CBS staff, you have one job and that is to incept Bari Weiss into believing she can win over Isaac Chotiner.

Once more: Republicans are good at taking over state governments because they show up for state elections. What you're seeing now is the result of decades of Democrats thinking that electing a President solves everything, and not voting in other elections.

Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

Interesting: D.C. will pay an undisclosed settlement to resident Sam O'Hara, who was handcuffed by MPD for playing the "Imperial March" tune from Star Wars while walking behind National Guard troops in the city last September, per the ACLU of D.C. O'Hara was detained for 20 minutes.

Trump: “Communism is very easy to sell. I'd be the Greatest Communist in History. I'd give free rent, free houses, free food, everything is free.”

My Uber driver in Branson was a Kennedy-Goldwater-Nixon-Nixon-Ford-Reagan-Reagan-Bush-Dole-Bush-Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump-Trump voter. He said that after Tuesday’s primary results in New York, there’s no way he’ll ever vote for a Democrat again.

not the main point at all but vance is always claiming to have made a joke without ever making an actual joke

You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.

One of the overarching takeaways from a study that came out today interviewing quiet Trump supporters, The People, as @jvl.bsky.social has dubbed them: "14 out of 21 participants in this study had an immediate negative reaction when asked about democracy."

Trump Officials: "We are gutter racists who believe non-white people are racially inferior to whites. We have said publicly that non-white immigrants dilute the racial purity of our nation and thus we do not want non-white immigrants here. This is *entirely* about race." Sam Alito: "But *is* it?"

Once again, as I’ve noted multiple times before, Trump’s foreign policy isn’t really realist, or imperialist, or neoroyalist, or about spheres of influence, etc. Its sexual predation/abuse elevated the level of the state

Tankies be like: Taiwan is part of China…because the two were connected by a land bridge during the Ice Age thetricontinental.org/asia/the-wei...

Read the replies to see what he’s talking about.

Finally! "Not the odds, but the stakes" is consenus thinking. Columbia Journalism Review: "The larger consensus among everyone I talked to here is that many of the conventions that shape US political reporting are outdated or should never have been employed at all." www.cjr.org/feature/out-...

Fact Checker | Liberals are expressing outrage that right-wing cage fighter Josh Hokit went to the White House and declared Michelle Obama was a man. In fact, Hokit was outside the White House. Two Pinocchios.

HOSTIN: Why haven't we seen the release of over 2.5m additional Epstein file documents? JD VANCE: My understanding -- I'm gonna check on this to be sure -- but my understanding is that a lot of those are duplicates of things that have already been released NAVARRO: So they why not release them?

Anchor: Americans keep getting hit in the head with baseball bats. Your response? White House: We’re in frequent communication with the executives at companies that make baseball bats, and rest assured, they’re totally fine.

What a coincidence! I just interviewed this Fisher Price Farmer Says See 'n' Say, and it told me some incredibly interesting things about farm life. Let me know when you'd like to publish this!

Happy to announce that my book is finally out! donaldclarke.net/pubs/books/i...

Things going well at University of Austin (UATX).

A “fun” thing about the 1776 number is it makes it more clear how much the settlement agreement is corrupt. Todd Blanche signed his name to an official government document claiming this figure was “based on the projected valuation of future claimants’ claims,” which is clearly, obviously, a lie.

Try not to think about the wailing and gnashing of teeth we’d have heard from the right if Obama or Biden had done or said a tiny fraction of the things Trump has done or said. It will drive you mad.

Zoomer homeownership: up Zoomers saying "My parents are so lucky, I'll never own a home": WAY UP You'll never guess which one their overall economic sentiment seems to track

Kevin Sorbo, who portrayed Hercules as a blowdried American dude, is upset about the lack of fealty to the source material.

Mamdani has proposed a balanced budget for next year, holding spending level while closing a $12 billion deficit. Trump's budget proposal increases the deficit year over year by about $300b, with a massive deficit next year of more than $2 trillion. Fiscal responsibility? Mamdani > Trump.

just gonna note that although the specifics have not been as bad as my hypothetical example, I called the 'Trump parrots Xi's language on Taiwan' thing before the meeting happened.

Absolutely agree. share.google/EhwqsQ0jglBa...

Hello everybody, I want to believe just as much as anybody else does but I really need to tell you that in my 10+ years of experience as a disinformation expert, the only reason UFO shit gets put out by the government is to distract you from other really bad things

The guy pleaded guilty and was convicted. I think we can now stop carefully saying “accused”. Never change, NYT! ❤️

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

If you're interested in Canadian politics... josephheath.substack.com/p/naomi-klei...

The dormant WeChat account for a former student publication at Beijing Normal University was deregistered last month, wiping its archive. This piece tracks the mounting political pressures, rise of short video and algorithmic recommendations, COVID-era controls etc that gradually stifled the outlet.

Did DoJ tip Fox, its favored network, to be on the scene? Probably. How should you consume that? Not in any way that excuses the media as a whole from benefitting from such tips on the regular, left and right, year in and year out. /1

Supreme Court of Georgia suspends prosecutor’s privilege to practice law before the court for six months after filing a brief with the court that contained non-existent cases and cases that do not stand for the proposition asserted in the brief due to AI usage. www.gasupreme.us/wp-content/u...

SCOTUS in the Prize Cases (1863): "The proclamation of blockade is itself official and conclusive evidence to the Court that a state of war existed..."

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A friend asks: “Has it occurred to anyone that the MAGAs think you have to show IDs at restaurants because they’ve been eating all their meals at strip clubs? This isn’t even an unreasonable theory”

The definition would be imposing a blockade by force, which is legally an act of war.

Remarkably, much of political science doesn’t consider this to be “money in politics”

Look who's defunding the police www.reuters.com/world/trumps...

News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering. It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules: newrepublic.com/article/2093...

As FBI Directors normally do in totally legitimate criminal cases, they go discuss the prosecution on Hannity

Anyone who shows up for this travesty is knowingly choosing to act as a prop for authoritarian kabuki because they’re too cowardly or amoral to pass up vapid schmoozing and free drinks. They deserve your contempt, and possibly a few pieces of rotting produce.

I mean. They’d be innocent even if they WERE related, because that’s not how guilt works.

In other news, Jeffrey Dahmer apologizes to the people he ate ...

Just out here bragging about how effective the war crimes are