Imagine if Democratic leadership said this over and over again about everywhere in America rather than muttering about "legitimate concerns" how much better things would be.

If Rooster feels particularly familiar, it is because it is a Bill Lawrence project. Lawrence, of course, has had tremendous success with shows like Ted Lasso and Shrinking where he has struck the perfect balance between the heartfelt drama and ridiculous comedy of life. Rooster is... 📺 1/

This is a real thing: Much of the coverage of the most intense moments (videos you have seen go viral, etc.) of the past year has come from freelancers or tiny, like, 3-person outlets that are deeply under-resourced. It's incredible they are out there doing this work at all.

Happy Strait of Hormuz Opening Anchored for Simplicity Day to those who celebrate.

The first line in this NY Times story is: “It is a confusing moment to be a voter in the South.” No, it’s not. It’s the clearest it’s been in a long time. Republicans are stealing the political power of Black voters through outrageous gerrymandering endorsed by a right-wing Supreme Court. 2/4🧵

"Eventually, though, what's left of the free press will have to reckon with the fact that the far-right fringe is now the modern world's governing elite — and openly declaring an intent to repeat the 1930s. That's a story."

Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

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it is part of why “you’re the racist for calling me racist” is legible. what they’re saying is, “you are the mean one for insulting me and even noticing race to begin with”

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

Einkron and a pool floatie that’s shaped like a tortilla in the same place. The America I am 100% in on.

A photojournalist who was injured at Delaney and whom the police refused to allow through their line to find her equipment has a GoFundMe. Please consider kicking something in. www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...

Genuinely, I also feel bad for Platner's wife. Because having chosen to run, he decided to re-victimize his wife, because while he is an almost breathtakingly stupid man (albeit somehow not as stupid as he wants people to think), he for damned sure knew this stuff would come out.

the crisis is: the counter balance to the misery was the promise of a reward -- access to and control over women. But that reward has been disrupted, leaving nothing but the machinery of unhappiness in place.

Whenever media talk about the crisis without acknowledging that there are two ways to resolve it and one of them is unacceptable, they're doing the work of trying to return to patriarchy.

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

This drives me NUTS. Every thing I go to lately, there’s a democrat or leftish person using Project 2025 for their reference point and have we learned nothing about political rhetorics?!! Our side has all the artists, for goodness sake.

It’s almost as if all this surveillance is geared towards keeping the “wrong people” in the areas designated for them where there are fewer resources and social protections.

The people who led the negotiating of Trump's slush fund were all Trump's personal lawyers, who had worked with one another. There was no-one there representing the public interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

was firing dejoy a top priority for biden? no. but its indicative of democrats simply not using their power, once elected, to do the shit that people asked them to. the party is too secure in its whole "whoops guess we cant do things" approach, and the people who reflexively defend them enable it.

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

hm. weird. you mean democrats can generate favorable headlines by proposing legislation related to the hot button issue of the day without wringing their hands about the actual legislative process involved in making these the law? wow. how about that. its as if some of us have been saying it.

If you think this looks like a threat to free speech you're wrong. Threats to free speech are when sex pests lose their jobs as magazine editors.

I never again want to hear a politician tell me we can’t do something. Because apparently this asshole can do whatever he wants

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

“There it was: a notification sent at 2:15 p.m. on a Friday, informing her organization that its funding had been cut. No transition plan. No consultation. No warning.” byblacks.com/news/item/38...

The problem is that “I am often scared and angry about social change” does not inherently lend itself to interesting art. You can be as technically skilled as the greats, but art with nothing interesting to say is just a commodity.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

The discourse about this on tumblr has been wild. Many non-American folks insisting that if there are roads, certainly they can walk to the stadium. Americans begging them not to, simply because DEATH and DISMEMBERMENT are possibilities. The consensus is that someone will get arrested or die.

i think this is accurate and worth thinking about. A D vs D governor's race would all-but guarantee a wipeout of Rs in all the competitive House seats in CA and in a bunch of other swingy downballot races

Interestingly, I find this kind of masculinity extremely familiar from teenage years and posh white English boys at public school - the ones friends were dating. Weird mix of highly entitled, painfully insecure, deeply pathetic, misogynistic to the core. One of them was called Tarquin.

What does it mean that the Democratic Party has won 80%+ of Black men for decades but the idea is that men are fundamentally opposed to the Democratic Party?

This is really outrageous when you think about it. A jury found Trump sexually assaulted Carroll. News coverage often frames it like they’re political opponents.

will they write an equivalent "James Talarico attacked Ken Paxton for releasing a child rapist, putting release of pedophiles front and center in the race" piece or do they only amplify GOP attacks for some reason?

At the Republican convention today they opened with a moment of silence for…. Derek Chauvin. No, seriously. That’s the party we’re up against. We cannot let them win any state races or take control of the House or Senate in November. They had a moment of silence for a convicted murderer. #mnleg

So the creek in these parks (and behind my house) will be dry save for stormwater drainage, its headwaters forever diverted into a tunnel dug by Elon Musk's cursed Boring Company. And for what? To expand the highway to 22 lanes? This is terrible. Why is the city cooperating with this?

I love that there's incontroverible proof Talarico is straight in this picture and it isn't the girlfriend.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

I've been unable to get any information about the status of the protester whose leg was run over and who was then taken away by ICE. If you know anything, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

Frog: why? Scorpion: you're absolutely right! Here's what happened—I said I wouldn't sting you, but did it anyway. Apologies, I won't sting you again!

"Outspoken Islamaphobe" is downplaying it. He's vile.

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This is a wild story, and everyone in Toronto should read it. A major American bank is behind the push to expand Billy Bishop airport. It has nothing to do with what people in the city want. This should be a HUGE election issue

ICE is targeting journalists at Delaney Hall. They’re hitting photographers, breaking fingers and smashing off lenses.

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

This is not how airports work. There are a finite number of slots and gates. You cannot take every international flight from seven of the biggest airports in the country and redistribute them to red states. That's not how any of this works.

my favorite erick erickson moment is when he said that his family refused to eat asian food on the anniversary of pearl harbor to honor the tragedy. a reporter reached out to his mom to confirm whether this was true and she was like “i don’t know what the fuck he is talking about”

Conservative jurisprudence on regulation has two tenets: 1) the regulatory state is an unconstitutional abomination, every action it takes must be explicitly conferred by statute; and 2) GOP Presidents have unfettered power to wield this unconstitutional abomination, even in violation of statutes.