Facelifts are ugly, pass it on

A personal favourite ❤️

Major press failure: treating Jared Kushner taking foreign bribes and shaping US foreign policy as less relevant than Hunter Biden not taking bribes nor influencing policy. Covering Kushner accurately was considered partisan, biased. Lies about Hunter or his minor actions treated as more important.

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

In terms of positive signs for the midterms...

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

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"

Translation: "Our idiots used AI to write the briefings/charges and I haven't proof read them, so I can't answer that question."

Ossoff: "I suspect many of you are here today b/c you're so deeply troubled by the pain that many of our fellow human beings are enduring right now. The terror of a child watching ICE take away his mother. The despair of a cancer patient losing coverage mid-treatment... we're all in this together"

We're already seeing numbers that nobody has ever seen before. $40 TRILLION in debt. $2 Trillion deficit. $1 Trillion in interest alone. 5.1% 10 yr bond yield. 5.4% 30 yr bond yield. 7.4% 30 yr mortgage. $5/gal gas $8/gal diesel $800 electricity bills We prefer the numbers we've seen before.

Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.

New in PN: Who wants to visit an authoritarian America? "Data shows the US on its way to being as unpopular a tourist destination as Russia, & for roughly the same reasons. In both countries, a tourist who runs afoul of the govt might spend months in a freezing warehouse without no legal counsel."

“I find competence confusing and scary. Vote for me.”

If Trump had done nothing but play golf these past 21 months - no tariffs, no war, no mass deportations- the economy would be humming along. But he’s a really bad person. And an idiot. And this is all on him.👇

I hope she lasts 5.5 days. Then it’ll be much easier to convert: 1 Scaramucci = 2 Zacharia

"You fucking war criminal!" -- Hegseth's talk is interrupted again

"The one common denominator in the ugliness since this country lost its civility is Donald Trump. He has gone way past just changing the tone of our politics. He has been systematically trying to destroy everything that ties us to each other and to our country..." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...

First Lady Natalie Harp boards Bribe Force One with Stephen Miller on their way to Ohio #TravelWithNatalie (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

Huh. Apparently Katie Miller deleted this tweet that I had the foresight to screencap. Turns out I can TOO make things go viral on Xitter, even.

Timing matters. I suspect more attacks on Russian data centres would likely to have a real impact on the amount of disinformation circulating in the US in the run up to the midterm elections, especially since early voting is starting. It's a strategy with a potential long term payoff for Ukraine.

The more Ukraine strikes data centres in fascist russia the smaller the online presence of Alberta separatists, the MAGA death cult and the AfD neo-Nazis. Genuine support for these extremist movements has always been small. They've been artificially amplified by russian information warfare.

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

This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.

Ossoff: "Tonight, a united Georgia will hear the trial the Mike Collins. Mike Collins has brought dishonor to our state through his personal bigotry and his widely documented ties to white nationalists. And he's sold out Georgia in his pathetic child-like devotion to Donald Trump."

It's like living through a waking nightmare. A horrific fever dream that never ends. An endless parade of freak-show swindlers, depraved clowns, and brain-dead zombies. None of it seems like it could possibly be real. It's just too ridiculous, gaudy, insane, and cruel. I just want to wake up!!

I thought Trump’s tariffs were specifically designed to dramatically reduce this number to zero.

@claytoonz.bsky.social

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

A simple, factual, and effective message.

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

Botox.

Trump: "I never get tired" (he naps on camera every day)

They want white people to be the face of Jesus, Santa, Moses and even the Little Mermaid. But draw the line at welfare queen

This really is Fox News' bread and butter

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

We should kill this thing with hammers, I’ll tell you that much

just another day in a country too corrupt to pass a privacy law, regulate data brokers, or adequately fund its regulators things are going to get wild

CARTOON OF THE DAY…

Future presidential debates should probably feature questions like "are you stupid enough to start a cold war with Canada" or "who pays a tariff"