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it’s so insane that we have some of the most corrupt, craven, idiotic, selfish, pathological individuals accusing everyone else of being the problem

A brief history of American NarcoTerrorism as told through Marco Rubio's family cocaine trafficking enterprise prospect.org/2025/12/23/nar…

The federal prosecutor leading the Minnesota fraud case just quit because “Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good” nytimes.com/2026/01/13/us/…

Two days after an ICE agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, a federal agent asked an observer, "Have y'all not learned?" Her phone was taken and she was briefly detained. Two days after that, another federal agent said to a different observer: “You did not learn from what

one general strike in one city is worth more than every no kings protest ever collectively

A veteran whom Alex Pretti cared for in the ICU earlier this month: "It was heartbreaking to see the video. It was heartbreaking to know when I found out it was him. What was worse was listening to Kristi Noem talk about him the way she did."

jaw dropped at the sight of this picture in the excellent WaPo Anthropic story from the other day: " ... a book warehouse that was alleged to play a role in Anthropic’s Project Panama, its project to scan, digitize and destroy millions of books"

In Rothfeld, the Post's loss is obviously The New Yorker's gain, but we're all worse off that the ethos Becca describes here — the aim of creating a public, rather than catering to it — is being systematically eradicated from our public life by wealthy philistines:

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Jesse Jackson at DNC, starting at 31m58s, is maybe best speech I've ever heard youtube.com/watch?v=6RCARI…

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65 year old woman tells C-SPAN host she’s slowly starving to death under the Trump administration

And the collaborators wing of the “opposition party” delayed Ro Khanna’s war powers vote just long enough to let Trump start his illegal war. Sickening.

Very clear now that US/Isralie goal is to destroy not just the existing regime in Iran but also the democratic opposition inside country -- to create a vacuum so that the monarchists can return. It's a truly evil and dangerous policy

at the library rn and there's an old guy watching democracy now on one of the desktops just head in his hands... felt that brother

Trump is basically calling up every journalist in his phone to workshop different timelines and goals for his war. In the past two days: The Washington Post: the aim is "freedom for the people" of Iran Axios: maybe we can "end it in two or three days" with a deal The New York Times: might

I asked former IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus, on Piers Morgan's show today, if it's true that Israel builds its most critical military command centers within and below residential and civilian buildings in Tel Aviv: using civilians as human shields. Listen to his candid answer:

I don't like it either, but the near-unanimous decision of American Jewish institutions to back Israel through genocide is at least as responsible as the Trump administration is. Every synagogue and community center flying an Israeli flag has made us all less safe, and for what?