Watcher at the Gate

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Lina Khan on Mamdani: "One thing we saw the mayor be very attentive to is all sorts of daily nickel and diming -- taking on junk fees, subscription traps. Those can seem very micro and targeted, but in the aggregate I see those as really designed to take on unfair methods of competition."

I think one of the more important skills you can have in 2026 is knowing when someone is performatively using progressive coded language to argue for something that is fundementally not progressive because they can claim a perceived moral high ground.

The Justice Department is drawing up contingency plans to potentially intervene in next week’s midterm elections, three national security officials tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-prep-...

The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!

Somebody please dox that piece of shit! #activism

Our tech boys are unwell.

UNEARTHED: Ken Paxton caught on video partying with fugitives in Dubai. The fugitives were charged with healthcare fraud and helped bankroll Paxton’s campaign.

Shane Gillis going 1999 mode, we are getting close to a countdown clock for a 17 year old Disney channel star

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: I told the Israeli government from the beginning, maximum violence to the people organizing violence, minimal violence to the people on the front end. Andrew Ross Sorkin: Do you think that they lived up to that?

Hmmmm, wonder why Katie Miller deleted this tweet?

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

Homan: "We are gonna flood the zone of sanctuary cities"

1. Trump’s new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is a prolific user of Truth Social where she regularly promoted Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies, accusing elites in the Democratic Party and Hollywood of running child sex rings and eating people.

The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.

cops have the best job security on this entire godforsaken planet

The Pentagon is “increasing [nuclear] options available to the President,” says undersecretary of war: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-fin...

TIME: You said you might annihilate Iran TRUMP: Yeah, I would do that. It's possible. TIME: How can the president of peace be calling for annihilation of an entire people? TRUMP: Bc by annihilating Iran, we've created peace in the world. With Iran, I don't think you could ever have peace.

Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer > anything Renoir ever painted

This is ADL's solitary statement after Nazis won state elections in Germany for the first time since the Holocaust:

Trump: “I do this for our Country, not myself. I’ve made Hundreds of Billions of Dollars on Stocks, and many other type Holdings, for the USA, not myself, and all I do is get criticized by the Radical Left Dumocrats. Very unfair, but what can you do!”

Sickening to hear the head of the "Jewish Democratic Council" repeat a defamatory lie, concocted by centrist smearmongers and their MAGA brethren, that debases the very meaning of antisemitism.

We’re not changing it.

At a certain point you might think establishment Dems would speak out about the head of their main think tank indulging in the kind of rank bigotry that damages election prospects

we genuinely need creative ways to punish corporations for this sort of low-stakes acquiescence

Natalie Harp's handwritten love letters to Trump raise concerns about Biden's use of an autopen.

🚨🚨🚨 BANGER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

The incredible reaction to Jon Ossoff saying just one word about our emperor's new clothes -- "Natalie" -- shows what Democrats can do if they just speak the truth about what all of us can see with our own eyes

Artist Profile: Phoebe Bridgers https://theonion.com/artist-profile-phoebe-bridgers/

*wearily grabs megaphone & shouts at BBC News* How would they save £50bn from welfare? Which benefits would they cut? Which hospitals and care homes are they closing? Will nurseries reject 30 free hours now? Last time they talked about tens of billions in savings they abandoned it six wks later

One of the Dem weaknesses is that we refuse to attack the MAGA base. Meanwhile they attack Dems as inherently evil people who might be demonic and whatever their corrupt politician is doing “Dems are worse”

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

"FOR THE FIRST TIME" www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

"random guy" loll

There could not be a more blatant violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits any executive branch employee from "Using his or her official title while participating in political activity." Unlikely to be prosecuted, however. Will any news org even mention this? www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/7...

If you scratch the surface of basically any website that lets people post stuff and has ads, you'll run into AI porn and apps that let you remove women's clothing in seconds. Seems really fucking bad!

Democrats and Republicans are pushing through a bill that would allow every member of a congregation to sue a person protesting illegal property sales hosted at their synagogue. jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/f...

the actual order of events from 2020-2024 gets strategically jumbled by reactionary centrists all the time. They love to blame 2024 on wokeness while skipping over the fact that Dems won in 2020. They talk about early COVID Iike it was a failure of Dem policy when Trump was in office.

Again: When Democrats retake Congress & White House, they MUST enact laws to strip & ban Donald J. Trump's name & image from every taxpayer-funded building, etc. Trump is a Mobster, a FELON, an Adjudicated RAPIST, a Con Man, a Thief & his name/image SHOULDN'T be on any of our buildings/monuments.

$900 million on White House construction! And if Trump's people are saying it's $900 million it's more likely going to be $3 billion. But don't you dare ask for lower drug prices, gas prices, food prices or affordable housing. Everyone needs to tighten their belts and make do, except Trump.

WOW: Katie Phang makes a SCORCHING filing in federal court unloading on Todd Blanche over his latest attempts to delay her Epstein files lawsuit, saying his arguments have "no basis in reality." Plus, Katie breaks the filing down herself in a must-watch video.

WaPo Exclusive: The Trump admin is now set to spend at least $900 million for construction projects on the White House grounds. 
The price tag is much larger than previously reported, according to a Post review of confidential contracts. Taxpayers would cover most of it.