Again: the right mounted a huge, billionaire-funded conspiracy to take over US media, degrade US institutions, & erode US rule of law. It happened right out in the open, over decades, & the US media & political establishment not only ignored it but punished all attempts to discuss it.

"A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless." James Baldwin

Jason Kelce gave the most impactful and revealing interview of a pop icon since... ever?

The only thing standing between Trump and a fully authoritarian police state is the capability. He has the will, the intention, and the support of the other branches.

These two things cannot both be true: 1: throwing a sandwich at a federal officer is a violent assault worthy of prosecution. 2: raiding the Capitol grounds, assaulting police offices & vandalizing federal property in an effort to interfere with an election is a harmless protest worthy of pardons.

"There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Whenever the Mets are playing well it makes me think of my dad and how much he enjoyed a winning Mets team. The first part of this season was great. Now I'm just glad he's not alive to see this shambolic mess.

not sure how many decades it will take America living down having elected Trump twice

QT this post with someone you wish was still alive

My Indiana prison allows some of us to raise kittens thanks to a partnership with a cat shelter. Lady, a delicate and regal Persian-domestic mix, with short, feathery ebony furis my only friend in this dismal mansion of dejection known as prison.

Judge Katsas, useful idiot, this morning on left. AG Bondi this afternoon on right.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony. Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.

"It is delusional to believe that good behavior by the public will usher us safely through this. That belief assumes that these operations are being undertaken for their stated goals. They’re not. They are pretexts."

This is the problem with having national news covered primarily by people like Haberman and Anderson Cooper who 1.) live in bubbles of extreme privilege and 2.) are not really experts on anything other than the general vibe inside those bubbles.

the gerontocracy's permanent defensive crouch has a lot to do with when they came of age politically and remains one of the biggest reasons we should move past them

Convinced a lot of Democratic leaders and especially a lot of political journalists and pundits too

American universities pretend to be centers of learning, wisdom and freedom, but the reality is that the University of Chicago has a $10.4 billion endowment today. In 2013, it had the highest-paid university president in America. He made $3.4 million a year. These are lucrative businesses first.

If there's ever an American version of the Nuremberg trials, whoever is running the administration's social media accounts needs to have their ass prosecuted too.

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.

i really think the only reason we haven't created new states — which was a common political tactic in the 19th century, see nevada and the dakotas — is that 50 is a round number

people are mad about this but it's just on-its-face true. trump won the popular vote and because of a few decades of the media priming people to believe that only conservatives can truly represent The People, that popular vote victory was treated as a defacto enabling act

Without downloading any new pix, where are you at mentally?

this is correct but also, lots of institutions are nonetheless treating him like a dictator, which is helping him despite the administrative capacity issue

I've been into bodybuilding for 30 plus years now. I think it's awesome that so many women are discovering the power (both physical and mental) and mental health benefits of working with weights. Kudos @karenattiah.bsky.social you look amazing!

This font makes me think of the "No Fear" t shirts which were EVERYWHERE in the 90s.

A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military. And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

there are so many open layups and somehow dems can’t make them. republicans are literally pulling cancer treatment from children and they can’t message on that??? like what the fuck are we doing here

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.

Quote this with a performance that stole a film #FilmSky📽️ #MovieSky

A police state doesn't require a huge police force to effectively terrorize a population. It just needs enough snoops, busybodies, and bootlickers in that population to multiply its surveillance capacity

It's better — and more brutal — than you've heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD4E...

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

Let’s just luxuriate in the visions of Fox News if Kamala Harris had done this. Imagine the New York Post front page photoshop of her as Moses!

Trump's worldview is any entity that doesn't exist to celebrate him as the greatest human who ever lived is rigged against him.

The most polite quote I can pull tonight is from a young a doctor who simply said “I plead with any democrat to please stop this moderate nonsense”

i really want everyone to read this because Dems are not going to win by default. new Republicans will run and they’ll say the right things to win. people will get fooled or maybe just agree. Dems need real candidates up and down the ticket or we never escape this mess.

At a town hall in PA-10 and I’ve never heard people so angry. Our Rep is the worm Scott Perry who deserves a dump truck of shit on him. But the people here are also furious that the Dem currently running against him is Janelle Stelson — seen as a worthless pawn of the rich.

700,000 dollars for a 1294 square foot 3 bedroom house on a normal little side street. Today I talked to a working but homeless woman in tears saying her only prayer to god was a tiny space where no one would ask her to leave. The people who did this to our country should be forever ashamed.

Despite the fact that it is basically waterboarding me with anxiety, I think what I like most about The Pitt is its fundamental decency and its emphatic call for us to remember that we all need each other

Quietly celebrating 12 years sobriety this weekend.

I don't think anyone could express this truth any better than this.

ive long held this view but the problem the post-clinton democratic party has is that it genuinely doesn't believe in anything. everything's negotiable, they're happy to veer rightward on crime, immigration, trans rights, fuck over labor, whatever they feel they need to roll over on they'll do it

Americans are not at all ready for the full scale mainstreaming of literal fascists now that media has been retooled as a weapon of anti democracy and fascist consolidation. The fascist machinery will fire anyone critical of the fascist takeover and boost those who are willing to capitulate.

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

I wouldn't tell anyone else how to think or feel, but I will just say that, for me, the only way to stay sane after the 2024 election has been to pretty much abandon hope. The US is cooked. Everything I value about it is doomed. We're heading into a long period of dissolution & chaos.

if i were a pro-trump financial type i might view the destruction of reliable government data with the kind of anger and apprehension that might lead me to reevaluate my politics, but then if i’m a financial guy throwing my weight behind strongman rule, i’m already too stupid to breathe

sigh, listen, the impunity is the point. lying to your face about something you both know is untrue and leaving you with no recourse for it is the point, and she will keep doing it as long as reporters keep showing up for it.

Heath Ledger's tragic death. His performance in The Dark Knight was an all timer and you have to wonder what he would have done from there.