The Epstein Ballroom it is

Genuinely curious: can Dems physically get close enough to use this as a backdrop? Political malpractice not to if you can.

"how do you expect to win back men when all men are assholes?"

ask every republican in congress whether they think the treasury should pay donald trump almost a quarter billion dollars while federal workers are in their third week of not getting paid

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Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

If I were the CEO of Disney, and Adam Driver, Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns came to be with a scripted Star Wars movie titled The Hunt for Ben Solo, I’d green light that movie in a heartbeat.

does the new york times have a special room where they go huff each other's farts

I happen to think 7 million pro-democracy protesters are more representative of this country than the deranged people who go to his hate rallies

the new york times allows guys like talmon to use left-wing reasoning, so long as it is used to come to center-right conclusions

Whatever Trump builds in its place will one day be overrun with celebrants who tear it down gleefully, like the Berlin Wall

the default position in the media is that conservatives are real americans and anyone who disagrees is out of the mainstream

at its core, the leadership believes that the paper, not the facts, should get to set the agenda. this is one of the reasons why coverage of the *most prominent* stories - especially U.S. politics - is usually so bad at the Times, whereas its coverage of everything else is often very good

Any news organization that says Trump "posted a fake video of him dumping shit on Americans" is clearer and more informative than the New York Times. The Times' political coverage is useless at best, but essentially pro-fascist.

As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings. In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.

The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country

LET US LIVE 🏳️‍⚧️ ❤️

Nvidia Insider Trading Alert 🚨 CEO Jensen Huang has dumped $250 million worth of $NVDA over the last 3 weeks 👀

lol #NoKingsDay is a DIRECT result of people not hiring a qualified Black woman and I think there's an IMPORTANT lesson to learn from that.

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

Congrats to every Republican who warned about the massively dangerous pro-terrorist “I Hate America” rallies who now gets to see their words featured in a Daily Show montage with images of sweet little grandmothers waving little American flags

[Exit King.]

No Kings No Dukes of York

I'll take my shot at refutation. I don't hate America. I loathe everything you and your kind is doing to undermine and destroy its honor, promise and humanity. So I will join with millions of others in dissent, which is the most American thing there is. You lying, fearmongering, cowardly trash.

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Excited to inform you all that the Department of Homeland Security is currently attempting to ratio me (and failing, as of more than two hours later). With a heavy sigh, I repeat: bring back professionalism. For the love of god. You're running comms for the government of the USA. Act like it.

This guy is exactly the kind of voice the Democratic Party needs. He’s exactly the kind of young progressive Democratic leaders should be scrambling to cultivate, amplify, and get elected.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

The “guardrails” didn’t really hold in Trump’s first term. He broke through many, and accelerated abuses in 2020. Beat impeachment, removed inspectors general, and after losing reelection attempted a coup. Failing to recognize that as guardrails crumbling, not holding, was one cause of complacency.

It's almost like Republicans embrace the worst people and encourage them to keep getting worse

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal

I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it

I am curious what would happen if Dems ran on a plank of creating an anti-corruption agency with stronger independence than the Fed. I think it would be highly successful because it would show "we will tie our own hands on this".

The idea that world events and life-or-death political decisions should turn on what one elderly US citizen sees on a TV sounds like the premise for a 1970s dystopian satire written by the most hysterical Marxist novelist seeking to magnify the moral rot and decadence of a declining American empire…

Hannah Arendt distinguished totalitarianism “from other forms of political oppression known to us such as despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” in that totalitarianism seeks to subjugate civil society and private lives, not just political opponents, using psychological, not just physical, repression.

interesting that justice barrett thinks it's appropriate for a judge to appear on a transparently partisan propaganda network like FNC

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

bitches defend bitches

Interesting.

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy.  Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

It takes one to know one

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, I'm no expert on cognitive illnesses, but it feels a bit detached from reality for a sitting POTUS to forget that he was in power during an attack on the U.S. Capitol, doesn't it? Do you know anyone in journalism with experience covering dementia-like symptoms?

The thing about the Roberts Court is they're not evil geniuses, because they're not geniuses.

couldn't be happier for the political reclamation of frogs

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

If two parties insist on “dueling versions” of reality, but one party includes journalists, local cops, local residents, and the other includes plagiarists, propagandists, and Orwellian GOP liars, it’s worth saying there is one reality, and one lurid fantasy. newrepublic.com/article/2016...