a sitting federal judge — appointed by trump of course — awarded a student for a paper that basically says dred scott was right and should have gone further

"The world's richest man logs onto the platform he bought to yell at the AI he had built for fact-checking conservative mega-influencer Catturd2" is a sentence so stupid that future history books may just skip this decade.

The US housing market is stalling.

Pulling every dumb, dangerous lever in reach. bsky.app/profile/mlhe...

Pulling every dumb, dangerous lever in reach.

Your vote for Trump at work

I’ll say it again - when *any* politician uses the ‘I haven’t read that story’ lie about something they knew they would get asked about, the interviewer has a duty to say ‘Okay, in that case I’m going to terminate this interview and you can come back when you’re better prepared.”

We’re all looking for the guy who did this.

The dead-weight loss of investing over $100B, as Republicans propose, in walls, jails, police, and surveillance tech is compounded by the economic losses from making the U.S. radioactive for foreign tourists. Hundreds of billions likely chopped out of the productive economy, and for what?

this. thank you.

the number of 'takes' there'd be today if Krasner had lost, versus the near-absence of 'discourse' around it, is telling.

Just nonstop crimes in broad daylight

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

They unlocked the doors, turned off all the alarms, dismantled the guardrails, fired the watchers, and have damaged or removed endless safeguards across the spectra of our daily existence. All so, presumably, the rich get richer, and Trump doesn't have his feelings hurt with "bad news."

Go anti-woke, go broke

Unreal. The Trump administration is disappearing migrants to places that aren't even their origin countries, then refusing to say which countries they were sent to by claiming this is "classified," then refusing to say *why* the info is classified:

HUGE. A direct rebuke to the Trump administration's practice of shoving people onto planes: "Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster."

For a half century now, Republicans a) pretend to care about deficits when Dems are in power, as a pretext to cut spending, & b) massively grow deficits when they are in power, via tax cuts for the rich. The mainstream political press has not just allowed this deception, they've actively colluded.

Has any major US media org seen declining public trust, and reacted with something like "MAGA/GOP will denounce us if we do anything other than lie in exactly the way they want, it's bad faith, we can't win their trust, so let's try appealing more to customers that prefer truth"? Even one example?

Vague, toothless coverage is media trying to regain public trust. It's just that they think "public trust" means "Republicans," the way to get it is by avoiding bias (which means saying things Republicans dislike), and the fact that trying this for years hasn't worked is not a reason to reconsider.

If political journalists are concerned not about the public’s lack of trust, but only about Republicans’, and assume right-wing anti-media sentiment is good faith criticism, not bad faith in pursuit of political power, and don’t care about anyone else’s declining trust in them, it makes more sense.

We’re all gonna die

“Did I mention we are VERY racist?”

Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US

Jeff Merkley & Schumer introduced the "End Crypto Corruption Act," which would bar Presidents, their family, senior exec branch officials, etc from issuing crypto. That'll be introduced as an amendment to the GENIUS Act, which will fail. Then they'll pass GENIUS, & say they did their best. Pathetic.

BREAKING: Democrats reached a deal on a stablecoin bill that will give them a fake amendment on Trump crypto corruption that is designed to fail, so collaborators can say they did the best they could. "Schumer 101," said one source. prospect.org/politics/202...

This is an awesome example of local-govt resistance to needlessly aggressive state-level interference.

becoming increasingly firmly convinced that ideas are either worth taking seriously or not, and that a lot of the societal dysfunction that the internet introduces is downstream of it making this ambiguous "haha I'm just joking...unless" rhetorical affect the default for a lot of topics

The Fed didn't use the word "stagflation", but that's what it's warning about. Never a good moment when your central bank says that it's worried about *both* higher unemployment and higher inflation. That's a problem that monetary policy alone can't solve.

And if other countries are doing this for Starlink, what are they doing for Trump?

"As the government of Lesotho negotiates a trade deal with the United States, it hopes that licensing Starlink demonstrates goodwill" "In India, government officials have sped through approvals of Starlink with the understanding that doing so could help them cement trade deals w/the administration"

It’s this. He overcame heroin addiction and now thinks people who can’t do the same deserve to die. When he says make America healthy, he doesn’t mean cure the ill, he means cull them so the American population is more invulnerable at a genetic level. It’s repugnant.

RFK clearly thinks he’s an ubermensch, and that anyone who succumbs to any vulnerability he thinks he would have survived is subhuman and deserved it. Brain worms Mengele.

🎶CAN YOU GET ME FIRED🎶

One angle I'm always thinking about is how much free stuff Trump promised. There are people currently expecting 1) no income tax under $200k, 2) free IVF, 3) a baby bonus, 4) a $5000 "DOGE dividend." And there is no plan to do that stuff! Just campaign rhetoric.

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Reminder! Many of the major actions Donald Trump has taken as president have one thing in common: They’re flatly illegal. presswatchers.org/2025/04/the-...

Complete writeup here:

Stephen Lynch gotta go. Sorry Stephen. You work for us.

It is not a coincidence that the most effective protest and resistance of the Trump era come from groups - suburban moms, even conservatives - who are fundamentally optimistic about the promise and values of America. They are betrayed, outraged, and highly motivated to save the nation.

Yeah this is the practical problem with saying “Trump is who we have always been, a natural continuation of our history” - it’s DEmobilizing! It’s enervating. It’s the argumentative version of a sigh of resignation. It’s factually wrong, but more than that, it actively shuts down resistance.

because they do not care the mainstream media does not care about freedom of the press. they care about getting to the top of the cool kids club (maggie haberman, currently top alpha) and making a lot of money from book deals they can talk about when their pals interview them. they do not care.

once again reminding people that "swing voters" are mostly not centrists they are "get mad at the president because i disapprove of the supermarket rearranging the aisles again" voters

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

Dem Rep Gerry Connolly has resigned as Ranking Member of House Oversight due to his cancer. I like Connolly. But we should all be furious that Dems gave him this critical role knowing he was battling incurable cancer. This is a pattern from Dems. It must stop. www.qasimrashid.com/p/breaking-g...

Replacing income taxes with tariffs is 1.) imaginary and 2.) the most regressive tax policy imaginable—huge tax increase for low-income families, huge tax cut for wealthy. www.americanprogressaction.org/article/comp...

You mean exiled.

The Naval Academy cancelled a freakin' Ken Burns documentary showing, not because of the content, but because Burns had been critical of Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...