it's backwards. obama and biden conceded the republican framework of border obsession, sliding right and setting off a near-inevitable push to where we are today. once again the democrats triangulated themselves into becoming republicans, allowing republicans to publicly embrace explicit fascism.

Amanda is always good at locating the silver lining even in the bleakest darkest clouds, and I think this mini thread (and the article she links out to) is worth reading as a vaccine against doomerism.

Left unsaid, "And I'll be keeping these questions on the backburner during a civil, polite and hopefully fun meal with Trump at the governor's luncheon"

The fact that some democratic governors are going to visit Trump at the White House despite all that has happened tells you a lot about the rot at the root of the party. It isn’t even about Trump being petty and inviting only Republicans. The man is a monster who literally murders Americans.

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

Biden *went to court* to maintain Title 42 — an insane and, in my view, facially unlawful policy — for a full year after taking office. Then when he wound it down he moved to replace it with an even more stringent policy that was literally designed by Stephen Miller

The idea that this is all a backlash to some kind of Biden open-borders regime is premised whole-cloth on a falsehood, a deliberate lie that supposedly Reasonable Thinkers have adopted as truth. It's. just. not. true.

Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*

He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.

I found the threat

Yo, new coffee shops and clove cigarettes/video games/participation trophies/avocado toast/quiet quitting just dropped.

The economy produced roughly the same number of jobs in Joe Biden’s last full month in office as it produced in Donald Trump’s first full year in office.

Ignoring the revisions issue entirely, +130k is not and is never considered to be a "strong pace"

If you had any doubts left on the NYT leadership being 100% in the tank for Trump, go look at the top headline right now

step 1: hire philosophers in your chatbot company step 2: train the chatbot to generate results based on materials the philosophers are familiar with step 3: the chatbot generates those results step 4: sentience??????

Trump tried to have democrats Indicted over that video. Meanwhile too many democrats were fundraising off the video instead of fighting it in the court of public opinion.

“If these fuckers think” has set a new bar for how politicians should begin their statements about these fuckers. Meet it or get left behind.

Do they favor it if the person on the other side of the table says their ID is fake, like ICE/CBP is doing?

Friendly reminder that the only reason DHS has that huge pile of cash in the first place is because Chuck folded in November. So when people try to tell you he's doing the best he can right now they conveniently leave that part out.

Unidos somos América.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Worst of the worst: "Pena Jimenez, a Mexican citizen who lives in Lakeville, came to the U.S. in 2000, owns a tile installation business and has no criminal record, according to his petition." Flown out of the country, against a judge's order. www.startribune.com/judge-orders...

“Sorry y’all got cut but I’m still good over here. Be blessed” lol

Ivica Zubac says goodbye to the LA Clippers

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

Greg's a good guy go watch this

Cowardly and racist is an amazing combination. We all know that wasn't a staffer and that he meant that shit. bsky.app/profile/leba...

No, they don’t get away with “accident.” Caroline Leavitt defended it completely, as a reference to “The Lion King” and slammed the “fake outrage”

white house narrative this morning: the president is NOT racist and you are FAKE NEWS for asking about it white house narrative this afternoon: it was merely a STAFFER being ACCIDENTALLY RACIST and the president definitely did not post the meme we said wasnt racist 3 hours ago

1. deregulate everything and destroy all regulators so nothing functions in the public interest under the pretense this "aids innovation" and "empowers entrepreneurs" 2. blame poor people and minorities when nothing works

Democrats have obsessed over fine-tuning MESSAGES at the cost of fatal damage to their BRAND

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

oh yeah. its also black history month.

people need to see they need to see when the president is racist they need to see when kids are killed by gun violence they need to see when our bombs drop on brown skinned people abroad im tired of sticking our heads in the sand. people need to see.

Holy shit it’s not great political strategy to constantly denounce your own voters?!

Have y’all seen people online talk about how they drank raw milk for years without an issue because they boiled it beforehand? So many cooked brains.

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

Good god, Schumer has to go. "No masks" is not hard. It's like having a "no pedophiles" rule. If you have to caveat it, you need to just quit and find a better use of your life, like watching paint dry.

Ballmer acting like the Jeff Bezos of Basketball this week kinda sucks shit. Starting to think Kawhi walked in on him burying a dead body.

those who dont learn from history are doomed to repeat it

I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable

"headquarters_67" and I might die of embarrassment.

Oh look, exactly what we said was going to happen when Schumer caved on the shutdown

That newspapers can perform a necessary public service does not mean they have an intrinsic right to exist even when not actually performing it. The fact is, it would have been a lot harder to destroy major journalistic outlets in America if they had given people more faith in them.

the washington post -- and joe biden -- 22 years ago today

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

what we know about billionaires is that they have pedophile sex parties. we cant allow these sick psychos to run free in our society. i remember an america before we had all these billionaires. the air was cleaner. families felt safe.

somehow these steely eyed business leaders keep failing to understand "telling all of your customers eat shit" isn't a viable business strategy almost as if these aren't business decisions at all

Pivoting my national newspaper to fash opinion sludge and some AI-related handwaving, on account of economic headwinds and also because neither I nor anyone in my cohort of elites knows how to read.