George Conway @gtconway.bsky.social on the Comey indictment: "This indictment is just quintessentially Trumpian: it is both breathtakingly corrupt, and mind-blowingly stupid."

✏️ Leave it to one of the internet’s favourite teachers to teach everyone about The Middle Ground Fallacy or the “both sides-ism,” centrists often fall prey to, so well. I hope the NYT is watching her. 🍎

Even low information voters should get that it’s not normal for a President to make billions of dollars as soon as they’re in power.

Perfect.

The tech reporting we need: exposing how far society subsidizes car and (in the US) especially lethal cars. The tech reporting we have: free parking is a human right, here is a tool to avoid ever paying for the negative externalities of your driving

well that escalated quickly

I mean "groceries" was a new word for him so good luck with acetaminophen. #Tylenol #trunp

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

Shots fired!

🚨Governor Newsom said, no more masks. “What are you afraid of?” California legislators have written a bill, it has been passed, and signed. 👏🏻More👏🏻Of👏🏻This!

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

This is @WeAreSinclair. Local affiliates are fed preprogrammed right wing propaganda to broadcast to local audiences. NEWS CANNOT BE TRUSTED FROM A SINCLAIR STATION. Check every station in your area. If they are a part of the Sinclair Group, their news must not be trusted.

This is an example of paralipsis (I'm not saying, I'm just saying) used as a layer of irony to cover over a layer of irony. Well done. And also funny.

Stephen Colbert is all in: He plays the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel suspended. You love to see it.

This will be called "evidence of consciousness of guilt" in subsequent criminal trials.

There goes the First Amendment.

Milhoan is now indicating that since COVID19 vaccines don’t always prevent infection, it’s not effective. The COVID19 vaccine prevents hospitalization and death very effectively. One might argue that this is an important fact.

It is not about Kimmel or what he said. It is about the US government forcing a network to fire someone - no government should have that power. If the network decided this on their own, that’s one thing. But in this case they absolutely did not.

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.

Holy hell.

My son was 1 when leaders gathered in Paris & pledged to keep warming BELOW 1.5C. He’s now 11, & we’re spending our second year ABOVE 1.5C. They’ve doomed all our children because preserving a suicidal economy is more important. We. Should. Be. Furious.

So what's the plan after we "play down" the impacts of climate change to allegedly help win elections. What's the plan when the water rises to your doorstep

I must be a genius.

BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.

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Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

Reporter: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags for Melissa Hortman who was killed as well? Trump: Uh, I’m not familiar, who?

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

Trump: “Smart people don’t like me”

I see the 30 year trend of democrats having to bow, scrape, apologize, and resign for every word in poor taste continues, while republicans can say and do whatever depraved thing they want with a shrug and no consequences.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

If I’m fortunate to represent this district, I pledge not to be this petty.

Fox News is really out here responding to a right wing shooter by blaming the left for violent political rhetoric while themselves calling to mass euthanize homeless and mentally ill people. Beyond parody and absolutely deadly.

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet