There were all sorts of right wing beliefs about Obama and Biden—that they had in fact pulled off various devious conspiracies but simultaneously were, respectively, so dumb as to need a teleprompter and half brain dead (ok, fair on that last part). *Those* did have, to put it mildly, some tension

Many people are saying GOP stands for Gang of Pedos. They're saying this more and more

Pedocon Theory

Weiss spiked a segment because it didn't mislead CBS's audience in a way that was favorable to Weiss's political allies

Trump is operating a massive bribes-for-political-favors racketeering operation out of the white house, and he's functionally immune from legal accountability for it because his Republican allies on the Supreme Court abused their authority and changed the law to shield him from any consequences

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

hey this wound up in your hidden replies for some reason, just posting it here to increase traffic on the two-way street that is vital first amendment discourse

I went to law school in just Michigan before smoking was banned indoors, and the single thing I hated most about going out in winter was that I had a wool coat that absolutely reeked of cigarette smoke after every trip to a bar and required multiple dry cleanings per winter to get the smell out!

Genuinely nice to see one of the absolute worst human beings in American politics eat shit

And I thought I had a productive day www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/19/f...

Excuse my language but this looks like absolute dog shit.

Once again: Elon Musk becoming a neo-Nazi is the best thing ever happen to Zuck because it draws attention away from what a deeply repellent human being Zuck is

Again: it's the twitter brain rot at work. He's swimming in a cesspool of dimwitted cynics who think every good deed is virtue signaling because they project their own repugnant values on to others, and it's wearing off, more and more each day he spends interacting with them

Dirty Donald the Pedo President

I am much less of an Yggy hater than most people on bluesky—I think he actually still produces some insightful commentary—but with the possible exception of Nate Silver I cannot think of anyone who has suffered more from a bad combo of centrist audience capture and Twitter brain rot

What bothers me more is the inconsistent standard. For example: it’s totally normal for reporters to write “Republicans believe…” (eg “Republicans believe the ACA is fatally flawed and the subsidies are bloated and unsustainable” etc.). But how do we know they’re not just making bad faith arguments?

One of the great failures of contemporary political news coverage in a lot of media is the unspoken principle that no violation of norms or decency by Trump is really news, worthy of sustained attention, unless it also upsets people who love him. It isn't "not taking the bait"; it's sleepwalking.

Shorter Suzy Wiles: I'm not like a regular Eichmann. I'm a *cool* Eichmann.

Also it’s wild that she has managed to avoid negative press in a way that, say, Miller and Vance haven’t. Gotta wonder how frequently she acts an anonymous source for White House reporters and if the media’s kid gloves treatment of her has been a tacit (or maybe explicit) reward for it

Omg (yes I often do this) www.wsj.com/lifestyle/fo...

Reminds me of this, which ran some years back, in response to a (deservedly!) much criticized Scientology paid placement piece in the Atlantic theonion.com/sponsored-th...

This is more or less how the right wing justices reach decisions bsky.app/profile/righ...

Or decapitate it if you will

I disagree about the need for long-term structural court reform (necessary imo) but the rest of this is 100% correct. The hard right Republican faction on the court is a threat to the republic and to democracy as such, and any reform plan that doesn’t address them, specifically, is counterproductive

A year and a half ago, even I’d have thought a challenge to birthright citizenship wouldn’t fly, but Trump v US was such a jaw-droppingly egregious example of this—the court just waiving away what everyone except it had thought the constitution meant for decades if not centuries—so who knows

It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.

Drunk rapist loves to act tough on tv and social media but the minute he realizes he might be in trouble trouble for some of the literal murders he’d been pounding his Nazi-tattooed chest about, suddenly it was someone else who gave the order. No honor among scoundrels www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

The video is fine on its own terms, but what’s wild is that the woman in it ran a high profile center-left primary challenge against an incumbent progressive for a city council seat with the backing of the tech oligarchy just a few months ago!

Nor is Elon Musk who did a sieg heil on national tv in January and spent the rest of the year reposting toxic slop from gutter accounts who think Jews are responsible for white genocide on the website he owns and has made into a welcome place for neo-nazis

What did happen is that some Biden insiders kept insisting his decline wasn’t real while many Biden supporters were skeptical of the coverage. It’s honestly kind of wild to me that instead of being like “hey we got this one right” the media are just pretending that they didn’t cover the subject

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

Evergreen

Who is this woman putting out awesome statements and what has she done with Kathy Hochul?? On second thought, don’t tell us

“It was too late to interfere with [the story he himself was responsible for in order to claim a cognitive impairment that would help him avoid paying his ex wife, whom he also told to kill herself and who later did]”

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

This quotation actually shows a huge problem with elite liberal lawyers: the passage treats holding these ghouls accountable as some kind of devil-on-the-shoulder temptation that restraint would caution against

Racial quotas to remedy past and current discrimination in employment, education, etc. are good and constitutional actually. If I were a Supreme Court justice I wouldn’t just overrule Students for Fair Admissions, I’d overrule the still-standing parts of Bakke

Ultimately the problem is this: the paper is controlled not by scrupulous reporters but by a clique of Leonhardt types, who surround themselves with chattering class nitwits, cogitate on the news mostly through insular group chats and similar, and always think the GOP has at least half a point

Looks like maga is getting to “actually it’s ephibophilia” even faster than I expected

Fair enough as far as this thread goes re the investigative reporters themselves not sitting on newsworthy info. But what info made its way to editors and how much effort did the paper then put into pursuing those leads are valid questions

Tiger mom’s sex pest husband being connected to Jeffrey Epstein is getting filed under “things I hadn’t even thought of before but lol yeah that checks out”

my “not involved in child sex trafficking” press conference raised a lot of questions already answered by my press conference

Dirty Donald the Pedo President

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

I don’t understand how someone who follows politics *for a living* can still be regurgitating middle school social studies talking points about the purpose of the Senate instead of, you know, looking at how the Senate actually operates in real life.

The Pedolands

No I don’t want Democrats to add two new states. I want them to add three! www.wsj.com/world/guam-u...

Agreed with this! Mattingly was a fine player, but I think the line should be drawn somewhere between "fine" and "all time great" and he's just not in the latter group. Could be pro-Yankee bias, yet multiple non-HOF Yankees of his era have better HOF cases: Randolph, Munson, Nettles, even Guidry

Did women ruin the workplace?