There is no amount of open corruption that will wake up Americans. That family has realized this crucial truth. They broke Senate, media and Supreme Court. Nobody dares to stand up. We live in a Republic of fear and cowardice.

Ratio me? I think sometimes people think they are being edgy but they aren’t. It is not edgy to support the head of one of the largest news organizations in the world. Like. It’s okay to just say you like adjacency to power! Own it!

If these are the ads I’m thinking of — people in the midst of otherwise nice, fulfilling and communal activities, except they’re staring unblinking at their phones and muttering things like “more yards, more yards, more…” — then holy hell this person is sociopathic.

it's only racial profiling if it comes from the racial profiling region of france. otherwise it's sparkling reasonable suspicion.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

🔥 Finally an EU leader says it out loud: “We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies.”

let the gourd times roll

ESPN showing the barren tract where the Broncos are going to spend a gazillion dollars on a new football stadium and then going to an overhead shot of the game at perfectly modern and cool-looking 25-YEAR-OLD Mile High Stadium is a real insight into our warped values

The US has gone from "walk softly and carry a big stick" to "react to every perceived slight like the most insecure guy in the room"

NEW: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. The latest? A new ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations from now on. The author took it as an opportunity to say Hawaii's court will protect due process—while SCOTUS isn't:

Yes, I'm sure you would like people to "understand" that

This x1000. The people saw this catastrophe plainly months ago, they’re ready to fight for our country/society/future, but they’re BEGGING for some leadership. The biggest impediment right now are Schumer and Jeffries. Do something about it @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Respectfully Senator: we ARE fighting. Leadership is not. It’s time to remove Schumer as the opposition leader. He is not up for this fight.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

The flattening of political conflict into "people I like" vs "everybody else" elides that the far-right option ("authoritarian nihilism") is actually materially worse for a lot of people than neoliberalism

Grateful to CK. In case of confusion, that would be the anti-racist CK who NFL owners chose to punish instead of honor.

Their voters are begging for leadership. They’re failing, catastrophically. Don’t give them another fucking dime until they grow a spine (or resign). Cc: @electdemocrats.bsky.social @kenmartin.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social @democrats.org @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

now the dutch are scoring on us

If there's anything funny about this -- debatable -- it's that Trump has an entire team of Project 2025/Federalist Society ghouls who have painstakingly built a foolproof backroom legal system to legitimize fascism and then Trump just goes THEY CAN'T MAKE FUN OF ME I'LL SUE and gives it all away

10 years of @volts.wtf in one tiktok

you hear people say stuff like "we live in a post-ideological world" but the reality of it doesn't fully hit until you see an image like this

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: In Defense Of Mass Censorship https://theonion.com/in-defense-of-mass-censorship-1848673776/

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

I am not represented by this person either as his constituent or as a member of the party he is supposed to lead. Just absolutely absurd & terrifying & demoralizing that this person is leading the opposition as the ruling party nakedly tries to end the democracy.

"We stand firmly on the principles of the U.S. Constitution, including the protection of free speech. HOWEVER, that right does not extend to speech that incites harm OR UNDERMINES THE DIGNITY OF OTHERS." Emphasis added because holy fuck

WHAT THE HELL

Washington Post’s commitment to personal liberties does not extend to employing people who criticize gun violence or accurately quote, without comment, Charlie Kirk’s words

This is a time for *civility.* And if any of you repulsive maggots so much as *think* a single thought that is different from the ones I am shouting into this microphone you should be beaten and jailed and ruined and set upon by wild dogs who feast on your flesh, you miserable shitstains.

Journalists’ and politicians’ insistence that everyone cares a ton about this guy is also doing a good job of proving that the “Twitter isn’t real life lol” brigade is the only demographic of people who absolutely believe Twitter is real life.

One of the most disappointing things is how many people are cowards.

A professor who was actually canceled - fired - and crickets from the hysterical “anti-cancel culture” crowd.

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

100%! I had inside man glasses on for way too much of the movie. Need to rewatch clean.

Sometimes I’ll get yelled at by someone being like “oh so you think you’re BETTER than a traditional HOUSEWIFE?” And it’s like … yes

Aw Christ now I gotta take down all the Bill Clinton flags on my boat 😔

Reads like hyperbole but is not

Said it before and I'll say it again: I do not think a legal profession that venerates the Supreme Court has a clear way of dealing with a Supreme Court justice as dumb as Brett Kavanaugh. This is the jurisprudential equivalent of him writing his name at the top in crayon with the "E" backwards.

I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.

Days ago, Amy Coney Barrett declared that we're not in a constitutional crisis, now she's rubber-stamping state-sponsored Klan patrols.

I can easily imagine this as a scene at the beginning of a story about how a civilization collapsed.

Read to the end of this one. Trust me.

Dem consultants out there saying "voters won't care unless it affects their daily life" even as we are living through an extended nationwide hysteria about trans girls in high school sports, an issue which affects literally maybe a dozen Americans.

The stadium Trump is in is named after Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend. What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...

Nothing sums up America under Republican rule like turning a place of history and strength into a strip mall food court.

Seven countries currently get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable energy. Norway and Costa Rica are at 98 percent