I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Ezra Klein: “Bashar al-Assad gassed civilians the right way”

They lied to help Trump win. Never forget it, never forgive it

lying about project 2025 was certainly the "smart" move but it's a complete revision of history to say it was in any way convincing. the only people who follow politics who seemed to find it convincing were mainstream political journalists.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

just learning now that "waffles" is about Jəsse Singəl, so I will re-up this piece that chronicles his long history of harassing primarily trans women (+ other trans ppl & allies) online... juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-j...

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Tories locate Ireland (any portion) on a map challenge: Impossible

Hey here's a question why have six figure income NYT contributors done a hundred pieces on the dangers of letting children transition and zero about this

unfortunately, I don't make stuff up on the internet.

This is potentially a 2-figure buy in each district! (The actual buy of course is giving Fox News et al an excuse to repeat the ad for free as an unreported in kind donation)

Remember: however much contempt you have for journalists, it’s not nearly enough

I need journalists to be able to identify a push poll when they see one & a sampled poll of 1,300 respondents is not a push poll. May be a bad poll, but a push poll is when someone floods an electorate w a fake poll to deliver a negative message _to a large number of voters_ to affect an election

I can think of no better way to consolidate control of my regime by gathering all my generals in one place and give them the opportunity to have completely off the books private conversations with each other after publicly berating them and mocking their charges

It’s about driving black people out of the armed forces because they don’t trust them to not open fire on protesters. They don’t want to recruit and retain them

Fired for posting "if you think Charlie Kirk was a wonderful person, we can't be friends," on her private facebook. Because it's everyone's duty in this free society to be friends with Charlie Kirk stans.

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.

This is a one way ratchet of course. In the aftermath of dems racking up massive majorities and winning the presidency in 2008, media elites decided it was more important than ever to platform conservative voices

i think that if you cannot imagine a democratically elected government you would take up arms against you do not care enough

The word of the day is solidarity. Here's how we apply lessons learned from Kimmel and his colleagues to every other fight we're facing. www.altrightdelete.news/p/monologuin...

Brave of the times to speak up only when it’s their pal and the paper itself in the crosshairs

More people in democratic politics need to understand that shutting the fuck up is not just another option but frequently the best one too

Telling the truth about red states will get you roundly condemned but spreading lies about blue cities is just standard operating procedure for Republicans. It’s especially weird because most red states are living off tax money from blue cities.

Reminds me of how NYT political reporters on twitter were so sloppy they couldn’t keep the various email “scandals” in 2016 straight

This is a demonstration of how powerful the right wing misinformation machine is. They take a phrase or a word some Democrat said, attach the worst possible interpretation to it, and repeat their view of it THOUSANDS of times until even liberals remember it the way conservatives want them to.

Hey @alyankovic.bsky.social what the heck

Eric Adams telling the press that he’s ending his reelection campaign because last night he accidentally killed Santa Claus and, thanks to a strange legal technicality, must now become Santa Claus

Dawg why don’t we hear about this happening in Missouri then

so @chatterton.bsky.social turned off replies and quote posts so i can't reply to him, but eagle eyes will notice that all of the posts he says are about bluesky's reaction to today's interview were posted between 16 and 120 hours ago

i am constantly hearing that the left is elitist but if it is elitism to stand up for basic values of citizenship and decency against a bunch of cruel dumbasses who have no greater ambition than to tell bad jokes and hear the braying laughter of their dumbass friends, then i am an elitist

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

did you know NASA used so many staples and paperclips during the Apollo program that US Steel had to do special manufacturing orders just for them to fill the gaps? google “Operation Paperclip” to learn more!

Married @aexia.bsky.social 10 years ago today. It's been a bonkers decade that 2015 us couldn't even comprehend. But marrying this guy was the best decision I've ever made.

The people who control which stories stay in the news and which stories quickly disappear like Trump and want to help him. Not much more to it than that

Can’t believe Trump is targeting lesbian erotica crime novelists now

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

Fundamentally, it’s deceptive to have almost half of the Times’ panel of Trump voters be non-white. This is not representative of his coalition at all!

My “Palm Beach was a different time in the 90s” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

Lesson for Democracts from Jacobin is don't help the poor - since if you do and the GOP rolls back a dime of help, the left will blame you for the GOP rollbacks. In fact, poverty dropped to 7.8% in 2021 because of Biden policies - the lowest level in modern history- and then GOP took Congress.

Laura Ingraham asked Tom Homan if he took a bribe and Homan started ranting about how he has to subsist on a government salary.

Premature reichstag

Trump threatening ABC again after already shaking them down for millions will hopefully teach a lesson that should've already been obvious to all the institutions that thought they could just bend the knee once and be done with it.

And that’s because the people who make these decisions like Trump and want him to be king ✨

If you’re going to use a chatbot as a search tool, you need to validate its outputs. Trump has never said the word “assemblage” in his life. He’s never even heard of it. I found the clip. He says “semblance of guilt.” Do better @motherjones.com

Blame trans people and/or Obama

It’s the culture of total ideological permissiveness that got us here - the idea that everyone has a completely unrestricted right to endorse ideas that are stupid beyond belief, and that if you make them feel like an idiot for acting like an idiot, you’re the problem. No. We need MORE judgement.

Jesus Christ