Phil gets it 👇🏽

Still a POS

DESPITE THE MENDACIOUS “NO” campaign funded by Péter Thiel

Thank you for your service.

The system is broken when a 80 yo in ailing health is running for re-election, rather than mentoring their successors

@amandalitman.bsky.social

I got halfway through posting the podcast link and realized that I should really credit the investigative reporter who is presenting this info in the episode: @areebafatima.bsky.social . Sorry!

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
has a very eye-opening podcast episode on the group creating these videos, who have a history going back before Trump's war.
Here's the link:
overcast.fm/+ABHI4Xv8OKE

I guess Tim Cook’s real passion is presenting gold plaques to fascists

Alex Jones Humiliated by Comedian Who Just Stole His Job Tim Heidecker channeled Alex Jones to announce that he is the new creative director of Infowars.

@bencollins.bsky.social told CNN.com that the new InfoWars “will be as “a digital platform and comedy network” that feature independent comedians who “don’t have a mountain to climb in the comedy world. We want to give them that mountain.”
Could get awesome fast, given @theonion.com community/brand.

The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars

The indefatigable @bencollins.bsky.social
told @nytimes.com they’ll help raise $ for Sandy Hook families with merchandise sales.
@timheidecker.bsky.social would serve as “creative director” of the new site & plans to parody @RealAlexJones™ — like @stephencolbert.bsky.social once did Bill O’Reilly.

2026: @TheOnion.com proposes licensing Infowars & its IP. Fictional CEO is claiming it’s theirs: theonion.com/at-long-last... but infowars.com hasn’t changed — yet.

Orbán’s electoral defeat is not simply some abstract thing happening in a far away country overseas

Orbán’s government played a big role in convening the international far-right. Groups funded by Orbán’s gov’t even sponsored Canadian Conservative MPs to attend ultra social conservative conferences:

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So, we've created a 100 Gitmo's -- not for criminals but for immigrants who are "American" in every way but the paperwork.

So, they didn’t break the mold?

Lobby AGAINST policies and laws which ban ANY books.

Demand that all books in print be made available.

Run and vote against the New McCarthyites: Moms 4 Liberty and their ilk.

Most importantly: READ AND AMPLIFY “dangerous” literature and non-fiction.

New this year: “The Intimate Animal” by Kinsey’s Justin Garcia. Ask your librarian to buy a copy!

@sethcotlar.bsky.social

Son?

Isn’t he the one that Hunter Biden wrote a recommendation for?

He’s about 23?

He agrees w/ her overall project:

Demonizing anyone who opposes Israel.
See his segment on Hasan.

In his mind’s eye, he’s just keeping her honest.

He could dismantle her rhetoric, instead, he allows it as she fluffs Trump at every possible opportunity while defaming students like Mohammed Khalil.

Gish-Galloping

Shorn of its context.

Whoop, there it is.

If you think Tapper did a good job not backing down, imagine Mehdi Hasan interviewing Stefanik.

He agrees with her overall project.

He’s acting more the PR handler, than a journalist.

I should write a column:
“What Happened Here?”

(Too close to Chris Hayes’ podcast title?)

Someone please assign Claudine Gay to review this trifle.

And she’ll be promoting her book about being the 21st c’s answer to Joe McCarthy

He largely agrees with her.

Just wants to — quote, unquote — keep her honest.

Also,

The Uncanny Valley moved from Efficiency to Enshittification

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Karl: "The president said today that he would knock out every single power plant and every single bridge in Iran. He's not just talking about those that are supporting the military infrastructure…That wouldn't be a war crime?"

Mike Waltz: "That would be an escalatory ladder."

So…doesn’t deny it