The Trump administration has made me a flagrant moralist in a way that has led me to tossing aside years of snark, and you know, I'm good with that. It's time to talk about what being a good person means; about why it's good to signal virtue, why it's good to press for values, not spectacle.

I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

In the end, when I walked from my X account, the waves of racists and bots that were always invoking the same phrases and talking points made it clear that the thing was just a hall of mirrors, that it had been crudely rigged for political fraud. Never thought Musk would admit it all in a self-own.

Rix Road, the season finale of Andor Season 1, was released three years ago today. F the Empire. All of them.

There's only one obvious conclusion from the 2024 disaster and that's that Biden and the people advising him made a catastrophic decision to have him run again. Everything else is just second-guessing.

this is the correct way to react to anything the president says-

I’ll be waiting breathlessly for the wall to wall coverage of this on FoxNews.

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So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run. 🧵 1/

I'd love if just one reporter could maybe lightly challenge him on the fact his administration is the enemy of affordability (see the near-total destruction of federal consumer protection and corporate oversight) just one

The report cited actually says “at least $28 billion” with the “at least” doing a lot of work

You can even connect things! “Republicans are focusing on covering for Trump’s Epstein ties while they let him tank the economy and make everything more expensive for regular Americans with his Tariffs.”

Between Republicans jeopardizing access to food and healthcare and President Trump’s chaotic trade wars, families are already struggling to make ends meet. It's time to get serious, folks.

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

It's worth considering that none of this would be possible without a large segment of "News" media committed to actively misleading the public and running cover for Trump. Other organizations could take that into account an try to correctly inform the public about what's happening... but don't.

The most plausible read of this email is that Trump actively engaged in sexual activity with one of Epstein’s victims. Full stop. Anyone saying there’s an innocent explanation for “spent hours at my house with” is grasping.

I think every Democrat should be shown this chart and required to explain why any policy solution would convince voters in this environment, and if they cannot, give three steps to fix the media environment, and if they cannot, be forced to resign their seat

I keep seeing people say, oh, trans people must take a hit for the greater good and, first of all, no, you don't get to discard someone else's rights and second, we know from past experience that marginalized communities like theirs are merely the first to be targeted. They'll come for you next.

Republicans whined (mostly without merit) about unfair media for 40 years and slowly built up a vast propaganda network. Until Democrats start hitting back hard and forcing the conversation about what the now very real media bias is doing to the country we're going to keep spiraling.

if you think the problem is that the democratic party is too extreme rather than our current media environment privileges right wing bull shit then you have no real business discussing politics in public

At this point, Barack Obama should come out and publicly say he’d love to be President again and he hasn’t ruled out running for a third term. I’m serious. My fellow Democrats, either fight or go home.

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