We really don’t have to praise someone for changing their pants after shitting in them, especially if they’ve repeatedly had to change their shit-filled slacks over the last 18 months.

The Next Coup Attempt And How to Stop It

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

At this rate, they’ll have to release all the Epstein files just to distract from the war and gas prices

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Okay, so this is an authoritarian playbook trick, once the evidence is overwhelming say everyone needs to wait for the official investigation then either fix it or attack it when its completed. Same shit Russian pulled with MH17 and chemical attacks in Syria, very predictable.

It’s not the most important thing but…..

Nothing makes me more Latinx petty than seeing 🧊Barbie wearing hoops.

Girl, those are not for you. Take them off.

Donate to Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE, organized by Jac Kovarik I have been involved in rapid response in the Twin Cities area since the b… Jac Kovarik needs your support for Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul

www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

The Anti-Cosmetic Surgery Essay Every Woman Should Read Long Live the Old Flesh

This is an excellent think piece.

open.substack.com/pub/fatherka...

Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid! Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.

“Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”

Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.

My latest for Zeteo:

This is Spinal Tap. “It really puts perspective on things, though, doesn’t it?” “Yeah, too much. There’s too much fucking perspective now.”

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Statement from Kids Can Press publisher of Franklin the Turtle

🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.

"Which of the following best describes what motivates Pierre Poilievre most?"

Ambition for personal power: 35%
Sense of duty to Canada: 16%
Vision for the country's future: 13%
Desire to help people like me: 13%
Pressure from his party/supporters: 6%

Abacus / Nov 27, 2025 / n=2074 / Online

American Express Launches Small Sweatshop Saturday

American Express Launches Small Sweatshop Saturday theonion.com/american-express-launche...

Where’s the assistant loudly whispering into Miller’s ears that he’s talking about his own ancestors

fucking vile

How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis

Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

The FBI Released Bigfoot’s Official File Take a peek inside the Bureau’s investigation into Sasquatch.

Anything to distract, amirite

www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...

So, yes, Jmail is amazing. But it also alerted me to the fact that one of the last emails in his email inbox was @flipboard.com alerting Epstein that he'd been arrested... (cc: @mmccue.bsky.social)

Malcolm Nance said these sound like the titles of porn movies.

Whether it’s scholars writing about fascism, or Donald Trump implementing a fascist regime, both sides are guilty of bringing the topic of fascism to the forefront.

BETO TO DEMS: “We don’t wait for the punch thrown by these would-be fascists to land. We punch first, and punch harder… CA, NJ, IL, MD — redraw your lines now. Don’t wait for Texas to move first.”

the next democratic nominee should run on chaotic left wing pastiche platform of blowing up mount rushmore, deporting everybody who has ever worked for ICE, free college for trans kids only, reparations for divorced housewives, free health care but not for white men, christians pay higher taxes etc

Using the word "stole" to describe young girls is how to beat those accessory to a sex trafficker suspicions.

The cowardice of institutions and people who have claimed to be brave is endemic.

Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence.

Not shocking but these chodes need to be publicly humiliated. www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

New work up on the website… zandra.ca/collect/small
#art

Three of the best journalistic entities that are covering all this nonsense right are a parody newspaper, a teen mag, and a magazine for nerds, and I am grateful for them

(The Onion, Teen Vogue, and Wired)