Bari Weiss, a conservative-friendly columnist/media entrepreneur w/zero broadcast TV leadership experience, will be installed as top editor at CBS News by its new, Trump-aligned owners. This on top of a Trump-aligned ombudsman. Wonder if they'll cover Trump aggressively?https://tinyurl.com/pyn92aef

More cowbell!!!

So say we all!

It’s. Not. Trump’s. To. Give.

U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez released statement on particularly chaotic day and chaotic week: ICE is out of control. ICE is operating with impunity outside the confines of the law. ICE is trampling our rights. ICE is terrorizing our communities.

“Supreme Court will let Trump _______ _____ _____ _____ for now” (Mad Libs, 2025 Edition)

I’ll have what they’re having!

Man, I can't believe the guy who inspired this event 4.5 years ago is declaring war on large swathes of his fellow Americans. I mean, who could have ever guessed it would come to this?

I'm finishing up a short essay for @thesowhat.bsky.social about how I went from being a dude with a super-niche history dissertation to being The Surprised Eel Historian. And friends...it will never not be wild to me that frickin' TIME wrote about me and my work. time.com/5886487/eels...

Swap “father” and “father-in-law” for me, obviously. Co-signed.

Trump and Hegseth put all the flag officers in a room and said, “Hi, we’re domestic enemies of the US Constitution!” So: Now what?

Please note that, unlike the president, the deputy chief of staff does not have immunity from prosecution for official acts per Trump v. United States

Two years ago, a friend of mine from grad school was certain, _certain_, Milei was going to be the economic savior of Argentina. One year ago, the poverty rate had increased to 40%, and he said, “well, let’s see.” I guess we’re seeing.

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

I’m happy to have my cartoons reposted, but it’s always nice when credit is given to the artist so people can find me There’s a lot more where this came from

This is much, much more significant than the Comey indictment but has gotten like 0.1% of the media coverage

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

Describing authoritarian acts as authoritarian doesn’t incite violence. Decrying fascist acts doesn’t incite violence. Dehumanizing language is a precursor to violence & genocide. Never call any person an animal, scum, bug, vermin, parasite, or garbage. www.ushmm.org/antisemitism...

I have an undergraduate degree in social anthropology (from a very long time ago). Everything that the "gender critical" movement (and their centrist apologists) insist as inviolable truth – all of it – was debunked in the very first term of the first year. GCs are fanatical fantasists.

What if we just had laws passed by Congress, without the personalist authoritarian grift & arbitrary policy cycling?

We need to repeal the Invade the Hague Act and become a party to the ICC.

Y’all, it’s not just one school, it’s not just one CLASS year from one school, it’s just that year’s STARTERS, 7 or 8% of the active roster in the @wnba.com semis is @ndwbb.bsky.social 2019. #LoveTheeNotreDame

As a practicing Catholic who was gobsmacked to find that some of my fellow Catholics think the Catholic Church includes the Rapture among its beliefs, I enjoyed and recommend this brief history. Spoiler: the Catholic Church has NEVER taught the rapture as some evangelicals have it.

“Well? How did we GET here?”

Yes, impeach Trump; but Miller belongs in prison. Murderer.

Ds. Are. Not. In. Power. Rs can pass a CR if they can manage it. Ds are not to blame for any “shutdown”.

Or just “I’m so glad you’re in IL, not FL.”

Remembering C Kirk one last time, and then he needs to be forgotten. He said horrible things, emphatically, repeatedly. www.facebook.com/1557267380/v...

hey it's another stupid cartoon www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

These fascists hate competence. They especially hate competence not vested in white men. Competence exposes them as the weak, sniveling, lick-spittle losers they are. I want to see this evil ended.

We spent a ton of time on this on the latest @sirenspod.bsky.social. The multiple layers of legal meetings that usually underwrite the national security process are a value in practice (in addition to a tedious norm). Hegseth is killing off that norm - and I worry where and how that trickles down. 1

Has no one asked yet who owns the company that makes leucovorin?

This is Antifa.

‘What would Orwell think’, Musk had on his T-shirt. My guess is he’d think Musk is a master of Doublespeak. A man who bought his own Ministry of Truth and embodies some of the nightmarish developments he anticipated.

If they won’t impeach, can we get this guy before The Hague?

Go back to the top of the thread, but here’s the key:

Trump posts on Truth Social that he’s ordered another strike on what he claims is a drug trafficking boat. He’s presented no evidence that his victims in the three previous strikes were running drugs. Drug trafficking is also not a capital crime. Trump is murdering people in international waters.

Texas a and m president resigned today, after not acting fast enough or “properly” to scapegoat trans people, is chastised and shamed into leaving the institution cuz he didn’t Nazi hard Enough for the Nazis.

I'm hearing lots about insurance companies absorbing meteorologists/recent grads. This industry is in a math war, and the math says things are getting much worse by the year. That's the real economics of climate catastrophy/adaptation were facing.

We all know the word for anti-antifascist, right? [Queen Amidala meme: “Right!!?!”]

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

I have extremely reasonable doubts about any so-called "evidence" that services a fascist Republican narrative justifying their ongoing violent harassment and persecution of marginalized people.

Remember literally three years ago, when centrist pundits claimed that the trans backlash was really just a wonky debate over the correct medical standards for children? Fast-forward to today and you have members of Congress calling for ALL trans people to be seized and held incommunicado

Remember when ICE was reported to have shown up at the LG battery plant in Georgia with " a search warrant for the whole site," and 400+ officers, buses, chains, etc.? The warrant was real. But it was for four (4) named Mexican nationals. Someone, somewhere decided to arrest 300 Koreans anyway.

It’s Daily Fella time. Read about russia’s sickening indoctrination of kidnapped Ukrainian children!!! Plus sanctions are close to reaching Moscow & Lavrov is a liar! Warning! Heavy use of the C word! 😏 #DailyFella #DailyFellaNews #SlavaUkraini #NAFO

Ta-Nehisi Coates has written the best yet commentary on last week's events, while pundits, politicians and others have disgraced themselves in their whitewashing of of this man's legacy. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

It’s. All. Bad. Faith. Just like CK’s campus “debates”.

I’m playing jazz piano and singing professionally. It’s not a lot of money, covering gas and the occasional instrument or accessory, but it’s real, and I’m looking forward to retiring from my “real” job.

Interesting. I was told that both boats that had been struck down were verified to be carrying narcotics and had connections to criminal groups, but we couldn’t see any of the totally real evidence. Surely fishing would be perfectly safe under such conditions?

Every single time a form of UBI is implemented, it is successful.