"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking
“Another way to look at this is that billionaires have joined a war on professional administrative class of public servants precisely because of their proximity to formal mechanisms of accountability.”
That part! Everything from documentation to compliance mechanisms to whistleblowing is a threat.
Um
French prosecutors are summoning Elon Musk to Paris to investigate his complicity in Grok's production of sexual images of minors.
This comes after CCDH research found that Grok produced an estimated 23,000 sexualized images of children over an 11-day period in January.
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Trump's plan for a presidential library, a monstrosity in Miami, combines many of the worst aspects of his imperial presidency all in one project:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
RIGHT NOW -- Veterans are being arrested in #washingtondc after peacefully demanding an end to the War on Iran. @vetsaboutface
"Top staffers were figures with connections to GOP politics who hadn’t worked in the arts, including one spouse of a Republican party leader whose longest professional experience was working as a marketing and events manager at a Toyota dealership in Ireland..."
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
And here in NH we have a moron representative who wants to legally carry guns on college campuses! People, please vote 💙in 198 days!!
www.cbsnews.com/news/louisia...
This is one of the two most beloved options of misogynistic losers:
1. Exploit poor women abroad
2. Make women poorer at home
(The United States is currently doing both, of course.)
This was shit we were fighting twenty years ago. More than that, actually.
Thinking about the 62 million views, and then thinking about how marital rape was only made illegal in all 50 US states in the summer of 1993.
I can remember 1993. I can remember what was on the radio at the time. I had just been in my first movie. It was not so long ago.
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
Tucker Carlson & is with Russell Brand. • Follow 16h • Russell Brand begins our conversation with a prayer. Get his new book "How to Become a Christian in 7 Days" on TuckerCarlsonBooks.com. SHOW COMMUNICATE 5.7K • 1.2K 289
There's long been a type of savvy, conservative-coded con man who's especially adept at siphoning the money of AARP-eligible suburban and rural white Christians into their own, city slicker pockets. But the link between the grift and the right wing politics has rarely been as tight as it is today.
It’s becoming clearer that when all the Swalwell dust settles, it will have taken out a lot of Democratic elected officials. Mostly the men, but I expect some of the women too. Everyone is going to get put under a microscope.
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magas don’t want government helping anyone….
An FR24 map showing Journey Aviation’s N588TN landing in Algiers. This was an ICE flight.
An ADSBx map showing Talon Air’s N50JE going from Accra to Addis Ababa. This was an ICE flight.
An ADSBx map showing Journey’s N62FF landing in Nairobi. This was an ICE flight.
An FR24 map showing Omni’s N207AX landing in Kinshasa. This was and ICE flight.
A particularly evil week for ICE flights in Africa. Since Tuesday, ICE has deported people to Algeria, Ethiopia and Kenya, plus two possible third-country removal trips to Ghana, and one confirmed third-country removal trip of 15 Latin American nationals to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.
OMG
Kash Patel appears to be a drunken national security threat
"Meetings and briefings had to be rescheduled for later in the day as a result of his alcohol-fueled nights."
"A request for 'breaching equipment' ... was made last year because Patel had been unreachable behind locked doors."
I watched Eastman, in real time, testify to the Georgia General Assembly that it was their *duty* to overturn my vote in 2020. He lied about evidence. He misled his client about the law. Law profs who back wannabe coup leaders and authoritarians should retire because what’s the point of law at all?
Congress banned Big Tech from working with TikTok over national security concerns.
Then Apple, Google, and Microsoft went to DOJ and asked for assurances they wouldn’t be prosecuted for… working with TikTok anyway.
New docs show they got that protection.
The ultra-rich decided it was cheaper to buy Congress than support public goods because then they could also make Congress shoulder the blame for killing public goods. read the @raxkingisdead.bsky.social essay that scott is reacting to.
In a major state antitrust investigation, California's Attorney General has unsealed hundreds of records revealing that Amazon illegally pressures its marketplace sellers to engage in price-fixing.
While Trump's DOJ lets corporate lawbreakers off the hook, states are still holding them accountable.
The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.
The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.
It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
We live in such a demented society.
Attn: Democrats running for office! Coming out strong on AI regulations will only make me want to vote for you harder and tell all my friends to do the same.
Here’s the ad promoting the new Peter Thiel backed startup, Objection, where AI will allegedly determine the veracity of journalists’ claims. It looks like they took the ad down, but I screen grabbed it when I could still access it from a QT by right wing Christian investor Nate Fischer. 1/
my broad sense is that FIFA is trying to run something much closer to its authoritarian host country playbook in a country with a whole lot of complex federalized democracy
so they're running into a lot of problems they didn't expect or plan for x.com/GovSherrillN...
“I’m already in the lawbooks; that’s enough for me,” Villarreal said. “This was a fucking nine-year squeeze that had everybody shitting themselves. And if you mess with me again, we’ll go back to fucking court.”
SCOTUS got it wrong. La Gordiloca remains right about everything.
