the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

So how's the emerging Republican majority going?

After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family. No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.

Never thought I’d see a billionaire volunteer for the guillotine. Interesting 🤔 #LetThemEatCake #PunishTheOligarchy #EatTheRich www.newsweek.com/billionaire-...

At this point, I'm starting to think canceling school debt was intended by some of these guys to be a Serbian Ultimatum; something they assumed would get rejected so they could justify a course of action they had already decided upon

Today in state media:

If only Biden had spent more time complaining about the real problem -- immigrants, who bring obvious and easily demonstrable benefits to US society -- instead of minor issues like everyone dying of an infectious disease or losing their jobs and homes.

Résumé percutant du retournement géopolitique à l'oeuvre depuis janvier 2025 : (Encore plus frappant depuis la publication, vendredi dernier, de la « nouvelle stratégie de sécurité américaine »)

If birthright citizenship is undone in any way, that would mean that none of us are bound to the Constitutional framework at that point.

President Trump thinks the Sun orbits the Earth. Experts weigh in

Truly! Chris is so right here. It's astounding. www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia. They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana. Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this

“Listen you’re gonna get punched in the face and the only way to stop us from punching you in the face is if you offer a way to punch yourself in the face just as hard.”

Pete Buttigieg's bread pricing crimes were the subject of infinitely more viral outrage than Trump ending USAID was

Somehow I knew once Bari Weiss had some time to dig into the CBS News operation she’d discover what they need on air is Bari Weiss.

still can't get over that mainstream media closed the 2024 presidential election cycle with this non-story

Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch authorized a plan for Fox News to embrace Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud in 2020 in a bid to win back viewers angry with the network, a lawyer for the voting technology company Smartmatic argued on Tuesday. “The conservative viewers, their bread and butter,

Rand Paul: "Secretary Hegseth said he had no knowledge of this and it did not happen. It was fake news. It didn't happen. And then the next day, from the podium of the WH, they're saying it did happen. So either he was lying to us on Sunday or he's incompetent and didn't know what had happened."

His politics are so MURKY

It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.

Never forget that for a hot minute there, legacy news media regarded Megyn Kelly as someone they could successfully parlay into being a "respectable conservative" figure within their ranks

Nepo baby Kahn always uses the false claim that people want NYT to be partisan (when they just want same standard for GOP). Trump never does anything illegal in NYT-land..he just upends norms. Meanwhile, this is what "independent" NYT wrote, 5 days before the election www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/b...

NYT Exec Editor Joe Kahn gets the “what keeps you up at night?” question and takes a swipe at “partisans,” as if the Times’ headquarters on Neutrality Island is the utopia for “independent journalism.” Independent of what? Of the ability to confront Trump’s authoritarianism and criminality? 🧵 3/4

For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”

The problem with running with "Hegseth didn't do this" is that Hegseth has spent the last year loudly proclaiming "I am going to do exactly this" at every opportunity.

The only people who endlessly complain about color revolutions are dipshit leftie campists and Q-pilled right-wingers and the thing they have in common is they're both huffing Russian propaganda

Falling for Axios slop in December 2025 is like failing a test where the only question is "what is your name?"

This site gets got by Axios Bullshit because they want to get got. Simple as.

evil feckless dems don't just make the speaker take up articles of impeachment via mind control despite it being a simple matter.

Pete Hegseth Is Practicing Scapegoating the Right Way by Ezra Klein

Axios quotes out of context without the posters even reading the articles isn't great

Anyone who reposts Axios ragebait is an enemy of democracy and a useful idiot of Republicans

Bill Kristol is just a random Bsky lib now (falling for misleading axios rage bait)

the playbook author we said was a republican calling up sean spicer, notorious liar of the trump era, to get lunch and have so much fun together that they're starting a show is such a predictable storyline it probably came off the page of a failed screenplay by (former playbook author) ben shapiro

Wrong Rock Alert!

this is at least the second time he’s claimed he doesn’t know anything about a pardon he has ostensibly signed, and i feel like that’s two times too many without a follow up question from the press corpse

Citizens will be happy to hear that the WHCA's long national nightmare of unreturned emails is finally over,

Broke: being mad at Democrats for the 2024 election Woke: being pre-mad at Democrats for the 2028 election Bespoke: somehow being pre-mad at Democrats for the 2032 election (!)

The House minority leader has never in the history of the United States been expected to be some inspirational leader, until some terminally online people started using it this year as yet another cudgel to attack Democrats. These people are the problem⬇️

Democrats will line up behind the slogan of whichever 2028 presidential candidate wins the primary and it does not matter what slogan Hakeem Jeffries uses. An entire WAPO column about how a house minority leader phrases his answers to reporters.

Hey, that's the guy Ro Khanna hangs out with!

This is who bankrolls Ro Khanna

Admiral Bradley is dead wrong here. He should be tried.

I don't need to remember 2000, I remember last year when Biden would give an hour-long speech giving a sophisticated analysis of foreign policy only to flub one word and get called senile by the media. Trump meanwhile flubs dozens of words every time he opens his mouth and the media says nothing

ANALYSIS | Critics of the New York Times say there is an asymmetry in its political coverage, but others state that it is simply an honest chronicle of a President who frequently upends the norms and will speak to us, unlike Joe Biden.. by Peter Baker

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

And then they have the gall to complain that Democrats should simply work harder to get stories damaging to Republicans into their outlets, admitting in the process that they treat Republican comms teams as assignment editors.

This seems like the kind of declaration by a U.S. president that should be mentioned *somewhere* on the front page of CNN or the NY Times, but the fact that it isn't (as of right now) tells us so much both about how this president is covered and the credibility of the U.S. government.

This ridiculous sentence is written like a bothsides-ish balancing statement, but it isn’t one. When the mob is in charge, paying the protection money they extort from you is a cost of doing business. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

GALLUP: “.. his all-time low was 34% in 2021, at the end of his first term after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.” @gallup.com news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...