How do they ensure it doesn’t leak? I have so many questions

Tfw you have way too much money because taxes are too low, you‘re a paranoid freak because spend too much time watching Fox News, and you think you’re just way more important than you really are www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

The lesson is that trying to take the wind out of the right’s sails with right-wing policy from the center-left is not just a moral failure but a strategic one. The right won’t just refuse to give credit but will lie about the record while feeling emboldened to take even more aggressive stances

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Matt Yglesias thinks the half-time show should have been about grocery prices.

The true error in trotting out Cheney is that Harris thought it would win her support from DC pundits and reporters—she’d built a bipartisan coalition that included Liz Cheney and Ilhan Omar, the thing Very Serious people supposedly want—but it didn’t work because the pundit class supported Trump

Have some quibbles with the thread but I think this especially is right. Democrats failed to address Trump’s extremely favorable information environment and that was the single most important factor

This woman is the negotiator for the GOP on Democrats’ DHS reform proposals! Not just a random backbencher with concerns about Trump’s overly aggressive approach but the specific person the Republican Party has designated to prevent as many of the Dems’ proposed reforms as possible from becoming law

WAPO "leadership" believe they're able to build a profitable pseudo-journalistic, pseudo-academic, pseudo-intellectual agitprop safe space for right wing corporatists, despite the fact that's a tiny, already well served market but they're also perfectly fine if the paper fails completely

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

WaPo specifically making cuts to its most subscriber load-bearing sections like Sports and Metro while doubling down on commentary, which frequently does little for your bottom line, really underlines how much this is about what they want the Post to be, rather than what a good newspaper actually is

As with basically everything else, accusations by the right that the left hates America are projection

So fucking infuriating watching Bezos and his cronies kill the Post. Taking away sports, books, and international reporting so you can write opinions praising Trump is so damn bleak.

In the short term, yes. In the medium and long terms, Congress can (and frankly, must) also expand the Supreme Court and fill the new spots with justices whose loyalty is first to the constitution and not to Trump and the GOP

This is a direct result of an information environment that's completely contaminated by right wing propaganda

/7 I don’t think these people encouraged Epstein to rape more children. I don’t think Epstein needed encouragement. But they did send him an unmistakable message: raping children is not a deal-breaker for notable, powerful and influential people to have a relationship with you.

Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

Tyranny. The major difference between the USA and other oppressive regimes right now is that the internet is not yet censored so we can all see and share video of this, but conservative purchases of Twitter and TikTok (and pressure on other social platforms) are trying to end that

Glad the Times is covering the subject but come the f on

One thing I think it notable here is that Weiss talks about being for "the center." She's doing that thing that Elon Musk does where he goes, "Actually, my views are moderate. I don't get why people say I'm far-right." It's an effort to shift public perception of what "center" or "moderate" means.

Not just on TV. This is basically what Tucker Carlson was trying to do originally with the Daily Caller, but no one wants this so he pivoted to white nationalism

The WaPo opinion pages have been a bit of a punchline lately, but the news side is filled with talented journalists who are incredibly important for shining a light on our government. The slash and burn that’s happening is sad and a major worry for basic government accountability.

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

Good, keep bullying the New York Times, everyone

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The media understood that Project 2025 was damaging Trump in the election and helped him spread the lie that he wasn't behind it.

Great piece. Trump and his fascist inner circle despise Minnesota because it is in many ways the opposite of the miserable hellscape they want the USA to be, and they are punishing Minnesotans for it. Can't be overstated how much Trump, Miller et al. genuinely hate America and their fellow Americans

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Leaving aside the practicality issue, it is weird to watch our marco-rubio led zombie-neocon foreign policy where threats to democracy & protesters are a pretext for military intervention and then have the president be like "we need to crush protesters with the military and cancel elections"

CBS News, striving to satisfy Bari Weiss’ pledge to “drive the news,” turns to live primetime humiliation porn

At least 25,000 New Yorkers showed up to protest yesterday. We stand in solidarity with Minneapolis, we demand justice for Renee Nicole Good, and we call for ICE to get out of our cities.

I really do think that dems should be making carrot/stick “if you’re disgusted and this is not what you signed up for, quit now and turn whistleblower and that will be remembered later” and “if you follow and illegal order, that will also be remembered later” messaging

I think this fits.

One of the core purposes of right-wing media is to rewrite your memory and reprogram your moral response to an event you saw with your own eyes. George Floyd died of a heart attack. Jan 6 was a peaceful picnic. This process has already begun

I think it's pretty clear that they want to provoke confrontation, and they want ICE agents to feel tense, frightened, and threatened—antagonistic to the public, grateful and loyal to the administration that "protects" them. They want excuses for violence, and a militia eager to deploy it.

Good, direct, unequivocal messaging here. Also: to Trumpists, lying is a patriotic sacrament. Trumpists lie because they believe, as a tenet of Trumpism, that the people they hate deserve to be lied to and that it’s for the best for the few people they don’t hate today.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Invading the sovereign territory of another country, let alone a NATO ally, is in fact a hugely staggeringly dangerous and violent move that would put the US in line with the greatest evil empires of history! It is not in fact just a distraction from grocery prices!

One of the things you can’t unsee after people point it out is that democrats love to post in riddles! Just come out and say that Mike Johnson is an insurrectionist who hates America (and for good measure that he’s also a weird little freak who’s obsessed with his son’s porn habits)

Well *of course* Pete Hegseth’s DOD is going to be ordering from the chain whose founder is famous for being a sweaty divorced guy who got fired for saying the n word!

After a year of Trump II, the refrain that this is only happening because Trump's insane masks the reality that it's going to be a recurring part of American governance until underlying structures change

The U.S. is run by a gang of petty criminal thugs, and it is essential for protecting democracy and the rule of law that the next Democratic administration works in concert with our allies abroad to ruin the lives of everyone involved with this administration

Right, I think the correct way to look at it is that racism was always a key element of conservative ideology, but making it this explicit was increasingly socially unacceptable in the decades leading up to the Trump era. Trump, Vance, Miller et al. are working hard to erode norms against racism

My opinion of the New York Times is distinctly outside the mainstream among journalists. Most think NYT is mostly excellent journalism with some flaws and blind spots, I think it's mostly a vehicle for laundering right wing propaganda with some excellent people who put out good work.

One quibble. The relevant line regarding the ayatollah is actually “Ayatollahs in Iran” (plural). Ruhollah Khomeini died in June 1989, several months before the song was released as a single, which means that at the time of its release, Ali Khamenei, who is still alive today, was the ayatollah

What drives me insane is how mainstream outlets helped Trump disavow the incredibly unpopular Project 2025 during the campaign, but now that he's doing just that (and people don't like it), media outlets are all like, it may be divisive but ya gotta hand it to him for delivering on his promises

Doug Glanville's education was in engineering and at some point he'd written a paper on a new stadium in Philly or something. During a batting slump, when he was playing in CF, a heckler yelled at him: Hey Glanville, why don't you design a stadium you can hit in