When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

that’s right

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

You can honestly hear the sneer in “tenant-friendly policies”

every dem should immediately shift to the obamas-as-apes video trump posted, because it is instantly recognizable to normies are insanely racist and opens up numerous lines of questioning

Trump could say the n-word on live TV and the Times’ first reaction would be “it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware of the word’s complicated history”

The president of the US posing memes of one of his predecessors and his wife being apes feels like a thing the news should be covering but anyway here's another debate about whether DEI is bad

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

The GOP is hemorrhaging women who don’t like seeing children being abducted so the NYTimes had to stop the bleeding with this nonsense

Anti-woke messaging is a net negative among Democrats

I have zero bandwidth to develop the idea, but the last decade has given rise to a gulliblity style, where a source’s statement is treated as the story regardless of whether it’s true or plausible. It creates stories that are technically true but functionally misinformation. You see it everywhere.

there is an object permanence crisis in american news media

What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?

reiterating my longstanding take: only people born between 1946 and 1964 can be Boomers, but anyone, born anytime, can be afflicted by Boomerism

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

cooking up a new Legal Doctrine, to wit: a sufficiently dishonest Supreme Court decision can be actual treason

holy shit lmao

we've got Schumer calling for Miller's head, folks we're dragging them kicking and screaming in the right direction, keep it up

"getting outside your bubble" is an admirable thing when it means trying a new hobby or introducing yourself to your neighbor or watching an art film but people only want to apply it to "being a little more racist just to see how it feels"

I’m sure NFL podcaster groupchats are full of people getting their bowels in an uproar over this, but every normal person I’ve seen has had pretty much the same take, which is some version of “lol”

It's so crazy that the Democrats can't do anything when they are in the minority to the extent that they may as well not hold office at all, and then, as soon as they have the majority, they can't do anything because they are being procedurally blocked in ways that leave them just as helpless.

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

british guy: americans suck uniquely british news headlines: Lord Coffee says loo peeping incident was 'lapse of judgement,' will retain leadership role

this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming. no, those people shouldn’t get a break.

This is a nice example of Upper East Side politesse undermining a newspaper's basic task of conveying the truth. No one could look at the administration's statements and conclude that they tried to form a considered judgment, but that is too uncomfortable for the headline writers to acknowledge.

During the Soviet era, at times of govt instability, the state broadcaster would typically preempt scheduled broadcasts by airing performances of Swan Lake

it is hilarious that Sam Darnold made a Super Bowl before Josh Allen did

there is a particular editorial slant which can easily be sold to billionaires but has no natural audience among people which read the news and more or less this editorial slant has become the monoculture in american media

I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

Now that blood is on the street, we still won’t admit you’ve been right all decade long while we scolded and marginalized you. Instead, we’ll declare it’s just now become right to say such things.

hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading

i feel for all the radical centrists out there now confronting the fact that their ideology was the one built in a bubble and formed by groupthink. with enough exposure to facts and logic they will, some day god willing, catch up to the left

law enforcement just murdered someone and is attempting to cover it up, and the person you ask for insight is fucking *Rahm Emanuel*? the moral degeneracy of our media is truly bottomless

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Our elites decided Charlie Kirk was a watershed event that changed politics forever, but the repeated murders of people who weren't in their contacts is a point of debate they grudgingly have to concede might be an issue

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant. a face that says well, on we go

photographer is Jeff Wheeler at the Star Tribune. guy with the flag is Curtis Evans, a Marine veteran.

sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings

It has gotten so bad that the @nytimes.com has stopped using the passive voice to describe the violence.

I will donate, phone bank, and knock on doors for any Democrat who promises to do everything to the Republicans in power that they’re doing to innocent people. Not talk about the price of milk. Not talk about norms. Just want a promise that the these motherfuckers will rot.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

the failure of democratic leadership to fight back against this tyranny is wholly disqualifying. jeffries refusing to whip votes against ice funding is effectively a tacit approval of the street executions of americans by an unaccountable federal paramilitary. I dunno, man. they’ve abandoned us

The last few years have seen the largest wave of immigration in American history. All those images we carry in our heads about people arriving at Ellis Island — we just surpassed that. Crime went down. Real wages went up. This is a fake problem. Enough is enough.

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.