Hunter S. Thompson

The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears.

[Hunter S. Thompson @fear_loathing16]

@nytimes @TimothyDSnyder @NYTmag This is THE best and most important things I’ve read in a long time.

Without the Medium Lie (whites are the real victims of discrimination) being built on foundational Trumpist racism, the Big Lie (election was stolen by corrupt blacks in MI, PA, GA) would not have had legs.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Government backed snuff film. Dark

[Hunter S. Thompson @fear_loathing16]

@RLHeinrichs @davidfrum Xi has control of Trump Inc Chinese patents and licensing revenues. Trump is focused on keeping the $$ flowing. He does not have informed geopolitical views or outcomes in mind. He’s a functional mob boss…

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

It is not humiliating for him, since he has no sense of dignity, but it is humiliating for the rest of us that the president of the United States serves as a subordinate press officer of the Kremlin, saying things that are not only false and cruel but which only Russians could have instructed him to say, since there is no way he could have thought of them himself, and since they depend on knowledge that he does not have.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Reminder again that the President of the United States has no idea what a trade deficit is — a concept taught in high school econ.

He thinks that if the US buys $500 of goods and services from Canada, and Canada buys $400 of goods and services from the US, we have “lost” $100.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

There's always a new grift

[Amy Walter @amyewalter]

In WI, Hong was lumped in with El-Sayed as a progressive insurgent, but she lacked his candidate skills/campaign infrastructure; in MN, Flanagan helped the most by Craig’s Laken Riley vote. In CT, Larsen lost b/c of age, not ideology.

[MKT @MikeTut58960319]

@RonBrownstein @WSJ I expect a Democrat majority Congress to haul the CEOs of all these companies in front of the appropriate committee in January of 2027

[Brian Poindexter for Congress @bpforcongress]

I’m Brian Poindexter - I’m a union ironworker, and I’m running for Congress because working people's lives keep getting harder and harder while billionaires keep getting richer and richer.

Washington isn't making it any easier.

I'm ready to fight back. Are you?

https://t.co/fQum8AWjIe

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

A million jobs, just gone. Thanks to Trump, and the GOP who have enabled his terrible policies.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

The Economist's new BBQ Index tracks the prices of 10 American cookout staples across 25 cities, and this year's results are not good.

The grocery basket now costs $81, which is 12% more than a year ago and "the fastest annual increase in a decade"

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Worth a listen.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman paying tribute to Obama’s infamous tan suit at the Presidential Center opening is exactly the level of pettiness and historical accuracy I respect. 😂

Some controversies deserve a reunion tour.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Rep. Stansbury: "The [DOJ] is intervening on behalf of Pam Bondi to stop her from answering questions about what happened…and her conversations with Donald Trump…This is a cover-up. This will be remembered as the largest cover-up likely in American history."

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Q: Why aren’t we using the DOJ to investigate Epstein’s crimes (and others involved) instead of ordering them to investigate the president’s enemies?

[Travis Kavulla @TKavulla]

Out today: My @AmericanAffrs essay trying to reset the often-fever-pitched conversation about data centers & energy, with concrete ideas for how growth can be accelerated and legacy consumers can be protected -->

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Hamas’s leadership has now enlisted its global propaganda arm, Al Jazeera, to join their campaign against me, recycling lies & amplifying false claims against Board of Peace senior official Nickolay Mladenov for retweeting my post which highlighted Hamas’s violence against Gazans

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Hamas Declares War: In a bizarre twist of events, Hamas has officially declared war on me today, calling me a “suspicious figure,” after its leader, Basem Naim, came out against me because a Board of Peace official had retweeted a post of mine, triggering a cascade of events by the terror group and its online armies. Naim said that I am a “suspicious person” who has maligned Hamas and that my condemnation of the terror group is “fascist, racist, and extremist” because, according to Naim, my depictions of Hamas are “inaccurate.”

He attacked the Board of Peace official for retweeting me, questioning how a “suspicious” person like me could be taken seriously. Hamas’s media office then issued statements on my page, while their outlets published articles inciting against me and accusing me of “marketing Zionist projects to eliminate the resistance and deport Gaza’s population,” all of which began trending on Gazan social media.

Hamas didn’t just go after me; they also viciously attacked the UAE and its leadership, claiming I am “wholly financed by the Emirates” and an “agent of media empires they control.” They even targeted the Realign For Palestine initiative, falsely alleging that the UAE Foreign Ministry funds me (they don’t). Hilariously, they added that I write for “Zionist platforms like Haaretz to malign the resistance” and call for peace and reconciliation – interestingly, I’ve only ever written for Haaretz twice in 2017 and 2024.

Unfortunately, attacks by Hamas’s leaders and government against me triggered an avalanche of online hate by the group’s members and terrorists, including those who were calling for there to be “operations like the 1972 Munich attack to deal with agents and those who seek to weaken the resistance in Western countries,” in reference to me.

All of this started because of a post that called out Hamas for not allowing the construction of new accommodations for displaced Gazans near the Rafah area beyond the “Yellow Line,” and because I said that, like many other conflicts, civilians must not be left along with combatants if there is ever to be hope for the removal of terrorists and the reconstruction of Gaza for its people.

Hamas knows exactly why my words hit a nerve. They know that moving civilians out of the red zone they control and creating a new reality beyond the “Yellow Line” with better housing, health, education, and security under an International Stabilization Force and a new Gaza police force is the only strategy that will weaken them. They fear any plan that removes their leverage, their ability to weaponize Gazans suffering, and their access to aid and resources.

So if Hamas and Basem Naim want a war, they have one. And I’m only getting started. Now that we know what triggers them, this is precisely the strategy the Arab world, the international community, the United States, the European Union, the Board of Peace, Israel, and the United Nations must pursue, maximally and without hesitation.

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

"Most scholars consider the 19th century court, mostly led by Chief Justice Morrison Waite, an especially low moment. Roberts is steering today’s court majority thru a dismantling of America’s 2nd racial reconstruction that inescapably echoes Waite’s role in unraveling the 1st"

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

What's happening with the political process in Gaza? Will Hamas actually disarm?

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Trump, after having a 90 min phone call with Putin, puts out a truth social that he is considering withdrawing all troops from Germany. Something sinister is going on between them. It’s time for “concerned” Republicans to speak out