The White House Deputy Press Secretary looked at this graph and thought "those grey bars are totally fine, everyone will understand that only the yellow ones are a problem".

An iron law of reactionary thinking: when they are in a weak position vis a vis an institution, they demand fairness; when they gain power, fairness goes out the window. Which is to say: once the reactionaries take over higher eduction, liberal voices will be eliminated.

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

It’s always the ones you most expect

Many Christians in Gaza City have decided to lean on their faith as Israel moves into the ground phase of its operation to take over the city.

I mean what the fuck else does this guy have to do, does he have to put a crown on his own head on national television while screaming I AM KING OF AMERICA there is no level of appeasement that will satisfy him, fight back

The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.

hard to really take a lot of this kimmel shit that seriously, especially from people who were lockstep behind bringing militarized cops and paid goons down on college kids for calling a genocide a genocide. the horse has been walking very slowly out the barn for a while now

Tonight I'm thinking about the Founding Fathers and the choices they had to make to oppose tyranny. Most (though not all) were wealthy landowners. They risked the comfortable lives they'd built for their families, knowing the stakes were impoverishment, imprisonment, even death. They forged ahead.

There’s competition, I know. But threatening to pull the broadcast licenses of the affiliates of an entire “big-3” television network unless they stop their evening talk show host from criticizing the president has to be one of the biggest First Amendment violations in U.S. history.

Noted left-wing disinformation merchants (checks notes) the Cato Institute

This is false. For example, the libertarian @cato.org breaks down the numbers, showing about 6 deaths from right-wing politically motivated attackers for every 1 from left-wing attackers. Moreover, the claim that shooters represent anyone other than an unhinged fraction of society is the deeper lie.

I was going to work out tonight but instead I decided to read a sentence from thomas chatterton williams’s new book

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

i think the thing thats driven a lot of liberals at all levels of society to despairing madness is that hes just. so obviously exactly what he appears to be

Nobody has ever told on himself more only to have so many people pretend they didn’t hear it.

Tbh harassing foreign experts is a great way to reduce the trade deficit by turning America into an emerging economy lead by a personalistic strongman leading a paramilitary of petite tyrants that isn’t worth investing in

We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

a bunch of complete cranks that are, still, a tiny minority in this country have been allowed to impose their views on the rest of us because not a single person in their party is capable of standing up for the public good in any capacity

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

every single day this man embarrasses himself, his office, and the country. it’s honestly impressive. especially for someone who is dead.

I have found a lot of use for Melinda Cooper’s concept of the anti-social state: a government that exists only to extract wealth and inflict violence, and dismantles all its pro-social and life-enabling functions. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

Correct.

I love to show up every day for my job, which is standing around holding the front of my tactical vest and getting told to choke to death by thousands of passers-by while 11 of my coworkers handcuff a roofer on his way to work. Every night I drive 80 minutes home, thinking about nothing at all.

“.. DOGE increasingly looks like a giant joke as the initiative winds up saving essentially zero dollars for US taxpayers .” - Vital Knowledge @politico.com 🇺🇸 www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

There is no legal or political system that can hold together a culture that has lost all sense of public morality or shame.

We’re losing money robbing ourselves.

I'm in today's @globeopinion.bsky.social assessing the damage of Gaza and weighing what kind of leaders in America will be the first to truly seize this issue. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/07/o...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

The former Attorney General of Israel, Michael Benyair is now calling Israel's actions in Gaza genocide. "To eternal shame. Jews, who suffered a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza. Shame, rage, and sorrow"

Correct. This is a big reason why Chomsky always said he read The Financial Times first thing in the morning: because the business press has to be honest, since readers want to act rationally in the marketplace.

The unitary executive can set the curriculum at Harvard, order the owners to change the names of professional sports teams, throw his enemies in prison, close a Cabinet-level Department, but he is powerless to ask the sycophants he put in place in the FBI and DOJ to release the Epstein files.

Ofc most people deported to el salvador or somalia are totally innocent. That’s obvious in this post. If deportation were a serious matter of public safety, they wouldn’t be posting memes about it.

A friend of my compared gutting of federal agencies to a wrecking a car: if you remove 30% of the parts of the car, it does not go 30% slower. It stops working.

The President of the United States was at a FEMA funded concentration camp in Florida today selling merch and saying we should arrest the Democratic nominee for Mayor of NYC and also jail some "bad people born here". It is only July and he took office at the end of January. It's here baby

I actually did vote for everything to get more expensive, dangerous, and stupid, and I feel extremely represented right now

Love to be the free speech and small government party

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

The White House is basically taking all international students at Harvard hostage, and saying they are doing so to protect Jewish students on campus. Does anyone seriously think this makes Jewish students safer, or reduces anti-semitism?

Is it good that our pundit class is all 70-somethings still struggling to find themselves?

I get this but i think it’s because shatner is a beloved actor and bezos is the best entrepreneur of all time — and katy perry and lauren sanchez are famous for getting attention

Everyone who has sold himself wants to buy himself back.

a mouse training to be a rat.

My man has the medical know-how of a lawyer, and the writing skills of a doctor.

- citizens united’s role in enforcing total gop party discipline re: cabinet nominees - effectiveness of trump’s “flood the zone” in breaking laws / norms. Concurrent scandals diminish each other - (as always) dems still punching left — esp. after an election where we campaigned with Liz Cheney