Echo Charlie

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

John Oliver went to Australia to investigate the country's wildly successful approach to gun control

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Now on Cranky: What’s Gone Wrong With the LAX People Mover crankyflier.com/2026/07/27/w...

“I did believe the election was stolen and the rioters were patriots - until I turned off Fox News.”

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Hang it in the Louvre

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Just unbelievable corruption. He said he would drain the swamp, instead he brought in the swampiest administration in history, declared himself Supreme Emperor of Swampopia, and ordered his justice department to essentially give his entirely family immunity.

The realist shit to ever appear in a gov memo.

How to Counter China’s Data Collecting www.thewirechina.com/2026/04/19/h...

What we're seeing these days is the dying gasp. It might take twenty years for most people to figure it out. China sees their role as "managing a declining empire."

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

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Wow, from the spokesperson for the City of Colorado Springs to members of the local media

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

NEW: Oklahoma regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to find the culprit — then closed the case. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor. Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors. These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism. This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function. Every American should reject it.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

This captures much of the frustration of today.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.

A glimpse into Trump's make-believe world of "giant water valves" in Northern California…

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸

When the make-your-own-waffle station at the hotel breakfast distracts you from the task at hand

Watch until the end.

Me three months ago:

We’re at the part in the rise of fascism where the official Homeland Security account is posting neo-Nazi propaganda. Update your clocks accordingly!

The Phillies debuted the “Coldplay Kiss Cam” tonight 😂 (via X/JasonFox29)

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

In 2021, Biden admin awarded Kerr County TX $10m in American Rescue Plan Act funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue warning system. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...

COMMENTARY: CBS joining ABC in bowing to President Trump is a reminder that journalism is quietly defended against powerful interests in newsrooms across America every day. Thank you to the news leadership and media owners standing behind journalism that matters.

You did vote for this. You were just too lazy to understand what Project 2025 said and too naive to believe they’d do it.

🔥 China's Naval Ambitions on Full Display: Shanghai Shipyard Buzzing! New satellite imagery from Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai (June 16, 2025) offers a stunning look at the sheer scale of the PLAN's naval expansion. This isn't just a shipyard; it's a factory for global power projection.

Literally the Russian flag in the post. Two of them

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

WATCH: @repmoskowitz.bsky.social calls out the astounding nearly $1 BILLION (!!) for ICE employees in bonuses alone in the Republican budget. Masked anti-constitutional vigilantism pays well these days. 🇺🇸

Any money saved by the furloughs of city employees at DIA will simply save DIA’s budget money, not the city’s budget.

Records show Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 and $5 million worth of Trump Media shares on April 2. That same day, after the market closed, Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, sending the stock market plunging. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...

Pam Bondi isn't the best person to ask if the luxury jet given to Trump was a bribe