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Reformed attorney + storyteller featured on The Moth podcast. Exploring politics, culture, and our very strange times as a beleaguered Fair Witness. —Adam Ross
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Undeclared martial law in three screenshots.
P.S. We’ve already gotten used to it. 🥺
P.S. We’ve already gotten used to it. 🥺
October 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Undeclared martial law in three screenshots.
P.S. We’ve already gotten used to it. 🥺
P.S. We’ve already gotten used to it. 🥺
As I’d worried, Republicans let Democrats filibuster their own budget bill on purpose… setting them up to take the blame for everything that followed, including the layoffs Republicans already had planned.
Not everyone will believe the GOP’s narrative here. But the optics are clear.
Not everyone will believe the GOP’s narrative here. But the optics are clear.
October 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
As I’d worried, Republicans let Democrats filibuster their own budget bill on purpose… setting them up to take the blame for everything that followed, including the layoffs Republicans already had planned.
Not everyone will believe the GOP’s narrative here. But the optics are clear.
Not everyone will believe the GOP’s narrative here. But the optics are clear.
Hey, if it feels good… right?
October 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Hey, if it feels good… right?
MAGA Brownshirts showing up at Portland’s ICE protest last night chanting about Kirk’s death marks a significant but predictable turn in the scripted Project 2025 meta-narrative—one that I’m afraid will play out in Blue cities across America in the weeks and months ahead.
October 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
MAGA Brownshirts showing up at Portland’s ICE protest last night chanting about Kirk’s death marks a significant but predictable turn in the scripted Project 2025 meta-narrative—one that I’m afraid will play out in Blue cities across America in the weeks and months ahead.
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
September 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Could there be a more fitting image of religion in America today than a man carry the burden of the cross on wheels?
At least I now understand why they’re called “holy rollers”.
At least I now understand why they’re called “holy rollers”.
September 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Could there be a more fitting image of religion in America today than a man carry the burden of the cross on wheels?
At least I now understand why they’re called “holy rollers”.
At least I now understand why they’re called “holy rollers”.
The moment in the group message thread when you forgot “The Rapture” is playing at the music festival.
Anyways, everyone meet up at the chicken tomorrow! 🐓
Anyways, everyone meet up at the chicken tomorrow! 🐓
September 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The moment in the group message thread when you forgot “The Rapture” is playing at the music festival.
Anyways, everyone meet up at the chicken tomorrow! 🐓
Anyways, everyone meet up at the chicken tomorrow! 🐓
Me: “How’s the battery life?”
Apple: “Oh, it’s the same.”
Apple: “Oh, it’s the same.”
September 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Me: “How’s the battery life?”
Apple: “Oh, it’s the same.”
Apple: “Oh, it’s the same.”
I have a feeling Vance won’t be telling Kirk’s viewers to “stand back and stand by.”
September 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I have a feeling Vance won’t be telling Kirk’s viewers to “stand back and stand by.”
The fishermen’s families are probably still unaware of their fates. Meanwhile, the soldiers who did this have been back home, sitting at IHOPs and at Chili’s beside diners unaware of their crimes.
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www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ewi...
September 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The fishermen’s families are probably still unaware of their fates. Meanwhile, the soldiers who did this have been back home, sitting at IHOPs and at Chili’s beside diners unaware of their crimes.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ewi...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ewi...
The children of the con.
September 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The children of the con.
Toy soldiers, in more ways than one.
September 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Toy soldiers, in more ways than one.
With the man behind JD Vance talking about the “Antichrist” and Trump deploying Project 2025 troops to Blue cities across America, today’s a good day to remember Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Overnight, a modern middle-class society fell under the thumb (and gun) of a militant theocracy.
September 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
With the man behind JD Vance talking about the “Antichrist” and Trump deploying Project 2025 troops to Blue cities across America, today’s a good day to remember Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Overnight, a modern middle-class society fell under the thumb (and gun) of a militant theocracy.
With Trump deploying Project 2025 troops to Blue cities across America, today’s a good day to remember Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Overnight, a modern middle-class society fell under the thumb (and gun) of a militant theocracy. Almost fifty years later, they’re still under it.
