I grew up a mile from a mall that died when I was in my teens and this is so fucking accurate. We’re already at the “everyone is afraid to go there because of the crowd” phase.

I think you can all agree that we've taken this whole "anybody can be president" thing a bit too far .....

This could have been an email.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Josh Hawley started a dark money group to fund anti-abortion ads. That means undisclosed, right-wing donors will start pouring tons of cash into Hawley's organization, leaving Americans in the dark about who is trying to influence them.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

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GOP Congressman Massie responds to Trump’s vile post

Whether it's an obscure adjunct professor posting that Charlie Kirk did some bad things or it's the president of the United States celebrating Rob Reiner's death, there's plenty of incivility on both sides.

While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.

Every single reporter there needs to hold the line on this too. Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.

Trump is profoundly unfit and deeply unwell, and his enablers are putting the country in grave danger. bsky.app/profile/patr...

I know I've been beating this drum for over seven years now, but Donald Trump is a very and truly sick man who should be in a mental or penal institution and certainly not the White House.

This is a real headline on the New York Times website. Support independent media.

nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.

Can't stress enough how important this is. bsky.app/profile/taul...

When a white Christian man points a loaded pistol at three caroling children, the conservative newspapers call him a “Scrooge” and a “grinch” If a Jewish person or a Muslim person politely says “happy holidays,” it’s a “War On Christmas”

DOGE was a group of hackers, and they were young, so they will live long enough to be prosecuted. Where’s our data and confidential information?

"Why did you slip in a provision to pay GOP senators $500,000?" is a question that could be asked of Susan Collins if even one reporter in Maine or DC had the temerity to pose it to her. (Same is true of: "Why have you held zero oversight hearings under Trump?") #MEpolitics

Piggy says what?

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

You can’t have accountable government if agencies stop publishing data needed to evaluate their actions. DHS, ICE, and State have halted core reporting on removals, detentions, and visas. Our assessment warns that suppressing public data is a key autocratic indicator. www.notus.org/immigration/...

From the beginning, Angus's argument has boiled down to 'If we don't give Trump what he wants, he might make things even worse' and you don't have to be a philosophy professor to figure out why that's a flawed, feeble and cowardly line of reasoning. #MEpolitics

www.oregonlive.com/business/202... Feds insisted that grocery stores not offer discounts for SNAP recipients...that is cruel.

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There you have it. Susan Collins reportedly waits till the last minute to see if Trump needs her vote to let him keep killing people indiscriminately without due process; it turns out he DOES need it; so she provides it. A pretty simple system! (Not so great for Maine. Or fishermen.) #MEpolitics

Every race. It’s basically been every race. Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers. Just everything.

mr president sir, the pollsters are saying you should drop more diarrhea on the nation youre leading sir

Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition www.vox.com/politics/466...

Last one was hunted for death by chump's army of goons...moron

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

If you care about this lost opportunity then share. @froomkin.bsky.social @normornstein.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @gregsargent.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Today in @thenation.com, the one and only @therafischwartz.bsky.social asks a pertinent question: isn't it time we started paying more attention to the fact that Trump's brain appears to constantly be oozing out of his ears into a puddle on the floor? www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Mike Johnson has an app on his phone that alerts his son any time he visits a news website.

Is there a better argument for "Republican can't govern" than this?

I'm old enough to remember last year at the G7 when Joe Biden stepped away to greet some paratroopers and the news media went bananas.

By the time you reach court in America, justice is prolly already meted out on you.😢😢🤬

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

The New York Times’ love affair with what they believe is neutral language can sometimes become an abusive relationship.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

Every Dem running for Gov/Sen should put their campaign aside for a week and focus energy/attention on defeating Question 1. (Which just polled as a coin flip.) It's the right thing to do but also a way to show folks they're invested in Dem values and not just their own self interest. #MEpolitics

Susan Collins top donor of the 2020 cycle -- who made his illegal contributions to Collins after she helped him secure an $8,000,000 federal grant -- sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison. Thread on Collins sketchy relationship with Kao: tinyurl.com/3ae2nt5n #MEpolitics

JD Vance, probably: "These are just kids. Would you expect a two-year old to know they are supposed to pay for cocktails?"