“Two teens have died in Chicago this year while riding e-scooters.” Passive voice is doing a lot of work here. Did the kids have heart attacks? Ride into the lake? No, they were killed by cars. But it’s the scooters being presented as dangerous. #BanCars

Difficult really, to think of a single, more disgusting act a journalist can commit than lying to the public to justify someone being murdered by their government for activism. But this is who these people always were.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

they like Trump and want to help him

credit where credit is due, getting your cult addicted to tallow before importing screwworms is a good bit

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There is some confusion, I think, about the fact that both conservatives and liberals say they oppose sexual abuse; what liberals mean is that parents shouldn't be allowed to rape their children, what conservatives mean is that parents should be allowed to kill their children if they're gay.

The president is admitting that it's a partisan event here, so it shouldn't be getting any more federal funding. He can pay for it himself.

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Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

New rule, if you're a "how is diversity our strength???" dipshit you are not allowed to root for the team whose star player is an agnostic biracial frenchman representing a majority hispanic city bsky.app/profile/eric...

Yes. The pattern is that when the real Trump starts to falter or do something that would result in lowering his popularity, they substitute a fake, imaginary Trump into their news stories who is acting rationally and normally, inventing rationales for his actions that he himself won't articulate

Brand new homes are expensive primarily because building them costs a lot of money and the sale or rental price needs to cover the cost of construction. We have a housing affordability problem because restrictions on new home building have driven up the prices of OLD housing that should be cheaper.

The US military is being run by a gutter racist whose obsession with what he calls merit belies his own total lack of competence or qualifications

The fact that the media's reflexive default was to call E Jean Carroll an 'accuser' and not to call Trump an 'adjudicated rapist' tells you everything about institutional patriarchy and sexism in the media. Even when women win they're suspect. Trump always gets the benefit of a doubt.

We are apparently supposed to believe that Mayor Mamdani's decision to skip the Israel Parade today is a gross insult to American Jews, but the decision to host Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli, who says Reform Jews are not real Jews, is not an insult to American Jews.

"themainewire" is a right-wing disinformation platform, people posting it may be well-meaning but they are getting washed

JUST IN: Judge Williams is pressing Trump's lawyers to answer for allegations that they committed a fraud on the court and filed the president's lawsuit against the IRS as a "collusive" effort to create the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Anyone else miss Sharon? I can't be the only one who misses Sharon on here

"Groomer? You're thinking of that child rapist that Ken Paxton just gave a one-day sentence to" feels like a layup bsky.app/profile/dias...

alright this guy absolutely has scrambled eggs for brains

Powerful people sure do love to whine about there being consequences for their actions, it’s a shame we’ve built an attention economy that rewards that kind of behavior

If you read these two pieces side by side it's impossible to come to any conclusion other than that the Biden administration were complete chumps to release visitor logs. Press punished Biden for his transparency with erroneous speculation and reward Trump for his secrecy by repeating his lies

if your opening gambit is an obviously false assertion — that there was an entire literature challenging the conventional view of birthright citizenship — and then you work your way backwards into an argument, you are a hack and a liar no matter how certain you are that you are right

And then there's the way you can judge someone by their enemies: Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, PG&E, Meta, and AirBnB are among the sinister corporations spending big to back Becerra. Oh and the prison guards' union! They think Steyer is bad for their businesses, which is a ringing endorsement.

I am tired of Democratic senators warning me that all of Trump’s judges will dangerous “MAGA loyalists,” and then dutifully voting to confirm some of them anyway. Completely unserious people. Do your jobs or stop talking about it.

When these ppl say "Epstein class" they mean "Jews". The term is increasingly just a blood libel. Those girls were killed because Pete Hegseth belongs to an ISIS-tier cult that sacralizes mass murder of infidels and he has deliberately removed all safety mechanisms against collateral damage.

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My best friend gave his life for this country. He's buried less than a mile from that podium, and two of his children, whom he loved fiercely, are trans. This is just a giant middle finger to a man who was 1,000x the soldier the secretary could ever hope to be.

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If you acknowledge that the richest man in the world is a Nazi is has all sorts of unsettling implications about the moral valence of success and the arc of society, so it's easier to just ignore it entirely.

Tina Peters proudly displays Jared Polis’s wallet www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/tina...

Here's an additional mystery about the Broadview Six case. The original lead atty was career prosecutor Sheri Mecklenberg, a 20 yr vet in the Chicago US Atty office. In late Feb, with basically zero warning or discussion she withdrew from the case and was assigned to work on the Sen. judiicary ...

It is worth noting how depressingly banal all of this is; nothing here is new information, it would frankly be more shocking if there *wasn't* widespread sexual abuse of Israeli detention centers, the objection from Frum et al is just that "everybody knows" you're not supposed to talk about it.

the substantive claim that this makes is that the rape of palestinian detainees, which is not contested as having occurred, was caught on video released in israeli media, and which is defended as acceptable policy in israeli media, is tantamount to blood libel www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Semafor's @burgessev.bsky.social reporting the White House is privately threatening to Senate Republicans that he will veto Republicans' party-line reconciliation bill that funds ICE and CBP if they block funding for his ballroom or his slush fund

me 🤝 donald trump donald trump's children are contemptible failures who should be avoided at all costs

Science textbooks narrow-mindedly coalesce around a very narrow range of theories, while new age bookshops are refreshingly diverse.

@golikehellmachine.com prediction comes true (at least for now).

Again, I think it is important to keep noting that there is a complete 180 degree difference between the way the last month of actual total failure & incompetence has been covered in the press & our c.2021 breathless nonstop freakout about Joe Biden failing in Afghanistan bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The evidence I have seen suggests that when we let markets work, they are pretty good at providing most people with housing that works for them. As such, I think we should largely let private developers build the homes people want, subject to basic building safety and habitability rules.

It makes you think about why the media covers certain stories and not others and how they make these choices! bsky.app/profile/edbu...

Every republican primary is your commuting coworker from HitlerVille Kentucky saying “yummy! More Pedophile Hitler, please!” before squealing like a little piggy in the trough

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

And defends Polis by repeating the idiotic lie that Peters was punished for speech rather than conduct. Disgraceful

It’s a windowless room and the HVAC system doesn’t work without power. Picture unrelated.