Trump putting the Washington Post and CBS News in his “Offender Hall of Shame,” even as they bend over backwards to curry favor tells us that nothing short of full propaganda mode will ever be acceptable to him. There's no way for a news organization to maintain credibility and be "fair" to Trump.

The psychology of this website is so transparent. They're not attacking progressive media (who don't give a shit) so much as they're naming access bootlickers who already often cater to the WH anyway — because they’ll actually freak out and change their coverage *even more.* Just working the refs.

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.

Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire? Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.

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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

I don't know exactly where you go beyond that in rooting out the special operations cult of lawlessness, but an immediate start would be abolishing SOCOM as its own combatant command and requiring, by law, such operations be conducted only through the regular geographic commands.

This is actually a relevant factor here: it's been pretty clear SOUTHCOM, whose commander resigned, has been pushing back, at least somewhat. They're putting it under the operational command of SOCOM specifically because that's the most already rotten place you'll find people happy to do crimes.

late night ramble

This is the thing that always inspiried me about the US public higher-ed system. That a country could be so wealthy that it can have schools where people build rocket ships under sports stadiums and somehow these are considered "unprestigious" to elitist snobs

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Watching with the family, and I think the dog in the live-action The Grinch is wearing ear extensions? I have never thought about his incredibly long ears before

A headband is being flung around by rubber-banding it off of fingers and I think I've been exonerated as instructor and instigator buttttt

Uncle Jeff'ing

Happy Thanksgiving

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

In today’s ‘Vaccines Work, You Idiots’ news.

(Y'all, that "I want a way to come up with prompts" Reddit post is clearly a troll post. We gotta be cannier)

Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!

This applies to SCOTUS too. Declining to impose consequences (e.g. court packing) after the GOP stole a seat has made the GOP justices more brazen, not less. The pathway to good government court reform is to threaten to pack it, forcing GOPers to choose between a Dem Court and a nonpartisan one.

They wouldn't be doing this if Prop 50 hadnt passed.

sunshine: comes from heaven, bright, warm, gives life too all oil: a disgusting and poisonous black ichor that has to be sucked from the bowels of the earth, literally made of death

literally God’s bounteous providence shining down on your head for free! it’s a sin not to use it!! bsky.app/profile/sain...

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

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3. This interpretation of these survey results conflict with the political reality of new office construction vs new housing construction. One is a lot less contentious than the other and aesthetics do not explain why. bsky.app/profile/dbro...

If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic That third thing is unsustainable long-term

this is mesmerizing

Three things about the Witkoff tapes: 1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia. 2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea. 3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.

Video of her being dragged by authorities in Ghana: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Honest question: how are car drivers expected to learn about important updates to the traffic code, like this one? We have no requirements for continuing education nor periodic knowledge and/or skills recertification. Should we?

I've been doing this on my bike since even slightly before it came to effect (👀) and it rules!

"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line

You will never guess what this is in reference to.

NYC was a much better election because Zohran and Lander supporters didn't have to compete with each other.

removing the need for 'tactical voting' at least to the extent you can still vote for your faves without being a spoiler a) soothes a lot of bad feelings b) gives a more realistic of whether your fave actually could have won

The "People in India and other low-wage countries are farming racist rage-bait on X" phenomenon is downstream of Elon Musk manipulating the X algorithms to prioritize promoting racism.

I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.

🤞I have been holding this screenshot since '16 hoping one day this sociopath reveals himself. And what do yo know - Lizza would have been 42. A bunch of empty careerists. www.gq.com/story/inside...

If Biden had said Congressional Republicans should stub a toe, the media (and whatever you call the Nuzzi empowerers) would be calling for his impeachment. They’d be relentless, merciless, and hyperbolic. But for this president, who called on his supporters to murder Democrats, there’s silence.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Why don’t people trust the press? Because “the press” are often indistinguishable from the people they’re supposed to be checking.

Grand opening, grand closing. X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

TIL deer do the leggy thing too when you give them pets in just the right spot

To every dipshit on this site who said “these rallies don’t accomplish anything” or “why would you sign up for their mailing lists omg scary” this is why

This is haunting and beautiful

A staggeringly naive assumption. Then they silently let liars shape the narrative for 2 yrs. When Bhattacharya smeared us, they asked me “not to pick a fight with” him — meaning, don’t publicly defend our work. Pipe down til “the cycle” passes. I can’t stress enough that this strategy doesnt work.