Sqepticism

It's fascinating to me how so called 'people against circumcision' are also against you ever mentioning it, ever, unless its specifically on the nearly nonexistant organic mentions or articles that go viral. Bodily autonomy? Not topical enough. Genital cutting? Somehow, still not topical enough.

Hey def a choice to write up "The President is credibly accused of a new rape" as "Dems call for special counsel to scrutinize ties" bsky.app/profile/ryan...

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

The Cheesecake Factory “controversy” is nice because it’s a rerun of the exact kind of stupid shit we had to sit through every day of the Obama administration. Now Zoomers don’t have to feel left out of having their own Obama “controversy” to reference.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

We desperately need movements for humanistic moral revival, both religious and secular

This is one of 50 states. Every state should do this. Every country should do this.

So how can @historians.org justify this? And how can it claim to be a democratic organization if it is engaging in anti-democratic behavior directed against its own membership and leadership?

Nationalized and polarized two-party politics + federalism = bad governance If we want elections to incentivize actually good governance in blue states, we need parties to compete, and that requires reforms like fusion voting and multimember districts for the state legislature and city councils

Marches like this should also include a stop in front of the homes of those who voted to disenfranchise them. Decorum in politics is a two way street.

NEW: GOP operative Scott Presler built his reputation registering Republicans and accusing Dems of voter fraud. But a review by The Bulwark found GOP operatives from other states voting from his home—and evidence raising questions about their residency. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-operat...

clyburn is the most powerful democrat in the party, so this isn't something that can be written off as not a big deal.

There's this idea, especially from Marxists, that authoritarianism's base of support are those facing economic hardship and that the solution is wide-scale taxation and redistribution to alleviate that hardship. Unfortunately, that idea is BS, though the latter is good for its own sake.

Metaphor for our time 2: Whiskey Pete demands Eisenhower's globe but refuses to wait until the experts can help move it, so he damages the globe and has to give up the conceit. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“I think America is big enough for all of us. [JD Vance’s] view of America is small. It's small like him.” A lot of money quotes in this @gregsargent.bsky.social interview with @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, but this is the best one in my view.

lmao what a loser

If 10 more people subscribe to 50+1 because of this, we can recoup the cost of the actual polling data we bought to prove that Wedgewood was faking its polls (see chart). (If not, it was a worthwhile expense!) blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

Depends on whether you count 80%-ish as nearly equal. But more importantly, it's simply much more expensive to move that same amount of oil through the strait because of, you know..

I would like to once again cordially tap the sign: please support billionaire free, worker-led and/or independent news how and when you can. Marisa's work here is the kind of reporting we want on the regular, about everything of public concern

Looking forward to the Chief Justice of the United States once again saying and doing absolutely nothing about the President once again going after an individual federal judge for applying the law when the President deliberately breaks it.

Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad. "This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."

All we get from the opinion is the repeated assertion of the need for presidential accountability through the electoral process — a vision of presidential democracy the Framers rejected and the Roberts Court’s voting rights opinions have crippled. Enough.

"I can't work out my family business on my own, I need government intervention" is a heck of a thing to admit on live TV.

Does it make sense to deport a man who overstayed a visa but otherwise has no criminal record when his deportation means shutting down a food pantry that serves meals to 7,000-8,000 needy people a month? Does choosing not to exercise discretion in his case make America greater?

Of course Bari Weiss has pushed CBS reporters to pursue the James Talarico was in a mental hospital and Abdul El-Sayed is tied to the Muslim Brotherhoid stories. Of course she has. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...

The slop party: "More than 80 percent of the [AI-generated] ads were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees."

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.

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TikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)

This afternoon's orbital data suggests - subject to confirmation - that Russia's Kosmos-2612 has carried out a rendezvous with the US ICEYE X36 radar sat, within a few km. To my knowledge this is the first LEO rendezvous of two active sats where the owner of one of the sats did not give approval.

One thing Kennedy does a really good job of showing is how the outcome of the Pacific War was not predetermined and that both the Americans and the Japanese functionally held to basically similar doctrines of decisive sea battle that led to Midway.

The polarizing responses to this are a pithy demonstration of how two truths can coexist in factual reality but be deeply contradictory in the reality of lived experience. Climbing the moral ladder requires holding on to each truth in turn, like alternating rungs, while fighting the moral vertigo.

Reporter: Do you believe that 5 deaths, potentially 6 from measles in Pennsylvania-- Staffer: We're not gonna talk about measles-- Reporter: He's the highest ranking health official in the country, he can answer that question. He's a Cabinet Secretary.

Lol so the Democrat in TX34 bought a billboard telling people the GOP candidate was endorsed by Trump and now Flores(R) is upset about it

Remarkable: Dems are growing optimistic about flipping Mahoning County in Ohio, a major destination for reporters looking for voters in Trump Diners. Dem internal polling shows Trump at minus 11 points in the region, which is a stunning collapse. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2167...

I'm not saying every "dirtbag leftist" was and is an amoral garbage bag, but I'm not not saying that.

So as y’all probably already know, Trump has a new blonde, Katie Zacharia. She claims to be an attorney, and apparently has been doing so for some time. But while she has a JD from Pepperdine for sure, nobody can seem to find any jurisdiction in which she has been admitted to the practice of law.

Cop who killed petting zoo donkey turns to qualified immunity defense to ward off lawsuit over his actions: "Garner’s motion says the pasture was not protected against warrantless searches and argues that shooting HeeHaw was reasonable." Via Fox 5 Atlanta

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

Saudi Arabia stopped issuing warnings for incoming missile attacks days before the deadly Riyadh airport attacks. When an allied western government inquired, they were told it was because the alarms were too disruptive and loud and people complained about being woken up by them at night.