Johnny Applememes

I'm reminded of all the English failson explorers who went to places colonialism had ravaged and then wrote home like, "oh, the rest of the world must be starving because they're too stupid to grow enough food"

House Democrats have released a 50-page report on the Epstein files cover-up—and it reveals a new rape allegation against Donald Trump. trib.al/DhClVZw

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Luxury Doomsday Bunkers Gain Popularity Among Ultra-Wealthy https://theonion.com/luxury-doomsday-bunkers-gain-popularity-among-ultra-wealthy/

It’s peak Trumpism when Republicans blow up a school full of Iranian Muslim girls and then call an American politician a terrorist because he’s Muslim.

Let that sink in. One billionaire nobody voted for can switch off a country's defences on a whim. Nobody should have that much power. Ukrainians paid for this with their lives. US Congress and the European Union, do your jobs and investigate SpaceX.

This has implications. One guy can control a strategic system? Even if Trump called for it, this has wider implications for other countries. Could Palantir shut down the NHS just on an order from the US? And if not now, could it be done in the future? Countries need more resilience from the US.

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

No surprise here. The midterms aren’t going to be our savior. One election alone cannot change the disgusting underbelly of the United States that no one wants to face or admit. And once again Fascist never peacefully transfer power. I would be more surprised if this is the only thing they try.

New — I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamy’s weaponization of Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse and how it’s only the latest symptom of a Republican party flush with rape apologists, led by an adjudicated rapist:

Idk why we ever even have to goddamned login to anything given what wifi is capable of It's in our walls lol IT CAN COUNT OUR TEETH

Why read past headlines: Receipts. I document how extensive and frankly obsessed right-wing media is with running articles about the evils of kids who cut off their parents. I spoke with an expert who explained why MAGA is so fixated on this. www.salon.com/2026/10/23/r...

Smartphone cameras mean people can't call Black folk liars when we describe how much racism we receive. The cost of solar panels dropped so much that it's obvious that the US government *chooses* to stay on coal and gas, not that it *can't* get off of coal and gas. China planted 66 billion trees.

Now prosecute him‼️ Resignation is not accountability. #JusticeForKohenWiley

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

has mmfa or someone like that compiled a comparison of airtime and front page headlines given to hunter biden vs jared kushner, given that kushner's alleged corruption is about 1000x larger, you would expect it to receive more coverage than Hunter's, right?

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"

This isn’t about Trump. Yes he is THE WORST. But 50 + years means it’s the system that’s the problem. What really need to occur is a new Constitutional Convention. But it doesn’t seem like anyone in this country wants to do that heavy lifting.

Here we go. First of many challenges to the 2026 election results from Republicans who will refuse to accept the results if they lose.

Vivek Ramaswamy has been a horrible person in public for so long that until a friend reminded me, I totally forgot that I wrote a letter to the editor blasting his opposition to a living wage for campus workers more than *two decades ago*

We should do this to Congress.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Yikes! Read the damn factual community note and think about what the hell THAT means: That the GOP don’t seem to miss an opportunity to embrace pedophiles or those who make excuses for pedophilia. When will Americans get tired of this shit?

Damn right!

Most/all of this seems to be users giving Muse/Dot/whatever AI agent they're running access to their bank accounts, and then not knowing what those agents are doing / banks not being able to detect authorized vs unauthorized stuff. what could go wrong? www.axios.com/2026/10/22/a...

With the shocking new—uncontested—revelation that just-deceased MAGA Senator Lindsey Graham was a pedophile, it's essential that journalists ask his sister when she learned that. Unless she gives an extremely exculpatory answer, I don't see how she can be a United States Senator.

100% this and proud to have @lydiakauppi.bsky.social on our team.

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt is at least a partial explanation of why Trump keeps talking about men's bodies. Read and subscribe today! Music by Spank Rock. salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com/p/why-trump-...

The Columbus Dispatch this morning

On this day in 1844, Louis Riel was born. He led two resistances against the Government of Canada to defend Metis rights and identity in 1869-70 and 1885. Considered the Father of Manitoba, he was put to death in 1885 for treason. 📸 LAC

Nazi shit newrepublic.com/post/216912/...

I got a super fun package in the mail today. If anyone else would like to get the same package, use code 24 Rutenberg at Kansaspress.ku.edu for a 30% discount. #milhist 🗃️

That banshee wailing at the WNBA game!!!!!

"It’s bad enough that two years ago we equivocated about standing up to the bully on behalf of the victim. Now we’ve not only told the victim to quit resisting, but handed the bully our own lunch money and encouraged him to keep bullying in the future."

Details here on how tech companies make users the product: "Facebook deceived users about a data breach stemming from a third-party personality quiz that harvested data from roughly 87 million profiles and sold it to a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, to generate targeted ads."

LMAO JD Vance's speech in Ohio is off to a great start

YIKES -- Trump loses his shit at a reporter for the third time during this Q&A -- "Wait wait -- Quiet. Quiet!!!! What's wrong with you? Are you a SICK person?"

They're weirdly pressing two kinds of white supremacist lies at once -- some non-white immigrants are poverty-wracked criminals who are eating our dogs and cats, but other non-white immigrants are rich elites who are buying up mansions and flying first class. Pick a fucking lane, you clowns.

It feels like World War III has already started.

I just went to the website to report election fraud. I encourage all of you to do the same. Glory!

A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Just the fact that PACs are pouring hundreds of millions into campaign ads shows the urgent need for reform. These are billionaires attempting to buy elections. Citizens United, the first of a horrible series of decisions by this corrupt Supreme Court, must be overturned. #ProudBlue

Democrats say they are planning to extensively probe the DOGE rampage that kicked off Donald Trump's second term if they retake a chamber of Congress and obtain subpoena power.

We are sensing a pattern