It is very weird seeing my friends and family slowly start to realize we're not overreacting.

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

Slaughterhouse Cow Frets Over Personal Contributions To Climate Change

Slaughterhouse Cow Frets Over Personal Contributions To Climate Change theonion.com/slaught...

Screen shot of article about how the NYTimes is comparing an Arizona congressional election to the NYC mayors race.

Arizona and New York famously similar politically… smh

The President of the United States of America is addicted to fast-food cheeseburgers.

Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

NEW: We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies.

The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members…

Under Paul Dans, Project 2025 assembled a database of more than 10,000 Trump loyalist job candidates ready to place into federal agencies — a ready-use toolkit to create a second Trump administration that would be more MAGA than his first.

(Published Aug. 2024)

10,000 people signed up to run for office in the two weeks after Mamdani won. Whether the party likes it or not, a new generation of leaders is stepping up.

Anyone that has been paying attention since before the 2024 election will have anticipated the Trump regime ramping up rhetoric and threats of political prosecution of the opposition, especially as scrutiny of their brazenly fascist policies and actions increases.

They *ran* on this promise.

Politicized "investigations" are a crucial mechanism of authoritarian attacks on dissent and administrative resistance

Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Peter Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

(Published 2021)

FROST: "They say they're pro-life because they want the baby to be born, go to school and get shot in the school. Die in the school, die on the streets."

FOXX: "You are not going to come into this room and impugn our integrity!"

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate…

Tribal college leaders said they were stunned by the Trump administration's proposed cuts to their already insufficient funding and had more questions than answers.

“It’s a dagger, and I don’t know how we can survive these types of cuts,” one college president said.

Screenshot of email from Hakeem Jeffries asking for $10 like the annoying neighbor kid that won’t shut up.

No.

Ya’ll got your own amendment

I said healthcare is a human right and now Elon Musk is posting about “suicidal empathy” at 3 am:

Screenshot of email from Hakeem Jeffries asking for $10 like the annoying neighbor kid that won’t shut up.

No.

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They want the government to stay off their backs so they throw wiffle balls. Nothing to do with journalists wanting them to be prepared for anything.

DHS: South Sudan Deportations A Lot More Humane When You Learn What Stephen Miller Wanted To Do

DHS: South Sudan Deportations A Lot More Humane When You Learn What Stephen Miller Wanted To Do theonion.com/dhs-sou...

oh you're a generalist? name all the generals

Hasan Piker detained at the border and questioned for hours over politics + TikTok clout loop, Kai Cenat's next chapter, the "safest white boy", Minecraft marriages, group chat trauma, a MAHA-friendly food app, Altman's kitchen fails, and Silicon Valley's existential crisis

No U.S. citizen should be detained by law enforcement, at the border or anywhere, because of their protected speech.

ICE and CBP are the "enemies domestic" that federal officials swear an oath to defend against.

www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike...

Oh we're already there

Dalai Lama Tapped As Interim Pope

Queer intel officers targeted by top secret chat leak get their chance to speak Chris Rufo published the chats. Staffers say a new "lavender scare" is upon us.

NEW—In late Feb, Chris Rufo published leaked chats between queer/trans employees at US intel agencies. Then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she’d fire all involved.

I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:

/2 So the remarkable thing here is they are doing it to a judge, not necessary that it’s a bullshit charge against someone for letting a dude out a side door to avoid ICE.

The Wealthy In This Country Would Poison Us For The Sake Of Profit!!!