This is what I mean when I say traditional media can't handle the right's bad faith. In no way was DOGE made to simply trim government spending. It was made to nullify Congress and take a hatchet to programs that ran afoul of the regime's agenda. That media can't say this reinforces the bad faith.

🔲 Are you white?

If someone “doesn’t understand” the No Kings protests, they just don’t want to understand. Understanding would undercut their entire worldview.

All of these soulless rubes are living on the Ricky Bobby “but I said with all due respect?” And because legacy media is gutless and ill equipped, it continues to work for them.

It rocks that this sort of thing is just playing with the sound on in every waiting room in the country once you get 50 miles outside a major city. Two people with stuffed animal eyes shaking their heads sadly over footage of the president being inconvenienced briefly.

Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."

it’s like actually really uncool, man, that you won’t surrender to authoritarianism. stop being so square, man. you’re really killing the vibes, man.

So the ticket, merchandise and TV revenue less operating costs is evenly distributed to the shareholders???

how many times am I gonna have to post this

Absolute nonsense. Good lord.

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

I imagine the inside of a bottle of cleaning solution is F***** CLEAN.

Absolute brain stew

I'm sure there will be many other justifications offered, in rapid succession. But it's wild to be heading into a self-induced recession behind more or less this reasoning.

Paige Bueckers on the hug with Geno: "Yeah, he told me he loved me and I told him I hated him, so ..."

The greatest mind of our generation has invented the trade environment we had as of five days ago.

Kind of funny that a lot of this is happening because all these rich and powerful people are afraid to contradict a fey old dunce who watches TV for 19 hours every day. A fitting way to go out for the worst and wimpiest elite the US ever produced. "Can't read, didn't want to get yelled at."

One of the best politics things is when a senator or whatever does something unambiguously evil and then is like “I unfortunately cannot go among my constituents because they hate me too much. It’s their fault, they are mean”

Not a profound or nuanced observation, obviously, but I am really struggling with how fucking evil everything is every day. Everything I love and admire about this stupid and amazing country just constantly getting vandalized and brutalized by people who hate all those things. Not digging it.

As a Senator, I serve a cause higher than what my constituents might "want," or the interests of the labor unions that support my party, or even the continued function of the republic itself. And that cause is uh... hmm this is embarrassing. Wow. I definitely had it written down. On a post-it. Haha.

Utter nonsense

it's been wild seeing guys who were Republicans a few years ago be better allies than politicians with pickled brains like Newsom and Emanuel.

It is just something way more than evil and insane to be able to say these things on television unchecked

Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

Transphobes are such fucking losers, dude. It’s wild

Everyone who has ever cried about "state run media" only wanted actual state run media the whole time. Probably you knew this.

Doesn't know what AI is, doesn't know what duplicitous means, doesn't know what the CDC does.

To me this is definitely cooler than smashing one of the DOGE weenies' laptops but I'm willing to hear counterarguments. Gronk-spiking one of their iphones is also a pleasing thing to think about but I'm trying to focus on that binary.

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Look I agree that Elon Musk appears to be on a lot of drugs every time he appears in public. That's not very interesting to me. I'm more interested in how many drugs he can do at once. I think he could probably do more than anyone ever. I bet he could take way more than the doctors say is safe.

Do these folks think anyone enjoyed the COVID shutdowns? No one was happy about it. It was traumatizing for everyone. Can’t see that through Main Character Syndrome, I guess.

Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo

None of the big papers, for all their resources, has been covering the (incredibly stupid and vile) chaos that Musk and his strike-force of libertarian Beavises nearly as well as Wired. It's an extremely cheap subscription (and a very good print product as well) and I recommend it.

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

RFK Jr trying to distance himself from the antivax movement is like Bob Seger denouncing old time rock and roll.

Pohlad's sell the Twins

As a listener of both The Bulwark and Pod Save America, The Bulwark folks have a much better read on this political moment than the Pod bros to a jarring degree

I don't think anyone actually wants it, but a bunch of recent hires suggest that the people that own big newspapers/websites think the future of covering American politics is this kind of cheesy/huffy Tory-scented celebrity gossip tone. I guess rich people find it amusing?

Wild. Top is the NBC upload, bottom is the one aired as the live feed

The trans sports ban portends something much darker: defector.com/the-trans-sp...

I didn’t see Twin Peaks as it aired, but the summer between my junior and senior years of high school(94), one of my best buddies from skateboarding/punk rock got me in via the vhs box set he owned. (Including the full international pilot on a separate tape) I was hooked on Lynch forever. RIP sir. 💔

The throughline of John Roberts’s career is that he does as much as he can to help other Republican politicians while still being able to get the “John Roberts, Our Principled Institutionalist” profile treatment from some dopey pundit every six months

And these numbers make the athletics grievance politics all the more absurd

Laundering a right wing talking point meant to distract from the climate change angle, purportedly based on a single guy’s comment. Doesn’t mention that she isn’t the mayor of LA *County* and the deadliest of the fires so far is outside of her jurisdiction. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...

Democracy dies as awful man no longer able to freely drive 18 blocks in Manhattan: defector.com/democracy-di...

@evegoe.bsky.social What’s the story with Wood being back tonight??