If you're blaming the Democrats for the shutdown of a government that is run entirely by Republicans, why stop there? Go wild, man. Blame the shutdown on leprechauns, or the Seattle Mariners, or maybe the cast of "She's the Sheriff." You've decided facts don't matter, so have some fun with it!

Donald Trump basically announces that he is declaring war on anyone he deems a Democrat... and one of the leading Democratic Senators, @blumenthal.senate.gov thinks now is the best time for a bipartisan censorship bill that will let MAGA define what content is allowed on the internet. WTF?

Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

“average voter is centrist” is a statistical error, average voter holds dozens of contradictory and sometimes insane policy views that more or less counterbalance because theyre all conflicting

Just going to re-up this. Bullies want people to be under their control, so they can hurt them for fun. Bullies fear real conflict, because real conflict is by definition NOT under their control. Real conflict raises the prospect of them losing, and they are cowards. You beat MAGA by fighting it.

at least i've never made the mistake of bringing an Ezra Klein to a Ta-Nehisi Coates fight

wrote about Comey, arguably the first capitulator in advance. trying to palliate trump led to the destruction of basically everything he was trying to preserve. it feels like we should learn from that. www.publicnotice.co/p/comey-indi...

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

working up "democrats must embrace war mindset" rn, but one of my beliefs is this: dooming is itself a reaction to the fear of responsibility. if all is lost and nothing matters then you can't be criticized for your choices. it's not "cold eyed reason." it's an easy escape. comforting

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

If Democrats cave on this, I will never, ever, ever, ever vote for them ever again. Ever.

stone. cold. and we love to see it.

The Liberal Project spans centuries and is larger than any one country! The fight for individual liberties and true social virtue is not lost we have to reclaim our Truth!!!!

My general belief is that Dems need to spend more time thinking about what they believe and less about what they think some imaginary swing voters want them to believe. Political strategy will stem from an authentic set of beliefs.

So exhausting..

When I tell you I can entertain myself for hours on end, I be doing stuff like this 🤣

Well don't I feel stupid

Stop pretending everything they do is a brilliant gambit. Stop acting like every ridiculous move they make is going to pay off for them. STOP RESPECTING THEM THIS MUCH! They are drunk toddlers with guns, of course they are dangerous. To everyone, including each other and themselves.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

www.reuters.com/sustainabili... China is halting the expansion of the gobi desert by planting goji berries beneath solar panels. The shade reduces heat and water stress on the plants. Excellent

I have my complaints about the Democratic Party, but everything I hear about Starmer's Labour Party makes the Dems look like Solidarnosc in comparison.

Tulane realized the real money for a university is housing, not tuition, so they forced students to live on campus for an extra year. Now there's a glut of rental housing surrounding campus and prices dropped. Critical geographers are flocking to NOLA to understand what made landlords less greedy.

Also, as we I've seen demonstrated over the years covering policing: information from law enforcement is not objective and absolute. Like any other source, it deserves careful scrutiny.

Donny: They're both decent guys. Although I guess not as decent as Warren since Donny isn't breaking Tony out of jail. #Hollyoaks

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

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The thing I love the most about Mr Terrific is that he created a space ship/airplane that a journalist could fly.

Can’t wait to break Sinclair up. Corporate media consolidation doesn’t jibe with democracy. And although Sinclair isn’t a fan of democracy, most people are.

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/jdcm...

BREAKING: In place of Jimmy Kimmel’s return, Sinclair and Nexstar will broadcast 90 minutes of Ezra Klein criticizing you for not reading “The Bell Curve”

Joe Manchin singlehandedly blew up Biden's welfare agenda and caused child poverty to ~double. Andrew Cuomo literally conspired with Republicans to give them control of the state Senate

Duterte was arrested in March by Philippine authorities on a warrant issued by the ICC. He is now being held at an ICC facility in the Netherlands.

Disney to Sinclair and Nexstar

This is murder, ordered by Trump, plain and simple.

A wealth tax to fund the arts seems like a win-win. Artists get paid. Billionaires get entertained while not having to worry about falling behind the next guy because they are all getting taxed.

100% Domestic oligarchs are bad

the fact that in multiple cases the Supreme Court has worked to legalize bribery in the United States is a major corrosion of our civil order

telling my boss I’m going to fuck up roughly 30% of the time and it’s math’s fault

Alas, nope. 96% of US farms are family farms. Most of the so-called "corporate" farms are family farms. The families that own them just happen to be wealthy & have a lot of capital.

It hasn’t gotten a ton of attention, but I have a bill on the Governor’s desk to ban the most abusive & rent-seeking practices by pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that drive up Rx drug costs & kill off pharmacies. SB 41 received broad bipartisan support in the Legislature. Specifically, the bill:🧵

The combination of "I don't want to see visible evidence of homelessness" with a refusal to build housing or fund public services *is* functionally the same as Brian Kilmeade saying "we should kill all homeless people", just with extra steps.

The complaints about Disney parks getting worse remind me a lot of people's complaints about cities. Growing demand causes places to go through phase changes.

As someone who has followed this discourse closely, this has been a thing for time out of mind. Centirst pundits are always urging Dems to sell out on abortion when it's their *most* popular culture war issue, and it makes even less sense given the public opinion shift post-Dobbs

Worth noting that the highest profile and most successful Democratic elected official currently in those states is Laura Kelly, the Governor of Kansas, who seems to not believe in Ezra Klein’s theory of politics!

I just saw an ad that I thought was for a video game. It started by saying we need to "fight to secure our future" which struck me as a bit fascist. It was disturbing to realize it was an ad for the Marines.

"Disney+ She-Hulk star Tatiana Maslany publicly canceled her Disney+ subscription and encouraged others to do the same,"

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.