If only those Senators had some kind of leverage they could use to influence or force policy corrections... like, I don't know, the fact that they could basically end his Presidency tomorrow just by doing their Constitutional duty.

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

Yup, the only possible solution for this is the 82nd Airborne.

Which is why they continue to lie relentlessly

1. "Compassion fatigue" is just you saying you're an asshole 2. People treat homelessness like an unchangeable law of physics instead of a basic public policy problem which can be — and has been — addressed and solved when adequate resources are allocated

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

this is all well-trod territory. we have a pretty obvious fact out there (trump signed this hideous card). the trumpists create an alternative reality for the sole purpose of creating doubt. and then some media take the bait out of some commitment to both sidesing - failing their basic role.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

No like literally. Why? Why are we HERE? Why are we HERE, in the United States Congress, holding Congressional Hearings on European speech laws that no one is even alleging impact American citizens or have any examples of impinging on American speech? 2/

The NYT Editorial Board told you that “Every Day is Jan. 6 Now,” & “the Republic faces an existential threat,” and then its entire news operation & editors went right back to doing whatever 👆 is on a daily basis. I guess they didn’t really mean it, or it was all a joke 🤷‍♂️

This is important. Dems need a full reset in their approach to new media, which can only happen from a grounds up approach that is fully embraced and funded. Anyone still waiting around for legacy media to step up and fix things hasn't been paying attention for the last decade.

That deflating sound you hear is the U.S. economy contracting.

The only thing I want to hear from elected officials or candidates is that, the moment they possess the power to do so, they will hold Trump and his accomplices responsible for their rampant lawlessness. It's a litmus test I will 100% apply regardless of who it is. This is a pass-fail test.

China's fastest growing sectors: solar energy, electric cars, electric batteries America's fastes growing sectors: essential oils, cryptocurrency, ponzi schemes

This thread may mark the first time in history that porta potties are more appealing and less full of shit than something they are being juxtaposed with.

the thing about this is that these guys don’t actually want blunt talk; blunt talk would be things like “you’re a sexist and a bigot whose contributions to culture have been overwhelmingly negative, and you frequently respond to mild criticism like a child”

He can go fuck himself, actually.

This is an important conversation. We need to start paying attention, because looking away or being unaware will lead to it getting worse.

This is, however, the funniest excuse for not doing your homework. "I couldn't read past the headline." So you're lazy? You don't understand that columnists don't write our own headlines? Too many words for you? My take that you admit you didn't read is wrong because you FEEL it is?

In a way this is even more pathetic than "I did my research". It's more along the lines of "I didn't do any research but am here to say the research is wrong."

Wallmart's last reported net profit margin was 2.7%. They made 4.5 billion against 166 billion in revenue. Absorbing the tariffs would have them facing billions in losses every quarter. Trump seems to be just intent on burning down the economy.

Nothing Donald Trump could do at this point will reveal anything further about his weakness of character. But the character of the Republicans who go along with him? Who refuse to speak up amidst the unrelenting corruption. More is being revealed about them every minute.

#2 currently includes bribing the POTUS

In my head I hear the official titles in the voice of the ring announcer from Rocky introducing Apollo Creed.

“You’ll be perpetually barefoot and pregnant, but your husband will have a tedious and repetitive factory job that would be done by machines if we could still afford the machines.”

this internet was a mistake, but sometimes it’s the best thing ever created

My Grand Theory of 2020s Politics is that countries that had a bad response to the Great Recession (or other stagnations) have fascist movements and that these manifest in gender polarization if there's a labor market gap between skilled (female) and unskilled (male) labor

Do your soul a favor, grab a tissue and spend a couple minutes watching this.

Who’s escalating what now?

Let this be a warning to you all: nobody steals my charts and gets to be Prime Minister of Canada

This is so funny, I might have to print it out and frame it

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

Heads up folks

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

The main reason why tech types think AI can replace everyone's job is that they don't understand the slightest thing about economics. The second main reason why they think that is because they don't understand the slightest thing about human psychology

A “liberal media bubble” that reasonably approximates empirical reality is clearly preferable to the conspiratorial funhouse mirror-world of the right. I don’t get why it’s so hard for many scolds to admit this!

Russell Brand has spent the past few years aligning himself with the American right as allegations of sexual violence were made public against him. He knew he would find defenders and protection among their ranks. That should tell you everything you need to know about what the party represents

I wrote a new piece on an important topic: “President Trump’s Tariffs Will Help America Win the War Against Birds” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/pre...

It's 1828. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons. It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons. It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce

"Unlike Biden, I will put these assholes in jail where they belong" is something Democrats in 2026 and 2028 need to campaign on.

In this week’s @nymag, I write about a long-simmering argument in longevity science nymag.com/intelligence...

This is ripped straight from the voter fraud playbook: make wild claims of fraud that receive huge splashy headlines but don't stand up to scrutiny. If there were millions of dead people receiving social security benefits you'd think they could produce just one of them

Lady Gaga looks like she's about to tell her men to decloak and fire on the USS Enterprise