I immediately texted this to somebody and then realized I surely, surely must've fallen for a fake screenshot. But no, this is where the NYT is. Jaw dropping, even for them. @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social "if newspapers could kill" spinoff when?

Right then, right now.

Mamdanimentum

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

October 30, 1982: During his second career NBA game, Atlanta rookie Dominique Wilkins dunks on Larry Bird of the Celtics. Wilkins scored 22 PTS. Bird had 21 PTS/14 REB and Cedric Maxwell added 21 PTS in Boston's 112-97 victory. Dan Roundfield had 22 PTS/15 REB for the Hawks.

A STORY IN FOUR PARTS: 1. NRSC poll wording 2. NRSC poll results 3. SoCal poll wording 4. SoCal poll results

The worst people doing the worst things.

I would note that this disdain points in one direction. These legacy media outlets have been quick to cover and hype tea party protests, anti-mask/anti-vax protests, and countless other examples of what they call “real Americans” engaging in protest.

No Kings ATL!

Still my favorite band.

Damn.

Respect.

You've heard of @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social but now there's literature-but-make-it-a-truck-I-saw-in-Conyers-yesterday.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

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The Mainstream Media Is Catastrophically Failing To Meet The Moment Earlier today we wrote about Trump's extraordinary admission that he was basing military deployment decisions on old Fox News footage and lies from his advisors. But there's an even more damning story here: how that revelation…

👀 www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

Chilling dispatch from Mario Guevara, the journalist trapped in ICE detention for...doing his job.

They're bodying us in the low countries.

I think this comparison is largely right. Yes, it’s a replay of McCarthyism’s ugliest aspects but that was fueled by a widespread sense that the country faced dire external dangers while this is about a deeply unpopular president’s grudges.

In North Carolina right now the Democrat running for Senate - in a state Trump won *three times* (I hate it too) - is leading by 6-8 points. 'Oh, but they'll cancel elections' - then force them to cancel elections and radicalize the normies and then march with the radicalized normies.

If you can't make fun of the president, you live in a dictatorship. To hell with Disney, to hell with Paramount, to hell with every collaborating billionaire. I want to live in a free country again.

How it started. How it's going.

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…” @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...

so are democrats really just going to remain silent as republicans target half of the country for retribution over a crime they didnt commit? im being serious, when do democrats call out this bloodthirsty rampage for what it is

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Met the chillest cat on MARTA today!

More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final. The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance. Read more here: www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

Amazing, unusually direct rebuke to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh from Judge Burroughs. She is, of course, entirely correct.

Protesting with @michelle1010.bsky.social @jtkindt.bsky.social

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.

Atlanta area friends. Please get the word out about this event on Labor Day. We need to make it big! I know everyone is exhausted, but we have to keep going.

Wow: this decision in favor of Media Matters includes all sorts of key details concerning the Trump admin’s coordinated assault on the First Amendment. For example: Steven Miller “seemingly” ordered Attorneys General in Missouri and Texas to go after MM. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On May 2, 2024, I asked for a 911 recording and a single police report for an shooting in Seward Park that happened in 2023. (As I've mentioned before, SPD is fully finishing each one of my ~8 requests before moving on to the next one on the list, so that responding to all of them will take years.)

As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down. In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...

Good to see @sepinwall.bsky.social make it out to @aewontv.bsky.social tonight!

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

The Washington Post engaging in "debate" on this shit is terrifying. This shit is dark -- laundering bad-faith morons like this. Without mRNA, we don't have Covid vaccines; we don't have potential for other vaccines and cures. They want to kill us. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

We appreciate everyone who shared their story with us today.

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

Oh my god

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

Substack is back in the news again for the wrong reason: this time, the platform sent a push notification to a neo-Nazi newsletter featuring a swastika logo. Here's Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best on Decoder two years ago struggling to answer a question about moderating hate speech.

Sad to say goodbye to Ryne Sandberg, a helluva second baseman and a good egg too.

proof 😤

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.