to be fair, the press corps just sits there and takes it, so hard to blame the right for treating them this way. whats the downside?

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

“Pope Leo XIV’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Mark Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States …” The church “cannot be silent,” Pope Leo said.

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

A reliable fascism indicator is how many C-tier companies cave preemptively to the possibility of a benny johnson tweet with three sirens

I think for a while, even amidst increasing frustrations with both sides coverage, that liberals, progressives, etc still had respect for the media and its importance in speaking truth to power and holding people accountable…

Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.” … but what is plenary authority?

The people running our major media institutions are not human beings—they're paid mercenaries.

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

It's almost as if a movement that began with lusty chants of "lock her up" in regard to the opposition party's candidate for President in 2016...combined with a refusal to honor the results of the election...has morphed into a cult of unaccountable, authoritarian power.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I believe these are the first Chicagoland NTBs, which is significant because grand juries sit for a long time— we didn’t previously know that Chicago’s GJs were fed up with this stuff and now we do.

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo?? Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Bro imagine hearing this annoying ass voice for longer than 5 minutes.

love that we had a whole national reckoning over the media's coverage of Biden's advanced age and none of the scolds who High Horsed us can be bothered to spend even a minute reflecting on the fact that Trump has basically become Mr. Burns in the "Spruce Moose" episode of THE SIMPSONS

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in. Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators. The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

I am not a constitutional scholar but I am pretty sure “the president my personally levy taxes and choose what they fund” is not in fact what the founders intended

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

Spanberger’s about to win that VA Governor’s race by 20 points.

more and more I am convinced a good share of why Trump 2 is so much worse than before is because of what Elon did to Twitter. it's like those group chats where people gassed themselves up to join ISIS, scaled up a millionfold

Someone saying "Let's do the fucking news" is the ultimate sign that person has never, ever worked in a real newsroom (the fantasyland of the NYT Opinion section doesn't count)

This is awful but the constant leaks and eventual fall will be extremely funny.

This is how propaganda works. They slapped an image on this from Los Angeles in 1992 during Rodney King riots.

I knew Theo Von is an uninformed clown, but had no clue his dad was an immigrant from Nicaragua. One of his “prize possessions” that he has in a frame is his dad’s immigration papers…which is why he explicitly propped up the racist, fascist anti-immigrant President. 🤡🤡🤡

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

Good on Pritzker. Screw the pleasantries if an association with any alleged sway or influence just stays quiet as his state gets overrun.

so this is straightforward attempted murder that the agent is going to get away with because he is an agent of the fascist regime

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023 www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

I’ve long assumed Trump would try to do stimulus checks before the midterms. What I didn’t predict was Democrats trying to help Trump do stimulus checks before the midterms.

"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

It’s going to be so lit to see QAnon freaks and other psychos contort themselves into a pretzel to play defense for Trump when he eventually does pardon her.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Alarming news this morning that Social Security head Frank Bisignano has been named “CEO” of IRS, a move that raises 3 major concerns: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Kinda odd that the reason they denied his appeal seems to be different than the explanation for why they suspended him in the first place. People putting their head in the sand saying "I don't understand why people are mad." Cmon. Side with management if you want but don't be wilfully ignorant.

gonna go to my grave muttering about how this charlatan unironically cited an "Official Antifa" Twitter account in the NYT bsky.app/profile/jame...

NEW: Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order prohibiting federal immigration agents from using any City-owned property in enforcement activity.

i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.

he got banned for alt text saying "a negative consequence follows" REALLY????

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants. The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.