What if we just never had to see Chris Cillizza's name ever again?

In post-war Belgium, every journalist who published anything during the war (when the newspapers were all Nazi mouthpieces) was blacklisted from journalism for life. Food for thought.

You see a new group like this pop up every few years because hoodwinking wealthy donors into thinking you can break the two party system with technology is incredibly lucrative. It's free money for a political consultant. www.npr.org/2025/12/01/g...

If we want to fight drug trafficking, let's impeach the U.S. president who is pardoning a criminal who “paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States.”

🔴Nigel Farage’s ‘Project 2029’: The Pro-Trump Lobbyist Pushing His Agenda Into the UK Trump-aligned lobbyist who hosted Farage’s meeting with a January 6 rioter is funding and advising the Reform leader while pushing Project 2025’s hard-right agenda into Britain bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/n...

We used to make culture much cheaper in America. Cheaper postal rates. New Deal support for the arts. Public broadcasting. Those days have ended, and private suppliers of entertainment have learned. Having a good time will cost you now. Great piece from Paul Starr: prospect.org/2025/12/01/h...

even as they become literal targets of the police state, you just can't get people to admit that the police are a fucking problem.

much less anyone who will say, "hey, we have gotten to the natural endpoint of funding the police and nothing else; maybe we should consider reversing course?"

hard to find an elected official even now who will just say, "we need to abolish ICE", even though ICE's approval is horrible; even though they are literally attacking elected Ds.

of course, there's also absolutely no soul searching or reconsideration on the part of those who spend all their time telling us that "defund the police" is an evil irresponsible request.

activists being told for decades that less money for the police is a ridiculous, irresponsible, impossible demand...and now we see what happens when there is no limit on police funding. are we safer? is the result of more policing more security? hm.

ICE is horrific...and also an extension of how policing has always worked, not a radical break from it.

What elite isolation reveals about the fragility of modern democracy and the cost of unchecked billionaire power… hartmannreport.com/p/the-great-...

Excited to show you this feature from @emmarjanssen.bsky.social on why plutocracy is a driver of the affordability crisis. It manifests in a number of different ways: 🧵 prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...

YES

dems should start saying that presidential pardons dont apply to international war crimes and in fact implicate the president, no idea if thats true but they should start saying it

pete hegseth was chosen because he would be trumps yes man and then fall guy and things are proceeding exactly as expected

There is an infinite market for "new" policy solutions that recycle the same crap and leave the current income distribution in place deanbaker22.substack.com/p/jeffries-s...

Calling the newspaper because I'm flunking social studies.

The lesson the lads took from the May/Corbyn/Johnson era was that they don’t have to report reality any more. If they speak with one voice, they can *create* it, can summon it into existence. And not only that but, it can be fun! Everyone can have a ball doing and saying whatever they want to.

Incredible line: "During the Biden presidency, it was shorthanded the “hug Bibi” strategy — the idea that smothering Mr. Netanyahu with unconditional support would give the U.S. leverage to influence his actions."

"If you believe a Palestinian child is equal in dignity and worth to an Israeli or American child, it is no longer possible to support this Israeli government while hiding behind platitudes about peace." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

Part of what is happening here is a political and journalistic culture much more comfortable making arguments on procedure than principle.

"Climate smart" beef was never more than a marketing fantasy [via @grist.org]

NEW: As a congressman, Pete Hoekstra once testified that tariffs were bad for business. But as Trump's ambassador to Canada, he now champions the trade policies that are being linked to job losses in his former Michigan district.

I'm shocked but somewhat pleased the mainstream media is going all Watergate on the Hegseth war crimes in the Caribbean. "Morning Joe" (yes, I know, don't @ me) has talked about little else for 2 hours I'm not 100% convinced that this is the turning point but it might be, with Trump at just 36%

I wrote about it here Why Conservatives Watch Fox News www.oliverexplains.com/p/why-conser...

FYI the whole point of Fox News is to reinforce the message in the video below

Labor unions can recruit working class candidates in red states, run them as independents, fund them with money they now give to Democrats, and use union members as the core of their volunteer base. The numbers are more plausible than you think. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Some people are afraid of having choices. If they choose the “wrong” one, they fear they will be outcast from society. They won’t fit in or everyone will turn against them and they won’t get a job, a mate, friends. So they persecute people who tell them they are free to make choices.

Robert Garcia is the model for how congressional democrats should be operating. Throw out the old approach. It doesn’t work. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Tulsi Gabbard going after Barack Obama is like a rabid raccoon going after Barack Obama

They’re going to push the responsibility down the chain and find someone to sacrifice to normalize all the other boat strikes as perfectly normal.

For non-Brits: this is the former anti-corruption minister, now resigned.

Meanwhile Democrats are institutionally afraid of even mildly criticizing the media. They won’t call out the NY Times, AP, CNN etc. they won’t even go too hard after Fox.

The White House knows they can call the press names, denigrate reporters, all of it — because those same reporters and mainstream outlets are in on the scam. They get access and scoops and book deals and career advancement by cozying up to the people who publicly abuse them. They don’t care.

the 'hug Bibi' strategy, yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

Should we have smelled a rat when all of these awful people came together to root out and destroy the intolerable Hitlerian racism of the anti-racist movement, specifically? Should this have made intelligent, switched on people sit up and ask whether something suspect might have been going on.

Maybe this wouldn’t be happening if - to pick one example - something meaningful had been done when a Tory whip fired the same MP from her post for being too scarily Muslim for members, and he was then promoted within a week of that being reported in the paper www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

"Stuckey’s ability to package her work as fluffy girl stuff worked well on Ross Douthat, who presented her to his well-meaning but gullible liberal audience as a harmless church girl whose podcast is the equivalent of a Sunday afternoon ladies brunch." www.salon.com/2025/12/01/m...

Why read past headlines: You, savvy, know who Allie Beth Stuckey is. Don't worry. I am brief in the set-up for the n00bs. But what is more interesting is how she uses gender to normalize a vile idea, that caring for others is immoral. www.salon.com/2025/12/01/m...

A short, readable but chewy post-holiday piece: How it was a woman who really kicked off MAGA declaring war on empathy. Allie Beth Stuckey's gender is not a coincidence. She is weaponizing her femininity to valorize hateful Christianity. www.salon.com/2025/12/01/m...

Now THEY KNEW is $2.99! This deal lasts today and today only. Find it on Bookshop, Kindle, or any ebook vendor along with HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT which is also $2.99 today. These books on Trump, Epstein, and transnational crime give the backstory to today's news: bookshop.org/p/books/they...

Opinions that college degrees “aren’t worth the cost” because jobs don’t pay enough. Anyone ever thought that maybe the real problem is that employers prefer profits for execs and shareholders over paying employees? Colleges can’t change that, only employers can.

A wonderful interview with Actor/Director Cherien Dabis on her beautiful new film, “All That’s Left Of You”. I am honored to be an executive producer on. Please watch. youtu.be/oaow6pY1AOU?...

I realize this comes off as hyperbole and/or just trying to farm likes or whatever, but I seriously do believe it’s an actual national security issue that the largest social media site in America is now an open forum for white supremacists because its owner is also one

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the martial law crisis under Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday, the Hankyoreh breaks down the warning signs that showed as early as six months into Yoon’s term. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

I’ve gone through so many cycles now of liberals assuring each other that some magical thing will happen. It never does. We should have goals but realistic ones, not “Mueller is coming” level delusions. bsky.app/profile/okma...

No American leader goes to prison for war crimes and we should stop feeding fantasies that it will happen.