OKAY ALSO here's my hot tip on electoral change tht doesn't even involve getting mired in electoral politics if that's not your jam: if you live in a red/purple state or otherwise contested geography, and you aren't an asshole, you can simply be Loudly Not An Asshole in your daily life

(1/X) I wanted to say one more thing about dealing with narcissistic sociopaths. People generally do what narcissistic sociopaths want them to do because they think it's the smart move (Tessio was always smarter). To put it simply, they're more afraid of crossing the narcissistic sociopath...

To my peeps, and my Brown and LGBTQ friends. Never forget that your light was so damn bright they handed the world to the first asshole who promised to dim it.

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Just gonna go ahead and post this again, 'cause it's still fuckin' relevant.

The odds are better than normal that whoever's on the ballot as the Democrat in your district this November will win. So it's important this primary season to make sure that whoever that person is, they're committed to an aggressive agenda of reform and accountability once they take office.

The first episode of our new @propublica.org podcast, “Paper Trail,” is out! And we’ve got a doozy — it’s about a secretive FDA policy that my colleagues spent two years uncovering. What they found, I have to admit, actually scared me … 🧵

There are very credible fears that the Iran ceasefire will shortly break down in earnest. The deceitful testimony of the war’s commander about the Strait of Hormuz can only encourage a return to the bombing.

New Bootsy Collins/Buckethead collaboration is called METAL HEALTH Coming in July: www.instagram.com/p/DYNkKkqOiEu/

I think voters might be a little more enthusiastic about the Democratic party if their elected officials didn't so clearly despise them

"Whiteness is great," Charlie Kirk said. No, whiteness is a pay cut. Yet America never learns. www.editorialboard.com/hiteness-is-...

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

🚨 NEW TOOL for U.S. legal journalists ⚖️ I turned @allyjar.bsky.social's incredible crowdsourced Google doc on accessing state court records into an interactive map. Check it out and let me know about any errors, missing information, or ways I can improve this thing (link below)

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

It's like all the lessons of WWII need to be relearned. 1. There is no master race. 2. Logistics and teamwork will beat expensive bespoke excellence every time. 3. Fascisms draw is mostly just advertising lies. 4. Airpower makes expensive floating islands expensive new reefs.

once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

👏👏👏 “AI’s prose is perfectly mediocre…. The resultant stories and essays are simulacra of thought, generated via pattern recognition learned from millions of human-penned words, rooted in no particular experience by no particular person.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

When abusers aren’t held accountable there’s an obvious benefit to being abusive and terrorizing people to get what you want. The Trump administration is far from the only example. This is why stuff like deplatforming and removing abusers from power is important and not just a trend or a catchphrase

The average American has three friends

De-MAGA-fication is going to be a massive project. Future Congresses are going to have to think big. The reforms might have to be bigger than those that came after Watergate: newrepublic.com/article/2099...

Will y'all stand with us? Will y'all make good trouble with us? They are banking on y'all shruggin' and whatnot.

I do think it’s important to try to figure out what Tucker Carlson, a man with tremendous influence in conservative politics, acutely believes as we try to figure out what a post-Trump GOP looks like. I just don’t think asking him is the way to do it because he’s just going to lie to you.

Public speaking 101, folks. Hat tip to Dr. Freud.

SCOTUS gutting the 1965 Voting Rights Act is a political catastrophe, but it's also a psychic blow for a generation of Americans for whom the wins and the promise of the Civil Rights Movement was the story that we told ourselves in order to live My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/supr...

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

There it is. Any questions?

ikea has this new storage chest for kid's rooms that looks like a mimic, and I applaud this kind of thinking. it's good to teach children about the dangers of mimics early, so they don't fall prey to one the first time they go adventuring

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

An America destroyed by madness was on full display after the chaos of an assassination attempt at the WCHA dinner, in a nation so numb to gun violence and so drunk on corruption that Trump and journalists wanted to party on Gunfire of the Vanities: My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

It's a positive development that the State Department produced a public memo on its views of international law and the U.S. war with Iran. And now this critique of the memo - by former State Department lawyer @bcfinucane.bsky.social - is devastating.

There is a reason Watergate was broken by Woodward & Bernstein on the metro desk AND NOT by the White House press corps. Izzy Stone was mocking White House reporters as useless back in the 1950s

You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social

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I'm sorry Dave, I really need you to agree to these new terms and conditions.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

"These beatings will continue until we start electing political leaders who see higher education the same way that many people saw it during that golden age of 1963 — as a public good that can uplift American society, if we still want that." PREACH!

As someone who once concocted a whole ass history of the brief time when German seafarers ruled the Atlantic and, in the process, brought the sweet potato to America, I gotta say this is some damned good bullshitting.

Newsrooms should not block the Internet Archive. Any public service publisher should not block the Internet Archive. If anything, we should all be directly supporting the Internet Archive.

In this Ohio diner, Ottoman Empire is still the place JD Vance shops when he’s horny. But they do know this: Hungary’s Viktor Orban only lost his election because millions of illegals were bussed in to vote.