I really didn't make it clear here, but the thing we can do about it is prosecute crimes. If Jeff Bezos has turned the Washington Post into a regime mouthpiece in exchange for favorable regulatory treatment, that's a crime. The hearings are to uncover information that might lead to prosecution.

Reposting some evergreen content hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

"we don't owe anybody our vote" you don't owe *politicians* your support, but you have moral obligations to other people that entail trying to avoid their death or oppression

When Republicans thought covid was a thing that was primarily affecting cities, they decided that the best thing to do about it was nothing at all.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

everybody wanna act hard until it's time to do hard guy shit bsky.app/profile/cult...

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

Here is an extremely relevant passage from Abraham Lincoln's 1860 Cooper Union speech. (Jamelle Bouie posted this on YouTube, but not here as far as I can tell.)

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

i stg one of the problems with the modern pundit-pocalypse is their sheer *incuriousity*. everything is based off their first impressions, their gut instincts, their thinking from first principle. they gotta get that take out before they do any reading. what hath the Blog Era wrought, man

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...

Remembering how Jon Stewart spent all of last year telling me that he’d grown more nuanced and wise after his retirement and that Trump v Dems wasn’t as black and white as people claimed. What a ridiculous fuckwad he turned out to be.

I will go to my deathbed, which god willing will be in like seven decades, absolutely hating these people for their sheer hubris and decadence. We had the world, and they are risking it all because they can't see past the bridge of their nose shoved up their ass

to a pretty significant extent, the "culture of honest debate" which mainstream liberal pundits pretend to charlie kirk stood for is just a conspiracy against the public

look, it is comforting to think that your political opponents are, at the end of the day, just people like you who really want us all to live together as Americans. it's just very obviously not *true* in MAGA's case, as you can tell through, well, what they say and do.

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dating apps should just make men list their top 5 podcasts

Watching the press hagiography of Charlie Kirk is the first time I viscerally felt like they were in all respects the enemy of truth and democracy

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

the abolitionists stared down the slave power for DECADES and never once went "well i guess slavery is just too popular. might as well stop participating in american politics" the slave power was unbeatable... until it wasn't. that didn't happen by magic. that happened by hard fucking work.

We got bad Stancil this week, huh?

This is the DOJ report on far-right extremism and violence that the current administration does not want you to know about. Be sure to spread this as far and as wide as possible. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Despite what Klein says, he’s not trying to understand the American right. Understanding them requires being honest about their beliefs, policies and (far!) higher propensity toward violence. Pretending this is all a polite philosophical disagreement is the opposite of fostering understanding.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Ok PBS just let David Brooks say that his friends texted him “this is our George Floyd”

Set aside Sen. Mike Lee's storm of lies and incitement here. Lee literally made jokes on Twitter about the fmr Speaker of the Minnesota state house being murdered in her home by a right wing extremist. Hard to imagine any more twisted and malicious person in public life.

Last four hours!

it is obscene to treat the unfortunate but (as he himself pointed out) routine murder of this Nazi shithead who believed that Jewish gelt was corrupting the blood of white Americans like a national tragedy

I thought of something: There is a big difference between not deserving to get murdered and practicing politics in the right way. And I wish that this were more obvious to people with a lot of cultural power.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

He was an advocate of violence against his political opponents and took positions like “the civil rights act should be repealed,” “the Jews are replacing white people,” and “Ukraine is an evil country and we should let them die.” Kirk’s entire career played a nontrivial role in getting us here.

US political violence overwhelmingly comes from the right - the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

There is no compromise policy Democrats can offer Republicans to make them act normal on this issue. We simply have to state the basic reality — immigrants contribute to our country in myriad ways — and fight for it. I don't know how so many journalists convinced themselves this isn't an option.

It bears noting that SCOTUS approval is near record lows, and there's been *no* organized campaign by liberal or left groups to attack its legitimacy. Why does this matter? Because, like other structural reforms, it's better to start building support for unpacking SCOTUS sooner rather than later.

klein and thompson living up to the worst accusations of their critics tbh

Wild when New York Times reporters are or are not allowed to opine. If you think antivax lunatic RFK Jr. "makes good points" about COVID and vaccination, you can say so. If you think the Trump administration's egregious rights violations are bad, you keep that out of the paper, don't be biased.

I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.

"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:

also hilarious FIRE dude goes from "we pointed out threats to free speech where we saw them, even if it was just some college kid, because we are very smart" to "yeah we didn't bother pointing out that threat because the guy wasn't president" in one move. 🤡🤡🤡