A tribute to how fucking stupid Bari Weiss is that her iteration of the CBS evening news instantly became a laughably partisan joke, when the obvious better strategy was to play it straight for at least a few months and keep it as a legit-looking sleeper cell to activate before the election.

this one is a premium ferret.

I realize this sounds "doomerish" of me but it's kind of hard to not look at the last decade as every wealthy powerful racist and sex pest deciding to just go all-in on scorching the earth

"never in a position to succeed" is important, imo and part of that is making sense of the playing field — woke 1 existed, in part, in the context of decades of institutional power happily saying supportive words with the express goal of hiding hostile actions

Not only are they wrong, their strategy to project an image of strength is to find someone vulnerable and bully them.

you are correct & right to say this. gavin newsom is an incompetent ghoul unfit for higher office.

Helen Lewis and Gavin Newsom, a match made in the waiting room of a conversion therapist

yeah

And now you know what #FOIA is like.

This gets floated, incl. Stewart asking about it here. Newsom looked into it a bit more seriously and didn't pursue it (yet) not because he was being spineless, but because it's not that simple. States (except as employers themselves) don't pay federal taxes, people do. And refusing is a real crime.

never gets old seeing europeans tell americans to riot and americans telling europeans that our cops shoot to kill

The same Republican state legislatures that passed age verification laws for porn are silent on Grok creating and publishing CSAM. It was never about the children.

Joe Strummer. He was only 50.

i realize everybody has their own threshold, their own breaking point, but we are so far past mine that i just assume there is nothing that would make democrats wake up at this point. i’d love for them to prove me wrong

Remember when Dems folded and got nothing and everyone was so happy and patting themselves on the back about getting the Epstein Files released and they just blacked everything out and started deleting shit and now they're bombing Venezuela because we re-opened the government. Anyway

Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.

looking back at now once again trump loyalists statements on jan 6 is crazy because it really illustrates how they’ve managed to sanitize what everyone knew was going on. the jan 6ers were ultimately successful it seems

Senator kaine will not stand up to trump. cbsaustin.com/news/nation-...

A touching tribute to Mike F

This should be seen for what it is: a huge victory for MAGA, which has long railed against mass transit, with Oregon Democrats enabling it. Just a catastrophe all around.

Impeachment isn’t a “tactic”. It’s the constitutional remedy for the executive branch ignoring the law

The House margin is now down to 218-213. Three GOP votes needed to move Democratic legislation. Two Republicans serving have already voted for impeachment in 2021. One vote.

Look all I'm saying is Carney is sounding like a Democrat right now.

every seat in a movie theater should have an "I have to pee" button and if enough people press it they should be able to pause the movie

“and i wanna be part of it!”

There's a good reason that section 3 of the 14th amendment was written and no good reason that it was ignored in 2021. We'd be living in a very different world now if we had taken what the constitution says seriously

Never Conway.

Womp womp. Maybe he can post about it on Google+.

The gender ideology in question

The number of ways this is unconstitutional lunacy is…a lot

Multiple experts in Genocide have essentially come forward to warn people, with one saying we are in “early-to-mid stages of a genocide”. It’s not a matter of if or when, we are in it. And Dr Von Joeden-Forgey says: “You don’t have a democracy that’s committing genocide against one group[…]”

Texas A&M decides that Plato is too woke (and too gay) to be read in College Station, because of risk that the Texas GOP would be offended.

The Onion, as always, one step in front of everything

The President does not get to raise and spend his own separate money. This is Constitution 101 stuff, guys.

This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability

I've been talking to libertarians and all manner of low-info voters lately and finding out they really like Newsom. It is imperative that between now (but now is a good time) and next January you register as a Democrat if you want the right to keep Gavin Newsom from ever appearing on a ballot.

not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women

You see this right down to micro-levels- the person who is an absolute asshole on the community Facebook group shuts up really quickly at the town meeting if you call them out. They're all cowards deep down, hiding behind money and privelege, and it's why it's so so important to stand up to them

this is of course wildly illegal

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

NEW: Five years later, as Trump's lies continue, the danger of the January 6 insurrection remains. An offensive White House web site of lies is an apt anniversary marker — not just of where Trump is but of where the many institutional failures to stop him have led us. Tonight, at Law Dork:

The real significance of the day is it revealed a paradox in our Congress. It was willing to be attacked and do nothing about the attack while still wanting to be in charge.

I can’t get over all these members of Congress talking about never forgetting January 6th and simultaneously working tirelessly to prevent impeachment from moving forward.

An impeachment in every pot and a transgender in every garage

I'm not even a Dem and I say "transgender for everyone!" Trump says “mean” Dems will impeach him & force “transgender for everyone” if they win midterms www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/quic...

lol. do businesses not know to start rounding?

I think it's helpful to note the talking points he wanted to sound commanding and collegiate on X sounds whiny and pedantic when actually coming out of his mouth

Lander lapping at his heels has caused Goldman to actually do his job resisting, at least more than he had be, but I don't think I'd want to award his earlier lack of principle. Not when Lander has walked the walk while talking the talk without hesitation.

Reminder: of the trans patient info subpoena cases that have come to published decisions so far, the administration has lost all five. Fighting back works. Also, trans folks and allies, take note of who fought back and who gave in.