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half the internet declared "this is an obvious false flag to justify a crackdown on anyone left of center". meanwhile, Trump is currently failing to use it to build support for a home renovation

Turns out RFK Jr loves getting that pharma money.

Trump and his supporters continue to push re-runs of their greatest hits from the 2020 Big Lie. "Ballot drops" are a normal part of the counting process. They only look suspicious b/c people want to believe they are... and everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works.

we've moved from "shooting yourself in the dick" to "pouring lemon juice into the hole you shot in your dick"

Imagine calling Renee Good and Alex Pretti “domestic terrorists” and calling immigrants “animals” then turning around and telling people they are the ones who need to “tone down their rhetoric.”

New: President Trump lied on TV about the origins of Unite the Right, feeding his base a narrative that "Southern Law" did it. But the white supremacists who planned UtR still talk about their involvement and the facts aren't up for debate. Me: michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/white-supr...

this may be controversial but if we do wind up holding Nuremberg 2.0, can we also purge the guy from the Liberty Mutual commercials? The one they think looks like Tom Cruise.

Went to check on the reflecting pool this morning.

Already have another update on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. They are painting over the bright blue that Doug Burgum originally shared. Unclear if the brighter blue is some kind of primer and this was always the plan, or if they changed the color.

Real, "we killed Osama bin Laden, thus defeating him" energy here

I’m losing it reading about journalists having meltdowns bc someone in the same building as them on a different floor and the other side of a secure perimeter had a gun. Cannot wait for everyone to move on.

On a visit to Kentucky and just got this screen when I tried to access my DMs. Here's what age verification laws look like. Oh well, guess I'll check my Bluesky messages in California.

Worse than the McCarthy Era, in fact:

I know that I, as a history addict, am prejudiced, but I really do think that if everyone in the world got proper evidence based basic history lessons, a large percentage of all the problems we're dealing with in the world today could be avoided.

Four years ago today my life was turned upside down by extremists who falsely claimed I was hired by the Biden Administration to censor the internet. Despite the threats and the frivolous lawsuits, I'm still here. I wrote this last year. www.thewayfinder.net/p/dont-call-...

"Friends don't let friends become cops" Sticker seen in Sydney. We've got a bunch of copies of this sticker and numerous other designs. If you're interested in buying a mix pack of radical slaps, check out: Radicalstickers.bigcartel.com

How do you know that Trump is a dangerous demagogue? It's the ad baculum.

What a devastating article about Linda McMahon and the Department of Education in @newyorker.com by Zach Helfand. I confess that I could not continue reading it last night after finishing this paragraph, especially the "I hope zero" quote from the Moms for Liberty founder.

Many people are talking about a general strike for May Day. How do we shut down the economy in 2026, when it functions much differently than it did in time of the original general strikes? Here, we propose some some starting places for action and offer a handbill promoting them.

Ahem.

The Palantir tldr; tweet of Alex Karp's "The Technological Republic" made a great technofascist primer; @ardenthistorian.bsky.social and I had some thoughts about it, up today @religiondispatches.org ! religiondispatches.org/2026/04/27/p...

The UK is starting to catch these people — random individuals talking to Iranian agents — *before* they carry out attacks. Extremely hard to do, very impressive that they're managing at all.

And McKinley, and Garfield, and TR, and Reagan... It's an easy giggle at the preposterous claim, but when viewed as part of the systematic erasure of history--and Trump's declaration that Allen attacked "the constitution"--L'etat, it me--it's more dreadful.

If you went to a show at the Sphere this year, chances are you were surveilled by a paranoid creep. Great reporting details in this ep. 👇🏽

I know I complain a lot about the Victorians, but at least they looked much better while committing and being the victim of crime, than we do today.

As long as we think of success as an individual achievement rather than the thriving of our communities, we will remain isolated and alienated, like the billionaire sociopaths we seek to emulate. Mutual aid transforms us, enabling us to act and dream together. crimethinc.com/Revolutionar...

NEW: For my regular TPM column, I wrote about how the "missing scientists" conspiracy theory is a social media version of King Tut's Curse: a small cluster of random deaths given outsized importance by an exploitative press looking to cash in on a pop craze. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/whats-r...

American often pays more for the same thing. That's not a flaw. "For the average price of a car in the US, you could buy 5 new Chinese EVs" www.reuters.com/business/aut...

Oh yeah, but how does that explain the cigar smell and the medieval mocking and laughter whenever I fail to do simple household chores?! Sigh, I so wish ghosts were real but even I know old houses make weird noises, with or without a boiler. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

The know-it-all-ism to which Zimmer refers has developed into a weaknesses undermining the possibilities of left & lib antifascism. It's not only anti-intellectual, it's bizarrely anti-strategic. As if Eisenhower said, "Don't tell me anything about Hitler's plans! I already know everything!"

