The level of kleptocratic corruption in this regime is breathtaking, e.g.:

—Selling off Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae to big banks

—Bribes from ABC & CBS

—TikTok sale to Ellison

—Everything Qatar: the plane gift, the Idaho military base

—Whoever has bribed him by buying his scam meme coins

the biomedical advances of the past twenty years have also been incredible. in a way, it really feels like we’ve been slouching towards utopia, so to speak, while society collapsed out from under us bc of changes in information technology/media diets

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

I know this makes me impossibly out of touch for an American, but I’m amazed that we live in a country where you can write this sentence. I did not grow up in a place where children had any access whatsoever to guns. It was not in our culture at all. I didn’t even know of an *adult* with a gun.

There is no amount of open corruption that will wake up Americans. That family has realized this crucial truth. They broke Senate, media and Supreme Court. Nobody dares to stand up. We live in a Republic of fear and cowardice.

ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

“Who was president in 2020?” remains one of the most pertinent questions in American politics—absurd, yes, but here we are—and that extends to “who was president January 1 - 19, 2021?”

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The people who voted for Trump because they just straightforwardly hate non-whites or immigrants or gays, etc. and correctly intuited Trump would hurt them are worse people overall but smarter and more rational political actors than the people like Andreeseen who thought he’d do #AmericanDynamism

NEW MA BLOG POST! Get to know 27 points of interest along Sunday's 7-mile #CicLAvia Quinceañera Celebration in the 💙of Los Angeles! It's the Militant's latest #EpicCicLAviaTour post!

militantangeleno.com/blog/2025/10...

#BikeLA #DTLA #Westlake #PicoUnion #Chinatown #BoyleHeights

strong point for marxist analysis in all this. the capitalist class looked at the positive sum dynamic of liberal capitalism and voluntarily chose to instead live in the world where their fortunes are subject to the whims of a mad emperor instead. the ruling classes yearn for oppression

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

Nothing more Harvard than for these professors to think the solution is “inform the New York Times” rather than “give the students lower grades.”

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

President who engaged in housing discrimination as landlord lays off housing discrimination staff

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can