one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.

Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble. A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.

It's hard to tell if MattY is dumb or he's running cover for Republicans with horrendous strategy. Literally no one actually votes for material conditions and it's not like the GOP actually has policy goals that will increase prosperity.

Look, punching Nazis in the mouth was ALWAYS the right thing to do.

Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore

Lmao

A weirdly on point microcosm of MAGA’s whole toxic nostalgia trip. All those things always sucked. You thought they were good because you were twelve. Rinse & repeat.

Three recent national polls now have Trump in the 30s, and his disapproval in the 60s.... Reuters/Ipsos 38%-60% (-22) CNN/SRSS 37%-63% (-26) AP/NORC 36%-62% (-26) The thrill is gone, baby.

When Jamelle hits, it's a fuckin nuke. That is a damn good distillation of the modern arena.

When you remember several years too late that ideological antisemitism is historically a pretty big part of fascism's whole deal

Now this is a reporter. Kudos to Mary Bruce for fearlessly standing up to Khashoggi's killer and the president who was fine with it.

The head of Finnish intelligence telling a German admiral “the only thing good that comes from the east is the sun” goes crazy hard

Public schools are for education, not evangelization.

Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.

Man it really stinks that our government is using the World Cup as an opportunity to advance their fascist agenda because the soccer is going to kick ass

Look, we're just gonna have to do the damn thing people.

They really did tweet an image of the Golden M above the White House. Sheesh. Clowns, all of them.

Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks: “Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”

Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia and current de-facto ruler of that kingdom, whose word is law and power is unquestioned, is visibly like “whoah dude, dial down the authoritarian thing a bit”

One for the ages 😱

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

He's faded into the background since getting stomped in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race but Elon Musk's coup against the United States goes on bad-faith-times.ghost.io/coups-arent-...

Modern coups are way harder to identify than they used to be, and most media outlets have not adjusted to that shift. That's why you feel crazy today.

I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

I typically find most prose overdone decoration or mildly respectable stylistic choices, so the Nuzzi stuff has been a bit over done in my view but directionally correct. That being said, this sentence is a metaphorical bullet fired into the literal part of my brain that theoretically can read.

“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”

So the American Nazis are finishing the work of the German Nazis now

You can tell who is in “the Club” and who isn’t by who gets chased out of journalism or scrape and claw back into it versus the people who one year later come out of “exile” after gross breach in ethics and get glossy profiles and a book deal.

This is, quite literally, the concluding chapter from years of vice signaling as politics. There is no better evidence for how putting Trump, a charlatan and moral void, at the center of our politics for a decade has resulted in the literal rotting of the soul and character this nation.

I feel like the pope being an American cinephile is God finally rewarding Scorsese for a lifetime of devotion

"By its own definition, the alt-right is no more. Because it’s no longer an alternative to the right. It is the right." From the archives:

i'm watching the 2008 HBO movie RECOUNT about the 2000 presidential election like i'm mark wahlberg talking about 9/11. "yeah if i had been there, gore woulda been president"

i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.

I am sorry, but the first party to take up the banner of anti-corruption and accountability is going to have a hell of an easy time making its case and I honestly don't know why an opposition party isn't doing that already from every streetcorner they can.

The vulnerability of the U.S. government to criminal exploitation is just staggering. I mean, I can't wrap my head around how we can prevent the "sue federal government, friends and allies in the Department of Justice settle" racket.

The end of dollar hegemony will transform U.S. debt from a fiscal drag into a high-yield fusion bomb. For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.

That’s created a de facto soft-budget constraint. U.S. policymakers have been able to run deficits rather than make tough fiscal choices. If that goes away — especially if it happens quickly because the idiots running our government destroy the foundations of 💵 dominance — we’re truly fucked.

There are so many "suddenly, then all at once" risks right now, and that's a huge one.

"Average American believes in freedom and democracy" factoid actually just statistical error. Average American believes in cheap consumer goods and low wages. Thaddeus Stevens, who believed in equality of man before his creator, was an outlier, and should not have been counted.

This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.

can’t really express the level of contempt i have for what is just a form of solipsism. “the things that annoy me are the only things that exist and also the worst things imaginable”

This is Bari Weiss’ CBS, folks. It’s a right wing reactionary media outlet and any journalist with a shred of integrity would resign immediately

This is probably my biggest gripe with Tom, besides Reagan *realism; the rhetorical, "you... still have." It's we. *We are in this together and it's *our democracy. Using you is off putting at minimum.

The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.

This is about that sheriff: bsky.app/profile/bolt...