It is a relief to hear the reframe! Media reporting on the shutdown isn’t merely “incorrect” but feels like gaslighting at this point.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

Exactly what SCOTUS is doing! By staying rulings below against Trump & dragging out merits proceedings, they give Trump a 2-yr get out of jail free card (literally). If Dems sweep the midterms or change otherwise apparent, only then SCOTUS cracks down on Trump and ensures a Dem Prez doesn’t benefit.

this is truly invaluable reporting

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

POV- the loneliest position where you think both Ezra and Ta-Nehisi made some excellent points

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

But are we not again in circumstances where it’s not “[the Trump Admin] itself and instead [SCOTUS’s] majority providing a legal rationalization for it” that’s the problem…?

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

I know it feels dramatically unfulfilling that the US was blundering along and then suddenly – BAM! – a new technology comes down that totally changes our politics and makes us all fascist. Like you would never plot a movie that way. None of this was foreshadowed in the first act! But that’s life

“The internet gives ideologies that rely on mass indoctrination an extraordinary boost by giving propagandists unregulated access to the entire population” is a bad theory in a lot of ways: boring, simple, doesn’t show the folly of US imperialism or neoliberalism. It just also happens to be right

The obvious Occam’s razor cause is just the internet, not any American sonderweg theory that sweeps in all the mistakes of past administrations and just so happens to prove that none of this would have happened if everyone had just listened to us before

Trump’s authoritarian takeover of DC isn’t making anyone safer. You know what it IS doing? Pulling FBI agents and other federal officers away from critical law enforcement and counterterrorism duties nationwide. Taxpayers are funding a Trump stunt that is making us all LESS safe.

An idea:

This is just never ending…

I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!

Also a bizarre reaction to basically *winning* all your lawsuits against the Administration! If this is Harvard while ahead, what would it look like losing?

#ClipOfTheDay: In this PBS NewsHour video, Ann Patchett, author and owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, and Maureen Corrigan, professor and book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, offer their recommendations for summer reading. at.pw.org/SummerReads

And there it is.

Everyone needs to save this picture because it needs to become the only picture anyone ever posts of JD Vance. Anytime you mention JD Vance use this photo, if enough people do it we can make this the image that immediately springs to mind whenever anyone thinks of JD Vance.

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

This is the way.

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Something spicy & delicious as a taco has gotten under Trumplestiltkin's thin tangerine skin. Seems the master of mean, juvenile nicknames can dish them out but when directed towards him, he can't take it, angrily calling it "nasty."🤣 Good to know. (you know what to do!) 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮🌮 🌮

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

OF COURSE cars suck, but so many white anti-car urbanists are folks with no concept of how existing public transit infrastructure makes it all but impossible to navigate the city safely with kids UNLESS you have a car. ESPECIALLY if you aren't in a wealthy neighborhood. And guess who that impacts.

Republicans in Congress really want to take food out of the mouths of hungry children and medicine away from the sick to fund tax cuts for people who don't need them. Tell your Senators: Vote NO on the Trump budget.

Trump’s $1 million-per-seat secret dinner is “the most brazen act of corruption by a president in our lifetimes, probably in a century, possibly ever,” says Chris Hayes. “Call it the Met Gala of presidential pay-for-play.”

Trump will host a private dinner tomorrow for the top buyers of his memecoin, which has made him the world's newest crypto billionaire. The top 25 coin buyers will get a "VIP White House tour." Call it what it is: corruption.

Yup… Follow the (now much harder to follow) money!

Good morning !

This is both necessary (and overdue!)

🧵 There’s a thread going around misrepresenting my work and Bellingcat’s education strategy. I want to use this as an opportunity to explain what we’re actually doing—and why it matters. This is about truth, democracy, and how we build a more resilient society. x.com/buynevich/st...

Brooklyn Leonard was 14 weeks pregnant when her water broke, but her doctor wrote she could only intervene when there was “concern for maternal mortality.” It was only after visits to 3 Houston hospitals over 5 days that Leonard was able to get the care she needed. Read more: propub.li/3Zd4Vlu

It’s incredible that the President of the United States is openly flirting with suspending Habeas Corpus, disappearing people left and right, arresting judges and politicians, accepting ludicrous bribes from foreign countries, and people are still trying to normalize this shit.

just because John Roberts decided that the only way a politician can be corrupt is by accepting a cartoon sack of cash with ‘$$$’ on it while explicitly saying “I am accepting this bribe in exchange for an official act” does not make it true

IMHO as a corruption researcher, pundits seriously UNDERestimate crony capitalist Orbanseque turn in 🇺🇸 politics moving forward Similarly, pundits OVERestimate voter punishment of corruption Here’s why ⤵️ Based on 2017 research overview with @hectorsolaz.bsky.social: shorturl.at/HfNlU A 🧵 1/n

Yes! If only this were a 9-0 sentiment on the high court!

From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.