This man's entire job is to classify one-dimensional right-wing movements as far too complicated to place on the ideological spectrum. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

That isn’t a public sphere. It is an engine for right wing agitprop, which is probably why that agitprop (on everything from the lab leak conspiracy to gender-affirming care to Project 2025) is taken as a default reality by reporters and liberals are boxed out of challenging it. It’s really bad!

Instead we get this worst-case scenario: journalists hold liberals to extreme interpretations of reality, to the point where “corrections” end up creating new lies, while conservatives are allowed to dissemble freely with only a small portion ever corrected out of a desire for “balance.”

If liberals were given the same media space to lie, constantly, about everything, to the point of defamation, we would at least have a shared stake in a public commons as the ground for competing narratives (what I have called the assertive turn in public sphere theory). But we don’t even get that!

Michael is doing valid work by highlighting this crap so I’m not tempted to give them any engagement, but also I don’t see how we can ever have a viable democratic society when elite media culture so openly embraces lazy dissembling like this. It’s corrosive to public trust and destroys discourse.

The Atlantic is acting like a troll blog for right wingers. We should treat it that way! Approach its writers like you would some flack at the Daily Wire. Make it uncool to read this shit. Deny them legitimacy. It’s bad for society to let this keep happening at “prestige” journalism outlets.

This is the sort of thing that defines fascism more than most other aspects. The installation of secret police to monitor everyone for suspicion not of doing anything wrong, but of being the wrong kind of person.

BW spiked a solid piece to score MAGA cred, demanded the addition of a Trump admin on camera response but got stiffed by both Noem & Miller and ended up with no editorial changes... and here we are: the piece that aired tonight was essentially the very same piece we all saw 1 month ago. Incredible.

Leaking this in bad faith after the fact proves that they were correct not to pick him.

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

This is Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales She is 22 years old and has a U.S. birth certificate ICE detained her for -25 days- and now is being forced to wear an ankle monitor by ICE because they question her citizenship status

What Schumer is telling you here is that his strategy is just to whine about how bad things are. That's it. Just whine, and hope that wins the midterms. Replace this man. Come on. He's done.

secondary to the terrible content, gavin could be using his celebrity and influence to promote and elevate left wing media voices who are desperate for any kind of boost in visibility but instead hes doing whatever the fuck this is

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

omg the Ten Commandments "poster" that Louisiana intends to send to schools (which are required to display them in every public classroom, including at universities) includes images of Moses and Mike Johnson share.google/eoRiDvHsshEg...

'Staring over the edge': South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The "we must liberate the poor oppressed people of Greenland" propaganda directed by der Fuhrer has started, exactly as my article from two days ago predicted.

the kids are all right futurism.com/artificial-i...

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

There are lots of people sharing lots of ways to help. This is one I trust absolutely.

Miller’s miscalculation - the logic of a privileged and sheltered brat - is that violence would pull white folks away from black and brown folks, when in fact it’s done the opposite. And now America’s other cities also know how to face him.

Am now thinking of just sending these articles to my dad every day. Just open up texts, send him a new piece about how ICE is failing, and then blocking him again.

Positively shocked that the house magazine of the Manhattan Institute is upset that my book refuses to attribute America's record-high homelessness to "personal choices"—rather than, say, rents outpacing income gains by 325 percent since 1985.

they told us folding on the shutdown was a big ol’ W because the epstein files would be released

Big shift from a "alright, the party's over freaks" to a "this place rules!" theory of mayoring

ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.

Genuinely perplexed at Newsom's comms strategy of spicy-trolling Trump on captured socials while simultaneously hosting a podcast where he performatively capitulates to an endless series of Trumpist media grifters

lol a lot of "nerdy men" will come online to say women hate them for being nerdy when in reality they are dweebs. They have terrible personalities, hate women with shared interests, and then blame women for reacting... correctly.

Only 15 days in and we have a strong contender for most embarrassing headline of the year. Ben. Shapiro. The guy who can't get his wife wet. The guy who needs an old person to open the pickle jar for him.

Before the ‘24 election, some people tried valiantly to lay out what would happen if, in fact, the “Administrative state” was torn down, by documenting what it actually did. The WashPost did a whole series on it. But it was too little, too late, and now we are going to find out. wapo.st/49kqJBk

I generally defend journalism On Here, and will keep doing it. But one genuine failure of the news media is (as @chrislhayes.bsky.social put it) they don’t cover the planes that land. The workings of the Govt only get covered when they fail via incompetence or corruption.

A lot of government, especially at the federal level, is stopping bad things from happening. It is hard to explain its value when the bad thing does not happen. Take it away, and broader societal risks increase, but the effects may take a while to emerge, and will be contested by those cutting govt.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.

People who send death threats over disagreeing with a cookie thinking they’re the target market 😆 If she wanted to make boot flavored cookies she would have. She didn’t.

wait I thought it was crucial for FREEDOM for bakeries & restaurants to discriminate against their customers I remember when the height of SMALL BIDNESS HERO was not making wedding cakes for gay couples or not selling pizzas for gay weddings www.foxbusiness.com/media/tennes...

Also it is not even remotely conceivably CLOSE to risking losing half of prospective customers AMERICANS FUCKING HATE THIS SHIT IN MASSIVE AND SUPER PASSIONATE NUMBERS

Oh yeah, Massachusetts is prepping. Apparently this bakery had anti-ice cookies and received death threats. They won't be open their usual hours tomorrow. Not out of fear, out of baked goods. They completely sold out and need to spend tomorrow restocking. fallriverreporter.com/massachusett...

Look at this absolute queen

It’s funny that no one ever asks “why would you risk losing business?” to bigots who refuse to serve people for racist and phobic reasons. They only ask this when you’re doing the right thing

Here is my semi-regular self plug: if you are writing fiction set in the USA or U.K., esp non trad pubs, you can hire me to BritPick (or usapick!) I do this for the love of the game so it’s a ‘pay what you can’ model

As the world burns, let's get one thing straight. A video podcast is just a TV show.

Immigration attorney: The arrest "during a Minnesota immigration crackdown that the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever, was a “blatant constitutional violation,” since the agents did not have a proper warrant..." www.minnpost.com/public-safet...

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

I bet you could take a whole herd of ICE guys with a medium-large bag of marbles

This is horrifying, and also anecdotal evidence that following ICE, filming them, etc. makes a difference.