Halloween I'm going as Hell Future 100 Degree November Heatwave.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

Just to make this concrete: if I picked a grain of sand somewhere on the earth’s surface, and you went to a random location on the planet with a pair of tweezers and by sheer luck picked up that very grain of sand first try, that would be MORE statistically likely than Trump not being a rapist.

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

In case facts still matter

Abolish ICE.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

I was the same age as the kid at the time.

Yeah I'm working on that too.

We are seeing a hunger disaster unrolling before our eyes. Since Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill, 2 million kids have lost food assistance. These are by far the deepest SNAP cuts in history, and each month, we find out it’s even worse than we thought. The worst is yet to come.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

So happy that @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social and @adambonica.bsky.social finally got this piece out. For too long, the consultant class has influenced Democratic Party politics without much scrutiny. Not anymore. The article is well worth your time.

For the love of God, why did they ever make that man stop dragging GOP weirdos?

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

East Potomac costs $42 to play and hosts thousands of people each year. A lot of the players are beginners. A lot of them don't have that much money. A lot of them are black. This is the course Donald Trump has decided shouldn't exist, and in the past, he's been fairly explicit about why not

Where are we on the "Vivek is trying to lose because he bet against himself on Polymarket" idea?

Hegseth’s staff broke Eisenhower’s globe. The symbolism is too much to bear. (And of course, they ignored the TRAINED EXPERTS WHO HANDLE HISTORICAL ITEMS. Because EDUCATION? EXPERTISE? WHO NEEDS IT?….im going to get some coffee…)

Krugman is right. We can't have Elon making national security decisions. It's time to take Starlink away from him.

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

there’s no middle ground position on this. either musk is forcibly rooted out of government infrastructure or every war proceeds at the whims and dictates of a generational buffoon

Incumbent #Florida Sen. "Absent Ashley" Moody insists she's not avoiding the press during her campaign, then walks away from a question about Flock cameras. Her security detail physically blocked a WMNF reporter from following her as she left. www.wmnf.org/ashley-moody... via @wmnf.org

There is no person who hates the idea of stealing hamburgers more than the Hamburglar

When JD Vance says Abdul El-Sayed should express "gratitude" for what America has given him, Vance is really saying he's lower on the American hierarchy than "heritage Americans" are. I asked El-Sayed to respond to this point. Here's his answer: newrepublic.com/article/2169...

Are folks getting it yet? Or do they need to see more?

I fully endorse this take.

🚨 ZITRON! ZITRON! 🚨

Inside you there are seven wolves.

Ashley Moody went to a small business summit and bragged about the “Big Beautiful Bill” and how it will “supercharge” our “already great economy.” What? I don’t think unelected Moody is actually paying attention to any of you. #AngieForFlorida #FireAshley

Books and music make us understand for the first time when we are young, or remind us over and over, that we are not, in fact alone, and that other people exist, much like us. They develop and deepen or capacity for empathy.