The self-censoring nature of many of the most important facts about Trump's presidencies is a load-bearing necessity for his career. The median voter cannot and will not believe that he is as bad as he actually is. They invent a less bad version of him that they can then be persuaded to support.

🕯️ A mother and her young daughter were among those killed in a Russian attack on Odesa overnight on April 6. Russian strike hit their home when the family was asleep. The husband survived. Another person was also killed.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... How stupid is this?

Schlechte Nachricht für Wien. Wenn die liberale Weltordnug zerfällt, verliert Wien ihre Stellung als eine der bedeutendsten Amtssitze internationaler Organisationen, und die wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Vorteile, die dazu gehören. Unsere Politiker scheint das nicht zu stören.

@jfruh.bsky.social Hey, you’re website hasn’t been working well lately and I’ve tried multiple devices and browsers. Just me? Are you being censored in Austria for some reason?

Holy shit.

Viciousness deserves viciousness in return. Fuck these murdering pieces of shit. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Since Bari Weiss doesn’t want this aired on the network, needs to be shared more widely youtube.com/watch?v=6ywL...

A cautionary tale about lack of judgment…

Napoli, due ricoveri nella stessa notte: “Volevo festeggiare alla grande”

thecorners.pl/the-war-in-u... An interesting in depth analysis of the battle field situation

Krass: Die US-Regierung hat Sanktionen gegen Anna-Lena von Hodenberg und Josephine Ballon von @hateaid.org erlassen, dazu trifft es auch den früheren EU-Kommissar Thierry Breton, weil "These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states". Einreiseverbot

A grim reminder he has been a benighted presence in American public life for so long a guy who died in 1998 had a firm opinion about him.

Throwback to Ep. 249: Jimmy's Roadside Cafe (2012) The apocalypse draws together a small group of polar opposites, and drags a wagonload of guilt through a deceptively-quiet plot. #drabblecast #thedrabblecast #strangefiction #weirdfiction #apocalypse Find us on Apple, Spotify, or at drabblecast.org

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Mass tourism in Europe is out of control. www.instagram.com/reel/DRuZmW2...

This thread is exactly right. It will not be sufficient to beat Trump at the ballot box or wait for him to die, all the craven elites who decided to kowtow when democracy and decency were on the line need to be publicly disgraced and treated as pariahs. (My confidence in that happening is very low.)

Stop me if you've heard this before: If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF??? They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???

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This sums up it up nicely

After ABC‘s craven collapse, it seems increasingly clear that the way forward needs to be independent media not under the thumb of oligarchs. The Defector model is one sign of hope.

Ezra can be too wonky, but good to see centrists waking up. Stop Acting Like This Is Normal www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

Nothing sums up America under Republican rule like turning a place of history and strength into a strip mall food court.

Trump is already trying to give Russia sanctions relief, US Media slow on the uptake. substack.com/@olgalautman...

This makes a lot of sense

Are we doing this now?

The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax from @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Trump made a huge tactical error getting the BBB passed so quickly. The billionaires now have their tax cuts and their judges in place. They don’t need an erratic old man screaming about tariffs and taking bribes in cryptocurrency. That’s my explanation why the WSJ seems determined to take him down.

So looks like the Head of White House Personnel is a Russian agent, but the press will presumably just shrug that off. youtu.be/O3_LEa6WcFk?...

This is a great point about subtle language manipulation and framing by the media.

Trump is starving Ukraine of some vital defensive systems. Again, it needs to be said, the US government is now acting in such a way that it is helping the Russians kill Ukrainians.

Let’s Start Talking About Jail Time for Trump and His MAGA Enablers newrepublic.com/post/195324/... via @newrepublic.com

Yes, this: "There's this idea that the future inevitably lies in space, that the future inevitably involves super-intelligent machines. There is nothing inevitable about those visions and a great deal of reason to doubt them."

Great explanation for the rationales behind a seemingly insane policy

Psst, come here buddy. I got your Korean soaps right here, cheap. You want an English reality show? That’s gonna cost extra… apnews.com/article/trum...

Someone just flagged this to me. Top of my reading list tonight. Probably the most in the open example of presidential corruption in US history. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

Ben Smith lifts up a corner of the plush comforter under which our would-be overlords have been huffing each other's farts for the past few years as they collectively dream their way back to the cutting-edge ideas of the late 19th century www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

Eye opening for anyone who still sees the U.S. as a model for democracy

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Hitler got buy in from German military officers by promising them large estates in the conquered lands in the USSR.

There’s a lot of shit flooding the zone but this seems important to keep in mind

The basic problem with elite American journalism is that it can admit the possibility that a politician could be corrupt, unfit, criminal, or even authoritarian but it can never, ever actually arrive at the conclusion that a major politician IS any of those things.

Oh, Shut The Fuck Up - defector.com/oh-shut-the-...

There’s a lesson here for every Big Law firm, university and media company if they care to learn it.

These are the names of the 9 children whose lives russia took in yesterday's attack Their blood is on russia's hands Tymofii, age 3 Arina, age 7 Herman, age 9 Danylo, age 15 Alina, age 15 Kostyantyn, age 16 Mykyta, age 15 Nikita, age 17 Radyslav, age 7 Nine kids. Killed Source: U24GOVUA

People need to remember that the GOP can end this tariff madness tomorrow. Congress controls tariffs. Being spineless and refusing to stand up to an aging madman certainly doesn’t excuse them. The GOP needs to own the consequences, they can’t just point fingers at Trump 6 months from now.

Business owners are busy people and make their political judgements based on half baked notions they hear on CNBC, social media headlines and existing prejudices. That’s my generous explanation of why these people seem so clueless: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/30/b...

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

Drew is right. Goldberg approached this the „normal“ way journalists who want to stay close to power do. Not sufficient in the current environment.

Jeffrey Goldberg ate one bite of his steak and left the rest on the bone. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

tomorrow is Béla Bartók's birthday fyi. set aside some time to listen to his string quartets, to really listen. very very worth your time, you will remember the day you put aside your other work to listen to the Bartok quartets.