(1) agreed (2) crazy that Republicans brag about getting rid of Chuck “false-equivalency/access-journalist” Todd who loved to platform Republicans lying to him for 5+ min then thank them profusely for giving him access.

Weird how NYT regularly quotes Republican officials as typical Americans, but never makes the same “mistake” for Democratic officials. In their “defense” they don’t like to quote anyone left-of-center, regardless of affiliation.

RIP editorial cartooning.

Corporate Media can pretend Trump has a mandate & hide that millions protest him in the streets, and their pro-Trump bias is helpful to Trump in short-term, but the hope has to be that their pro-Trump bias will destroy Corporate Media in time for objective pro-democracy media to emerge in its place.

NYT has generally buried coverage of the largest protests in 50+ years in US, but they did write an article trashing #NoKings. Tag line for author on article says "Jeremy Peters has covered influential American political movements, including the Tea Party." Weird he doesn't know NoKings 10x+ bigger.

With Trump's power to spend our money, wage war, appoint heads of agencies, decide which laws are invoked (and for whom), the crazy irony is that he is now more powerful than King George III was when we declared our independence 250 years ago. A few grievances back in 1776 #NoKings

Trump is incredibly unpopular and his policies are even more unpopular than him.

Republicans in Congress & Supreme Court granted Trump power to choose how to spend our money, wage war, appoint without consent, which laws to prosecute, guilt & innocence of people who break laws. He has made >$10 billion in ill-gotten gains. Republicans granting Trump power kings dream of #NoKings

If it were not so dangerous & costly, would be pretty darn funny these idiots started war of choice to prove how macho they are and ended up (1) making more extreme regime that (2) hates US more (3) destroying our economic & military alliances (4) left Iran charging toll for previously open Strait.

Corporate Media: Democrats need to end their irrational hatred of Republicans, it is creating too much polarization that is tearing US apart. Trump: Democrats are the enemy, I will use the US government to destroy them. Corporate Media: Trump being Trump!

Imagine if NYT was as concerned about Trump destroying US as they are about Mamdani being mayor, trans living their lives in peace, and university students exercising free speech.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq3h... “Well, I beat the drum and hold the phone The sun came out today We're born again, there's new grass on the field A-roundin' third and headed for home It's a brown-eyed handsome man Anyone can understand the way I feel Put me in coach I am ready to play, today!”

Truly is remarkable how Corporate Media sanewashes Trump: oh, the daily briefing being a two-minute music video “has raised concerns … that he may be recording the complete picture” How about proves he absurdly uninformed, unfit, and raising questions about who is really running this terrible war?

Fact Check @corybooker.com: if a congressperson silent, if they vote to strip Congress’ power and unconstitutionally hand them to Trump, they are not good people, they are active collaborators.

Airports worked before Trump became president then they did not work after he became president.

Bold absurdity & hypocrisy for person actively covering up for president who committed an insurrection against US, is ignoring Constitution, has amassed >$10 billion in ill-gotten gains, but the truly obscene part is that Cruz (and his colleagues) are still taken seriously by Media & Political Elite

Easy to focus on potential for insider trading affecting the dynamic of trading in prediction or futures markets, but much more terrifying to think that about Trump Regime officials manipulating real-world events (like the war in Iran) to make money in prediction or futures markets.

Either the US President is lying or Iranian media is lying, and everyone assumes that the US President is the one that is lying (because he is always lying). So no one will make a big deal out of it, but fact we all just assume the US President is lying is a big deal for US.

Prior to Trump government just worked well on all sorts of things we took for granted: airports, roads, weather reports, research, distribution of social services. Trump destroyed all of these great services AND put a lot of working families out of work AND spends more money: classic lose-lose-lose.

Prior to Brexit I wrote a piece how the price of Brexit passing, on the British prediction markets, was too low, because the Pound would crash if Brexit passed, making the payout about 90% of advertised price. Obviously, this is the more extreme example!

Of course, Corporate Media won’t mention this raw attack on democracy, because they cannot spin this for Trump. In contrast they spent 100s of news cycles on Clinton’s remarks regarding some Trump supporters “Basket of deplorables” and Obama’s comments on “guns or religion”.

Top article in NYT claims Trump had “original war goals” that would be breaking news to US: Maybe they should tell US what they were!?!

Corporate Media, led by NYT, hit Biden 100x harder for his successful withdrawal from Afghanistan (focusing primarily on the unfortunate, but limited loss of life) than they are hitting Trump for horrifying war of choice that is (1) surging prices (2) undermining our security while killing way more.

ICE agents cannot be in airports, heavily-armed & masked & paramilitary-dressed: maybe Trump can outfit them in matching brown shirts w/ helpful red/black armbands? All dark jokes aside this would crush tourism while ensuring upper-class Americans meet ICE in-person finally radicalizing them for US.

