The lengths those with power go to claim to be victims is wild.

Just saying if someone had to resign from their job for a corruption/ethics scandal, shared inappropriate content at work, and took your state’s school rankings from 48th to 50th that maybe their opinion doesn’t actually matter.

Well done.

New CEO of the a conservative group grifting teachers was able to *checks notes* lead Oklahoma from 48th to 50th in education and got caught with X-rated video playing on his TV at his office.

That whiny asshat has an entire “news” channel spinning up garbage on his behalf and operates like the pravda, but go off dipshit.

I'm sure if a Democratic elected official mandated that a left-wing organization had to be given access to all of a state's public schools, they would be completely fine with it and would never ever call it "grooming" or "indoctrination" or anything.

Failing to survey for hungry Americans doesn’t end hunger. Refusing to monitor testing for COVID doesn’t make the virus go away. Ending or reducing the frequency of the BLS reporting on jobs does not make the economy better. This administration is weak and failing.

The refs in this game are absurd.

Is the hold on GB’s defense in the room with us?!?

NEW: 45+ major organizations sent a letter to Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol urging the company to finalize fair union contracts. "We will continue to back union workers’ fight, including by not crossing barista picket lines at Starbucks if they feel striking is necessary." 🔥🔥

lol they’re not releasing the numbers because they’re bad, right?

Happy Friday.

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

Stop. Worshipping. Billionaires.

The most eloquent thing to say is that he is a whiny ass clown.

Only a weak-ass clown would obsess over comedians. Just how embarrassingly fragile can Trump get?

There’s a lot of purposeful confusion by supposed Christians on what they believe is taking the Lord’s name in vain. Same folks also struggle with understanding free speech. Same folks also suffer from a weird persecution complex. It’s really the Venn diagram is a circle kind of thing.

How much y’all think I got from the Facebook settlement? Because it just came in.

I forgot I made a Twitter account back in 2013. It follows no person and has never tweeted or gained followers. Logged in today. Aside from some coverage from the Emmys and NFL, it’s all far-right bullshit pushing their persecution complex. I knew the algorithm over there was cooked—but wow.

Someone at Pacific Life talked someone into purchasing a lot of hi-res whale footage that makes no sense and I find that hilarious.

Just read, “the underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” I’ll not be able to unread that.

Friends, your pals who study history understand what has come from this previously.

Taco Bell decades menu bringing back the double-decker taco. More excited than I’m willing to admit.

Update. There’s a Hunger Games sound before someone comes out and explains things. We then get to watch a DVD from the 90s.

Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

Update from Jury Duty… Sitting in the lounge. Key difference between the last jury duty I was summonsed to last October is I’m getting to watch Young Sheldon.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

Burp being adopted made my day.

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

Solidarity, like equity, isn’t conditional.

I don’t want to pick on the person who asked this, but that’s what social media is for? When we’re communing over interests and things that make us happy, we are finding light in a dark time. Sitting in that darkness will KILL you. It’s not moral superiority. You will be crushed under the weight.

☝🏻

The Know Nothing Party 2.0

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

Mesearch… DC has about 12,000% more helicopters flying around per capita than NYC.

lol there’s never been more of an admission of guilt

by my count, this makes seven confirmed no true bills from grand juries, plus three other felony cases dismissed (two gun cases, one assault of a federal officer), plus two cases downgraded from felony assault on federal officers to misdemeanor

If I invest in Tylenol do I get to get in on that settlement cash?

Was the Department of Defense also on Epstein’s island with Trump?

Ooof

lol Trump must know his time is short, he’s waging every conservative culture war back to the 1960s

It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.

Every day. Especially today. Union merch: www.rayguncustom.com/collections/...

Annual reminder, if you are an elected official making a Labor Day post without mentioning unions or the labor movement you’re missing the point.

This Labor Day, I’m reminded that we are a living throughline, connected in solidarity with brave workers/union members we’ve never met who gave everything for dignity and justice, and with those still to come in this movement. We have work to do. Solidarity forever, y’all!

Buddy Carter might be the dumbest member of congress.

WCU loses to Gardner Webb by allowing 28 points in the 4th quarter after being up 35-7. Now Lewis DNFs… I love sports. Hooray sports. 😒

New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc

Yes, and… the Milton Friedman shock doctrine of crisis capitalism requires… unsurprisingly a crisis.