Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

My latest video and analysis on the moment. bsky.app/profile/simo...

i maintain that heretics & apostates are much more useful terms than "not real christians"

If your political party’s entire theme is “MASCULINE MEN DOING MASCULINE THINGS SO STRONG,” I feel like endlessly whining about an escalator stopping for five seconds is the opposite of that

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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

I can’t believe how often I come back to this: bsky.app/profile/norm...

One of the biggest cultural issues we have is that no major media or journalistic institutions have been reinforcing norms of what things *should* look like. That corruption isn’t normal, that cronyism isn’t normal, that lies and scandals should be punished, that incompetence is disqualifying.

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

We aren’t numb to it. The media is (on purpose)

A spray-painted bronze statue titled “Best Friends Forever” showing Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday.

usa. usa.

You didn't get your autism from your mom who treated her headache while pregnant. You got it from your dad who can name every model of airplane made since the 1900s.

Trump got up on stage and straight up told his followers that doctors were carrying out “post-birth abortions”. Motherfucker thinks he can get up and just say whatever with no consequences and the media is completely failing to show and contextualise exactly how unhinged his rantings are.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

I suspect we are, probably for our own mental health, underestimating the degree to which the Trump administration is dominated by the worst swingers imaginable

I can make the following statement because this is what multiple studies have shown: If your child has is on the autism spectrum, it is NOT because you took Acetaminophen while you were pregnant. ACETAMINOPHEN. DOES. NOT. CAUSE. AUTISM. There’s no proven causal link. There is NOT.

FYI. Statement from the APA. I am happy my peers posted this.

Steve Silberman is not here to shout it — so it’s up to all of us. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!) The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness. LOUDER.

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

It's a good "these just aren't very bright guys" reminder that he could have just NOT done the tariffs and left the economy largely alone and taken credit for a whole lot of continued good news and instead did all this

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

And I think a somewhat unexamined issue is that Epstein really truly was Trump’s best friend. This is a guy with essentially no experience with having a friend

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.

One thing I am realizing about this administration-- not just Trump, but his underlings-- is that they all think running the country is functionally the same as being able to have everything they want, all at once, immediately. There is no strategy, just naked expectation of instant gratification.

They're doing crazy things without considering the first order consequences, let alone the ramifications down the line. At this rate, they're going to outstrip their ability to deal with anything, consumed in chaos of their own making.

ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live marks yet another step toward autocracy and all eyes should be on those doing the capitulating — in this case, Bob Iger, CEO of Walt Disney (ABC's parent company). Kara tells @andersoncooper360.bsky.social what happens next.

At least Trump's dropped the pretense that this is about Charlie Kirk and is instead really just about him not wanting to be made fun of.

The march. My @smh @theage cartoon.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Yes, it does matter.

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.

The pictures from this shitshow just keep getting funnier and funnier.

Queen

Robert Redford with a tiny cardboard cut-out of Paul Newman, photographed by John Dominis, Utah, 1969

Every institution that has rolled over will regret it, they helped sow these seeds. The cowardice has been profound and the eye of Sauron now aimed at the last piers of free society. As was predictable when the first law firm caved.

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

And what’s crazy, is it is not even a lefty act of violence. They just keep saying it is.

just now having a chance to go back and watch the emmys and yeah this is pretty incredible

Ellen Thesleff's self portrait of 1895, goes beyond a depiction of outward appearances and conveys the enigma of the artist who helped introduce Impressionism to Finland; she regarded herself as a poet with a brush, always trying to capture what she called 'the dream of life.'

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

> the shooter is trans > ok the bullets were trans > ok the roommate is trans

Japan Times Editorial: "The fact that only the U.S. suffers this level of firearm-related violence renders specious the claim that this problem cannot be addressed through gun control." www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2...

For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.