dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Straight up plagiarism can ALSO help you beat writer’s block!

I think a lot of people don't realize how much the Silicon Valley CEO types talk about things like AI robots to protect yachts and murder rebellious masses.

You basically never see "how will they pay for it?" articles about any conservative politician, even GOP presidents, but a left-leaning mayoral candidate in one city gets wall-to-wall critical policy coverage?

A land these are the same dudes demanding tradwives without being tradhusbands.

Republicans have the WH and control of both chambers of Congress. They can end this shutdown any time that they want to.

It’s really this simple. And until we accept that we’re not going to get anywhere.

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Trump take beef

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social A victory for FAST leadership.

Approximately 230,000 of the 500,000ish Covid deaths under Biden were vaccine refusers. Biden did as much as he could to encourage and mandate vaccinations, to the extent that conservative courts pushed back and rolled back many of those efforts.

Farms have a very special kind of bankruptcy that's super debtor-friendly, and is designed to KEEP THEM IN BUSINESS without having to sell off much or any land. And it used to only be for family farms that make most of their $$ from farming. But Trump expanded it to all kinds of wealthy people. 🤠

Chapter 12 bankruptcy protections only cover $12.5M worth of debt. That's not gonna mean anything to Bill Gates. The people who benefit from expanded chapter 12 bankruptcy protections are your rank-and-file, 6- & low-7 digit net worth, LOCAL multimillionaires. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Please sir I am just a small soybean farmer and a common man

Discworld QOTD, from Mort “This isn’t the kind of man who ties you up in a cellar with just enough time for the mice to eat through your ropes before the floodwaters rise. This is the kind of man that just kills you here and now.”

important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

And another thing I said! Was that if Israel didn't depend on public good will in other places, that was sort of its business. We're all learning a lot about the limits of bad press to affect outcomes. But if it does, it ought to have acted in such a way as to preserve it - at all.

Long before this, my opinion was that one thing that really united conservatives and even a lot of quite liberal Jews is the view that if people just understood the situation better, they'd all be on their side. So the problem is ALWAYS propaganda, not reality. Well, sometimes it's reality.

One of the things I said at the very very beginning when a lot of my Jewish friends were sharing the worst infographics you could possibly imagine to explain why this was going to be fine is that there actually isn't some secret argument to keep the heat off you indefinitely when you do bad things

"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

This, in 2018, was pretty good

Fun fact. Trump destruction of soybean exports (rightfully) gets lots of attention. But you know what we sell even more of to China? Education. 2024 soybean exports to China: $13B. Higher Ed: $14B. Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.

When a great concept for a heroine and whole new book series *finally* comes into your head.

Basically, they don't want to admit toxic masculinity is the cause of mass shootings, so they've generated this elaborate conspiracy theory that frames toxic masculinity as somehow the preventive. It's pathetic, but also enraging because it's getting people killed.

Lots of words to say "I've never given my wife an orgasm."

Jokes aside, one of the ways that these manosphere dudes, Christian or otherwise, hurts men is by seeding this idea that women are solely responsible for making a marriage work. If your wife doesn't want to have sex with you, maybe make it fun for her? But they don't even stop to think of that.

We always see men’s refusal to change their private sphere rolls as personal failings by individual men—deadbeat dads, good for nothing lazy men, freeloaders off of women’s caretaking labor. But what if what those men actually demonstrating is a kind of gendered class solidarity?

What Arlie Hoschild found was that when women entered the workforce en masse in the 20th century, men functionally went on strike from domestic labor—forcing women to take on a double day of wages and caretaking work.

The secret assumption of the liberal feminist bargain—that women would enter the public sphere and become full citizens & fiscally independent adults—is that men would necessarily have to compensate for women’s decreased time in the home by increasing their own share of domestic work. They didn’t.

In the Times today there’s an op-ed saying that childless women may have legitimate “private” reasons for declining to give birth. But one reason I have is not private but explicitly political: I want my life to serve as a rebuke to the notion that childbearing is women’s highest or truest calling.

Will Stancil was cursed by a witch to be the only person capable of remembering what life was like prior to 2015.

I love my grandfather. Every day he’s still alive is a gift from God. So to be 100% clear, I’m not complaining. But man, I really hadn’t figured him making it to 100 in my life plans and it’s looking increasingly likely.

They’re about to throw millions of Americans into food insecurity, following up the fact they’re throwing millions off of healthcare while jacking up everyone else’s healthcare anywhere between 20-150%, and this is all they have left to fight with lol

I might actually stop wearing my nice jewelry and put it in a safe for the next several months because I'm not trying to get mugged and robbed of my nice jewelry:

When he demanded Obama show his birth certificate, THAT should've been the end of him:

They can do that but they're not going to do that. They'll kill us first before expelling us. Expulsion costs too much money. That's why they didn't do it in the 1800s when they had the chance.

They'll all (including progressives/leftists) agree to force Black Americans back into a legal 2nd class citizenship/legal segregation. Don't be surprised when your progressive/leftist faves pay their favorite Black rapper to sell this 2nd class citizenship to Black Americans, too.

Would it be Irish and Italians again? Or perhaps Dutch, Norweigan, German, Scottish, English, French? Which group of White Americans will be the new underclass? None of them will want to be, which is why Black Americans will not be expelled from the United States.

If Trump/Miller orders Gnome to round up all Black Americans and expel them from the United States, and ICE is expelling Hispanic people from the United States, then which group of White Americans would then be the new underclass?

When Black people are smart, educated, affluent/rich, clean, clean cut etc. the system is upset because that's not how it's supposed to work. That's why KKK, PUMA, Tea Party, Trump, MAGA, Uncommitted, Bernie etc. came about.

That's the contract of Whiteness in this system. White people will accept less money and less opportunities in exchange for not being Black because being Black means being stupid, dumb, poor, dirty, criminal etc.

"You can't be White without Black"

I guess I'm just not convinced that "treat people as free and equal, especially as a matter of law, with all deserving mutual respect" is actually a minority position, and the only way to win over enough of the public is by tricking some them with appeals to bigotry. I do not think that's true.

And they just keep coming up with ever more grandiose pseudo altruistic bullshit about how they are actually hoarding all the money to save mankind.

Billionaires are now in the business of advocating policies that will make the vast majority’s lives tangibly worse in order to make their lives unnoticeably better. Money is an abstraction to keep score for them. But it’s food, health, and shelter for everyone else.

I know Trump loves nothing more than breaking contracts, but I feel like sooner or later there has to be consequences for breaking America’s social contract.