New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

There is absolutely a shortcut, and it’s how we wound up with POTUS saying “Quiet, Piggy” to a reporter and the rest of the corps just ignoring it.

I don't know a bad enough word for this guy and I work in journalism

Trump told Republicans in Congress to vote for the Epstein files bill yesterday. Whatever meaning we want to attach to all but one House Republican voting for it (and its likely passage thru the Senate by unanimous consent), this is not Republicans defying Trump. They're literally following orders.

Another good reason to go to the Anthropic settlement site, see if your book is named, and file a claim if it is.

Uhhhhhhhh is the New England Patriots team plane doing an ICE flight right now? It just took off out of ICE detention hub airport. Military charter flights go out of there occasionally too, but with a different callsign. Not certain but very weird! 🤔

Am I the only one who finds it very troubling that the most prominent argument for AI has suddenly become "it would be really awful for the economy if the AI bubble bursts"?

"And 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 year olds are really pretty much 18 year olds, so let's focus on 3 to 12 year olds."

Big Infrastructure Week energy from Sen. Scott.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

sir this is a McDonald's

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK

Ken Starr - who tried to take Clinton down for a consensual blow job who covered up sexual abuse and knew about Epstein’s pedophilia and was open to helping him cover it up!!

"..Has ALREADY KILLED Hundreds of Thousands..."

The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.

The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

It’s useful for people of my generation to be reminded that this wasn’t that long ago. Ruby Bridges isn’t just still alive—she’s only 71, not ancient!

The same people who claim we don’t know what a “woman” is are having a real tough time defining a “child”.

We have a winner in the Find a Nickname for Olivia Nuzzi contest we didn't know we were having.

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike.

2024: hahaha suck it troglodytes, this thing's gonna be replacing your job and dating your girlfriend 2026: we continue to see modest gains at the edges of our applications. we believe 14% of consumers may be ready to spend up to three dollars a month on this by end of Q4

📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.

Yup. The "first they came for the communists" moment on this timeline was the campus crackdown on Palestine solidarity protestors in 2023-2024.

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like: Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.

The whole war on “woke” and “cancel culture” was contrived to protect the worst people in our society and make it possible for them to keep doing despicable things to other people.

Fireable offenses for Harvard president: bad faith allegations over half a footnote in something published two decades ago. Non-fireable offenses for Harvard president: being good buddies with the most notorious child sex trafficker in the country.

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

QAnon: The powerful pedophiles have invented elaborate codes to secretly discuss their crimes that require decades of interpretation Actual powerful pedophile: Hey Jeff hope this email find you well last week was great so when we meeting up to do pedophilia again

is it really shocking that the paper obsessed with the abuse of trans children ran cover for the child rape president?

FROM: [email protected] TO: [email protected] SUBJECT: re: can you print these pictures of donald trump with underage women hello jeffrey my friend. no for some reason

Very disappointing to find out Ghislaine Maxwell may not have been completely honest with the Department of Justice when they met with her a couple of months back

Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics? Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

Just waiting for the White House to shift from vague denial to "technically, it's ephebophilia."

This is basically the classic Onion article “Why do these homosexuals…” in essay form.

Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.

Oh, so he totally stole the money

Breaking News: German aircraft carrier nears Danzig as naval buildup fuels speculation that Hitler intends to escalate anti-Judeobolshevism campaign.

Exactly.

If you think the 8 million people who took to the streets to FIGHT are gonna stand for this. You got another thing coming. We had the momentum! We just won election after election and you COWARDS backed down like a bunch of Traders!

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.

Teaching the Trump administration that disrupting air travel gets them what they want would be a bad idea. They’d pull that lever again.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.