What Orwell missed was that people would voluntarily watch propaganda, that it could thrive even in a competitive media marketplace.

"WILL YOU SING AT MY FREEDOM 250 CONCERT?"

Since the administration has renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War, when will they rename the Department of Justice the Department of Revenge?

Watching Trump button mash on Iraq with his only three moves and no strategy makes me long for the grown ups. X Pretend we don't need a deal O Say a deal is close to calm markets 🔳 Make bombastic threats about what will happen with no deal Tiring.

Reposts give a boost more than likes, just fyi 😉

Watching The Testaments I feel like Lucy Halliday is just killing it. Chase Infiniti has the buzz, and I saw her in One Battle After Another, and she was great, and her Testaments role is hard, so maybe she'll shine, too. But Halliday is the one sucking me into this world and making me believe it.

Happy Mother’s Day to Renée Good. Today, we honor her memory, her courage, & the ultimate sacrifice she made. She should be here with her babies today, but her legacy lives on in the people she loved, the lives she touched, & the continued fight for a more compassionate & just world. 💐

Who are these traders reacting to Trump's market manipulation? Like, have they not noticed he just makes things up over the 11 years or so he's been involved in politics? Any estimates regarding what's going to happen with Iran should completely discount statements from the President.

#NBA playoffs update: opposing players may not defend, or even approach, Joel Embiid. Doing so is an automatic personal foul. #Celtics

Anybody know what's going on with Vucevic? Weird to have Embiid treating you apart, both centers in foul trouble, and you have, like, Jaylen Brown on him. #Celtics

🎉 Today is my birthday! 🥳 If you'd like to help me celebrate, here's a list of charities working to make the world better that could use some more support. 🫶 www.astrokatie.com/birthday

ESPN unironically teases a segment on the 22 year old Texas Tech QB who is headed to rehab for his gambling addiction and then tosses it to 5 minutes of NHL prop bets for tonight. I don’t what to say other than sports betting is a scourge and an epidemic among young men and needs to go.

Lorenz posed for photos at the WCHA and admitted she attended it on X

Please, for the love of all things holy, if you ever learn that something you posted is fake, delete it. Do not counter with "but it feels true" or "it's an exaggeration but people will know that" or any other garbage. Delete fake images and articles. We need to be able to trust reality.

Incredible weak sauce. (Patel's lawsuit against @theatlantic.com.) Seems like a news release. No serious legal claims raised. (Does Patel think there's a constitutional right to be given sufficient chance to comment on an article?)

Kash Patel has to be on firing watch — according to The Atlantic, he struggled to log into a computer with his credentials & started to “freak out” assuming he had been fired — he was really just too drunk to correctly input a password, oof 🤦🏻‍♂️

Jesus was also famously "weak on crime."

The "I've done wrong things and I'm deeply sorry, but not *those* wrong things" shtick never works as well as they think it will

Hungary!

The record high voter turnout in Hungary is giving me hope. That happens when the incumbent is a terrible person and people want them out.

The Art of the Deal: 1. Tear up agreement that prohibited Iran from going nuclear 2. Attack Iran 3. Fail to get agreement prohibiting Iran from going nuclear 4. ???

Anyway, if you're still struggling with this I urge you to take a moment and try and see how you would feel if it were you. I, for one, would want to make sure those reporters gave a shit and did their due diligence. Extremely good work was done today, and those women are brave as fuck. That's it.

Yes. I will say sometimes it's hard to determine what happened. But here it seems very clear.

If they wanted me to feel ashamed, it worked.

A country that says it's trying to encourage a democratic rebellion is idiotic if it bombs the universities where such rebellions almost always start.

I will never think of Elon Musk as anything other than a mass murderer for the USAID cuts. I’ve long felt he’s one of the most villainous people alive today, the real-life equivalent of a comically annoying and cruel supervillain

Pete Hegseth has overseen double-tap strikes to kill people clinging to boats, ripped up the Rules of Engagement, and talked about no quarter. As one US Airman is still unaccounted for and a search effort continues in Iran, remember laws of war protect OUR troops, too. But only if we abide by them.

People are saying this illustrates the incompetence of Trump appointees, but this actually seems like a useful ability in disaster response.

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

Two #Celtics thoughts: 1. Never get tired of watching Tatum on the defensive boards 2. I like SGA but watching him commit offensive fouls, flop, and get the call makes it harder

Started/going

I believe by the numbers we have the top two screeners in the #NBA on the floor right now. #Celtics

Hilarious that we can say Charl*e K*rk was a POS after he died and that made us horrible people but that dude can say he's glad someone is dead and that's fine

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

In #PoliSci, one of the few things that was seen as a law of nature was the American "rally around the flag" effect -- if a American president goes to war, he (always "he" so far) becomes more popular (in the short term). Why it didn't happen here is going to be lots of papers I'll want to read.

Iran war, day 1: "People of Iran, you'll be able to take your country back after we destroy your bad regime. You're welcome." Iran war, day 23: "People of Iran, we will now destroy your power grid because high gasoline prices make me look bad."

Pure savagery from @economist.com.

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

The "only thing" preventing Elon's humanoid robots from hoisting the barrels on their backs and hand delivering it to the destination on foot is ...

Really our entire national leadership is just a den of toxic masculinity. Even the women are selected from the universe of women who thrive around toxic masculinity.

I always thought he'd be a better fit at Shield of the Americas.

I don't have a problem with Tim. But I do think it is deleterious that so many smart people spend so much time on X, which has essentially become an algorithmically and AI-optimized far-right MAGA message testing and propaganda machine. People assume X posts represent the masses, but they don't!

Not a big fan of Lou Holtz, but he was good for an all-time great quote which I thought of again and again when I was doing political and community work: "When all is said and done ... more is said than done."

The bombing will continue until we achieve world peace. Yes, he said this.

I'm stuck on her completely oblivious definition of "educational."

Yoo is like weirdly wrong on two counts. Executive power has mostly just grown over time. Certainly it did not decline markedly between Watergate and today. It vastly increased!

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

I can say from personal experience that Putin is threatened by strong women. As I argue in a new piece in @foreignaffairs.com, he and his fellow autocrats have reason to fear us: Defending women's rights and combating authoritarianism is the same fight. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

This is blackout poetry to me