August 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
With Trump deploying Project 2025 troops to Blue cities across America, today’s a good day to remember Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Overnight, a modern middle-class society fell under the thumb (and gun) of a militant theocracy. Almost fifty years later, they’re still under it.
Bought a set of great microfiber towels off Amazon in 2022 to wipe my dog’s paws, so I bought the exact same ones as a replacement. An old towel (left) is 30g. A new one (right) is 23g. The worst part is 20k 4-star reviews hide tons of 1-star reviews about how thin they’ve become. #Enshittification
August 15, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Bought a set of great microfiber towels off Amazon in 2022 to wipe my dog’s paws, so I bought the exact same ones as a replacement. An old towel (left) is 30g. A new one (right) is 23g. The worst part is 20k 4-star reviews hide tons of 1-star reviews about how thin they’ve become. #Enshittification
A deep dive by Wired into the whites-only “utopia” in Arkansas I was mentioning.
www.wired.com/story/whites...
www.wired.com/story/whites...
August 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A deep dive by Wired into the whites-only “utopia” in Arkansas I was mentioning.
www.wired.com/story/whites...
www.wired.com/story/whites...
In a world of Dean Cain’s, be a George Takei.
August 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In a world of Dean Cain’s, be a George Takei.
In this case, the farmer, Ian Chandler, has been speaking truth to power since at least 2017. I doubt he voted for Trump. Still, your bet was a safe one—given how many MAGA farmers are now crying crocodile tears.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/201...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/201...
August 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
In this case, the farmer, Ian Chandler, has been speaking truth to power since at least 2017. I doubt he voted for Trump. Still, your bet was a safe one—given how many MAGA farmers are now crying crocodile tears.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/201...
www.oregonlive.com/politics/201...
Judicial deference to the executive branch will be the death of democracy. 🪦
Trump’s and the Heritage Foundation’s weaponization of the Alien Enemies Act as laid out in Project 2025 is the perfect crime.
Trump’s and the Heritage Foundation’s weaponization of the Alien Enemies Act as laid out in Project 2025 is the perfect crime.
August 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Judicial deference to the executive branch will be the death of democracy. 🪦
Trump’s and the Heritage Foundation’s weaponization of the Alien Enemies Act as laid out in Project 2025 is the perfect crime.
Trump’s and the Heritage Foundation’s weaponization of the Alien Enemies Act as laid out in Project 2025 is the perfect crime.
I never understood why some locals call this place “Vantucky”… until the cemetery chicken alert that ended with, “Please describe to claim.”
Portlandia’s got nothing on Vancouver, WA! 🐓
Portlandia’s got nothing on Vancouver, WA! 🐓
August 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I never understood why some locals call this place “Vantucky”… until the cemetery chicken alert that ended with, “Please describe to claim.”
Portlandia’s got nothing on Vancouver, WA! 🐓
Portlandia’s got nothing on Vancouver, WA! 🐓
Two seemingly unrelated posts back-to-back in my X feed:
•One about a whites-only community in Arkansas.
•The other about a Christian nationalist “network state” in Tennessee buying up thousands of acres and installing loyalists in local offices to take control.
Coincidence or trend?
•One about a whites-only community in Arkansas.
•The other about a Christian nationalist “network state” in Tennessee buying up thousands of acres and installing loyalists in local offices to take control.
Coincidence or trend?
July 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Two seemingly unrelated posts back-to-back in my X feed:
•One about a whites-only community in Arkansas.
•The other about a Christian nationalist “network state” in Tennessee buying up thousands of acres and installing loyalists in local offices to take control.
Coincidence or trend?
•One about a whites-only community in Arkansas.
•The other about a Christian nationalist “network state” in Tennessee buying up thousands of acres and installing loyalists in local offices to take control.
Coincidence or trend?
The Christofascists who now control our government believe in separation of state from church, not church from state.
July 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Christofascists who now control our government believe in separation of state from church, not church from state.
If I were Zan, that’s probably how I’d use my Wonder Twin power.
July 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
If I were Zan, that’s probably how I’d use my Wonder Twin power.