The US Government says Aldrich Ames is guilty of treason. But in this rural Pennsylvania diner these white working class voters aren't so sure.

Balboa Park & the San Diego Zoo are two of the easiest places in town to get to on public transit and it's weird how infrequently that comes up in discussions about visitor access.

I know this feels impossible now, but I swear, on January 6 itself, there was a pretty broad bipartisan consensus that storming the Capitol to find and kill lawmakers was bad, and that Trump was responsible for inciting his followers to try it

There's a good reason that section 3 of the 14th amendment was written and no good reason that it was ignored in 2021. We'd be living in a very different world now if we had taken what the constitution says seriously

Trump take jobs

Doug LaMalfa voted to overturn the election on Jan. 6 2021 just a few hours after Trump’s mob attacked the Capitol.

Walz is out of Fs: "Not a single Republican supported this, so every Minnesotan from here on, whoever uses this program, there is no bit of thanks that would go to the R legislators who did all they could to stop this ... our schools have money to pay their teachers? I'll take credit for that too."

Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."

We are going to destroy the key pillar of American security in order to take over a frozen island with no benefit to us and a population smaller than Idaho Falls, Idaho, because Trump has hyper fixated on it as some kind of ludicrous legacy

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

Truly, one of the most disgusting human beings who has ever lived.

It's funny how Zohran's tactic appears to be showing up to things that are well-known problems and going "wait why haven't we fixed this yet"

There should have been an effort to expel the ~140 reps who still voted against certifying the 2020 election results even after the failed coup under the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause. Dem. leadership's failure to treat the GOP as the domestic enemy that it is has doomed us for decades.

good example of how Trump wants to LARP as a dictator in a pathetic, impotent way. I’m constantly in awe of how this administration is full of whiny losers who think it should be illegal to dislike them

Trump is illegally freezing childcare & other funds for working families but only in blue states. He says it’s b/c of ‘fraud,’ but it has zero to do with fraud & everything to do with politics. Florida had the largest Medicaid fraud ever yet isn’t on this list. See you in court.

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Five years ago, I was in the House gallery when a violent mob attacked our Capitol, our Constitution, and the very foundation of our democracy. That day, over 140 law enforcement officers were injured by the attackers, and Americans across the country, & the political spectrum, were outraged. (1/5)🧵

Art. The whole executive team as clowns. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

There we go. That there’s a headline.

"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Stealing our own tax money from us to send to Argentina and build his ballroom. Intolerable

An official NYT response means this is clearly a sore spot for them and people should keep hitting the target

The purpose of a system is what it does. In this case, the purpose of “break up the massing” design rules is to make new apartments look ugly and increase local opposition to their existence or building more

i don't know what to do about a system where people in power believe the antisemitic CSAM generator is too important of a platform to leave because the worst pundits on earth think the platform signals something about free speech

“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold “oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile

even my favored structural reforms are just finding ways to brute force a less destructive republican party, whether that is ending as much as possible the electoral bonus for representing rural areas or making multi-partyism more viable.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Right. If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

The questions begin with WILL regime change be successful not how is it legal or ethical to orchestrate a coup and who are we to decide when leadership most go and who are we to believe we have rights to a sovereign nation’s resources.

I’ve seen the continued repeating of Trump’s claim that the US is reclaiming its stolen oil and no questions on that framing and no explanation of whether that claim is true or not.

As someone who myself doesn’t know the intricacies of our history with Venezuela I’ve been reading and watching to help inform myself, and instead finding few questions answered amid a general acceptance of the U.S. narrative and that is deeply frustrating to witness my profession’s abdication.

And so egregious, I have yet to see anyone question why indictment justifies the capture of a foreign president while our president is a convicted felon who has never served a day for his crimes. We somehow feel that distasteful or irrelevant and this is the problem right here. Is this objective??

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

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If you want to watch Orwellian slogans in real time, just tune into Rupert Murdoch TV

If you have to remind people “we are the good guys” that’s a pretty good sign you’ve stopped doing good guy stuff

Back during Iraq times, people on Fox News constantly cited the fictional show 24 as proof that torture worked

"Vassal" talk is a bit much, but those Starmer (and other EU leaders tbf) statements read like all these people still believe, if we can just hold our breath for three more years, this nightmare will be over and we'll be back to singing Atlantic Kumbaya

This is the correct read. Most European leaders have a 'white knuckle it until Governor Fungible (D-Nonsuch) gets 270 electoral votes in 2029' approach. Not a good idea IMV.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

its not like elon musk has billions in govt contracts while his site is also producing csam oh wait

A list of current advertisers on X, the CSAM creation and distribution website. stopfundinghate.info/whos-still-a...

"all our social programs are going to be run by nonprofits and all our investment programs are going to be run by private corporations" "why are all our government programs a scam that accomplishes nothing"

you know what's weak, bitching to god damn Axios off the record. if you want to have an argument about this then use your real name

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Still disturbs me that the world's richest man has facilitated CSAM distribution crimes at scale and you'd never know it from most news sources, notably the New York Times. Going to guess now that he's finally saying they will address it, the Times will run a credulous story on that.