extremely funny that the Supreme Court says absolutely nothing about how the tariffs are supposed to be reimbursed ahead of the endless flood of lawsuits that are coming the administration is already running out of lawyers! have fun with that

'The Fame Monster' by Lady Gaga has reached 10 BILLION streams on Spotify. It becomes the first 2000s album to achieve this milestone.

The sounds of innocence…

A future Dem president should charge him criminally for every single one of these grifts and make the GOP Supreme Court rule that each one of his self-dealing bribes was an official act. Also, I should win the lottery.

an iron rule of this argument is that they'll always name two things you need ID for and one of them is wrong

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

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This is my favorite of the many great versions of @jamellebouie.net.

If the right dominates the infosphere, if they can demonize any marginalized population they turn their eye on, then strategizing around *a current snapshot of public opinion* is almost definitionally misguided. They can change that opinion. Dems can't seem to, or won't try. All else is noise.

The ultimate problem here is that there's an entire class of political pundits like this who have cooked their brains on X and get their entire view of trans rights advocacy through an explicitly right wing framing, a result that was the explicit goal of Elon buying and manipulating the platform.

Minnesota was the first state that passed discrimination protections in 1993. Minneapolis did so in 1975, that's fifty years ago! California followed suit in 2003. Utah! passed it in 2015. There were major advocacy efforts behind these bills that relied on persuasion and consensus.

Absolutely brain dead take. Trans people did start with employment, housing, and healthcare. There are cases dating back decades such as Smith v. Salem in 2004 and Glenn v Brumby in 2011! Many states passed anti discrimination laws well over a decade ago. He has no idea what he's talking about.

This whole fight over transgender stuff happening on X is so weird to me. The most notable thing about trans issues in the last 5 years has been the enormous, coordinated anti-trans activism campaign across the right, aided by moral cowards in the center. But that campaign is *never mentioned*.

We’ve come full circle

I am tired but I have work to do still. It sucks that this problem was invented for me.

@tomtomchi.bsky.social When are you going on TV to ask a presidential candidate a question again? And who will it be this time!?

Like this. "You must strategically abandon the specific issues that the right has rendered toxic & focus on others." But then ... why wouldn't the right just be able to do the same thing on those other issues?

Going to run for president on a platform of requiring RFK Jr. to remain fully clothed at all times.

Olivia Nuzzi permanently on a fainting couch after seeing this

What if Lemon Party and Grindr did a cross-promotion.

Threatening to vote 3rd party 3 years before an election is apparently throwing a tantrum but ceremoniously crymoaning about ppl refusing to hypothetically support a horrible politician 3 years before an election is NOT throwing a tantrum, I guess. Anyways here’s Newsom getting his ideas from Nazis.

Several months ago they tried to argue that we should embrace cruelty and repression toward immigrants for electoral benefit and now that the tide has turned on that issue they’re back to harming trans kids. These people are not happy unless someone vulnerable suffers.

Lakshya Jain and the Argument fled this website because they couldn't take the criticism and now he's advocating for Dems to abandon trans issues with polling about 'gender surgery for minors' a thing that is not real

Yeah, so about your claim that The Argument wouldn't be running anti-trans pieces @jerusalem.bsky.social... I knew it.

One part of Jesse Jackson's legacy I feel able to talk about is that he absolutely helped to pull the Democratic Party forward on gay rights. He did so out of both moral conviction-- because it was right--and a shrewd belief in coalition politics. That's one of many lessons we can learn from him.

Two decades ago, George Allen used a Portuguese slur in an impromptu comment on the campaign trail and it ended his career. Now, a sitting congressman can embrace prominent white nationalist slogans in their official ads and the corporate media just yawns about it.

Progressives really are magical. They exist in such tiny numbers that they barely compare to the vast centrist majority, yet they are so powerful they must be harangued to fall in line years before an election lest they ruin the whole outcome.

Wake me when Mark Kelly finally decides to stop confirming the far right authoritarian’s judges bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

To be fair to McConnell, it’s not clear that the word “survivor” describes him very well at the current moment.

just need to accept that from here on out it is a non-stop stream of very sad deaths and at some point one really fun one

If this is true, why are so many people currently pointing this awesome weapon at people who loathe Newsom instead of the people who would vote to make him the nominee? Can the latter not be shamed, mocked, and ostracized?

Every now & then I see people post things like “if I suddenly got rich, you’d never hear from me again, all my socials will be deleted,” etc. Are we forgetting everything we know about wealth, power & unaccountability? You would post constantly. Trivially. Self-destructively. Like rich people do!

I see that only a tiny fraction of you, my Bluesky friends, also follow @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social on here. Why not go follow right now? My guess is the more eyeballs we get here, the more attention we can give Bluesky relative to other social media platforms!

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

If conservatives are upset with coverage, one must re-configure the paper so they never for a second feel like they are condescended to. If libs are upset with coverage, they’re stupid and can’t read.

I don’t understand how anyone can justify spending their finite time haranguing people about the need to vote for a shitty centrist compromise nominee who hasn’t been chosen 2+ yrs before the election when every minute of that time could be spent helping stop the disaster candidate from being picked

look if you want to freak out about people not voting newsom if he's the nominee a week before the 2028 general election, I kinda get it (but don't say you weren't warned). doing it now though is just a weird attempt to strong arm people into supporting him in the primary.

I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

Particularly hilarious is his claim that 'nobody dies to defend a "multicultural economic zone"' when in fact a lot of US propaganda during WWII stressed that the nation is a multicultural melting pot. That was how we were going to defeat the master race...the one Musk is pining for.

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

"Gavin Newsom makes Trump mad!" I have seen that guy get mad at Jimmy Fallon and Rosie O'Donnell, this feels like an easy achievement.

As a child protection professional, I can tell you the death penalty is NOT an awesome solution to child sexual abuse. Most children are abused by family members; they will not report if their family members will die as a result.

Jeopardy champ Andrew He is looking great but also like he emerged from one of those mid-60s transformations that all the Mad Men characters went through.

My therapist says that in my mid 40s it’s time to finally stop chasing straight guys. But what she doesn’t know is that a really hot sober dad just followed me on the internet. So instead, I’m going to make him fall for me by getting into sports. #MaybeThisTime

This is like when they make a British version of an American show that was already based on a British show.