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@paulmoment.bsky.social
· Jan 25
I’ll never get over that all of this was avoidable and our kids could’ve had a better future had voters just made the obviously rational choice in November. It’s water under the bridge now. But what the fuck, people.
Voters: eggs are expensi...
Trump: DESTROY CANCER RESEARCH MOAR VIRUS OUTBREAKS
Voters: um my kids just need housing
Trump: MOAR CRIME LESS LAW FREE THE J6 MILITIA TERRORISTS
Voters: but eggs tho
Trump: INVADE MEXICO AND GREENLAND
Voters: wut
TRUMP: INFLATIONS GONNA SUCK HERES SOME TARIFFS
Trump: DESTROY CANCER RESEARCH MOAR VIRUS OUTBREAKS
Voters: um my kids just need housing
Trump: MOAR CRIME LESS LAW FREE THE J6 MILITIA TERRORISTS
Voters: but eggs tho
Trump: INVADE MEXICO AND GREENLAND
Voters: wut
TRUMP: INFLATIONS GONNA SUCK HERES SOME TARIFFS
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New: I spent the week looking into the cancelled mRNA contracts. Interviews with HHS officials and MAGA and MAHA influencers reveal an HHS agency plagued by dysfunction as Kennedy chips away at the nation’s public health.
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
How RFK Jr. alienated MAGA, MAHA and the White House in a single week
The botched announcement about mRNA vaccines reveals a health department full of dysfunction and infighting.
www.msnbc.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
New: I spent the week looking into the cancelled mRNA contracts. Interviews with HHS officials and MAGA and MAHA influencers reveal an HHS agency plagued by dysfunction as Kennedy chips away at the nation’s public health.
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
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This is just deeply depressing: women who spoke up during #MeToo often found their lives upended, as powerful men used defamation suits to target them, e.g. Roy Moore is still suing many of his accusers.
What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Happened to the Women of #MeToo?
Tina Johnson accused Roy Moore of sexual assault. Then the world moved on, and left her behind.
www.newyorker.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is just deeply depressing: women who spoke up during #MeToo often found their lives upended, as powerful men used defamation suits to target them, e.g. Roy Moore is still suing many of his accusers.
What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Theocracy is a cancer. Trump-vangelical Christians are like the Islamists in Turkey - determined to rot American democracy from the inside, taking over our system and using it against us.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
#TheocracyIsCruelty
The day after the IRS said it would let churches endorse candidates, Fort Worth-based Mercy Culture Church posted on social media that it was “time for the church to get loud!”
"We don’t endorse parties — we stand for the Kingdom!” the post read.
W/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social & @texastribune.org
"We don’t endorse parties — we stand for the Kingdom!” the post read.
W/ @fortworthreport.bsky.social & @texastribune.org
The IRS Says Churches Can Now Endorse Candidates. That Could Give Texas Pastors More Power Than Ever.
While the IRS move applies across the country, Texas — with more than 200 megachurches — will be the epicenter for pastors and congregations to test out their new influence, one expert said.
www.propublica.org
August 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Theocracy is a cancer. Trump-vangelical Christians are like the Islamists in Turkey - determined to rot American democracy from the inside, taking over our system and using it against us.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
#TheocracyIsCruelty
This was enabled by white Evangelicals, who voted in massive numbers for a degenerate adjuticated rapist and his cruel group of thugs... *three times in a row*.
Their whiny resentful cruelty is bottomless and wicked.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
Their whiny resentful cruelty is bottomless and wicked.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.
August 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This was enabled by white Evangelicals, who voted in massive numbers for a degenerate adjuticated rapist and his cruel group of thugs... *three times in a row*.
Their whiny resentful cruelty is bottomless and wicked.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
Their whiny resentful cruelty is bottomless and wicked.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
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This is the most infuriatingly witless talking point. No history is “erased” by the removal of a monument. What he means is “we want to celebrate and honor racism,” but that sounds bad, so we’re supposed to pretend this illiterate goon has some deep interest in the study of history.
Hegseth on restoring a Confederate monument in Arlington cemetery: "We recognize our history. We don't erase it. We don't follow the woke lemmings off the cliff that want to tear down statues ... we're proud of our history."
