Confidently thinking you’re an expert on something you learned about two days ago is one of the true pitfalls of social media and also explains why there is a massive measles outbreak across the country

Two American civilians were shot and killed by ICE agents, there were multiple videos showing the civilians did nothing wrong, and then Trump was completely let off the hook by the media through a series of leaks to the press where they were only *told* he would change his tone. Nothing has changed

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Not trying to be a doomer but it’s not great when the Trump admin can murder a man on Saturday and then go on every major news show the following Sunday and lie about it.

If the people who lied yesterday about what happened are on the news today when you knew they would lie again then you’re simply not the news

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

Am I crazy or is what’s happening in Minnesota the precise reason why we have a 2nd Amendment in the first place? To protect and defend yourself from a rogue government? And DHS is saying they were justified in killing a US citizen simply because he *had* a gun? Am I losing my mind?

The Democratic approach to building back power is: 1. Avoid contentious issues; 2. Pivot all discourse to unobjectionable appeals like costs; 3. Leave moral opposition to citizens of conscience, who have lost all trust in the party, but hope they vote Democrat anyhow. Wrong top to bottom.

Caleb Williams is absolutely insane

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

I wonder what might have happened if, during the campaign, both Dems and the news media made a bigger deal out of the fact that Trump was a convicted felon who would likely continue committing crimes if elected president

Trump is doing awful things in cities and a growing mass of Americans are objecting, so we asked the only people who matter, middle aged white Trump supporters who don't live there and feel no personal impact from it whatsoever. And you're not going to believe this, but they say they support Trump.

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

The bleeding was so internal, so out of view, they just forgot about it until a week later.

Run a “60 Minutes” segment about the harsh conditions of immigrant detention centers? Bari Weiss says no, not solid enough ground here. Run a story that simply repeats a statement made by DHS Secretary Noem without confirming that the guy actually went to the hospital? She says, good to go

This interview is embarrassing. They might as well be asking these questions to a monkey taking apart a car www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...

If you saw this on a newsstand as you were walking by it, and you had a child’s understanding of anything currently happening in this country, you’d see this and think your president was the most popular person on the planet and succeeding at every turn

I feel like this should now be fully understood, the same way we say things like, “the groundhog knows when winter will end” or “beer before liquor? never sicker”

I agree!

Purging the performative “I’m a serious legislator” politicians from the party is top priority for this year’s primary elections. This is not a serious response or a serious solution.

I don't think you can truly grapple with where we are, and how we come back from it, without recognizing this is not a constitutionally legitimate government and he is not the lawful president of the United States.

PRESSLEY: We just agreed that fraud is unacceptable. So do you oppose the pardon of George Santos? ROBBINS: I would have to look at the law and the facts of the case PRESSLEY: Don't deflect. This is not a complicated question.

Just say he doesn’t care about lowering costs. What would even be the end result of him seeing this post and being spurred to action because of it? He focuses on lowering costs and claims a political victory from it? Why are almost all Democratic senators so completely useless

Hard to see anything in this country fundamentally changing until we find a way to get Fox News off the air. Retroactively trying to pull the Capitol police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt into this also manufactured daycare scandal is bonkers, but they get away with everything so why not

This specific point is enough to drive you insane. Rubio was on TV all morning yesterday talking about how important an indictment is and not a single interviewer brought up how Trump is also a convicted felon, and the J6 special prosecutor said under oath they had evidence to convict him at trial

Classic Nobel Peace Prize behavior

im beginning to think it was a mistake to let joe rogan and theo von pick the president

the president is doing a press conference FROM HIS FLORIDA COUNTRY CLUB about launching an illegal war

This kid should be everywhere. Probably doesn’t want to repeatedly relive this experience but he should be on every news show, every morning show. This is a direct action resulting from the president’s public racist rant against Somali Americans. The “peace president” gtfo

I think a lot of people interact with politics the way some people interact with pop culture. For ex, I had no idea there were three seasons of “The Lincoln Lawyer”

Well this piece absolutely rips. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/hating-str...

Was thinking about this watching the new Stranger Things episodes — the episode lengths are all over the place. Some eps are 55 minutes, others over an hour. Eps can feel meandering as a result. LOST clocked in at 42 minutes every week. The eps had a structure and specific beats to hit along the way

Ahhh yes. Clinging to the shattered remains of their boat out in the middle of the ocean, their mission would be undeterred: we must deliver the drugs that… are… somewhere here… amongst the wreckage. Surely the drugs are fine

It’s so funny to think back to how buttoned-up and serious Merrick Garland had to be to avoid even the slightest appearance of partisanship and now the current Attorney General regularly goes on Hannity and has a laugh or two and we just move on

He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”

I’ll be honest — it really did feel like they wrapped everything up at the end of season one of Stranger Things. And from everything I’ve read about season 5, it sounds like the goal of season 5 is to explain why they kept going after season one

Watching “White Christmas” and the similarities are unmistakable

if the epstein files have the smoking gun of trump bluesky might crash at the euphemisms the new york times retrieves from arcane tomes to describe it; "engaging in bawdy acts," "accepting off-color invitations," "executing ribald errands" all on the table

Just absolutely insane that this was pushed, at first, by crazy QAnon maniacs because they thought it would only implicate Dems. Trump’s DOJ was hyping the release of the files when then they were told that Trump was basically in them more than anyone else and they tried to reverse course.

Amazing thread

Media standards: 1) No Democratic scandal on par with Trump-Epstein, so it’d be biased and unfair to five it much attention. 2) Trump wouldn’t be shamed into resigning and his cult of personality wouldn’t abandon him, so Trump-Epstein wasn’t worth pursuing. Way too many think that’s journalism.

I just gasped and collapsed to the ground, sobbing in relief

Good job, Dems! All Republicans pretended to care about health care subsidies while the shutdown was ongoing, and then you caved. Then they remembered that they all hate Obamacare and had already voted to end the subsidies in the first place

Been scrolling the other site to see the moderate takes and this one stands out mainly because it highlights how the Dem’s shutdown approach was flawed from the beginning. They made it about healthcare, which is basically the only issue Dems can agree on. This take is objectively true, sadly

I like how you can see the exact moment where everyone went, “oh jfc what did we do?” which was less than a month into Trump’s 2nd term. Good work everybody!

Yamamoto is a legend. Unreal performance. Hard to even fathom someone doing what he did

Well this is just the greatest sporting event of all time

during the 2016 campaign, the Boston Globe ran a scary mockup front page of what a world where Trump was president would look like, and it’s pretty tame compared to a random Friday morning’s headlines now

I mean it’s already extremely on the nose but if their plans get repeatedly denied and we just go the remainder of the term with a crater where the East Wing used to be it will be the best visual metaphor for this administration imaginable

a tyrant is ignoring the constitution, firing live artillery at americans, invading our cities, and tearing down the white house to build himself a palace our institutions won't react because they're lost in a digital dreamstate, unable to decide what is true because of social media poisoning