Cold-blooded murder. Everyone giving or carrying out these orders must be prosecuted, full stop. Trump may enjoy executive immunity, his accomplices do not: the depraved disregard for human life exhibited by those perpetrating these murders must not go unpunished.
Fascist, amoral rats from a sinking ship.
Volkskörper is getting racial hygiene laws next
flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
Head of federal law enforcement stages authoritarian crackdown on political enemies in attempt to appease Trump because he's afraid the journalistic exposé of his uncontrolled alcoholism is putting his job in jeopardy
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can
I have negative patience for "it's not fair" what is fair about the nearly impenetrable supermajorities republicans built in the NC or WI state legislatures and their current president thinks it is illegal for him to lose elections
fuck outta here
The "we live in a criminal hellscape far worse than the worst Charles Brosnan movie" delusion is *pervasive*.
Personally, my explanation is that in order to keep engagement, right wing media exaggerates danger and sells fear fear MOAR FEAR on an unending drumbeat, so it's literally all they hear.
Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!
The current Sulzberger has made calculated decision to turn The Times into a Vichy rag. No one who loves democracy and the rule of law should be supporting it.
The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article.
Neither does the word "decade."
"Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
At this point court-packing isn't enough. We need to jail and disbar some SCOTUS justices.
Would obviously be incredible, but even if we got close, that would indicate a tidal wave elsewhere for the forces of democracy and the rule of law.
Would obviously be massive, but even if we get close in Mississippi, that’s a tidal wave elsewhere and a great sign for the forces of democracy and the rule of law.
We must use US taxpayer dollars to backstop the UAE
Which is facing economic problems caused by the war Trump started and doesn't know how to win
A war encouraged by leaders of the UAE
Who have given hundreds of millions in bribes to Trump, his family, and associates
Caligula making his horse a Senator type stuff.
the president is committing war crimes, once eradicated diseases have returned, immigrants are being disappeared, concentration camps are back, billionaires are murdering communities with data centers, abortion is criminalized, and trans people are being erased, but at least robots can run marathons
a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure
folks,
A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.
A society that runs on this stack doesn't stop holding elections, or debating, or running investigations. The forms stay, but what goes is their capacity to constrain power. The arc bends toward simulation, carried out in the language of defending democracy.
For the kind of work I do, verification that applies the same standards to allies and adversaries, that scrutinises power on whichever side it sits, this worldview is structurally hostile. Symmetric verification becomes part of the cultural pathology the document wants reined in.
It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.
Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power, and happens in public. Disordered accountability protects insiders and aims its punishment outward. What the document does is argue for the second while calling it the first.
Superb 🧵 analyzing Palantir’s latest bit of self-justifying propaganda and what it would do to democracy if fully realized.
rural whites vote very differently than rural nonwhites, like, the evidence that rural (and exurban) whites aren't getting the message from democrats is far less persuasive — and has far less evidence — than the idea that they do not like what they hear
people love to blame elected democrats for not using the bully pulpit because it's a lot easier to insist that elected democrats are the problem rather than people who've spent at least the last three decades willingly choosing not to learn anything new and to resent anyone who tries to tell them
If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.
Apparently like every day.
