Anyone who describes boycotting the film industry of a country that is committing genocide as collective punishment, without first acknowledging the genocide that is happening, and that the wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians is collective punishment, is just engaging in Israeli propaganda.

This was always what was going to happen. Before the divorce, I just assumed he’d give it to Musk.

I don’t know what else to say or how else to say it. All these insufferable Biden alum *knew what needed to be done when they still had power to actually do it* and… they didn’t do it. These efforts at self-rehab - now that they are out of power - are less than worthless.

Billionaires, lawyers, college presidents you can stand up for the rest of us anytime….. I know it might be inconvenient but this guy is driving us into a ditch

Time for a repeat of the first-term bribe to farmers to ensure they stay in the GOP fold despite getting absolutely fucked over

This administration very literally favors Secret Police.

There really is a George Orwell quote for everything right now: If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

Jimmy Kimmel is right; Donald Trump is not going to stop at comedians. "He’s gunning for our journalists, too." But while so much of corporate media caves, we are doubling down on reader-supported, non-profit journalism. Please consider supporting our mission. secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...

So advertisers on those Sinclair stations are surely thrilled... They'd have been able to reach huge audiences, if only the programming had been there.

Stop what’s you’re doing and read this from FoTI fellow and favourite web heretic @robin.berjon.com. And by all means disagree with it, but it is asking the right questions about money, power, and our future.

Just a reminder that no politician or bureaucrat has ever faced any charges for Robodebt

This makes total sense when you realize that in halls of power and on platforms of influence, "bias" has nothing to do with facts or equality; it only ever means and can only ever mean "contradicts white supremacist narratives."

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

Hastie is the next-in-line, post-Howard, cut-out, wannbe empty suit with nothing original or worthwhile to offer. He'll be carried aloft by the rightwing media and presented as THE GOLDEN ONE for as long as they can maintain the illusion. The party death he is worried about ⬇️ has already happened.

The thing about extremely rich people is that their wealth is basically all debt, the only way to become *obscenely* rich is to first get rich exploiting workers and then take out mindboggling debt using that wealth as collateral.

“This confirms once more that when it comes to copyright and its enforcement, there is one law for the rich corporations, and another law for the rest of us.”

Yup. Related, sometimes letting the voices who have knowledge and first-hand experience have the floor is more important than centering our own hot take, especially when we know there's much we don't know.

This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views. In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster www.smh.com.au/national/why...

WHO statement on autism-related issues The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between #autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy Full statement bit.ly/47YsgwI

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

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"Okay so imagine girls are currency and—wait, come back! I didn't even get to the *really* dehumanizing part, yet!"

Donald Trump's Crypto & AI Czar already has HUGE conflicts of interest. Now, he could be overstaying the clear time limit of his role so he can keep influencing crypto policy. We're launching an investigation into yet another example of possible Trump admin corruption.

Been trying to explain why economy increasingly feels like it's running wholly on rich people passing each other same bag of money - innovation is stalled, unemployment is rising, but stock tickers are still somehow going up. This example captures the current state of our economy perfectly.

Meanwhile, the NZ government is trying to abolish sick leave

I think everyone who gets Chotined has an enormous ego. Like they'll be the first to withstand it.

This. (The entire article is required reading, but I especially appreciate this section)

Few scandals better illustrate the cost of government secrecy than robodebt. But the newly proposed FOI bill will make it harder for the public to scrutinise the government and easier for secrecy to prevail www.canberratimes.com.au/story/907156...

Ishaan is a Washington post global affairs columnist 👇🏽

Yeah, it surprises me how few people know that the Rapture involves the violent mass extermination of the Jewish people. As we used to say in TTRPGs, the Jewish people are a material component consumed in casting the Jesus-summoning spell.

www.theguardian.com/business/202... .... although perhaps not as much of. burden as dealing with this crisis????

Israel is deliberately depriving people of aid in #Gaza. MSF’s new report shows how restrictions blocked medical supplies, sometimes even forcing our teams to perform procedures without anesthesia. Read the report: ow.ly/YZ8v50WZFBs

Workslop in, workslop out

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🚨BREAKING: Texas Republicans are officially renouncing the rationale they used to justify their mid-decade redistricting effort, as they get ready to defend their new gerrymander in court. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings."

Let’s be clear: What Donald Trump said in public, in plain view, on his own social media feed is more corrupt and dangerous than anything Richard Nixon was caught on tape saying in the White House tapes. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rid-me-of-...

The headlines should be, but won't be: "Trump embarrasses himself and the US in incoherent, rambling, shameful speech at the UN"

The anti-trans right heavily praised Gordon Guyatt as the “godfather” of evidence based medicine. He worked for SEGM and was responsible for their GRADE reviews. Now he disavows them, says evidence supports transgender youth care. Great coverage from Henry carnell.

“The long history of trying to ‘cure’ or eliminate autism has been a history of terrible abuse and dangerous sham treatments." I spoke to @autisticadvocacy.org's Greg Robinson and @drstevenkapp.bsky.social about the awful autism presser yesterday. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It is remarkable the degree to which Trump has made it official American government policy that money is a measure of class, excellence and merit, even as he has denigrated expertise and knowledge

more evidence that slop product uptake forces worker to do more work - to increase our productivity, if you will - fixing slop industry outputs. Even guns and butter economists can see this is “productivity” only distributed back to purveyors of slop. www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

yo, if you're not willing to describe justice thomas as anti-liberal then i really don't know wtf liberalism means to you unless your answer is "what it meant to the german middle classes in 1849" in which case i'd say "ok cool that's not liberalism by any serious modern understanding of the term"

What I gather from the Chotiner interview is that Cass Sunstein has authored a defense of liberalism where liberals are defined as those who he could imagine encountering at a Harvard faculty meeting.

Negligence producing death is inherent in concentration camps and the capricious use of violence against publics.

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

Trump DOJ staff want 'legal malpractice' insurance before prosecuting Democrats-When your lawyers need malpractice insurance, they know they're supporting a criminal POTUS. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @therickwilson.bsky.social www.alternet.org/trump-doj-st...