The ICE ads during these football games are wild.

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

I can't imagine what drives these people to make up stories about grievances centered around a guy they likely didn't know existed 2 weeks ago. Also, if I'm Starbucks I'd sue the crap out of this person because she's a public figure who straight up lied and cost you business.

I assume they put together the 1 hour special full of Kirk clips and when they showed it to the FCC it was deemed too full of hate speech to be shown before midnight and on the open air.

It's funny that Silver quotes some other Substack writer as evidence that misinformation from the left is out of control when, reading said Substack, that author just believes whatever the "official" position is of the Yueno admin. He's not being critical in any meaningful way.

It's deeply crazy that a bunch of people who seemingly never interacted with Kirk and his politics in a meaningful way are writing odes to this imaginary version of him. And nobody is asking them to do this but they seem desperate to do it anyway.

A couple of them have even said things to the effect that they don't know what his beliefs were, or that maybe he didn't mean them as much as they think he did, and it's all so obvious they don't want to deal with the reality of the guy they're trying to defend.

God I find Klein insufferable in the best of times but that entire article is him basically saying that because Charlie Kirk was popular with right wingers he must be doing something right and so criticism of him is unfair. It's just gross fanboying around clout.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Hell, let's check on the coverage of Kirk vs. the two HS kids who were shot a state over today.

Slightly diminish a book Liar's Blackjack

Yeah, beyond the fact there aren't however many million open homes the OP believes exist, where they're located also aren't near where people live now or want to be near. Putting someone in a place without access to work, assistance, a support network, etc. doesn't fix a housing issue.

I know very little about Jerusalem Demsas but if one of her bright ideas to fix SS is to tax immigrants (who can't access it) more and not, say, raise the cap on how much truly rich people must put in, that's pretty tell about how serious she should be taken.

Ah yes, the four titans of authenticity in this world: convicted SA Trump, notorious creep and content stealer Portnoy, conspiracy peddler/intellectually lazy Rogan, and habitual fabulist Weiss. Just a mountain of credibility in that group.

Good lord this article about ICE recruitment almost feels like a parody in that you can't imagine just how many losers there are who can't do anything else AND are racist idiots. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

FT desperately trying to be edgy by making up some fever dream for fascists to believe that they aren't the bad guys. Ah yes, the Pfizer guy and a super empowered woman who pushed for voter registration are secretly MAGA.

Sanders has to be tougher than just say Kennedy needs to be roped into another meeting where he'll zone out for a couple of hours. Call for his impeachment (I know the House has to actually file the motion) and make it clear Kennedy's continued employment is deadly for the US.

Some notes, from an airport, on this dumb performative decision, which is calculated to appeal to vapid totalitarian twats. /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

It's clear they just won't admit they made a mistake with him and that Trump was wrong so instead they're going to spend an insane amount of money to look like they won and probably kill the guy in the process.

I love how "incarcerated people", an accurate description of human beings at times, is treated as a negative for Democrats mostly because people like Nichols and the party he generally supports throws fits whenever it is used to describe our current reality they've helped shape.

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

The fact this farm's website has, at the top of the home page, with a disclaimer basically saying they're forced by law to not officially sell their milk to consumers as drinkable by humans gives away the ghost. It's just performative nonsense for gullible buyers.

The Biased Media Tells You These Dead Children In Gaza Had Their Whole Lives Ahead Of Them. But The Media Won't Tell You Their Life Expectancy Was Only 40. Tomorrow In The Free Press

This is a horseshoe theory pulling 3Gs around the pin at this point.

Elon Musk has been talking about how his plan to colonize Mars is only 5 years away since the mid-2000s, and yet people keep acting like he's almost there. These goobers just keep making stuff up and because they have money a gullible subset of the population keeps believing them.

Kessler never did the good version of what a fact checker is supposed to do. He wanted to be a player, not a referee

I am really sick of all these pieces about the DOGE boys who uncritically and unthinkingly repeat the claim that they're "geniuses." We have to stop regurgitating out the label of "genius" exclusively for a certain type of special white little boy.

"GOP wants to know what porn you're watching" feels like the type of government oversight conservatives purportedly cared about.

This felt inevitable but people being unemployed isn't a thing Trump can get away from even if he lies about the numbers. Good employment rates under Biden didn't help and so if more people don't have jobs they won't really care what a report says; they'll just be mad at the people in charge.

I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.

I am, occasionally, surprised. When Trump first let Musk's script kiddies loose on the entire federal government with the ability to change things, I was surprised. But has it ever done anyone any good to say: "You're surprised? LOL"? No.

The thing about the Maxwell pardon is that if there was this laundry list of noteworthy Dems on it, we'd have heard of it by now. So no matter who's named, you gotta know there are a lot of others not named and you can be certain they'll come out in the future and with way more credibility with it.

It does what now

i think that there are a lot of atheists who are willing to consider that a person "having a relationship with God" might be a statement which carries some meaning (even if they believe that such a thing is unhealthy) but who do not think that there is even a valid subject of inquiry here.

Powered by the genius insights of prognosticators like Nate Silver.

It's been a decade of this but I'm always sort of amazed when you read about die-hard MAGA types just how blood thirsty and full of illogical hatred they are. Like, these people seemingly exist to just hurt others. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"Oh no, the consequences of my actions!" Like, it's fine he's figuring out that the racist liar's message he amplified for years is what he told everyone he was, but like all of these GOP types he only seemed to care once it affected him and I assume he'll have the memory of a goldfish about it.

It's the Xwitter of blogging platforms, in that it's run by Nazi apologists who consistently seem stumped by this reality whenever it's brought up to them.

And here we are on Larry Doby Day. Seventy-eight years ago today, Doby joined the Cleveland Indians in Chicago. As I wrote in "Our Team," it was a momentous day in the American League but a devastating one for Doby.

When the person pointing out the arsonist gets in more trouble than the guy setting the house on fire, in social media form. It sucks how bad NYT has become recently. It was never as good as they claimed to be, but it's basically a general purpose WSJ at this point.

First time a judge has decided a case based on hallucinated case law in the US that I've encountered. caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ga-cou...

The NYT is basically a video game company with a right leaning newspaper bolted on to it at this point.

NEW: In letters to companies with app stores, AG Pam Bondi purported to be "irrevocably relinquishing any claims" against them — Apple, plus Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and T-Mobile — for violating the TikTok ban. This is so, per Bondi, b/c Trump said it's OK, despite contrary language in the law.

The fighting in the thread is a great example of why this keeps happening, where two sides with a lot in common create straw people to paste their grievances on.

This entire discourse mostly boils down to disliking some aspects of the big tent of the Democratic party and assuming because it doesn't directly pander to your political leanings, it's universally failing to try to win elections.

Yeah, there's a world where Johnson gets this awful bill thru the House but it's not on Trump's self-imposed deadline so it's going to be a clusterfuck until either he rams it thru or time runs out.

My kids are old enough now where they consume media outside of my sphere and my son asked me why everyone seemed angry about this bill so I told him it basically took away health care from 17M people so that really rich people and corps. got a tax break and he thought I was joking. It sounds fake.

To me, this is a very narrow definition of toughness that basically precludes Dems ever being viewed as such to this type of person. Walz was an actual football coach and Vance wore a ton of eyeliner and dropped the CFB trophy. Trying to win over idiots who aren't listening feels like a waste.

Great piece about the real-world implications of the SCOTUS decision in CASA and just how insidious it will be for a generation.

I'm going to try to keep at least part of this account more light-hearted and fun instead of just another doom scroll, so here's a thread of sites and stuff I find interesting.