Whether events are staged or not, authoritarianism's goal towards them is the same: attempt to confuse and overwhelm people into apathy towards finding the truth at all. open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...

Maybe we’re too worried about the death of democracy b/c one day we’ll wake up & the entire territorial United States will be nothing but data centers & the power & water that feed them, with tech bros maintained in human game parks like exotic animals, acting out real life but captives nonetheless

Tried Nirvana out on the two year-old and she spent the entire composter pick up trip yelling "too loud" But then on the trip to the preschool she started singing along to Smells Like Teen Spirit so I think I won

Great reporting here that features a few links to my prior reporting

Happy Monday! ☀️🍃 #DailyChester

The Trump ballroom obsession seems psychological. He's had multiple attempts on his life. It's become harder for him to physically move around. He has to live in a city that hates him, and wants to leave his mark on it. And he thinks people should be forced to come to him, not the other way around.

Don’t let anyone tell you this website is not a gold mine An exchange for the ages

"Revolt, General Strike, May Day!!!" Seen in Minneapolis, Minnesota

MSM doing shocked Pikachu face that a good chuck of the population has lost their damn minds to conspiracism as if they didn’t traffic in a constant both-sides discourse throughout a decade of Trumpism and lied to the public daily about a genocide happening in front of their face

Video from the night ICE shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis.

The conditions at the Mesa Gateway Airport ICE concentration camp are torturous. The severe overcrowding reported by Reps Ansari, Grijalva & Stanton earlier this month were about double the max capacity and people could barely sit down then. These numbers show its reached ~5x over capacity at times.

I'll be talking on @democracynow.org in a half hour or so about how fascism is using "Cole Allen"--not the actual man, but a story--to deify Trump. I write about it here: slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/cole-allen

This 👇🏼 “Let it all burn” is easy to say when you can simply leave the fire zone.

Article explaining why it's easy to believe that the thwarted shooting at the WH Correspondents' dinner on Saturday was staged (because everying seems like kayfabe when so much of what we see is) — and why that "staged" belief is almost certain wrong: www.thedailybeast.com/i-get-why-pe...

On this day in 1899, a white mob in Lee County, Georgia, lynched a Black man named Mitchell Daniel for “talking too much” about the brutal lynching of another Black man days earlier.

I trust Kash on this. This is a guy who streams a LOT of movies and television shows by his own admission (shoutout to "Landman" on Paramount Plus) and if he had seen this plot device before he'd have known exactly what to do

Pretty sure this was Greg Bovino's last gas station stop on his last on the ground day in Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge. 1/21/26

Museum: Could you come and perhaps bring a few things to teach our visitors about what life was like during the war? Me: Sure!

The only way to stop a bad man with a gun is with a ballroom.

The only democracy in the Middle East

I will die on the hill that fawning chummy bullshit from reporters with the political elites they cover is more damaging to trust in media than any disinfo scheme or social media platform

Religious "switching" is wrecking the Catholic Church’s long-term plans. In country after country, more people are leaving the Church than joining it. That’s not sustainable. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/religious-...

Out now! @robertsilverman.bsky.social joins to talk about the “panopticon” of surveillance and private policing at Madison Square Garden, and how billionaires are buying their own intelligence systems and “deep states.” Cheers to episode 100. Here’s to 100 more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Can't overlook the Epstein angle here: Sergey Brin is in the emails and even apparently visited a private island (Guana) with Jeffrey Epstein jmail.world/thread/b3ea9...

Delts starting to delt.

Where are all the Republicans who whined about the Virginia map? They’re unusually quiet this morning.

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We truly live in the dumbest time in history.

the most inspiring thing you'll read all day: a 102 year old veteran of the French Resistance, imprisoned, helped organize a takeover of the prison, sent to Dachau, survived, and lived to warn young people about the far right we thank you, Jean Lafaurie www.france24.com/en/france/20...

One of the most baffling things in our time is watching people in power roll back environmental protections, healthcare, and food assistance, then hearing others say, “they care about me.”

Should have set up this zoom better! Now my 12-year-olds art shelf is in the shot, and the ukelele we never learned to play.

“The president has faced scrutiny for his close ties to convicted sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. One woman, who was interviewed by the FBI in 2019, accused Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13.“

“How does someone who bleeds as much as you do, heal so quickly?” What my dentist just said (echoing many a doctor before) after checking my mouth after dental surgery last week. And it’s true. I’m borderline hemophiliac when it comes to bruising and bleeding but wounds heal remarkably fast.

