6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.

It is within Donald Trump's rights to fire everyone on the Federal Reserve Board and replace them with his friends. But if a future Democratic president tries to remove Trump's friends from the Board, that will be strictly unconstitutional. by John Roberts

This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants

If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there. I'm not kidding.

👇🎯💯 Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans. New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:

After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family. No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.

"I can’t judge what his motives are. But I think that there’s some evidence that he is frightened of Donald Trump. As soon as Trump was elected, he fired most of his climate staff, and then began to try and get on Donald Trump’s good side." heated.world/p/al-gores-c...

Waiting for the “critics say this was bigoted” in the top of the hour newscast.

Love how Democrats are judged by the most unhinged posts of random weirdos but Republicans are never called to answer for the actions of their elected representatives.

By me: ‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino tries to blame the rise of measles cases in the U.S. on “illegal aliens,” an extremely common strategy among fascists historically.

This is why RFK Jr. & his allies love VAERS so much. It's a great tool to gull scientific and quantitave illiterates in the media into reporting on "crises" that do not exist in population-level data. Old wine, new bottles. See, e.g. last century's DPT scare based a cherry-picked case series.

Epic take-down of Roger Pielke Jr's appallingly shoddy academic "work", which he's used--as an attack dog of the Koch Brothers-funded think tank AEI--to discredit the case for climate action:

As always, Drudge shows how the press would cover Trump if Trump were a Democrat and/or they weren't afraid of him.

The BBC removed a line about Trump being the most openly corrupt president in American history...from a lecture about the cowardice of today's elites. I wonder if the BBC has heard of the Streisand Effect

The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless

Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA." This is what's happening in epidemiology.

The media fell in love with Trump — the most mendacious person in the world — because he gave them “interesting stories” and now they’re doing the same with her for the exact same reason

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.

The Geiers were famous for using Lupron (a medical castration drug) on autistic boys to “ take the wolf out” as they put it in a long -vanished article that used to be on the NYT website. Vile and evil men.

media coverage of this is already as pathetic as you might expect, usually failing to mention: the FCC has no authority over the UK's BBC the scandal was created by right wing media the year-old BBC edits fall outside limits of UK defamation law PBC, NPR never aired the documentary

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

This is such a routine story at this stage, including the second act: "my friends turned on me when I betrayed our shared ideals - so much for the tolerant left."

The problem with having rather openly purged DOJ of all but the most shameless stooges and loyalists is precisely this: Even once the Epstein files are released, why would anyone believe that release is complete and undoctored?

Sure, conservatives are in the middle of a gleeful orgy of corruption, kidnapping, rape, and murder, but the real problem is when liberals say it's bad.

And there we go—Trump threatens ABC News:

Centrist pundits who pretend Harris lost because her campaign catered too much to the Left (be it on immigration, or identity issues, or basically anything else) are either amnesiac or full of shit. Either way, they have zero credibility talking about how Democrats should run their campaigns.

Pundits: Kamala Harris shouldn't have prioritized identity issues! Kamala Harris's campaign speeches:

"New disclosures posted Saturday...show that Trump’s purchases of at least $82 million include bonds from Netflix Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc., Boeing Co., Meta Platforms Inc., Home Depot Inc., Broadcom Inc. and Intel Corp., of which the US government acquired a stake under his administration."

Biden didn’t release the Epstein files because Merrick Garland was actively investigating Epstein/Maxwell co-conspirators all the way up until January 2025. Then Trump shuttered the probe. www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...

#3 is why we can’t have nice things

Nearly a full flight of northern lights IAD->SEA. Just a small selection of photos, best I could do out of a plane at 35k ft with an iPhone @capitalweather.bsky.social @spacewxwatch.bsky.social

Only Donald Trump could assert, in all seriousness, that the most important factor in a superpower's military might is ... branding.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

Agree with this. About to publish something on the airplane mess. But this too is ON THE REPUBS. It is not a reason to cave. Dems, it is a time to keep standing up.

Zohran’s win showed that the establishment’s grip is loosening. If this is the way they want to cement their removal in history, so be it. It’s unfortunate that so many people will suffer as a result of their cowardice. We demand new, young, leaders who aren’t afraid to continue to fight for us!

Call me old-fashioned, but shouldn't it be a news story when the president is posting AI videos of himself without disclosure - either he's trying to deceive people or he's reposting AI content without knowing these are fake videos of him www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Seems bad either way...

This video is bonkers, he seems unwell, but just to be clear about the history: The "nuclear option" to blow up the filibuster was a Republican idea. Trent Lott (R-MS) coined the term in 2003, and in 2005 Republicans used the threat of it to confirm several wacky federal court nominees.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

It's actually a sweet story, just a bunch of interviews with young people who made friends and had fun volunteering for the Zohran campaign. But it's unthinkable that a story about boomers or conservatives would have such a bizarre, pejorative framing. Young people socialize more than old people!

Centrists don't hate Democratic policies, but their brains have been conditioned to think all Democrats are the activist character from PCU, who was, and I can't stress this enough, not real and written to be unlikeable.

Democrats say this constantly, but when front pages of The NY Times and everyone else refuses to acknowledge it, or thinks stating it is is being a Dem partisan, how do you break through?

This isn’t even the first time it would happen - you can literally just go back to when Eric Adams first ran for mayor, and when he got into office, to see how the media manufactured a crime wave that helped push his pro-police agenda at the expense of every other city service.

Poll: Americans say “too divided” Pundit: Dems are being too divisive Poll: Legal system unfair Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes Poll: Low trust in media Pundits: MSM is too far left Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.

This isn’t just an improper blending of church and state. It’s a twisted mockery of Christianity that ought to offend any actually devout Christian. Showing armed soldiers moving into battle as you lip service “… as we forgive those who trespass against us” sorta misses the point.

It’s been FIFTEEN YEARS and the media is still letting Republicans pretend they have some super-secret concept of a hidden plan to maybe consider a covert proposal that could theoretically be implemented in a hypothetical simulation of a Congress run by people who are not actually clowns.

Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross. The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular! The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.