Platner is going to lose and I will be left wondering why so many people lifted him up as the answer.

We really need to figure out why this guy became THE guy for a certain kind of “left” personality.

On this June 4th, wishing for a world with more people willing to stand in front of the tanks, and less who are willing to drive them.

If you wanted an “ideologically balanced” faculty, HOW would you hire them? I thought about this a lot while chairing a search committee this year and there is no way to square this circle.

Was just talking about this on CNN and my (obvious) point was that there is no reason to give DOJ any benefit of the doubt on this. The burden of proof lies with the administration to show that it is legitimate — which they won’t be able to do — not the other way around. www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/p...

this is an absolute shitshow from @usatoday.com I’ve been a bike commuter for 20 years and while I definitely get annoyed by drivers, the rage flows one way.

NYT: "no one has ever thought of teaching ranching at university" Every ag school: um, would you like to meet our cows NYT: "No, not like that. More romantic. More dilletante. Ugh, we're not /farmers/."

‘Could’ Of course the @nytimes.com went with the “we are all newborn babies who just fell off a turnip truck and suffered traumatic brain injuries” framing. It is so intellectually dishonest to ignore the obvious corruption that animates Trump’s every action.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

Huh, who would have thought that an administration brought in to ignore the communities they serve would bring in a speaker who ignores the audience they were intended to serve?

One of the most powerful ways media bias works is, when a politician says something that can be taken in a negative light, the story is "embattled scandal-plagued fuckup fucks up again! We ask all their colleagues about how much they suck and print the 3 worst responses"

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

I still don’t understand why Trump gets such favorable treatment by the American press. This quote is 100% real but does not seem to be covered on @cnn.com or @nytimes.com. My sense is that they’d argue that context matters, but there is no way another president gets away with this.

Is it good when a message communicated by the Democratic Whip produces a pit in your stomach? Over the last 50 years the GOP has run on “Democrats are evil” but here we have Dem leadership telling voters “the GOP is inherently reasonable”.

It’s a bummer to see this kind of pushback on what Obama said in this quote. Democrats do not communicate well with voters and this has been true for years and was incredibly clear in 2024.

I’ll keep saying it and saying it and saying it, to be considered smart and savvy in modern punditry means having the cognitive acumen of a toddler with a massive head wound.

The idea that anyone like Tucker (i.e., well educated, articulate) could REALLY be a raging fascist and racist is simply incomprehensible to our elite commentariat.

Asking "what happened to Rudy?" is asking the wrong question. Asking "why did the mainstream media portray a fascist as a moderate (or even quasi-liberal) gets-things-done problem solver for decades" gets you much closer to understanding the world.

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

My latest newsletter is about how the media defines "political violence" as something that happens exclusively to politicians, and ignores its primary victims: everyone else.

lol yeah girl, how did you think health insurance companies worked?

Our “elite” press loves to cast itself as a democratic vanguard when it’s really just gussied up gossip.

@cnn.com needs to just stop having Dana Bash on air. The viewing public isn’t served by having a professional clown interview politicians.

kash patel says the fbi will leave no stone unturned, from the postgame locker room of the los angeles kings game tomorrow night to the jelly roll concert a few days later in memphis tennessee

Cool. I understand there are lots of good journalists but the ones who went to this event are not them because when these events happen to “normal” people, they treat all of this like a game.

The @nytimes.com is not a serious news source.

Having just read @kevinmkruse.bsky.social’s One Nation Under God, this seems just a bit on the nose.

That THIS is the way they are exercising their first amendment rights is so goddamn pathetic. Just speak up, you boot licking cowards!

Every post I see from a law professor is like "I don't always agree with my colleagues, but this effort to 'cancel' my dear friend Professor Hitler is outrageous. He will be a valuable member of the Commission on the Jewish Question, though I'm sure I'll have plenty to quibbles with his results!"

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) Uncle Tupelo (1987-1994)

We need to rip our news media down to the studs and start over.

I would like to ask the @nytimes.com to go fuck itself. That Trump was experiencing mental decline was evident in his first term but these fucking ghouls decided it was more fun to ignore it and present him as a savvy operator.

I am begging for anyone to make a clear case for why THIS guy is THE person for this seat because he seems like he’ll be another Fetterman.

Just looked at the websites for my local TV news stations and not one of them has an identifiable story about the “Trump as Jesus” post.

Our media system needs to be taken down to the studs and totally rebuilt. There is no easy fix for this.

When we reach the end of this, more must be done to radically remake the press in the US. That he is this far off the deep end and no mainstream outlets wants to admit it is an absolute fucking disgrace.

Four minutes in to this absolute gem:

Feels controversial to say this but aggressively fighting for a liberal democracy is a good thing.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

This is obviously true but it’s also something that will get you yelled at by lots of people.

I am begging every Democratic politician to fire their consultants into the sun. They represent a clear and present danger to our collective health and safety.

Feeling a special kind of rage seeing people who couldn’t be bothered to help Democrats win in 2024 now demanding that they “do something”.

No matter how you feel about DraftKings, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms.

Would love to hear my senators (@gallego.senate.gov and @captmarkkelly.bsky.social) and my representative (@adelitaforcongress.bsky.social) echo this same concern.

I don't think Kamala Harris would've threatened to commit genocide in Iran on a random Tuesday morning a month after starting an unwinnable war with them for no reason

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”

There is a reason that lots and lots of people like this guy more than @booker.senate.gov and @vanhollen.senate.gov. Mamdani is not working from a Reaganesque playbook like they are, he is writing a new one.