Far-right figure Tommy Robinson announced in an online video that American tech mogul Robert Shillman will be donating either $100,000 or £100,000 for his upcoming rally in May in London. Robinson suggested the donation has significantly helped financial issues for the rally.

New details emerged about the man DHS agents put into a chokehold on the westside of Chicago last Fall. “They just grabbed a random Black man and caused a commotion, like, it was already bad, but that makes it even worse,” community organizer Maurice Woodard said. thetriibe.com/2026/04/new-...

Because of course they did. 🙄

The desire to write a piece of the history of idiots and weirdos who tried to kill Presidents and why you need to stop saying "false flag" just because it failed cataclysmically is... strong.

Spoke to NPR about what we do and don’t know about the suspect in the WHCD shooting www.npr.org/2026/04/27/n...

let's acknowledge that one of the two 'crimes' here is that we're not living in sufficient fear 'they're not afraid of us anymore, we have to destroy them'

"For about two hours, they put the Australian flag up alongside the Stars and Stripes. ... I think they realized their mistake, and they've replaced them now with the Union Jack..." Cue the closing credits music from Veep. people.com/king-charles...

please no more dinner talk

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Ok I was about to get mad, but I just tried her suggestion of "a bagel" (had to order from a specialist American food shop) and it's actually really good! Give it a try everyone!

I have a better idea. We should ALSO federally reimburse all state taxes paid by our beautiful police, including ICE agents.

Remarkably high number, given how relatively marginal most of the GOP’s “divisive concepts” are in most disciplines.

Stop talking about it. Yes you know what I am talking about.

“In a 2023 civil trial, a New York jury found that the president sexually abused journalist E. Jean Carroll … Carroll was ultimately awarded $83m in damages for defamation, in addition to $5m she had been separately awarded after another jury found Trump liable for the sexual assault claims.”

A ballroom must envelope Trump at all times wherever he may go.

Bracing. Timely. Urgent and unflinching. @robertpjones.bsky.social’s latest book is coming soon: open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

Listen, assassinations are bad.

A blend of bitter and sweet, its faint acidity sharpens the bold, almost buttery smoothness. Order for the aroma. Stay for the savor.

Another year of class wrapped, kids did amazing on their final projects, now on the porch with the whiskey mug my nephew gave me Somehow I am almost out of whiskey Which is truly a sign of the end times

The issue IS NOT whether the correspondents dinner would be held in the ballroom. What the headline SHOULD say is: “Trump and allies waste money on unnecessary luxury instead of spending on healthcare /education. Ballroom will solve problem, not gun control.” So sick of media ignoring the issue.

No sooner had a gunman tried to storm the ballroom of the Washington Hilton, where the White Correspondents’ Dinner was taking place Saturday night, than social media was awash with conspiracy theories about what was still unfolding in real time. www.cnn.com/2026/04/27/p...

Historians out there, are you aware of any even remotely comparable cases of national suicide?

I still use my Seattle Public Library card because they have a better audiobook selection than Austin

Very interesting article on the revival of meme based Francoism. Includes influence on RAC bands

"Britain becoming ‘soft target’ for Russian propaganda, says security expert. Fiona Hill tells MPs UK is ‘vulnerable’ because it does not educate people on how to deal with information warfare." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

L is for loyalty, not the law. "The Trump administration has hired dozens of new immigration judges with no immigration law experience, including some with openly pro-MAGA views, in a bid to fast-track deportations." www.thedailybeast.com/jaw-dropping...

the best thing Democrats could do about political violence is NOT tone down the rhetoric instead, loudly oppose the crimes of the admin and pledge to take action, up to and including criminal charges either show that the system works or prepare for more people to work outside the system

2.5 million downloads and Mike Duncan, it’s a banner week for the @americanfric.bsky.social crew

Does anyone have any idea why the shooters manifesto specifically exempted Patel from the Trump admin kill list?

In 2019, a state trooper killed Brandon Webster, claiming self-defense. Evidence contradicted that account but wasn’t made public — until now.

Being in London this week as an American has made me realize how much I’ve internalized the expectation of violence. It’s striking to move through crowds without that thought in the back of your mind: what if someone opens fire. It’s nice to be in a place where that isn’t the norm.

This article (summarizing new research by @broniatowski.bsky.social and colleagues) explains how term "trustworthy AI" means different things to different people, reflecting four very different worldviews on "trust" and AI — technocratic, relational, pragmatic, and critical.

Another year and I didn’t get drafted into the nfl. So sad. I coulda been somebody.

Let's go, girls Come on

"Taylor Swift files to trademark her voice and likeness in era of AI deepfakes. The move comes months after actor Matthew McConaughey filed similar trademarks to protect his likeness against unauthorized replications." www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

"China’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said on Monday it has blocked Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI startup founded by Chinese engineers" techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/c...