i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

Part of what is happening here is a political and journalistic culture much more comfortable making arguments on procedure than principle.

“White House deputy chief of staff Stephen and his podcaster wife, Katie Miller, have fled their Arlington home after peaceful chalk messages were left on the sidewalk.“ Now imagine if armed, masked men were hunting you and your family like animals.

This is exactly right. Our slide towards fascism is being accelerated by those who are perhaps the most comfortable, the most pampered, the most coddled class of people in history. These people should be the most capable of standing up, of pushing back, and instead they choose to lick the boot.

If Bill Kristol gets it in ways that Schumer and Jefferies do not, that says volumes about party "leadership"

Oh man, if those cops could read they'd be so mad right now.

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

Famously nothing happened involving race in the 90s we all got along. Can't we all just get along? I can't remember where I heard that

Fred Rogers was talking to *people*. The thing about Mr. Rogers was, he didn't talk down to children, because he understood that they were *people* - worthy of and capable of love, respect, and understanding. Yes we should all be helpers. We should also "look for the helpers". These are not at odds.

Chuck is *so fucking excited* that he got to execute his preferred strategy -- do absolutely nothing -- and then crow about 'victory'.

Here's a thought: if a court wanted to make an impression on someone they found in civil contempt, it appears that they could order them to be held in an El Salvadoran prison until they paid their fines and complied with the court's order.

I'm starting to think that maybe we can't take everything this guy says at face value.

Is this bad, if you are a narcissist?

Relieved to be scrolling this evening and not seeing a bunch of whining about how Booker should have "done more" or done this "sooner", etc. etc. Relieved to discover that we seem to be able to take the W here - let's keep it up!

Quite moving hearing Booker just now saying why he started this and referring to his constituents asking him to do more, do things differently, to take risks, and then referencing John Lewis. Sounds like he took the advocacy to heart.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

Not interested in criticisms about this being "performative". We need to use all of the tools at our disposal. Particularly moving was Mr. Booker's display of vulnerability; recognizing that he can do better, and vowing to do better. We need lots more of this, not less.

Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering

I guess I just think it's hard to make the argument that carny shit doesn't move the needle when the biggest PT Barnum-ass motherfucker in a hundred years is currently the president

Elon Musk has been a walking SEC violation for a decade and no one cared. The entire Trump era could have been avoided if the US took white collar crime anywhere near as seriously as it does low level drug crime.

Look I really don't think it is asking too much for Senator Gillibrand to fight Donald Trump and Elon Musk as hard as she did Al Franken.

I know at a base level political journalism in this country is compromised when senate aides i’ve never communicated with email me “off the record, blah blah.” that’s not how this works, but it tells me they’re used to treating hill reporters like trained dolphins. and that shit doesn’t fly with me.

I’m not sure that the Trump Democrats strategy of letting the bully take their lunch money today in the hopes the bully will be nice to them tomorrow will be all that effective

@joshtpm.bsky.social , hope you see this. I read your thoughts about Kevin Drum. Very well articulated, and captures a bit of my own feelings about why I valued Kevin's contribution so much: almost all signal, very little noise. 1/

AOC is probably the most famous Dem in the country and has had a target on her back since Day 1 and she's out there every day bringing the fire. Fuck off if you don't actually want to defend the country and just want to suck up my tax dollars in a cushy job.

Read the room!! We are amidst a fascist takeover of our government. The correct response is not to find common ground with the fascists. If they have good ideas - implement them under a future, democratic regime! First priority NOW is saving Democracy, not ensuring the trains run on time!

Dude couldn't even manage to break the hits record. I mean, you had to add his stats from Japan to even break 4,000. And people say be belongs in the Hall of Fame? What are we even doing here??

I think it would be annoying, but politically justifiable, if Democrats were doing "the system worked" routine after certifying a DeSantis or Haley, but handing the government back to a criminal that disgraced the office once already should in no way be celebrated as anything working as it should.

OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form. It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..

It's pretty fucked up that everytime a high profile killer is identified or arrested, there is the collective holding of breath while folks wait to find out if he's left wing or right wing to see whose side loses points in some weird game of King of Moral High Ground. We are diseased.

Americans are losing the right to exercise state power to restrict the fundamental human rights of a tiny minority of marginalized people without being criticized for that online, and Jeremy Fucking Peters is on it.

shut up! He thinks he’s witty.

Musk is such a pathetic shit. The jerk went ballistic when someone shared public information about where his jet was flying, but he thinks its cool to publicize the names of ordinary working people who don't have money to hire teams of bodyguards.

Saying the election is the ultimate jury for Trump's crimes is like saying a trial where a jury is fed nothing but lies, bribed, and still splits down the middle was justice served.

Why…? Why is that not something we should say? Did you, at some point, do your job? And I missed it?

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Bari Weiss should be the subject of a 60 Minutes expose, not of a puff piece

It is maddening that even I, a very dumb person, can see this coming from a mile away. But where is the media on this? Or our democratic leadership?

like, i have an easy job all things considered and work from home and it is still a real effort to get in a daily workout and regular steps when i also have to raise two children and manage a household.

Big, if true.

So what do we think - GOP was too lazy to do the research before the nomination? Or they did the research, knew all these details, and proceeded with the nomination anyway?

If I ran a political op-ed page I would also require everybody who wants to write an “[INSERT PET PEEVE HERE] caused Trump’s win” column to identify either at least one thing they support that they think would’ve hurt Democrats or at least one thing they don’t support that would’ve helped Democrats

this is why it's dipshit cowardice (in addition to morally grotesque) to try to triangulate on trans rights as Hakeem Jeffries and others have suggested. it's an opportunity to attack! nobody likes a lying bully

I don't know if MLK counts as non-religious, but this photo is doubly meaningful for me. It was taken by my high school history teacher, who was the first person to teach me about historiography, the economic interpretation of the Constitution, and so much more. npg.si.edu/exhibition/r...

Holy… Pure…

Listening to @chuckdpe.bsky.social 's vocal cannon sampled in Poor Righteous Teachers' "Here We Go Again". Absolute fire, and makes me wish these guys had collaborated more. The whole album (Black Business) is seriously slept on, IMO. Maybe I'm wrong but I think even PRT fans dismiss it. It's dope!

I did not see the twist coming.

Totally makes sense..

Strikingly, the only group that responded en mass and IMMEDIATELY to the neo-Nazi march this weekend in Columbus was a group of black men. Everyone else? Oh, they put out statements. Black men linked arms and marched the NEXT day. And this is why I say “Godspeed” to everyone who ain’t us.