Basically goal of Trump’s war in Iran is now to reopen Strait of Hormuz & bring down gas prices (both of which happened due to war) leaving in place new Iranian regime that hates US more, is more extreme, has more money, better equipped to fight US, with our military depleted & alliances shattered?

CNN showed an absurd poll that of Trump at 100% support from people who self-identify as MAGA (i.e., 100% support from the people who support him).

Sunk Cost Fallacy: "phenomenon whereby a person is reluctant to abandon a course of action because they have invested heavily in it, even when it is clear that abandonment would be more beneficial." Example: invading a country, because the bombing campaign went so badly, rather than just going home.

(1) Estimates of direct commercial value to major sporting events are always inflated (2) Making it clear that we do not welcome foreigners is obviously affecting our tourism business! (3) Hanging around in host cities, even without tix, can be a blast, but that is just not going to happen here.

July 15: Obama signs deal with Iran, Iran ends nuclear program May 18: Trump rips up deal, Iran restarts nuclear program June 25: Trump bombs Iran, Trump claims Iran nuclear problem done Feb 26: Trump/Netanyahu start sustained bombing campaign, Iran disrupts world oil supply ...

To me Judaism is about a shared culture & religion that stresses that we were once oppressed, we remain a small minority, so no matter how assimilated or successful we may be: we must always fight for civil liberties & civil rights & the opportunity that comes from scholarship & community engagement

Trump's horrifying failed war against Iran is not an isolated failure, rather part of line of devastating foreign policy decisions: tariffs, war on immigrants, kidnap of president of Venezuela, threats to Denmark, war against Iran that have convinced rest of world they need to shake off our hegemony

Liberty: 1776-2026, RIP.

This is the trust trap, and we have seen it play out again and again in institutions like media, higher ed and govt. The right feeds distrust, use that distrust as a justification to take control, and then undermine the core competencies that everyone else actually values, further eroding trust.

Trump is going to spend $100s of billions (not to mention killing many American military, spiking costs, and undermining our trade & defense alliances) all so he can steal a few $billion from his Middle Eastern autocrats. Would have been better for US if just had Treasury send him that $10 billion.

there is no way that the person reclining their seat into my lap *on a day flight* gains nearly as much welfare as I lose by his selfish actions.

Agenda-setting news pubs owned by right-wing billionaires to push right-wing billionaire agenda: Fox/WSJ/NYPost, LAT, WaPo, CNN/CBS; corporate owned media coerced into keeping Trump happy: ABC, NBC; owner just hates Democrats: NYT; Platforms owned by right-wing billionaires: X, FB/Instagram, TikTok.

The Offspring have a surprisingly deep collection of songs I know well and enjoy.

It is a classic tyranny of the marginal return: we can only measure impact in the most controlled & contrived lab setting, so we focus on these, but in reality the gains to just being consistent over-time or bold will almost certainty be bigger but impossible to test in a controlled lab setting.

Judging solely by the clips @atrupar.com is providing of his hearing, I suspect as head of DHS Mullin may commit crimes and admit to them, in ways that will make some Republicans a little nervous to vote for him.

A few years ago Republicans tried to purge voter rolls of anyone with same first, last, dob, despite this regularly happening to legit voters due to: random chance of dob, missing jr/sr, lots of people miscoded as jan 1 birthdays. They figured this would hit minorities hard, due to common surnames.

Strategy with our European democratic allies will obviously not work because it is insane: apply arbitrary tariffs, promise not to help them if they are attacked, threaten to attack them (remember Greenland), then expect them to bail US out of horribly unpopular war of choice.

This is, as always, a meticulous study by @dbroockman.bsky.social & @jkalla.bsky.social, but misunderstood by Yglesias in NYT: reason popularism does not work is not because people don’t like politicians who have popular positions, but because they (1) don’t know when Democrats change policy …

One of the largest narratives, by size and placement of articles in 2024 in NYT (100s of articles on their landing page), was about how professors & students at Ivy League schools are terrible (mainly either pro-Palestinian or liberal biased) and something needs to be done to reign them in.

Really insane to execute a war of choice with no clear goals, no plans, no basic understanding of enemy, no understanding what the attacks would almost by definition unleash. There are many stupid military campaigns in history, but this one is so incredibly stupid it defies basic minimal standards.

Pretty clear at this point that Hegseth has undermined US military readiness by his emphasis on “manly men” and wasting our resources on insane bombing campaigns, looking back, instead of preparing for the wars of today & tomorrow.

Race for which Trump appointee will kill more innocent people is fierce: Musk, Noem, Rubio, Kennedy, Hegseth, Duffy all with potential claims (assume Musk still in lead).

Trump did not create an objective for the war. Trump did not plan how to achieve an objective for the war. Trump did not consider the consequences of waging the war. And somehow the war is going very horribly for US. But, don't worry, I am sure the Trump Family is cashing in on the war.

Stop comparing Trump to other presidents and his peers are historical insane autocrats.

John Roberts is a bad man.

Just saying Trump is worst president in US history incredibly undersells how bad he is for US.