Exactly, the Dems' "condescension problem" is almost entirely a creation of right-wing media.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Kristi Noem directs mass arrest of Democratic elected officials for seeking inspection of ICE detention facilities.

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

Let’s show ABC what we think of their cowardice. Unsubscribe to Hulu now.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Too perfect.

Remember that Mussolini did not actually make the trains run on time. He benefited from some modest rail improvements instigated by his predecessor, and then intimidated the press into saying how great the trains were when they actually weren’t. professorbuzzkill.com/2022/01/10/m...

Who benefits from attacks on higher ed? Certainly not the US economy. Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer. Certainly not the American people. excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

"Humanity now faces the existential threat of a leviathan with three heads: a steadily worsening climate crisis, increasingly deadly pandemics, and an unprecedented weaponization of antiscience that renders us helpless in our collective efforts to address any of the great challenges we face."

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

It's really shocking to me how absolutely debased the NYT editors have become. In many ways it's the obliteration of a journalistic institution

Cue Mario Savio on the machine getting too odious

One of the things that has been made abundantly clear is that our leading publications have systemic blind spots, at best, or are willing participants, at worst, by allowing bad faith actors to set the agenda. And it will only get worse as the Bari Weisses take control of influential outlets.

Charlie Kirk was a fascist and paid agitator for powerful interests who gleefully spread dangerous misinformation, targeted vulnerable groups and academics for harassment, glorified the violent, helped fuel the Jan 6 insurrection, and ultimately contributed the impoverishment of our discourse.

The New York Times is devoted to this list.

In my view, Amy Coney Barrett kicking off her book tour by doing a sold-out event with Bari Weiss and publishing an exclusive excerpt in The Free Press should end the "Supreme Court justices are not motivated by ideology" discourse once and for all ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Bingham County Idaho. This CHILD RAPIST was sentenced to 180 days in jail for raping a 7 year old for 5 years. Part of his plea deal was that he would not have to register as a sex offender. So, what do y’all say we make him as famous as Brock Turner? Meet Candon Dahle. Let’s make him famous.

Biden on his worst day was more coherent than Trump on his best.

So many euphemisms for wannabe Mussolini today: WSJ “unfettered leader” NYT “takes power quest to new level”

We have 30 departments at my #hospital looking for #nurses right now, and they are deporting nursing students

"Donald Trump stripped over 400,000 workers of their union in the last few days." prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

I don't know about you, but I've had to cancel days off or vacation many times for things less important than "the authoritarian takeover of the city I was elected to manage" www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Another dangerous, sanewashing NYT headline. This is how it’s done properly: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Last I recall, general checkpoint vehicle stops are presumptively unconstitutional.

Mike Davis puts it succinctly in 1992, “this de facto war against cities has been one of the strategic pillars of modern conservative politics, embodying profound electoral & economic objectives.” He discusses how the American Enterprise Institute sought to cut urban aid & undo the Great Society.

DC statehood obviously needs to be a standard Democratic campaign promise until it happens.

I love that NY made this happen:

It's just remarkable that the president of the United States is running an extortion racket in broad daylight and not only is the nation apparently unable to stop it, hardly anyone will even call it what it obviously is.

More bothsidesism from the NYTimes: ‘It’s Completely Unappealing’: Why the Senate Is Broken www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome. Love, Allison

One fascinating thing about the most self-serious newspaper in America with its staff of the winning journalistic meritocrats is that it routinely, institutionally publishes completely made-up bullshit speculation about pure abstractions, based on zero reporting, written as if it were plain facts

Boycott CBS and Paramount

Trump takes a deep dive into the world of the Unabomber in Pittsburgh, PA, leaving his audience puzzled. www.the-independent.com/bulletin/new...

Imagine. If. Biden. Had. Done. This.

On Rupert Murdoch, this delusional lunacy appears constantly on TV without challenge or discussion.

bastille! no prisons, no kings. yes public goods, yes pro-social state.

They don’t put it in these terms, but the wealthy always work together to further their class interests. They don’t need to like each other personally, but they are the most class-conscious strata of American society and it’s not even close.

Tillis has more courage than Schumer.

More sucking up.

The thing to understand is that district court judges have to follow the law and Supreme Court Justices get to just make up the law.

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Next week in the Times: 'Questions swirl as Mamdani refuses to release his skull measurements.'

Exactly. Dems in DC love to pretend they're stoically adhering to principled norms when they fail to use power—in reality, they just don't want to use power towards liberal ends—but that's part of what got us here. These tools have all been validated and will need to be used. No excuses.

A litmus test for every Democratic Party primary for federal offices needs to be "how will you stop Trump's Gestapo?" There is no reason at all that the next President can't run the DOGE playbook on ICE and that Democrats in Congress can't turn cuts into priority number 1.