August 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is the most infuriatingly witless talking point. No history is “erased” by the removal of a monument. What he means is “we want to celebrate and honor racism,” but that sounds bad, so we’re supposed to pretend this illiterate goon has some deep interest in the study of history.
I know from growing up in the subculture that Evangelical Christians have the capacity for endless abuse and cruelty. They are willing to torture children/family in deeply invasive psychological and physical ways for an ideology that is paper-thin, obvious nonsense.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
#TheocracyIsCruelty
Conversion therapy is quietly spreading across America again. These survivors say it nearly cost them their lives.
‘God, please fix me’: Inside the dangerous resurgence of ‘ex-gay’ conversion therapy | CNN
More than half of US states ban the discredited and harmful practice of conversion therapy for gay people. But former practitioners say it’s making a comeback.
www.cnn.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I know from growing up in the subculture that Evangelical Christians have the capacity for endless abuse and cruelty. They are willing to torture children/family in deeply invasive psychological and physical ways for an ideology that is paper-thin, obvious nonsense.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
#TheocracyIsCruelty
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Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down.
That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.
That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.
The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it
And they don't want you to notice.
www.motherjones.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down.
That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.
That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.
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RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
I'd also call your senators/reps as well.
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We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.
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We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.
August 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
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well well well
The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old. www.rawstory.com/utah-republi...
GOP Senate chief changed consent law as relative faced rape charge involving 13-year-old
The Republican president of Utah's Senate managed to change consent laws after a relative was accused of raping a 13-year-old. Newsweek reported a Salt Lake City Tribune piece that Senate President J....
www.rawstory.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
well well well
Evangelical Christians voted for this, for Donald Trump - convicted criminal, adjuticated rapist, and long-time friend of pedophile sex traffickers Epstein and Ghislane - in massive and growing numbers... *three times in a row*.
They are utterly morally degenerate.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
They are utterly morally degenerate.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
The family of Virginia Giuffre responds to the Maxwell prison move: "President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter."
August 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Evangelical Christians voted for this, for Donald Trump - convicted criminal, adjuticated rapist, and long-time friend of pedophile sex traffickers Epstein and Ghislane - in massive and growing numbers... *three times in a row*.
They are utterly morally degenerate.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
They are utterly morally degenerate.
#TheocracyIsCruelty
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one thing that keeps happening is Trump taking major steps which impose large, often asymmetric costs on American business, and American business doing fucking nothing in response
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
August 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
one thing that keeps happening is Trump taking major steps which impose large, often asymmetric costs on American business, and American business doing fucking nothing in response
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The former CEO of My Faith Votes, a nonprofit that encourages "Christians in America to vote in every election," has pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual abuse images, months after his arrest.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Former CEO of Christian nonprofit pleads guilty to possessing child pornography
Jason Yates, former CEO of Christian faith-based nonprofit My Faith Votes, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography.
www.usatoday.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The former CEO of My Faith Votes, a nonprofit that encourages "Christians in America to vote in every election," has pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual abuse images, months after his arrest.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Rightwing politics are a civic auto-immune disorder. They use a free democratic society's defenses and hard-won freedoms against it - to cripple, and ultimately destroy, the whole creative endeavor.
It's anti-social, asymmetrical warfare. We can't limit their freedom to attempt to abolish ours.
It's anti-social, asymmetrical warfare. We can't limit their freedom to attempt to abolish ours.
I've thought about this a ton over the years. It's become clear that the *primary rhetorical strategy* of reactionaries is to manipulate liberals by appealing to liberal values (free speech, good faith) that they do not share. It works, again & again & again & again.
July 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Rightwing politics are a civic auto-immune disorder. They use a free democratic society's defenses and hard-won freedoms against it - to cripple, and ultimately destroy, the whole creative endeavor.
It's anti-social, asymmetrical warfare. We can't limit their freedom to attempt to abolish ours.
It's anti-social, asymmetrical warfare. We can't limit their freedom to attempt to abolish ours.
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"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying."
Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.
Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.
How Liberalism Sabotages Itself
Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.
www.offmessage.net
July 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying."
Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.
Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.
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We thought the internet -- having all of recorded thought, art, & language at our fingertips -- would make us smarter. Instead it's driven us crazy.
