As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Jeffrey Dahmer crossed a dietary line

This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment. This is the litmus test. Learn from history. Who will step up and fight? Who will bend the knee and be complicit? History will remember.

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

To me this is the difference between decorum and civility. You cannot be civil while promoting the ideas that people like Kirk do, because they are uncivil by nature. I like to say, "we can't let decorum get in the way of civility."

I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

You can't communicate your way out of a censorship problem. There's a massive rally in DC. How is CNN covering it? Find me a single article on the rally on CNN's main website. Then read this CNN piece on the ICE raid in Georgia:

The US has been the de facto world leader for 80 years since WWII. In just a few months, Republicans have made the US far weaker and less relevant than at any time in living memory.

It's important to understand that many people at the top of US journalism genuinely aren't interested in American history or politics. So that's not their skill set. What they do care about it, and are good at, is going to fancy DC parties.

The Abundance crowd LOVES masked agents kidnapping delivery drivers and snatching children away from their families

What exactly is the point of continuing to pretend you are a journalist if you literally just print what this known and obvious liar says? They just murdered 11 people. They've claimed similar threats but never proven them. We're murdering Venezuelan citizens. Write that down.

State supreme courts are a battlefield for pressing issues, from abortion rights to ballot access. But do you know how your court works? Our guide breaks down the structure and procedures of every single state’s highest court.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

The Scammed Age

What I'm looking for in the 2028 primary is someone who will put Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem in jail, and so far, that's Pritzker

When the NYT engages in agenda journalism, they show what makes them mad (black lady is president of Harvard) and what doesn't (people getting black bagged to Uganda)

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

Nick Clegg offers a psychopathology of the broligarchs. It looks pretty accurate. He thinks they're a direct threat to democracy. He's right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Pay close attention to what Klein does here. This is the kind of pained intellectual handwringing we're going to see from every good liberal in the future. It's the most disgusting, fake intellectual, self-excusing garbage, but it's worse coming from Klein. 1/5 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/o...

A simpler, less pathetically euphemistic way to describe “detention space” is “concentration camps.” This is a map of planned concentration camps. In 🇺🇸.

By the general election, the fight is over. The primary elections are the real battlegrounds. Make sure your Democratic nominees are actually Democratic, not faux-Dem corporate centrists.

bluesky tripped over itself to make sure professional bigots like singal could keep their accounts that existed only to harm and direct harassment toward trans people they dislike, but god forbid a trans woman abstractly “wish ill” on jkr.

One of these things is not like the other #washingtondc

Murmuring Heads

It's a tough choice, I know. #savedemocracy

the thing to take from Cuomo—a politician who was supposedly invulnerable and had control of every aspect of Albany—having a flailing campaign is that all of these assholes are really paper tigers who only thrive when their opponents are also cowards.

“A Republican is somebody who couldn’t enjoy eating unless he knew someone else was hungry.” ~Mary Karr

The UK age verification rollout, chaotic as it is, is a proving ground for platforms that are looking ahead to using it on a global scale. In the US, there’s never been a better time to get educated and get loud about the dangers of this legislation. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Almost like conservatives don't actually believe in free speech or protecting private property as a general principle. It's as if they only care about protecting *their* property, and anytime they claimed otherwise was in bad faith.

NEW: An Irish tourist visiting the US was jailed by ICE for 3 months after overstaying 3 days due to medical issue. Thomas agreed to be deported, but instead went to federal prison where he recounted horrific conditions + no medical care. “Nobody's safe from the system if they get pulled into it"

This is par for the course for the NYT. Pretend to be a legitimate journalism outlet when either nothing is on the line, or actually changing anything is no longer feasible. But when it matters, all the reporting is falsehoods about WMDs, or illegal immigrant caravans, or the price of eggs.

This is the sort of piece that should have been featured nonstop in the New York Times from August through November last year.

Here are when the 17 Dems who voted against the Sanders resolution are up for reelection: 2026: Booker Coons Hickenlooper Peters Warner 2028: Blumenthal Cortez Mastro Fetterman Hassan Padilla Schumer Wyden Bennet 2030: Cantwell Gillibrand Rosen Schiff

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Establishment support for Israel lost Harris the election and gave us Trump 2.0. Democratic party leadership traded away our country to protect Israel from punishment for war crimes. That will be the legacy of Biden, Harris Pelosi, Schumer, et al.

"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying." Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.

Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills. A true role model for today.

The second part of the Climate Extremes documentary has now been released! This portion of the film focuses on how extreme #weather events (like heatwaves & extreme rainfall) and their associated hazards are changing in a warming #climate. youtu.be/X6VCTfzl1DU

Example 1428 of how the NY Times is garbage.

This is the direct consequence of no senior officials, let alone GWB, paying any legal, personal, or professional price at all for torture & Abu Ghraib two decades ago. Our polity completely fails at elite accountability, and so here we are, on the doorstep of full-on fascism.

We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.

It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.

Arrest ICE