Maybe they don't want candidates who are so clearly bought and sold by corporate and special interest groups?

The mental toll of forcing podcasters to attempt to hold real jobs continues apace

Verily, he is One Special Boy, & enabling the imperial presidency like this was a grave constitutional mistake.

We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.

Say that he lied, New York Times. Say that he lied.

these are getting weird

This guy has been a "progressive" for all of five minutes and hasn't held office. His "record" is: prep boy who wanted to kill people, became a mercenary to kill more, got a Nazi tattoo, spent time abusing women and posting misogyny, then ran for Senate. When did he "transform"? A week ago? A day?

What is happening with CBS shows the US media bias problem. Outlets with actual integrity are regularly accused of liberal bias, even as a large and growing part of the media is owned by the right wing pushes right wing viewpoints at the expense of integrity.

The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure

AI data centers are one of the few pressure points for the oligarchs staging a fascist takeover and the only reasonable position for any non-fascist is to be vehemently and implacably opposed to them, a position that must be held until regime change occurs and democratic reforms are implemented.

i dont understand why im supposed to go to work when rich people are just allowed to invent trillion dollar companies that dont do or sell or make anything

the entire democratic party needs to spend an entire news cycle making fun of axios’ weekly “iran deal is imminent” reporting just to embarrass them out of this shit

I’ve been to a lot of protests, as protester & journalist. It’s possible that a protester lost their cool, or that a fool threw a rock. It’s possible. But @npr.org can’t report “violent clashes” as a finished fact without evidence, in contrast to ample video showing violence one-sided from cops.

Just heard @npr.org describe Delaney Hall protests as “violent clashes,” parroting Gov. Sherrill. I’m not there & haven’t seen all, but I’ve not seen evidence of protester violence. Only ICE & police violence. NPR offers none; not even an alleged example.

New York City is the media capital of the country. Delaney Hall is nine miles from Manhattan. There is zero reason to not have wall to wall coverage of the hunger strike, the horrific conditions and ICE violence. The indie journalists need strength in numbers, and not just during business hours.

@msnowreports.bsky.social just echoed the false claims from NJ Gov that "agitators" from outside of NJ are causing problems and are fighting with and even attacking police. Have you been able to find evidence of this @msnowreports.bsky.social ??? All available video evidence proves this isn't true.

Wild how blatantly she lies here

It’s telling how many of the large news organizations who are flush with money aren’t sending journalists to cover ICE (and now state trooper) violence overnight outside Delaney Hall and the independent outlets with far less financial and insurance coverage are braving it.

Just a reminder that immigrants inside Delaney Hall are on their ninth day of a hunger and labor strike in protest of inhumane conditions and this was Governor Sherrill’s response last night:

Governor Sherrill needs to camp outside Delaney Hall until they let her in. Human beings are being tortured in her state.

All of it is just people starving

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

alright this guy absolutely has scrambled eggs for brains

It's been said a billion times already, and it still can't be said enough: I don't see how US democracy survives if blatant, intentional lying remains cost-free

Again, a key reason talking like this about countries & threatening our NATO allies with conquest should immediately end his presidency - aside from the blatant law- & Constitution- & treaty-violating - is that it makes it impossible to credibly oppose 🇷🇺’s illegal war in 🇺🇦 & 🇨🇳’s threats against 🇹🇼

"We did nothing wrong by firing chemical irritants at a duly-elected senator" says a lot about where we are at as a country And none of what it says is good

This is the most incredible triumph of propaganda in my lifetime. The idea that Hitler was "left" and/or a "socialist" once was correctly seen as self-evidently insane. But here we have the richest & most powerful man on earth blithely repeating it.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

Its very hard to have viewpoints diversity when some viewpoints openly disregard reality and would rob your political voice if given the chance.

And how is this not infinitely worse than what he was impeached for in 2019? Do something.

billionaire tribunals when

TRUMP: Routinely falls asleep on camera, has unexplained injuries on his makeup-caked hands, regularly makes genocidal threats, posts nonstop AI slop, compares himself to Christ, goes on unhinged rants every time he appears in public THE ATLANTIC: "He's becoming purer"

How long until the 'Camp Auschwitz' Jan 6er gets his share of this loot?

In any democracy, this would be considered illegal state funding of the president' s political supporters

Small typo there, what you guys meant to write was "splitting their allegiances depending on whether they want to work for Silicon Valley or want to lead the progressive movement."

Total 🦗🦗 from Ezra Douthglesias about how the GOP Has Lost Touch With Real Folkz & must do An Abundance Of Moderate Popularism No masthead editorials from the NYT about how the GOP is denying political reality & is “distracted from crucial issues” & isn’t offering “moderate unifying solutions”

It is crazy how much professional Democrats have invented a genre of progressive activists to hate who both don’t exist and hold zero power in the corporatist party.

In earlier times, when things actually mattered, the resignation would already have happened.

Meanwhile her staffers are covering for her, using old photos to make it look like she's out and about

Had David Scott, who was 80 and clearly could not do the job anymore, not died in office and Frederica Wilson, who consistently missed votes and is 83, came to vote yesterday, the War Powers Act resolution on Iran would have passed.

No American should be comfortable with the President of the United States accusing a reporter of treason for critical reporting.

We don’t talk enough about how the Trump admin has just removed women and people of color from all the front lines of government.

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage

Leadership is not about meeting purple voters halfway to fascism. It is about having the vision to identify the major challenges facing us and the honesty, creativity and courage to develop real solutions for them. Healthcare for all. Affordable housing. Secure, dignified retirements.

It's hard to believe, but this really is the official position of our country's Very Serious Financial Analysts: "it would simply be too horrible if the strait stays closed, so ... [closes eyes tight, taps heels together] ... it won't!"