Rusty Tanton

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

ill forever be amazed at how giuliani could have just coasted for the rest of his life on his 9/11 propaganda. just do some corporate boards, some "leadership" books every few years and you make bank and fade away. instead he became a complete fucking clown.

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Every single person who allows this late-stage dementia-addled man to continue in office for a single additional minute belongs in The Hague.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Thinking today that while his presidency was far from perfect, in eight years Barack Obama had no personal scandals, didn't fire cabinet officials for not being corrupt enough, and didn't plunge the entire world into an economic crisis by starting a dumbass war. Feels like a million years ago.

Can we please never ever again use the phrase “double down” in news articles about president mcshitshispants

I have been arguing since the great anti Muslim panic under Bush that conservatives are fucking weak ass fuckers. They’re goddamned scared of EVERYTHING. Muslims. Black people. Women. Drag queens. I’ve never seen a more scared ass group in my life. They’re fucking scared of WHISTLES.

i hate that we talk about "the union army" in the civil war. it was the army of the united states of america against an evil and illegal pro-slavery band of terrorists. the confederacy was illegitimate from top to bottom.

it's funny to see the wildly unpopular trump and his goons rip the wiring out of institution after institution without a care in the world and have NYT guys and congresspeople being like whoa dudes let's not get too crazy with the abolish ice talk

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

A bunch of weirdos with a documented party history of pedophilia who are in the middle of covering for Epstein want to hang out at child care centers. Fucking freaks. And we should say so.

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛

very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime

The most compelling argument for this is that Sam was once a baby raised without ChatGPT, and look how he turned out.

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

This is like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy by shouting it at his coworkers

“You better not be NBA Live ‘97 David Robinson when you get back from that *walk* with your cousins!” {me coming back from the *walk* with my cousins}

Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

It's been a few days since Trump announced his "deal" with Xi. It's now clear that Trump got fleeced. America gave up lots and got nothing. It's a story you should know bc few things matter more than the U.S.-China relationship. 1/ So here's a🧵

Democrats want to keep Pete Hegseth's wife out of top-secret military meetings, despite knowing full well that she's the one who prevents him from drinking or abusing women. Remember that the next time they claim to care about national security. by Marc Thiessen

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

Liberals say that Trump has turned our democracy into a fascist dictatorship. They're wrong—he's turned our republic into a fascist dictatorship.

Amazing that “No kings and no Nazis” is suddenly a controversial slogan and up for debate in 2025. These are the two most basic creeds of American history.

Of all the things that didn't happen below, Eric Trump having four friends is the one that didn't happen the most.

I was a Young Republican for a brief time in the 1980s (for real). I promise you they talked like this back then. They didn’t know I was Jewish, so the Holocaust jokes flowed freely. It all helped radicalize me against the right.

If ICE agents want to stop being compared to Nazis and the Gestapo, here are some tips for them: 1) Take off your masks 2) Identify yourselves 3) Stop disappearing innocent people off the street 4) Avoid shooting women, like you did today, you fucking Gestapo Nazis

Playin' With the Boys Pretty Pete is more Scotch rocks than ice man, but his meeting with the military was the hottest heterosexual hoedown since the volleyball scene from Top Gun. Are the generals ready to follow him into the danger zone or have they lost that loving feeling? by Maureen Dowd

This is what we need from elected officials -- a commitment to stand up for their constituents and, just as important, a willingness to tell right-wing trolls to get bent.

A big difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans understand the science of political communication. Republicans dictate the topics/terms of debate while Dems (and the left) usually burn energy in constant response. Thiel and Co call this mimetics, Lakoff calls it framing.

House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?

I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.

The brain worm should’ve had a separate confirmation vote.

bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

“Mr. President, many of your detractors say you can’t fly. What is your response to them?”

Opinion | Yes, I voted for Trump’s megabill despite knowing it will harm my constituents. But if I hadn’t, I’d be primaried by someone who’d vote just like me but not give anti-Trump comments on background to The Times.

If you're about to post something mean about Andrew Cuomo, I urge you to pause, take a deep breath, and think of something even meaner.

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater