This is — arguably — a bigger journalistic scandal than Bari pulling the 60 Minutes CECOT report.

Andy Kim refusing to allow Phil Murphy to coronate his wife has actually destroyed one of the most entrenched machines in American politics.

She was asking Tyra if she even knew Gianni Versace, meanwhile, we should have asked about her contact list.

This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

“I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “

Times article has an incredible illustration

Democratic leaders need to understand that maintaining nebulous policy positions is not costless. Yes, it gives your members more flexibility when campaigning, but it also damages the Democratic brand broadly and harms your credibility with your base

If people knew what Dems ultimately want to do with ICE/DHS, which is to say their positive vision for immigration enforcement, there would be far fewer complaints about the set of demands they are making in this shutdown because nobody would mistake them for the final goal.

I will reiterate something I've been hammering on here lately: I think coming up with a list of extremely moderate demands that you know the Republicans will reject is a great shutdown tactic. The only actual problem is that nobody knows what Dems long-term policy goals are with ICE.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

I'm sorry but this story is bullsh*t. Katie Britt was so worried about Liam Ramos that she did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HELP HIM? Come on. This section right here shows Britt's true self.

I agree with this, but, and this is important, I really also wish we had listened to the law students who spoke out about his sexual harassment, and about his wife (Amy Chua) enabling and threatening those who also spoke out about it.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

Backed by a band and choir, Pastor John P. Kee transforms the Tiny Desk into an old, wood-floored country church. n.pr/4qm3Liq

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

Oh look, none of them are the Jessica Chastain series that Apple yanked one week before air because it's about hunting down right wing domestic terrorists.

okay look, i support whatever she could plausibly say she's going to do here, but it would be really, really funny if It Happened tomorrow

They went broke giving away personal pan pizzas to book-reading millennials. 😔

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

Hi, former WWE Employee here: Wrestling fans are for the most part left-leaning. They always have been. You know who understood that very well? Vincent Kennedy McMahon.

It's always funny when something breaks containment and folks learn that wrestling audiences are more left-leaning. The right-wing chuds are MMA.

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

This is absolutely heart-wrenching. But also this whole thing is so incredibly strange.

Joy Reid isn’t perfect……but NOBODY clears a coon like her!

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

he is such a useless piece of shit. jesus christ.

It’s funny because just a minute ago the story was that these policies made it so that no one could trust if a Black person is actually qualified for their jobs or simply there as a result of “special pleading” and this psychic torture was to be so great it was reason enough to abandon civil rights.

Quinnipiac poll | 1/29-2/2 RV President Trump approval Disapprove 56% (+2) Approve 37% (-3) poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

I do not make this comparison lightly.

Unbelievable

Something that's important to note is that the current ICE detention plan really requires a lot of companies to sell them buildings, and this is an easy point of pressure that denies them the space and resources. Ultimately they'll try to build themselves, and then you go after the contractors

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

What dishonest bullshit.

showing it off to journalists so they don't step out of line, showing it off to other billionaires so they can get with the program, and showing it off to the fascist oligarchs to let them know he's one of them. this has an audience of two: donald trump and larry ellison

the fact that wapo is closing every single part of the newspaper that attracts readers in order to focus on vertical short form video and opinion columns makes it very clear that the bezos takeover isn't about business. it's not even about propaganda. it's about showing off his power and clout

My position at The Post was eliminated, along with many other journalists of color hired after the 2020 racial reckoning.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

Organize content in a manner that makes sense. Prime is the absolute worst on this front. They mix what's available on Prime with Buy/Rent. They mix Prime accessible stuff with all those damn apps. A mess.

Pay actual translators and segmenters to subtitle. AI translations are AWFUL.

I'm loving the way TCM is incorporating the Looney Tunes catalog with its content. Of course, it's such a natural fit.

Like stop trying to make Hannah a thing again. #WWHL

I understand just wanting peace and release from that relationship, but girl, you better get a damn piece of Loverboy. #WWHL

I HATE the bust on Ciara's dress. #WWHL

I wish that door was unlocked. I want mess. #PumpRules

Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"

it's actually a really good political skill that Mamdani convinces people that this is true. I think American politicians, especially dems, really failed/forgot how to slap their names on shit and say that they did, they are why people are benefiting from X etc, even when that isn't strictly true.

So Jason's grandma was in a Boston marriage? #PumpRules