Alt-Right dudes are mad that they spent tens of billions of dollars for newspapers, social media platforms, and TV news stations, hoping to influence public opinion. But then they found out that in 2026, young people don't read newspapers, don't watch TV news, and can just use a different app.🤷🏿‍♂️

RFK Jr. is the embodiment of the “medical freedom” movement. They don’t want medical freedom. They want freedom from accountability when their actions harm others.

Relitigating 2020 COVID response reminds me that if Trump had worried less about the stock market and his reelection, and more on the treatment and reducing spread, he probably would have won the election. He showed he was probably the worst person possible to be in charge.

Natural immunity from a disease is not better than vaccine immunity; in fact, #vaccine immunity IS natural immunity without all of the dangers of the vaccine-preventable disease. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

Natural immunity is not better than vaccine immunity

There is anti-vaccine belief that natural immunity is superior to vaccine-induced immunity. This post emphasizes that while both types of immunity are similar, vaccines provide a safer way to achieve ...

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One of the craziest things in American history happened once on July 27th. I wouldn't be surprised if you never heard it, but the story has everything and represents everything America is. But they'll never tell your kids. They sure didn't tell me 🧵

They can't protect you from fascism or racism. They can only report on it after you save yourself, and try to sell you a book about how they knew all along. They've been late to, and on the wrong side of, every civil rights movement in the history of this country, not just back to the 60s.

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 6mo ago

"First they came for the journalists!"🤡 No. First they came for Black people. Then journalists spent decades lying about us, downplaying racism, being on the wrong side of every civil rights movement from the 60s to BLM, playing access journalism, then playing victim when rich people bought media🤷🏿‍♂️

Annual GOP Boogeymen by year-- 2022: CRT! 2023: WOKE! 2024: IMMIGRANTS! 2025: TRANS! 2026: COMMIES!

Saying honest things about people who died is not "speaking ill of the dead," it's speaking truth of the ill.

Platner so far is staying in despite repeated calls to pull out. Seems right on brand.

Driverless taxis are being introduced in cities where human drivers are abundant and available. They’re more needed in rural areas where ride share drivers refuse to go. The elderly and those unable to drive would most benefit.

It's crazy how much these wockaflockas were willing to give away as long as the Walkin' Circus Peanut delivered on hatred of Black, brown and LGBTQ+ folks.

How is July 4th considered the US Birthday? It’s like saying your birthday was when your dad proposed to your mom 6 years before you were born.

Google just released an ad reimagining the Founding Fathers using AI tools to draft the Declaration of Independence.

Not hyperbole. 100x the rate. There are ~50 million immigrants. There are ~50 million Black people. Find an innocent immigrant that *has* been pulled over by ICE for no reason. Rare, but happens. Find an innocent Black man that *has not* been pulled over by cops for no reason. Rare, but happens.

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · last mo.

But here's the thing: cops "raid" innocent Black people at 10x to 100x the rate that ICE raids immigrants.🤷🏿‍♂️ And cops shoot innocent Black people at ~100x the rate that ICE shoots innocent immigrants.🤷🏿‍♂️ And the murder solve rate in the US is very low. And it's lowest *where cop abuse is highest*.🤯

It's our pool. It's our White House. It's our country.

Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦@shoredweller7.bsky.social · last mo.

It is true that Watergate looks like a college prank when compared to the vast endless grift and corruption of his Administration.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

I hired Obama to do my rain gutters last fall and his guys never even showed.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

O'KEEFE: You said the guy was gonna do the reflecting poll in a week for about a million dollars. It's been two months and $16.5 million TRUMP: Are you ready? Barack Hussein Obama

They traded the Vicar of Christ for the Grifter of Vice.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Given Republican policies are literally the opposite of Jesus teachings, this is the least surprising headline of the year.

The reflecting pool is a metaphor for everything that’s wrong in America today. Arrogant people with power who don’t understand how anything works, making decisions that will predictably fail and we have to deal with the ugly aftermath.

On SpaceX IPO: “It cobbles together a bunch of money-losing ventures into a giant pump-and-dump scheme untethered to objective reality, all controlled by a proven bullshitter.”

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2mo ago

I had some thoughts on the press coverage of the SpaceX IPO

Congrats, MAGA, you’ve thoroughly owned the Libs—and all it’s cost you is a functioning government, a working democracy, human rights, national peace, economic stability, affordable groceries, affordable healthcare, qualified leaders, and global standing.👍 johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/congratula...

Congratulations, Trump Supporters, You've Owned the Libs

Well, Trump Supporters, as a member of the woke, radical Left, it kills me to say this, but you win.

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Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

No, it's not. The richer someone is, the more likely they are to be a Trump supporter.🤷🏿‍♂️ There's a statistical lie that they try to play with "college educated" being less likely to support Trump, and "high income" less likely. But they define high income as like $100K. They don't show millionaires

Pierre Polyester@canadian-critic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started

Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

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Funny how the all the people ransacking the Capitol on January 6 were liberals, plants, and ANTIFA—until there was money to be made from it.

My daughter remarked she can ask me most any question and I usually have the answer for her. I told her to start calling me ChatDAD.

🚨🧵Why America Can’t Stop Trump Democrats are poised to win big in the fall midterms. And yet none of that changes the central reality of American politics in 2026: America can’t stop Trump. (My critical work is kept open source by paid subscribers & your RP) open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

Why America Can’t Stop Trump

Donald Trump is broadly unpopular.

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