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Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Palace releases a statement to say they taken away Andrew's Netflix account and his coffee machine.

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 the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago

It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it.

My feelings, exactly.

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

Seems like Democrats could find the same info and hire the people who put together videos like this. But they never seem to do so.

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

dying at rightwingers falling for what looks like an ai generated turning points USA half time show with special guest “measles”

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"... -Ensure our food is safe to eat -Keep our air and water clean -Alert us to natural disasters -Protect us from financial fraud and scammers Remember what Trump is actually attacking.

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.

Photojournalism by the Tribune's @staceywescott.bsky.social

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

"Criminals wear masks, so why can't we?" Because you're not supposed to be criminals, that's why.

The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

The sense it makes to the Trump administration is that it’s the cruelest thing possible.

Dear New York Times, When will you stop nibbling around the edges and come out and say he’s building a dictatorship? It’s your job to tell the truth and warn the public. Do it. —Mark

Just thinking about the round-the-clock outrage that Fox News and other MAGA media have devoted to Mamdani's proposal to open a handful of city-run grocery stores. Meanwhile, the president literally just nationalized Intel.

Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage. Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?

You could write a book about this photo. Everything about it is so fucking vulgar.

Trump Confesses that the United States Is a Client of Russia www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/18/t...

I'm totally baffled abt the markets. Where is Capital? Trump is messing w/ govt data; imposing tariffs; flirting w/ default; meddling in corporate management. Where are the CEO complaints? The bond vigilantes? Where are billionaire hedge funders who trade on good data? Was Capital's power a mirage?

i really think the only reason we haven't created new states — which was a common political tactic in the 19th century, see nevada and the dakotas — is that 50 is a round number

Under the British system the democrats would’ve needed to vote in a party leader by now. Can’t help feeling that’s a better system than waiting for primaries. Get your house in order and create a shadow government

The New York Times uses the word “maximalist” because it’s afraid to use the word “dictatorship.”

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

If I were a political party out of power, I would get on YouTube every day at the same time to run down the latest political news and alert the public what the party was doing about each issue.

Krugman: "no, Trump isn’t winning his trade war — except, possibly, in the media, which have apparently decided that shooting yourself in the foot and not facing retaliation is a victory." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Come on @cnn.com, stop pulling punches. There's no "blending" involved here. It's corruption. Trump is abusing the office of the presidency to make personal business deals. www.cnn.com/2025/07/27/b...

Oklahoma gets back $1.90 for every $1 it sends to D.C. California gets $0.74 for every $1. So yeah, Newsom’s not kidding. Stitt’s “zero income tax” plan is built on California’s taxes. Freedom for some, subsidies from others.👇

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

Republicans are waging a generalized war on science, but I think many of them don’t fully grok that RFK isn’t at war with science alone or per se: he’s at war with sick people, and of the view that only the lucky should be allowed to survive into old age. They are know nothings, he is Mengele.

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services is a direct threat to public health. "Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover."

"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship." It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.

1. According to President Trump, large American cities are crime-infested hellholes. Last month, Trump claimed that cities run by Democrats have “heavy crime” and called Los Angeles a “trash heap...under the control of transnational gangs and criminal networks.” The data tells a different story

Younger folks will never understand just how unbelievable Google search was from like 2004-2010. You could unearth so many amazingly detailed and thoughtful expert resources on any topic. The first three pages of results could give you weeks worth of info to comb through and dive deeper into. A joy.

Zohran Mamdani thinks the city of New York can sell groceries more cheaply than the private sector. But to do so, he “will likely need to jettison other goods that he and his supporters value,” @conor64.bsky.social argues:

"It’s statements like these from Mr. Colbert that have rankled many rightwing fundamentalists over the years because they can’t simply claim he’s being inaccurate or even particularly judgy."

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

1. The media is normalizing Trump's corruption. There is a massive scandal that almost all media outlets are ignoring. It involves a new Trump Tower that will be constructed in Bucharest. Follow this thread for details. popular.info/p/the-medias...

So good!