Lone Audience of the Apocalypse

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

Out of $678 million raised by institutional Dem "churn and burn" fundraising campaigns, less than $11 million actually got delivered to Dem candidates. A whopping $282 million went into consultants' pockets. It's not just money being wasted: it's trust. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

laura loomer out here looking like 4 missing persons sewn together

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security. “DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Two headlines. Two economies. Same day. Poetic. @nytimes.com @bloomberg.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

i once again would like to express some alarm and concern at the sheer pace of Nazi-related news updates

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

But Netflix are real dum dums for not letting a Frankenstein movie in OCTOBER have a nice wide release, our show was nearly a full house.

important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out

Breathlessly anticipating whatever insanity this exchange leads to

The salient detail all the articles about Trump tearing down the East Wing omit is that the East Wing was built primarily for the First Lady, and Trump's First Lady doesn't live at the White House. Not reading anything into this...

Live footage from the White House Ballroom

Hey, if we all just pitch in... (looks at daily average user numbers)... $100 million, we could buy Twitter back from Elon

This film truly is magic. Real lightning in a bottle stuff.

Breaking news on Bluesky

BREAKING Ireland elects independent Catherine Connolly president. The Sinn Fein-backed leftist campaigned on economic justice at home, fury over Gaza www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Jay Johnston biopic that's like Mishima but told through Mr. Show sketches

Remarkably good visual expression of what it is like (as a literate person) to read LLM-generated website slop

the elite class becomes easier to understand when you realize they think everybody is as dumb as they are

this is the problem with letting men like this get away with saying shit on tv instead of real life. i dare this man to say this shit out loud in any bar on the north shore

Unimaginable headline in the morning paper

still wondering if he’s going to try to cancel the midterms by citing some cooked up bullshit about voter fraud

It's almost as if there were some kind of positive correlation between being able to raise a lot of money from rich people and being unappealing to voters...

video games develop the funniest discourses. what other art medium will show you a raft of statistics about why you should pay way more than you can afford

it’s really starting to feel like at some point we entered an alternative reality where everything got completely fucked up and evil

Also, if you have the good fortune not to need SNAP, shut the everloving fuck up about what recipients buy. Certain kinds of food are not morally virtuous. You’re doing the Calvinist shit when you judge someone who’s trying to get by for getting like…protein bars and spices or cake mixes.

Hollywood keeps chasing the shimmering oasis in Death Valley of "people want personalized like a cheap kid's book movies" and ignoring actual, real world successes like Sinners which are defined by being very specific visions from filmmakers trying to speak from their own experiences and history.

Doing this digital recasting is just so actually and casually racist! I mean it makes it so obvious that dumb racists ultimately plan on using AI to retrocast movies to erase diversity.