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submitted 13 hours ago • 153 comments

My friends in the business community are buying what Trump’s selling. In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com I explain why they may not like what they get. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...

submitted 11 hours ago • 26 comments

Zelensky: “You're raising the volume of your voice but not the logic in your argument” 🔥🔥🔥🔥😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

He’s actually right, just not in the way that he thinks.

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

Florio was born to write this blog

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

For all the white folks asking what yall can do. This. Use the power you have that we don't. Say the things that you can when we can't. That's what's helpful. Not following random Black people and hoping for a protest playbook. "Allyship" is cool, but what we need is overt solidarity. Show it.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

submitted 7 days ago • 185 comments

The best part of all of these parallels is thinking about how they all ended.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 10 days ago • 212 comments

Trump take egg, Trump crash plane, Trump make hockey team lose.

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence

submitted 13 days ago • 674 comments

my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

submitted 16 days ago • 1165 comments

From the WP, a really grim, useful & well-reported summary of what’s going on with DOGE, focused on their goals & methods

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

The year is 2046. President for Life JD Vance has declared the ozone layer "gay"

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

must feel weird to get fired for the same reason you were hired

submitted 25 days ago • 51 comments

Scoop: Elon's DOGE govt takeover is splintering Trump's inner circle. More in here on the DOGE briefings within the WH, where there are scant details on how regularly they occur beyond daily "as needed," per a senior WH official. My latest in @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 26 days ago • 29 comments

And then the whole audience started singing loudly “A Minorrrrrrrr……

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

The greatest moment in broadcast television history.

submitted 31 days ago • 80 comments

This is absolutely crucial advice. Read it. Read it again. Repeat it to yourself. Do not allow yourself to be overloaded. OVERLOAD IS A DELIBERATE TACTIC.

submitted 31 days ago • 19 comments

This tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the crash needs to be immortalized in stone. Or on a plaque in every ATC tower. Or on a disclaimer before every Mayday: Air Disaster episode. Or on an Amber Alert type system to every American. Or on a stamp. Or maybe currency. Something.

submitted 32 days ago • 69 comments

Not gonna lie I did kinda expect our Democratic politicians to have something like a plan to counter the 920-page detailed fascist blueprint that was published in April 2023

submitted 33 days ago • 250 comments

Well isn't this interesting 🤔 www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/u...

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

Mans was so disgusted by the types of people that came last time he pulled up the monitors 😭

submitted 43 days ago • 30 comments

I feel like Defector was on kind of a heater this week, so I'm gonna thread some posts. Read and subscribe!

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

I actually strongly disagree with the notion that you can’t understand *major issues* from social media. After all, everybody who isn’t brain-poisoned understood Israel-Palestine by simply seeing a map.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Headline of the year

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

David Lynch Was The Artist of Our Time - defector.com/david-lynch-...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

This is a beautiful tribute.

submitted 46 days ago • 242 comments

not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff

submitted 46 days ago • 153 comments

AOC remains one of a handful of elected democrats who understand how politics operates

submitted 48 days ago • 123 comments

Loud and clear.

submitted 48 days ago • 3 comments

congratulations to the cowboys on no longer being coached by mike mccarthy, condolences to the cowboys on somehow hiring a coach who is more annoying for fans than mike mccarthy (we'll loop back around on that second one)

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

Pats weren’t even trying to hide it (via @jjones9.bsky.social)

submitted 50 days ago • 17 comments

[werner herzog voice] the looney tunes are an abomination. the little bald man shoots the duck in the face but he lives. the coyote is crushed by many anvils, and yet he continues. these unnatural beings cannot die - and without death, what is the value of life itself?

submitted 51 days ago • 233 comments

submitted 53 days ago • 17 comments

LA friends, if you’ve lost your home, I’m so sorry. In case it helps, here’s some stuff I wish I’d known: 1. Make detailed contemporaneous notes about every conversation you have with your insurance company.

submitted 53 days ago • 49 comments

Both of these photos could be put in an art exhibit called "Black people at work."

submitted 53 days ago • 11 comments

Hope the LA Times is being sure to print the fire’s point of view too.

submitted 55 days ago • 114 comments

My message to Zuck

submitted 55 days ago • 3738 comments

lol

submitted 55 days ago • 15 comments

aide that doesn’t have the heart to tell him greenland isn’t the bjork one

submitted 55 days ago • 18 comments

I don’t think his presidency is going to be popular you guys

submitted 55 days ago • 34 comments

this is why im always saying unlearn those bad twitter habits that keep you addicted to conflict. it doesn't have to be that way!

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

Truly shocking lmao

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Common don’t know how to emote. He is a sentient leather jacket.

submitted 56 days ago • 13 comments