Hegseth sees DDay as a story about invaders who must be stopped.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

Fitzcarraldo Brother, Where art Thou?

In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."

In here I tried to develop @resnikoff.bsky.social's concept of "hyperfascism": The ballroom, the arch, Trump's face on everything, etc is all about supplanting republican governance with the trappings of imperial, personalist rule in a *deliberately* visible way, as if to say: You can't stop me.

PELLEY: “For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.“

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Fuck yea, I love reading the news.

Since they tried to bury it, you know what to do. Video: xcancel.com/patriottakes...

Hey remember when Trump said he didn’t know what Project 2025 was and the super serious mainstream media swallowed it? 😕🤷🏼

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

Americans should be alarmed by any attempt to turn public power into a partisan slush fund. If billions are being steered toward organizations whose purpose is helping one party win elections, that is not governance, it’s the corruption of democracy itself.

I think about this a lot.

It's simple! The only reason that the Epstein files have not been published is that they incriminate the president of the United States.

There’s never any money for healthcare, childcare, education, or the environment, but there’s apparently plenty of money for a UFC arena on the White House lawn.

And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Here’s a thought — Maybe these people don’t deserve to be handsomely rewarded? (From NPR)

White conservatives regularly called out mobs in service of white power during the Jim Crow era. These groups, in tandem w fascist politicians & a captured judiciary, made it all-but-impossible for opponents to vote, organze, or even express dissent. The Wilmington Massacre is a classic example.

Morning everyone. Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws? You are subject to the law. Now he is not. No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

Remember: it was like pulling teeth to get Republicans to fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. But it took them no time at all to create a $1.8 billion Insurrection Slush Fund to pay off the legal fees of the January 6th rioters who beat cops. These are sick, corrupt people.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

I can't believe we're just unapologetically telling this "God-ordained Manifest Destiny" white Christian nationalist fairy tale from the highest offices in the land in the year 2026. BRB, working on a musical about this era in US history that will be entitled The Frederick Jackson Turner Diaries.

For a movie that’s 36 years old, Dick Tracy’s make up & prosthetic artists did a fantastic job on the outlandish Dick Tracy villains that still holds up.

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

really insightful and horrifying stuff from @thefarce.org

Time to make Section 4 of the 14th Amendment famous, which explicitly bars the U.S. government from paying out or owing anything to insurrectionists. The text instructs that “all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.” constitution.congress.gov/browse/amend...

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

To add insult to injury, the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division is a protege of the Dartmouth professor who wrote this article a few years before she enrolled there.

The Trump-IRS settlement talks are blatant corruption being laundered through the legal system in broad daylight. A president suing his own government. Kleptocracy usually requires some effort to hide. Resist the temptation to normalize this. Authoritarians have routinely been overthrown for less.

When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?

Mike Johnson is a feckless toadie at the tip of the spear for demonstrating the great flaw in the Founders' constitutional design: They assumed that if one branch overstepped, the others would defend their institutional prerogatives and check that overreach. bsky.app/profile/davi...

Historian of Reconstruction, required reading for Mike Johnson: Congressional debates over Reconstruction amendments and laws. Opponents called them an assault on whites for guaranteeing equality regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude. #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic

Mike Johnson, like Sam Alito wants you to believe that the Reconstruction Amendments and the Voting Rights Act were designed to protect white men from discrimination. It’s obnoxious, racist and wrong.

164 years ago, on the 13th of May 1862, Robert Smalls escaped slavery by capturing the steamboat 'Planter' and steering it through Confederate lines. The US Navy commissioned it as the USS Planter and appointed Smalls as captain, making him the first black man to command a US ship. #otd #history 🗃️

The South is poor. Louisiana leads the nation with the worst poverty rate. Mississippi is second. Five of the ten poorest states are from the former Confederacy. The only Southern state that isn't in the top 20 in poverty rate is Virginia. The South is poor in large part due to racism 1/x

Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

My picture from June of last year, with the tourists removed. It looks just like it was envisioned to look. But what do I know. Tr_mp knows best.

I was really not worried about the hantavirus until this administration started saying more and more forcefully everything is fine

Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.

The idea of "overturning" or "repealing" the 14th Amendment was a pretty fringe proposition until recently, but it wasn't unheard of. Obviously the former Confederates wanted to do that. But it was also a white nationalist talking point in the Cold War era. This is 1988.

Yesterday, Trump pointed at Rachel Scott of ABC News and said "she's a bitch" after Ms. Scott asked him about rising gas prices. It will be old news by close of business today. Once again: Trump is held to a different standard by legacy media.

To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.