I know this is a bold stance in America, but I simply do not believe we should be declaring war on another country for “stealing our oil” when the oil is, in fact, under the ground of that other country

The media needs to stop writing headlines like “The CDC changes course on vaccines and autism” and “The CDC defends measles response”. NONE of this is coming from legitimate scientists at the CDC. ALL of it is coming from RFK Jr. Every such headline is causing further harm to public health.

What oil, what land, what assets did Venezuela steal from the US? And when? A social media post from an alternative reality.

Well as far as the state of Tennessee is concerned, you are

The is a declaration and act of war without congressional approval, and imperialistic jingoism.

Pleased to report that college basketball is still random enough where Duke can commit 15 turnovers on their first 32 possessions against Lipscomb.

I know that everyone is like “oh the whole point of this is to destroy CBS, they actually want to run it into the ground” and I’m sure plenty of folks will be happy if they do but David Ellison and Bari Weiss don’t want that! they really think they’ve got something! they are just very bad at this

been rewatching Brooklyn 99 and Andre Braugher was one of the funniest men on earth.

Susie Wiles is one of the most brilliant political operators in the business, having guided DeSantis and then Trump to significant victories, and the idea that she doesn't know how 'on the record' worked is like saying a pilot doesn't know how to land a plane.

Coming as a shock to zero people, Megyn Kelly thinks Nathan Jessep is the hero of the movie. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... (h/t @pastpunditry.bsky.social)

Republicans are going to do it to us again. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This also happened during Trump’s first term. That 2024 dip? That’s when Democrats went on the defensive, and let Trump and MAGA dictate the immigration narrative. Why, it’s almost as if political leadership (good and bad) can actually drive public opinion, instead of always following it.

He decided racism was the cure to his mid-life crisis. Many such cases.

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

Job losses in June, August, and October mean the U.S. economy has shed jobs in three out of the past six months. And recall that Powell said last week that Fed staff thinks the numbers may be *overstating* jobs by about 60k/month, due to methodological issues

“.. The US economy is in a hiring recession. Almost no jobs have been added since April. “Wage gains are slowing. “710,000 more people are unemployed now versus November 2024.” @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Obvious and I guess naive question: Given everything she says in the Vanity Fair interview about Trump's cruel, foolish, and destructive policies, how can Susie Wiles live with herself as Trump's chief of staff? Proximity to power tends to corrupt, and close proximity to power corrupts absolutely.

One reason the GOP is repeatedly terrible at managing the economy is that they believe public sector jobs aren’t real jobs, & they demonize/defund the govt - at both the state & federal levels - every time they hold power. Only difference this time is how wildly illegally they’ve done it via DOGE.

I'm having trouble finding the "America Mourns Rob and Michelle Reiner" piece from the NY Times Editorial Board.

All of this - Roberts’ destruction of the Voting Right Act, the regime’s anti-diversity campaign - stems from white people’s fear that one day they’ll be treated like they’ve treated people of color. It animates everything they do.

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

This is good. Read this.👇

The idea that explains every decision the Trump admin makes is that absolutely everything they do is for Content, for Posts. They believe retweets control the world, and being famous online the one true ambition. All the MAGA figures are competing for attention, sometimes by murdering men on camera.

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

The president is using this apparent family tragedy, which as far as we know had absolutely nothing to do with him, to convey the message that if his fans brutally murder his critics, they will receive his support and approval.

the only thing I'll say about the meta-ethics of posting and which platform is that purely as a matter of realpolitik every political party and government not aligned with Elon Musk's at this point very explicit politics should be trying to degrade twitter's importance in the information ecosystem

“A country can do something about gun violence and mass shootings. If it wants to…A serious country populated by serious people is not helpless to solve its problems. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

The ravenous, all-consuming narcissism that has rotted the mind of this man requires that every event, every tragedy, every circumstance be ultimately about him. Others in the world do not exist as fully human; they operate only to validate Donald Trump. This is a gross display of mental illness.

Genuinely can't fathom the information environment of someone who, in fucking 2025, realizes that Donald J. Trump may possibly be a huge piece of shit.

How can this go on for years and years and years while everyone else is held to mostly the same rules as before? Why is it that Trump and his supporters have been given a free pass to engage in the foulest behavior imaginable, whether illegality, tyranny, corruption, or simply demeaning the dead?

Donald John Trump is genuinely one of the worst and most destructive human beings to ever walk this earth.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

I believe giving the worst person on the planet the most power was a bad move.

CBS News(max) spamming that interview like a Twitter bot shows A) it has been taken over by propagandists and B) this was more about shining a light on Bari Weiss than Erika Kirk

Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.

No you can't. Telling a computer to paint something for you is not remotely the same as painting something yourself, what is wrong with these people

every sports broadcaster: a 44-year-old, a philip rivers, a man who sees the grim reaper nigh, will play quarterback for the indianapolis colts this weekend, and he will clearly die due to his ancient bones and heart me, a 40-year-old: hey man what the fuck

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

Turns out the right wing fever dreams about “jackbooted government thugs” are real. It’s just that it’s them.

ICE is thug scum

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

Picard management tip: We all have a primordial instinct to fear the unknown. It is up to each of us to suppress that instinct, to investigate mysteries even in the face of risk.

It's because she doesn't know how to be the head of CBS News. Just no clue what a person in this role does. Similar to how Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy don't know how to be cabinet secretaries. A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."

the hat on shein vs the hat they deliver

THEY DID THE MEME THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME

Punishing immigrants for a thing your dad did instead of going to therapy