I'm increasingly convinced that LLMs are going to the same thing, only much, much more so, much faster.
I'm increasingly convinced that LLMs are going to the same thing, only much, much more so, much faster.
We Need To Talk About Sloppers
The best ever death metal bot out of Denton
www.todayintabs.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
We thought the internet -- having all of recorded thought, art, & language at our fingertips -- would make us smarter. Instead it's driven us crazy.
I'm increasingly convinced that LLMs are going to the same thing, only much, much more so, much faster.
I'm increasingly convinced that LLMs are going to the same thing, only much, much more so, much faster.
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I have this thought over and over again. Even after everything, I just can't believe it.
We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
July 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I have this thought over and over again. Even after everything, I just can't believe it.
Land of the sheep.
Home of the slaves.
One of America's dumbest myths is that we're rugged courageous pioneer revolutionaries.
Reality: Wave some cheap resentment propaganda or a stack of cash or a threat in our faces, and we fold like a wet paper sack.
Home of the slaves.
One of America's dumbest myths is that we're rugged courageous pioneer revolutionaries.
Reality: Wave some cheap resentment propaganda or a stack of cash or a threat in our faces, and we fold like a wet paper sack.
We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
July 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Land of the sheep.
Home of the slaves.
One of America's dumbest myths is that we're rugged courageous pioneer revolutionaries.
Reality: Wave some cheap resentment propaganda or a stack of cash or a threat in our faces, and we fold like a wet paper sack.
Home of the slaves.
One of America's dumbest myths is that we're rugged courageous pioneer revolutionaries.
Reality: Wave some cheap resentment propaganda or a stack of cash or a threat in our faces, and we fold like a wet paper sack.
Marc Thiessen is a former Republican luminary and an actual well-paid columnist for the Washington Post... and he's acting like he doesnt know what a fucking battery is.
This obvious stupid trash propaganda is just one example of how much the GOP and billionaires like Bezos disdain the public.
This obvious stupid trash propaganda is just one example of how much the GOP and billionaires like Bezos disdain the public.
Thiessen: Just so people understand wind and solar only work when there is wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and solar…
July 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Marc Thiessen is a former Republican luminary and an actual well-paid columnist for the Washington Post... and he's acting like he doesnt know what a fucking battery is.
This obvious stupid trash propaganda is just one example of how much the GOP and billionaires like Bezos disdain the public.
This obvious stupid trash propaganda is just one example of how much the GOP and billionaires like Bezos disdain the public.
Fascists hate freedom. They hate anything they can't control. They are weak and nothing compelling to give the public except their own domination fantasies.
That's why they get feral about strangling factual reporting, scientific inquiry, informed dissent, and creative chaos.
They are antu-human.
That's why they get feral about strangling factual reporting, scientific inquiry, informed dissent, and creative chaos.
They are antu-human.
With Gawker, there was at least a non-frivolous claim. (It wasn't worth $140m and the judgment should've been stayed pending appeal.)
With Media Matters, there's nothing here, no reason for them to have legal bills at all, just judges and AGs breaking their oaths to crush it.
With Media Matters, there's nothing here, no reason for them to have legal bills at all, just judges and AGs breaking their oaths to crush it.
Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Fascists hate freedom. They hate anything they can't control. They are weak and nothing compelling to give the public except their own domination fantasies.
That's why they get feral about strangling factual reporting, scientific inquiry, informed dissent, and creative chaos.
They are antu-human.
That's why they get feral about strangling factual reporting, scientific inquiry, informed dissent, and creative chaos.
They are antu-human.
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The cowardice of institutions and people who have claimed to be brave is endemic.
July 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The cowardice of institutions and people who have claimed to be brave is endemic.
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When you strip away humanity
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The Trump admin. is preparing a plan to kill millions more people, many children, by ending a program even most Republicans support.
This is low-key the most sociopathic thing on their agenda.
This is low-key the most sociopathic thing on their agenda.
U.S. Quietly Drafts Plan to End Program That Saved Millions From AIDS
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The Trump admin. is preparing a plan to kill millions more people, many children, by ending a program even most Republicans support.
This is low-key the most sociopathic thing on their agenda.
This is low-key the most sociopathic thing on their agenda.