as a millennial of a certain age yes i am familiar with the rapture www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v8G...

A crucial win for all of our freedoms: “It should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate.” Thank @mmfa.bsky.social and support them. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...

"This hall of mirrors, where regular people going about their lives are transformed into violent threats to community safety, inverts the actual dynamics at play" www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...

Media writing about events of the last 24 hours might want to connect some dots here. Just a friendly suggestion.

very funny to read walter lippmann capture the basic dynamic of 21st century housing politics in 1922

when simon maloy read jeanine pirro's book

insane that this sentence is being written by, charitably, someone from a very very very friendly outlet to the admin

how it started / how it's going

There's a second chat where the fox-news-host-turned-defense-secretary inappropriately shared highly classified information?? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

It's darkly humorous that AI doomers worry about an advanced technology falling into the wrong hands, which allow China to wreck our economy, throw markets into turmoil, interrupt manufacturing progress, disrupt our scientific infrastructure, and create global panic and confusion.

normal things are happening

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows, this media ecosystem becomes more influential. A new Media Matters’ study shows how overwhelmingly right-leaning this ecosystem is -- with nearly five times the following of left-leaning online shows. www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

just named to the kennedy center board www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingrah...

A caller pleaded to a Fox host to protect Ukrainians who fled to America to escape war. Now, the Trump administration is reportedly planning on revoking their legal status. www.mediamatters.org/russias-inva...

Said it before, but I think you have to sort of invert Marx to get current politics: A lot of rhetoric that’s supposedly about economic interests is a mask for cultural interests. They get reframed for pollsters as being about economics, because that’s a respectable thing to worry about.

the thing about the manosphere is that these people have no idea what they're dealing with www.mediamatters.org/manosphere/y...

You guys don’t ever have to watch Trump speak FYI. If it’s making you sick turn it off.

There is something downright surreal about this talking point that the guy whose country is being utterly ravaged by war somehow isn’t interested in peace. But the guy who decided to invade unprovoked is, presumably? People buy this?

i think that Silicon Valley believes that it has purchased the United States of America and no longer needs to justify its actions to anyone else. that's certainly how SV companies are run now.

The fundamental problem with Dem messaging is that they are making it crystal clear they don’t take seriously their own rhetoric about the existential threat Trump poses. Which is perverse, because it’s true. But if they don’t why should anyone else?

Magnificent dumbass

systematically going around breaking shit the government needs to work is a form of civic education for low-engagement voters whose effects will outlast this administration

US hegemony is over. The good long-term outcome is a joint hegemony among a bloc of liberal democracies--which would be much better than one dependent entirely on one country's politics. The bad one is a large-scale nuclear war caused by rampant mass proliferation.

It’s not a strategy. There’s just a sizable chunk of folks of every political persuasion who view politics as a venue for righteous self-expression rather than a mechanism for achieving policy outcomes.

a very clear lesson of the last 20 years from Libya to Ukraine* has been to get nukes if you can. *ukraine did not control its own nuclear weapons but it would be in a much better position if it had them now

I'm stepping on the theme of Chris' book here but, we have an extremely toxic information environment controlled by wealthy oligarchs who have aligned themselves with Trump, the whole point is to manipulate people into making poor decisions. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Following Trump’s first month in office, right-wing talk radio hosts are having to face callers who are voicing their frustrations with the Trump administration’s impact on their own lives.

they're big mad

Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

In the coming weeks, a lot of slow-on-the uptake folks are going to begin belatedly realizing Trump is both an inept moron and a dangerous autocrat. Our great civic challenge in these trying times will be calmly welcoming them aboard instead of primal-screaming in their faces.

finally finished this brilliant piece. riveting as always from the times' murdoch experts www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

It's going to be a long four years, especially if we make ourselves insane misreading budget documents. This is a story where multiple things are true at the same time and it's a warning about how we consume information going forward gizmodo.com/the-400-mill...

Good thing Trump/Musk fired the folks supposed to be doing the investigation into what happened.

time is a flat circle [derogatory]

if you -- like me -- have had friends or family members with cystic fibrosis over the last few decades you know how far we've come and much we're going to lose (and may never get back)

i am once again asking these people to watch the movies they cite all the way to the end

We’ve become used to right wingers throwing tantrums every time black people are on tv in something everyone is watching (the olympics, superbowl, ect) but it’s actually fucking weird and we shouldn’t act like that’s a normal reaction

Let’s pan back a bit. The VP said a 25-year-old who tweeted racist shit 2 months ago should have access to everyone’s financial, medical, and other info — so he can fire people trying to fight racism. And when a congressman said the kid should at least apologize first, the VP told him to “grow up.”