Van Firth

I’ve always said we live in an age when anyone can have a little box in their pocket that gives instant access to all the world’s experts and knowledge repositories. And yet people turn to pajama-wearing conspiracy theorists and rumor mongers for their news.

Yeah, this is really, really bad. A return to folk tales and rumors as knowledge.

John Roberts and his gang keep twisting themselves into pretzels to pretend the Supreme Court isn’t systematically favoring whites and Republicans over Black voters and Democrats. Trump keeps coming along like a wrecking ball with a bullhorn demonstrating what a sham the court is

Horrific. Every feeling human being should be outraged by what Israel is doing in southern Lebanon, destroying it like Gaza. Instead, with this rare and important exception, it’s not even on the radar. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

As my colleague David Rosnick puts it: the Roberts Court is just calling the balls and strikes. The problem is that they do it before the pitch is thrown.

The Supreme Court’s decision “plunged the nation into a dizzying new era of partisan conflict, most likely ushering in a forever redistricting war that could produce fewer competitive seats in Congress and further polarize American politics.” Oh, great. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u...

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

This is hilarious because it implies that her husband DID call her while she was in space on the ISS to ask her help in looking for something. 💀🌌

"These breaks come in addition to the roughly $4 trillion package of tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in July..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Posted by Mike Pence’s former Chief of Staff.

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

They won’t agree obvs. But he is making a point that he has nothing to hide.

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

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Reminder: the President may be allowing his secretary to undermine access to vaccines for others and promote anti vaccine misinformation, but he himself is fully vaccinated, including this year’s flu and Covid vaccine. In this, do as the president does, not as his secretary ‘s ACIP minions say.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I don't know how you did this, Merriam-Webster, but I tip my hat.

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

Good lord. @apnews.com

Remember, Posobiec co-wrote a book that declared progressives were "unhumans" and that praised Franco and Pinochet for their murderous war on leftists. That is, the guy who promoted Pizzagate essentially endorsed political violence. I wrote about that here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm not sure "We want umaccountable armed thugs snatching people off the street in Britain too" is the vote-winner the Tories think.

has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

The government “shutdown” isn’t really a traditional shutdown because the administration has decided to spend and/or withhold money however they please regardless of appropriations or budgets. Why are we paying Congress if they’re going to be an irrelevant debating society?

Thanks, New Yorker

it's actually not two Nobels for Josephson junctions, just one that tunnelled over a gap of 52 years

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

“As predicted by many activists and civil rights advocates, ICE is increasingly becoming a force tasked with enforcing the political will of the administration and straying further and further from its original mission,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @Truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/tr...

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

It is undeniable that this moment is being shaped by people who marinated for years in an informational environment where reality was not only demoted but actively disdained. It took a while for that bubble to become impermeable but it did and now we have a chunk of people who know nothing but.

A lot of folks who made "free speech" their whole bit have made it exceptionally clear that the only speech they care about keeping "free" is their own and that of those who think exactly like them

Trump’s just rambling, it’s the same stupid litany of resentments and self-aggrandizing BS he would slur thru in the Biscayne Ballroom of the Ft Meyers Marriot addressing a local gathering of MAGA fundraisers on his way to the golf course. Embarrassed for our generals & country.

We have to stop letting criminals serve out their prison terms as presidents.

Between the Karen Attiah debacle and this clueless twerp, there is zero chance I’ll resubscribe.

> @governor.ca.gov

We do not have a Supreme Court. We have a Religious Extremist Court, working not to conflate Church and State, but to lift their version of Church above our State.

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

🚨NEW STATEMENT by @nancyokail.bsky.social in response to President Trump’s issuance of a Presidential Memorandum targeting U.S. civil society organizations under the guise of countering domestic terrorism and political violence: internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Yes the 34X convicted felon who pardoned 1600 violent insurrectionists, pardoned soldiers convicted of the most horrific war crimes, tried to fire Inspectors General, & won’t investigate open bribery of his own cronies—is definitely indicting James Comey because he cares so much about law and order.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Paul Clement: Putting on an ongoing one-man demonstration of what the conservative legal movement would have looked in these times had it been touched by anything like principle.

It’s hard to explain how bad you have to be acting to get all of these people on the same side.

Ok, FBI saying “engraved with anti-ICE messages and someone writes “Anti-ICE” on a shell in sharpie is some keystone cops business.

The Law: 18 U.S. Code § 227 says that it is a federal crime for any executive branch employees (including the president) to influence or threaten to influence a private employment decision. It's punishable by a fine or up to 15 years in prison or both.

Very funny line in the new Mick Herron book, that I suspect explains – *waves arms* – all kinds of things: "... because men always think the best way to impress a women is to be slightly more of a dick than they actually are".