The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

Hm. Probably not my -favorite-, but it is one I return to a fair bit. Bonus: it’s part one of a trilogy of videos, followed by “Reunion” and “Wait”. They also later did a prequel with a video for “My Tears Are Becoming a Sea”.

I hope the next D POTUS appoints an army of antitrust attorneys to wield the Sherman Act like a sledgehammer

Maybe the funniest thing about the WB deal is that you have people asking what’s going to happen to John Oliver, but no one has any reason to ask what’s going to happen to Bill Maher

Honestly the response of any future administration to what we’re seeing now needs to be so far-reaching and intrusive that future historians will refer to it with a capitalized shorthand, like “The Terror”.

Welp. Once again @amyklobuchar.com and bunch of garbage @democrats.senate.gov reading the room like US Men's Hockey team. 🤡🤡🤡

looking forward to the scene where majors looks directly at the camera and recites quotes from thomas sowell

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

The one time I could be convinced to root for that clown Sarandos and they drop the ball anyway.

So I guess we can add “antitrust investigation against media conglomerates” to the bare minimum requirements for any future Democratic administration.

This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...

Jesus Christ.

Maybe they’ll also use it to identify mushrooms to forage along the way and we’ll get a perfect storm of AI-induced danger

This is from @status.news, and it is gross. FCC chairman Brendan Carr sat down with Ben Smith of Semafor so he could "shower praise" upon David Ellison and Bari Weiss, and then hint around at who he might sue next. www.status.news/p/politico-e...

In the two days immediately following this post, Gavin Newsom has retweeted a nazi, Graham Platner has retweeted a nazi, and Ana Kasparian just tweeted some antisemitic shit.

The White House Correspondents’ Association has announced that entertainer and magician Oz Pearlman will be the headliner for April’s Correspondents’ Dinner, not one of those mean, mouthy stand up comics who might mix in some social criticism. The Correspondents judged themselves too weak for that.

tune in to hear me say ‘jesus fucking christ’ more times than i ever had in my life before

Do the New York Times’ editors have any awareness of how badly they’re failing this country? They write a whole story about how Trump is trying to rig the midterms and then they call the Democrats’ fears that he’s trying to rig the midterms “downright alarmist.” What the hell are they doing? 1/4🧵

Axios CEO Jim VandeHei leaves no doubt who he is rooting for. This is not "news" - this is a press release. www.axios.com/newsletters/... PS: Jim (along with all the right-wing leaning corporate media elites) just may look beyond stupid when the numbers come in this November.

This is the discussion I’ve been waiting for, tbh, and for my own part, I 100% agree.

This is seriously unwell.

Shameful work by my alma mater. yaledailynews.com/articles/gov...

As I continue looking for funding for a few projects, please point me in the direction of people willing to fund cool projects

I still have yet to see a single person articulate a logical argument for why GAC for minors is inappropriate that doesn’t ultimately boil down to “trans people don’t exist”/“trans identities are illegitimate”.

For The New York Times to choose to publish Jesse Singal today, of all times, is a choice to attack trans people, to make them even more vulnerable while they are already under attack. It is an appalling abdication of the Times’s journalistic duties.

when I started making music I dreamed of nobody even knowing what I looked like unless they'd seen me play live. I didn't put a single picture of myself on a record for 25 years. I hold the tyranny of the visual to be a general plague and the imperative to be seen in motion lest one vanish a loss

Scrolling through these NextFest demos, I feel like a lot of these aren't really doing themselves any favors with the descriptions. "(Game) is a roguelite platformer with RPG elements." But so are 900 other games you're competing for attention with.

"The Democratic Party needs to be more culturally normal. Less prone to spending disproportionate time on pronouns and identity politics." The Republicans attacked trans people in about 40% of their ads in 2024 you slimy, spineless fuck.

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

You do not want the guy who makes cars that lock you inside when they’re on fire in charge of the Kessler Syndrome odds. You just don’t. “The guy obsessed with us leaving the planet ironically was such a dipshit he made sure we could never leave the planet” is heavy handed but tonally appropriate.

As an architect, this is so fucking bleak. Someone in my profession is taking a hefty design fee to draw these plans. This is a modern day concentration camp and the design professionals involved should be named and shamed.

You don't have to stop posting but you do have to stop posting THERE. It is a uniquely, fundamentally detrimental website to you as a person. It incentivizes racism, violence and — the worst crime of all — vagueposting. You are living in a permanent teaser ad for the 11 o'clock news.

this is I think correct. let me also add that those cliques of journalists, activists, pundits, etc. still on X see the average Bluesky user as déclassé and provincial - away from NYC or DC

if the choice is 'people being annoying from the center-left' and 'literal Nazis' you shouldn't pick the literal Nazi site *run by a Nazi.* this isn't hard!

we have watched, in real time, people *being seduced by or blundering into Nazi discourse* as a result of staying on X. There may be an argument for public figures staying on there for reach, it is a bad sign for private figures to do so.

I have no patience for takes like, "BlueSky is so hostile to journalists that people have no choice but to spend time on the Nazi site."

Yeah, that line stuck out to me, too. Like... right there, the paper is editorializing and framing this as if trans people aren't actually a thing. Just people who "identify as transgender."

Superb reporting from @katherineeban.bsky.social for @rollingstone.com on the scandal around the RFK-fueled, unethical HBV vaccine study in Guinea Bissau that horrified CDC staff, scientists and ethicists around the world. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

1/ Okay, now I’m mad. Any Supreme Court in our nation’s history before John Roberts would have upheld the lower courts’ injunctions blocking Trump’s tariffs & not issued a stay that let Trump wreck the economy and break the law for over a year. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Seeing the live idol performances of the songs is kind of funny to me, because, I mean…

See also: Harper's letter signatories, many of whom have little or nothing to say now. Doesn't mean there are zero legitimate concerns about Biden social media interventions or campus culture circa 2020-2024 but COME ON.

ever get an impending sense of doom all week and then you find out there's uhhhh a "the stars are right" level conjunction going on?

California sued Rady's Children Hospital for stopping care and a judge ordered them to resume. It's not hard, state AG's can stop this, they just need to act. voiceofsandiego.org/2026/02/11/r...

NEWS: Meta is about to start a $65 million midterms push — its biggest political effort in its 20 years in business. Meta is standing up two super PACs that this week will drop money in races in Texas and Illinois to push A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/t...

Seeing talk about Yakuza being a soap opera (derogatory) this week, I’ve feeling stronger than ever that Trails is the (complimentary) version of that. Even with Horizon’s faults, it’s just hits the series’ strengths so so well

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.