he is not being covered as if he is a terminally unpopular lame duck because the media sees him attempting a coup and attempting to rig elections and think it would be more fun to help him do that than it would be to help stop him

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Natalie Horberg.

*raises a hand* Weird that he’s angry that something happened to him that he didn’t choose, right?

I enjoyed this album on first listen, but found it rather disappointing once I dug into it. 1/4

Pod Save America? NO NO NO, POD DAMN AMERICA!

So, people on the left writing about their preferred candidate in a way facially indistinguishable from Victor Davis Hanson breathlessly calling Trump a Homerian hero was ultimately just as toxic? You don’t say.

A masculine personality politics is incompatible with genuine leftist commitments. www.liberalcurrents.com/aoc-for-pres...

Q: If the US opens more lawful immigration channels for labor in lower-skill sectors like construction, care work, & food production, what happens to Americans who already hold jobs in the same industries? A: More Americans gain jobs.

facebook messenger: your cousin is requesting "$20 for Cigarretts" bluesky: The Befuddled Boardgamer is now following you. linkedin: Glennon Frick has complete the Mini Scruzzle, now it's your move!

“The other 30,000 would come from riders living in the Rockaways who currently must endure very long trips to Manhattan along the A.” Yes please! I commuted on the Manhattan-bound A for a few months this year and it’s as crowded as NYC trains get. This would really help.

The @queenslink.org project would turn an abandoned rail line into a busy subway line. Unfortunately, the project is at risk due to a competing project which would block its path. The best plan for New York’s future is QueensLink. Read on our website: www.etany.org/statements/t...

A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Idk if Bluesky needs a jingle, but this would do nicely.

One easy way to tell if you’ve just made an abhorrent joke is if Nazis would love it because it caters to their tastes perfectly.

Something tells me this guy wouldn’t find it nearly as funny if someone else made a string of jokes about atrocities committed against his people.

Has anyone ever seen a worthwhile joke defended with “What’s the matter? Can’t take a joke?” Or does that just get reserved for making people mad by saying something obnoxious.

The implication of this "New York Times" headline is that "goy" is simply a slang term used by Generation Z now, no longer attached to antisemitic implications. I think this is not only wrong, but rather dangerous for the newspaper to be printing.

NPR is comparing a trans woman fleeing Texas for her personal safety with a conservative fleeing Seattle because he was annoyed with his neighbors. This is honestly insane both sides framing to a degree that is just blatant lying by omission.

Textbook NPR here

So, seems like Reynoso would be the better pick in NY-07, right?

Is anybody responsible for their crimes? Serious question.

I wrote this in August 2024. I was right then, am still right now. willjennings.substack.com/p/why-im-lea...

Yet another article centering Trump’s emotions. We learn here that he is ”angry,” “irate” and that he issued a “scathing rebuke” of the decision. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/a...

A New Jersey State Police officer drove the sharp edge of his riot shield directly into a protester’s neck outside Delaney Hall in Newark in an apparent attempt to kill them. 🔊 Share this with everyone.

One dog did this in two minutes. Original post

I think many people still believe the NYT reports fairly because they generally cover Trump’s failures, but you have to understand that they pull every punch against Republicans and exaggerate every criticism of the Democrats. Often subtle, but propagandizing nonetheless.

More seriously this is an example of how NYTimes coverage is enabling fascism. 🧵 Nowhere in the article is there a clear statement of these speakers' beliefs (there are a few quotes scattered throughout, but framed as the basis for controversy or disavowal. There's a list of colleges...

This sucks. Why on Earth would you trivialize the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people? Might as well have called it the Final Solution to Government Waste.

our economy is being artificially propped up by consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that, after finding the right-wing crash out over the Cracker Barrel logo change quite silly, the new Twinings tea packet design is making me frustratingly unhappy.

In 2029, we will let a million qui tams bloom. You’re hearing it more and more, folks!

So disappointing to see that NPR has become just as hypnotized with masculinity as every other legacy media institution. Dana White glazes Trump with Fox News talking points for almost half an hour here, to minimal pushback. The next administration can complete the defunding of NPR for all I care.

These little dances always feel like a hallucination montage for a TV character currently dying in a nursing home.

this continues to be the dumbest point, because it's basically 'yes, this is genocide, but what about what people who don't know anything about genocide think genocide has to be?'

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

It kinda makes you think about what posts Musk tuned the algorithm on Vichy Twitter to show left-leaning users (easy to identify)

Every day when I take the train in NYC I commune with my European ancestors like T’Challa when he drinks from the flower

You're basically TikTok's volunteer production company but you only get an audience by obeying the viral prerogative. You have limited-to-no ability to form a community around influential voices. Twitter, by contrast, puts you in direct discourse with those people.

Talking to a vast audience of nobodies doesn’t matter that much! It just doesn’t. You’re still only getting a tiny fraction of a site that commands the attention of only a fraction of the population. The key question is “how influential is your audience” and in that regard Twitter is second to none

i've said it before but there needs to be serious congressional regulation of clerkships at the federal level

I mean, whose widespread presence would signify a serious website? Ronaldo and Selena Gomez, like Instagram has? Not everything is about hawking products. A gathering space for political obsessives on the left side of the spectrum provides plenty of value on its own.

This is like saying that people doing political science, debating political theory, or really just writing in books, newspapers, and magazines generally are not doing politically influential activities.

The other day, I logged in and saw the two most influential law professors in the country arguing with each other here. As far as I’m aware, they don’t do that on TikTok.

Depends who you want to persuade. Though small, Bluesky has academics, lawyers, writers, and people who read books: not an insignificant group, I’d say.

“Given our system of primaries and single-member districts we have a uniquely ‘pure’ form of two-partyism in the US. What would a multiparty U.S. House look like?” www.liberalcurrents.com/proportional...

Of all the separation of powers violations, this might be the violatingest.

Two Democratic House members argue for lifting sanctions on Cuba. This type of argument always falls short for me, though: no doubt their economy would benefit, but this would remove all pressure on the Cuban regime to stop human rights abuses. Where’s the strategic benefit?

The Democrats and other left parties can draw a lesson from this, though: even a party facing stiff headwinds remains very strong as long as they keep the base motivated. Trump owes much of his enduring success to unfailingly feeding the base through the years.

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.