I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

For the love of god please yes. Have an iota of self-respect.

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

It’s an obvious but still important reality right now that putting people on your network who represent or defend the current administration means choosing to amplify people who will knowingly, aggressively, and frequently lie to your audience.

Forgive me, but: Jesus H. Christ. You know, "false" would fit the headline space that is ridiculously wasted on "inaccurate."

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

one side's voters care about sexual assault and one side's voters don't and while I understand that "impossible to say whether this is good or bad" is the standard for the paper of record I think it's clear which side has the moral high ground here

You have to be kidding me (but I know you’re not). JFC.

A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

DOGE served its purpose: gut government with zeroaccountability, allowing the political blame to leave with Elon Musk. It also enabled massive state capture. The tech community and the Trump administration got what they want, and no longer pretend otherwise. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...

Trump is out here making up entirely new countries and it'll barely register, yet we got an entire news cycle about Biden mixing up the names of the Egyptian and Mexican presidents

Trump's demand that law enforcement miraculously "find" widespread voter fraud (which is nonexistent) has gotten so unhinged that Republican officials are openly mocking AAG Harmeet Dhillon for her buffoonishly heavy-handed tactics

Yup. “Polarization” is the lazy version.

Once again, I am just a small-town international relations professor, standing here, begging our media & our Congress to take our most important signed, ratified international treaty seriously & threats by the One Special Boy to violate it as the presidency-ending scandal that it should have been.

Listening to @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social and Ambassador Samantha Power discuss the 751,000 people, mostly children, who have died due to DOGE cuts & I just want to tell every leftist who didn’t vote for Harris because “genocide” to go fuck themselves.

Pulitzer-worthy headline

The President of the United States is attacking a group of kindergarteners because of the clothes they wore to school.

Buck up, US fans. The women’s World Cup is less than a year away.

... Balogun's sudden amnesty adds to the perception of favoritism—a perception that also cuts, fairly or unfairly, at what the U.S. team might still yet accomplish.” www.espn.com/soccer/story...

we joke about “but her emails” and “the caravan” and “theyre eating the pets” but the only reason you immediately know what im talking about is because the republican party, as one and in unison, made these the only things they would talk about. they forced these talking points into the zeitgeist

This is slightly corny but I think it's true - the thing about DSA candidates that *actually* freaks out the ancien regime dems is that they are young, energetic, and clearly very motivated to do specific things

NÝT reports on the White House’s white-supremacist attack on the Smithsonian with stenography, no analysis, and one quote from one critic. Not OK. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/a...

The New York Times has perfected the art form of both sides framing.

In case you haven't seen this today.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Journalists are in the business of choosing words and the #BrokenTimes chooses them terribly. "Windfall" is "unexpected good fortune". The correct word is "corruption".

Corrupt, embarrassing, an utter failure: Trump's catastrophic handling of America's 250th anniversary iandunt.substack.com/p/ice-ice-ba...

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

Why is everyone afraid to shoot?

He could strangle a teenager on camera and they would say he “defied a long-held tradition of presidents not doing that”

"Unrivaled moneymaking run." No, #BrokenTimes, it is unprecedented CORRUPTION. Use the word. If you can't say this, you can't report what is actually happening.

Very well articulated by Josh.

The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

IMHO, the Supreme Court is a *bigger* problem than Trump, and it should be the primary target for reform. Trump and Congress would both be very different under a law-abiding SCOTUS, which would have stopped government action clearly animated by racism and racially gerrymandered districts.

The Supreme Court’s Corruption Must Be Broken talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

Would that this appears in every story on the decision. (Spoiler: it won’t.)

This is of course 100% true.

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

The great @willbunch.bsky.social of the @inquirer.com with a strong, angry response to the ridiculous, extreme sentences handed down to the Prairieland Nine, and an indictmet of this lawless regime that is quashing the Bill of Rights. -GIFT ARTICLE- share.inquirer.com/SoeJzW

one of the things a democratic house majority should do in 2027 is a deep audit into exactly how much trump has spent on renovations, who authorized the spending, what budgets it was allocated from, and whether any of it was even legal

Mamdani's revolutionary idea that has entrenched power scared is that he wants to a.) listen to people and b.) help them.

As an alum, I’ll be very disappointed if this is true. But let’s remember that NYT has repeatedly reported on alleged Harvard dealmaking/capitulation that ended up being far from the truth, as @jfallows.bsky.social has consistently observed.

😡😡😡

for anyone paying any attention to the Dem caucus during the Biden administration, the left were much better team players than the “centrists” and I would expect that to continue in the next Dem administration

Unlike many NY Dems, Hochul deftly managed the rise of Mamdani and allied with him to avoid a primary challenge. The Times recasts her savvy maneuvering as a naive fuck up because they hate Mamdani and are looking for any angle they can to halt his momentum.

THIS