noem is *still* requiring that every contract over $100K be personally approved by her and we already know of multiple deals she and lewandowski are personally benefitting from through public reporting, imagine what happens when dems take over house oversight

The media has cast it as a sex scandal so they're mostly focusing on the smutty texts but it's an extremely straightforward ethics scandal: "If Trump gets elected my boyfriend has a job."

I think it’s also worth noting that a huge part of what changed is algorithmic feeds Back then, we curated things ourselves. It’s not that there was NO chance we’d accidentally see something awful but the chances were monumentally lower

I mean, yeah. Fuck.

This attitude explains much of the last few years. Your hate is *never* your fault. It’s never a thing you have to work on. That’s how you allow yourself to enjoy it.

These people make a big show of how they can't be shamed or embarrassed or pressured so you won't notice that if you actually make an effort they do exactly that all the time

So the reward for a company having an almost miraculously aspirational commercial and artistic year at the box office is to be bought by the one company with the most incentive (and seeming desire) to wipe movie theaters off the map? We’d almost be better off if Warner Bros.’s 2025 slate had tanked.

And actual physical segregation. Folks that never see or interact with poor people or black people- the ones that live in ‘good neighborhoods’ are living as messed up lived a as any screwy Twitter feed or Fox News.

My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.

Exactly so.

NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse. The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead. "Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender" Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue." 1/

Have to admit it. "Alcoholic Fox News host uses US Navy to kill people at random on boats in the Caribbean because an extremist podcast producer asked him to, while Trump pardons drug dealer kingpins because a tech guy asked" is rather a lot darker than anything I imagined when he was reelected.

The Roberts Six have thoroughly politicized the Court and turned it into a reliable arm of the RNC. Democrats should have no reservations about calling them out for it, demanding resignations from these bought-off hacks and running on a promise to enact sweeping reforms.

feels like a good time to repost this

Neighbors alerted me to an ICE raid happening down the street so I went down there to help. It’s a fucking warzone. Smoke, pepper bullets, screaming. The street is blocked off with community members fighting back. All because they are raiding a fucking taco restaurant. What the fuck is going ON.

the fact that SCOTUS is actually hearing this case instead of hysterically laughing at a baseless challenge to clear and explicit text in the constitution is a troubling sign of the times we live in

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

One of the biggest drivers in our ongoing Enshittification: dudes who get rewarded time after time for abject failure #netflixwb

my measured conclusion upon review of the Supreme Court's order reimposing Texas's racially gerrymander is that the only thing the Republican justices hate more than district court judges is people of color voting ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...

To be crystal clear about this: The plaintiffs challenged the Texas law six days *before* it was signed by the Governor and became law. That was *too late*.

There is no reason to be polite or decorous about this any more. The current Supreme Court is corrupt. US democracy cannot survive unless it is reformed.

They’ve nullified the 14th amendment once already, they don’t care what the constitution says, only what their political allies want it to say

👀 Rep. Jim Himes, the top Dem on House Intel, said on MS NOW last night there was no radio on the alleged drug boat the U.S. military struck on Sept. 2 -- a direct contradiction to a WSJ report saying DOD officials said survivors of the first strike were talking via radio w/other drug smugglers.

“we love the Jews, but they should be counting my money in tella-eve instead of manipulating us with these hordes of criminal invaders” has been the conservative point for a bit now

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

There’s a whole lot of alarms to sound about this, but one that really sticks with me is hearing from associates in the business who have produced through Netflix And how they are never allowed to release physical media of their work So Netflix can control every aspect of access. Forever.

We don't know if they had drugs, and if they had drugs, they still weren't combatants. You don't get to bomb people because you claim they have drugs.

All three branches of the federal government’s relationship with American citizens is basically a hostage situation

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

YES YES YES!!! The hilarious and wonderful Charlene deGuzman is crowdfunding her new pilot FAM BAM! She’s a true original and I can’t WAIT to see this thing! I kicked in some $$$ — can you? If so, thanks! seedandspark.com/fund/fambam#...

Reposting for current events reasons.

i am going to be equally honest, the USPS accounts for less than a single percentage point of federal spending despite being one of the most complex and sophisticated logistical agencies in the world, this is a crank hobby horse

USPS subsidizes a *lot* of shipping in the united states and characterizing it in terms of profit and loss is fundamentally a bad faith exercise given how many of it’s benefits are truly universal in a way that not all federal agencies are

and judge pan gets at what i was gesturing towards earlier today: that this idea that the purpose of the executive branch is to effectuate the political agenda of the president is extra-constitutional. it has no basis in the text or the history for that matter!

the elevation of “separation of powers” as the paramount value of the constitution is just rhetorical justification for presidential dictatorship, since that is what you have when the legislative branch cannot constrain the exercise of executive power through law.

Don't make me tap the sign.

It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine. Then, in a single social media post last week, Donald Trump set the former Honduran president free. on.ft.com/4oxBJ2v

Under current and future Supreme Court doctrine, Congress cannot insulate public-health experts from being replaced by an anti-vaccine secretary or president. The unitary executive theory kills people.

This will be immediately recognizable to anyone that grew up in a neighborhood in which "I'll have DSS/DCF/CPS take the kids away" was a viable threat. Because it was horrifically common when I was a kid.

This position is fundamentally segregationist—civilization is "erased" by the presence of people who do not share the ethnic background of the present majority—something ironically at odds with the history of Europe, which has been profoundly shaped by migration bsky.app/profile/matt...

this is your fault, Bill personally, specifically, your fault you could have blocked this guy, you more than anyone had the power, and you chose not to do it you own this and I hope you choke on it

“What have I done!” 🤡

Just because it's not the Ellisons doesn't mean it's benign. The consolidation of Hollywood is the problem. State AGs need to block this and signal they'll block a Paramount-WBD merger as anticompetitive too. prospect.org/2025/12/05/n...

This Netflix merger proposal with Warner Bros/HBO is really terrible. The Trump administration may do the right thing for the wrong reason, by trying to stage-manage a team-up with Paramount. The real question is, why can't Warner Bros. just make good stuff and show it at a profit?

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

There is a "fix" for that, but it's the long struggle of building an actually democratic society in which learning is valued more than knowledge and knowledge is more valued than certification. Any number of experimental colleges & programs work toward this.

Yeah - and the thing is, I don't think it's really even that expensive. You have to be able to disavow the instant-react account if they fumble something, but honestly people usually don't care after the next thing happens. Get a staff of like, four people.

Every elected Republican was a united front opposing and criticizing everything Obama did for 8 straight years, even if it was a policy they fundamentally agreed with. Why. In the fuck. Is it asking too much for Democrats to do the same with a legitimate fascist?

New from me, covering for @brianbeutler.bsky.social at Off Message: Trump has us living in a distortion field. He's openly coddling a *child sex trafficker*, apparently so she won’t tell what she knows. We've blown past it instead of sounding the alarm. www.offmessage.net/p/the-5-alar...

Just one small example of the drain on taxpayer dollars this Idiocracy is costing us.