Obama: "The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy... Our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault. The President & current admin officials seem eager to escalate the situation while offering public explanations.. that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence."

The great Ray Benson with a shimmering version of Guy Clark's classic "Dublin Blues." youtu.be/QJJzH8En6C8?...

The only "myths" are in the minds of maga. The rest of the world clearly saw Trump supporters storming the capital, beating police officers & entering the chambers. It's all on video.

Morgan Rogers double sinks Manchester United and keeps Aston Villa on leaders’ heels

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Q: You have differences when it comes to ICE agents in NYC. How do you reconcile them? TRUMP: We're gonna work them out. The mayor wants to have a safe New York. We're gonna work together.

somebody change his diaper

When I last used Twitter the app kept swapping me off the Following tab without telling me and it wasn’t always obvious when it happened And even in Following the replies were garbage Using it became more of me fighting it to get what I wanted, rather than a tool that helped me. So I bailed

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like. I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

This is huge. The Trump administration wants to vastly expand the practice of shipping people to random countries they have never been to before, and are now making this part of a threat; either the countries accept taking third country nationals, or they get banned from visas.

New in PN: Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age" "They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated." — @adamserwer.bsky.social

When a federal judge starts a ruling about the government's actions with an extended retelling of Kafka's "The Trial," you know the state of democracy in the good old US of A is in tip-top shape 🙃

I know this is super obvious, but: The United States government threatening foreign students with disappearing them to prison camps in El Salvador because they exercised their constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech and assembly is so incredibly dark, disgusting, and dangerous.

The escalating self-gleichschaltung of those in charge of America’s elite institutions is pathetic, sad, and incredibly dangerous.

It's revealing that Musk is now going on Fox to protest his firing squads are misunderstood. But it's important to focus on the core issue. Musk says they're actually using a scalpel not a hatchet. There's no gratuitous cruelty, just careful concern. They've hardly fired anyone, despite ...

He's become such a morally-depraved MAGA bootlicker. Amazing he once called Trump "America's Hitler". Now here he is from within Greenland running a propaganda campaign to convince people there to give up their country.

Honestly they deserve Tim Pool — they're the greatest collective disgrace to the profession of journalism that our country has ever produced. The last journalist worth her salt in that set was Helen Thomas, and she died a dozen years back. /1

The right has jumped the shark.

On a daily basis, I marvel at how many people in putative positions of power are willing to help obliterate American democracy. The US has faced a series of very easy moral tests in the past decade and it’s staggering how often people in once-respected positions have failed.

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

Port Townsend, WA 8,000 pop.

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

Unfuckingbelievable

“Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone and do not be dismayed. Find someone who is doing something you admire and join them.”

this is exactly it. i wrote something similar not long ago

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history