I want the sandwich to testify...

Plenty to be thankful for tonight, not least the public humiliation of the oligarchs.

But *fundamentally* Big Boy War is won with spreadsheets, it is won with production, it is won with research and development.

Troop training and fitness matter, but on the margins. In WWII, we buried the better men in steel; the USSR buried them in just more men.

Spreadsheets win wars.

Shutdown is very uncomplicated. Trump & Republicans will starve 42 million Americans unless Democrats agree to kick 20+ million Americans off of any healthcare insurance. Kicker is that Republicans intend to do both, regardless of what Democrats choose to do at this particular hostage situation.

Here’s my my pitch for why you care about your state attorney general.

The entire conservative judicial machine *depends* on conservative state attorney generals.

John Roberts can’t take a case asking to destroy voting rights if a state attorney generals doesn’t bring it.

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

"I guess it's true for the would-be dictator to say we hate America—if we mean the Republican version of America, the one rapidly sprinting back past the era of Jim Crow and toward the engines of genocide and profit of antebellum Southern plantations."

www.the-reframe.com/america-hate...

BREAKING:

Jack Smith is requesting that Congress and the Justice Dept. let him testify in public.

In new letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Smith says he wants to testify "in open hearings" because of "the many mischaracterizations" around his investigations.

I guess where I’m landing is less “oh no he’s a Nazi” and more “I just went through this shit with Fetterman and Sinema and a six year term is too long for me to take on faith that your Nazi tattoo was the accident but what you’re saying now is the truth.”

The Republican Party’s efforts to entrench its power despite unpopular policies expose how deeply its strength depends on undemocratic institutions and on a brazen disregard for the very norms that sustain democracy itself.

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

NEW: Why does Mike Johnson keep weirdly fear-mongering about the "No Kings" peaceful protests set for Saturday, calling them "hate America" rallies?

A "No Kings" organizer says it's "quite clear" why.

So does an authoritarian expert. www.huffpost.com/entry/no-kin... w/ @delaneyrules.bsky.social

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Don't get desensitized, please.

Everything should shock you, appall you, alarm you. Don't ever shrug it off with "I'm not surprised."

somehow the defenses of Bari Weiss always find space to list all of her self-promotional achievements and then run out of column length before they can cite any examples of her doing worth-a-damn journalism or writing or publishing. must be a coincidence

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

damn did I wake up and get milkshake ducked by the Nobel Prize Committee

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

What could go wrong?

#uspol

Don’t you hate it when you think you’re DMing somebody your nudes or your illegal orders to prosecute a political opponent in violation of the US constitution and actually you are posting on main?

I managed to conceive of a reason Jack Smith might want call logs for GOP senators that isn't rooted in Joe Biden "weaponizing" the government.
www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

Every so often you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to change minds.

This chart from @hausfath.bsky.social is one of those, directly refuting at least 2 standard climate-denier talking points we've heard from Trump recently

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.