watching the CECOT 60 Minutes segment that CBS suppressed, it’s striking that Weiss specifically called out as unnecessary some of the most rigorous investigative work in the segment, including an explanation of how it was done (by human rights researchers)

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

"village" mentality is what sustains conservatism. not being able to do anything without the Grandma Gestapo reporting your every move. depending on the easily withdrawn kindness of others instead of impersonal but reliable services. and of course obeying aristocratic landowners

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

Still laughing about the fact that dude slapped his name on a memorial building, like he absolutely cannot wait for his own death

This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.

my suggestion is that we continue that struggle in the footsteps of Frederick Douglass and Ulysses Grant and Susan B. Anthony and Harvey Milk, because I believe that project is more likely to succeed than burning everything down in the hope that we can control what is rebuilt from the ashes.

I reject that I’m not a huge rock star, but no amount of wishful thinking will make it true. That’s how our government operates. Voting fascists into control of all branches of government had consequences. Making them behave like normal, compassionate public servants is not easy.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

I think that you can successfully brand as a moderate while embracing more progressive positions than your branding indicates. Voters want a moderate as a matter of demeanor, not policy.

NEW: Jack Smith told lawmakers he developed "proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump engaged in a “criminal scheme” to overturn his election loss. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

LUHAN: Is the FCC an independent agency? CARR: I think th--- L: Yes or no C: There's a test for this in the la--- L: It's yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, 'the FCC is independent.' This isn't a trick question C: The FCC is not L: So is your website lying? C: Possibly

I met a girl from West Africa who is about to complete an engineering degree and a bunch more who want to become engineers and meanwhile the US government is engaged in a fanatical white nationalist project premised on the idea that these girls are impossible and cannot do the things they’ve done

If fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction then what is unleashing measles across vulnerable populations in the United States

my personal serenity prayer has been 'you can't reason people out of beliefs they didn't reason themselves into.'

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

People support him because he reflects their values and character. He reflects their souls.

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

Oh god. here come the chuds slipping on their own vomit outside Penn

note to everyone else they're trying to intimidate: telling the administration to fuck off remains the single most effective response

pretending it’s impossible when we already run the biggest single-payer system in the world (Medicare) is just avoiding the conversation. The same way we got Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, the VA, employer insurance, and ACA: incrementally.

The last half century has sucked for American politics in a lot of ways and the worst of these is easily the pan-ideological consensus that the gutter bigotry of the worst elements of society must be downplayed, coddled, Listened To And Learned From because it’s just an outgrowth of Something Else

No. Bigots do not deserve support or solidarity.

anyway I feel like it shouldn't be hard to reconcile caring about workers and caring about Black people (who are also workers fwiw) lol like a universal basic income/real social safety net would catch the racist bitch who lost her job and that Somali couple can get a fuckin cinnamon roll in peace 🤷🏾‍♀️

Open rebellion! Love this guy.

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

The U.S. is mirroring a pattern that has happened in authoritarian regimes around the world. When a government erects barriers to reproductive care, it doesn’t just cause death and suffering for women and their families. Such policies are often a first step in the gradual decline of democracies.

As commenters melt down (I'll never vote for Newsom for President because of, X, Y, Z), I think of what @indivisible.org advises: we want robust primaries among Dems but in the general election when the choice is between a Democrat and a fascist, you vote for the Democrat. Purity tests empower MAGA.

ChatGPT hallucinating a well-governed United States.

Religious tolerance is a compact: we will not stop you from believing that your god commands you to do deranged antisocial things like not vaccinate your children, and in exchange, you will not send your children to public school where they can infect the sane and responsible people's children.

It me - in my 40’s

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Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

This seemed to be Charlie Kirk’s most common racist refrain. They think their fabricated cultural hierarchy is simply a product of “natural law” so they’d say things like “It’s not racism. It’s a reality we all see.”

Americans were angrier at Biden for being old than they are at DT for being a racist while sitting inside the WH (surrounded by other racist yt men) This is not controversial. You won't see this on the news 24hrs a day. The entire American media moved on already and won't mention it ever again.

George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

Seems like a weird thing to tweet on the day when your boss said he’d pardon someone convicted of sending 400 tons of cocaine into the US.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

I'm all for woke 2 as long as we agree woo-woo is out, I want aggressively pro-science and medicine thanks

it is good to debase yourself if it saves others but the idea that you can talk a guy who lacks even the most rudimentary Virtue Gland into doing good things is basically wrong this is very different than Liz Cheney abandoning power and publicly repenting!

Trump is incapable of resisting charm, (male) charisma, and - most importantly - celebrity. He has an unquenchable desire to be near it, has been chasing it his whole life. That's mostly it. Forget all the "He's a populist!" bullshit from both the centrist commentariat and the anti-liberal Left.

More to the point, the left just won an election by making a stand against Donald Trump and everything he stands for. Now you're telling me you're going to win elections by building an alliance with him? Fuck that.

It isn't a matter of "despite all our disagreements..." He's not Reagan, he's Mussolini And it's not a great look to compare your own political appeal to his

Oh boy. Well, that was fun while it lasted. What is this disgusting shit??! And he’s the Nazi oysterman’s campaign guy? Why can’t we have nice things?

Imagine the commentary on this website if Schumer and Jeffries had exchanged friendship bracelets with Donald Trump.

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.