In a way it’s darkly hilarious that outlets like NYT, Politico, Axios et al are absolutely stumped at how to go beyond describing authoritarian acts and obvious lawbreaking as behavior that’s “asking questions” about whether those things are happening.

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

“When I wore a younger man’s clothes” is a disturbing lyric -Who was the younger man -How did he get his clothes -Was he wearing them as some kind of trophy -Why does the piano man just shrug this off

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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“Turning Point has accused him of being an extraterrestrial unicorn, which he denies.”

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

Bizarre that Shapiro keeps making these declarative sentences based on his assumptions about what David Simon thinks, and he’s completely wrong. It’s like he can’t fathom that David Simon doesn’t wish he had AI when making his shows.

Imagine how different U.S. national political coverage would be if outlets decided that someone who has reliably said false things for years/decades is an untrustworthy source who shouldn’t be quoted without that context being added.

“New this evening, someone who hasn’t stopped lying since at least the early ‘90s now says Democrats are selling babies to evil Leprechauns. We’ll have much more on these explosive allegations after this…”

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

“The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

This sounds very cool.

If you’re holding a lavalier mic up to your face I’m just going to have a hard time taking you seriously.

Okay friends, time again for "news headline or Bob Dylan lyric?"

Duke Ellington could have watched M*A*S*H

John Lennon saw DEVO live

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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This isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, but if a sentence starts with ‘per’ it’s usually a bummer.

The only "culinary experience" I want is to put the food in my mouth, then chew and swallow it — an activity that as far as I know is totally covered by the word "eating."

In his train heists, Jesse James bucked legal precedent by making cash withdrawals from passengers, despite longstanding tradition that people are allowed to keep their own wallets.

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

:ticking sound: New threats to free speech in America this week, as dozens of Oberlin students picket an on-campus speech by Grand Wizard Adolph McCarthy Militia. And, inside a California school where being trans is mandatory. These stories and more, tonight on 60 Minutes.

Huge historic turning point — Renewables surpassed coal as the world’s leading electricity source for the first half of 2025! #greensky #energysky #renewableenergy

I need more “late bloomer” stories! Tell me about the things that you did at 50+ that you never thought you’d do or finally got to do! And if you have examples that aren’t you, bring ‘em!

I am excited to announce that I am becoming a life coach coach coach. I will be coaching people who coach other people to be life coaches.

You’re not too old to learn roller skating and bash into people. You’re not too old to do weird shit. You’re not too old to dress like your teenage self dreamed to. Get that tattoo, get that piercing, wear the damn shorts

This guy made a LivePhish+ playlist of all the yellow jams on @phish.net #phish forum.phish.net/forum/show/1...

This is mesmerizing.

POTUS is either telling a huge lie to justify sending the military to a U.S. city (!), or he is acting out of profound ignorance about the actual conditions. Those are the two choices. Care to explore? @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @npr.org @theatlantic.com @politico.com @axios.com

I don’t know, to me it seems hugely significant that POTUS keeps describing a U.S. city in demonstrably false ways that suggest he is getting his false ideas from toxic media sources.

Look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls!

Valuable thread.

I was single-digit yrs old when mom brought a copy of this home from Stop & Shop for free with a coupon. Trying to remember a culture in which the supermarket gave you a Beethoven LP as a promotion. The last gasps of midcentury “middlebrow” culture? Picked this up at a thrift shop, sounds good!

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Boston, this is a week from today! Will be a great night. I'll do a reading a song alongside these peers and heroes! citywinery.com/boston/event...

Egyptian Pharoah Akhenaten, whose name was literally chiseled off monuments for pushing monotheism 3300 years ago, would like a word.

July 24, 2024

So Bari Weiss gained enough prominence complaining about college students allegedly chilling free speech … to be put in charge of a network’s news coverage because its parent company wants to keep the President from punishing it.

I will only buy headphones if I can get this subwoofer too. I need to feel the Mike bombs.

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It always bears remembering that the GOP made hysterical claims about Obama acting like an “emperor” when he signed perfectly ordinary executive orders, and now the GOP supports this.

It’s very hard for me not to hear this in the voice of a Bond villain dangling the Pope over a ravine (don’t worry, he’s rescued right after this)

When the time comes, would it be better to take a wrecking ball to that ballroom, or make it an immigrant naturalization center or something?

Smh