My best (educated) guess: we're gonna be out-media'd And Trump's numbers will still be underwater

you just know the response would be something like "the hatch act is for pussies"

this is true. it's also true that rolling over would hurt many, many, many more

Has Trump promised to let people in the camps keep their NYT Games subscription???

we're shut down.

failed nation state shit

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

An anon messages off-platform to say "you're a fucking liar, no way u did that" During Trump 1, I wrote an article for a CAP outlet criticizing a proposed change to SSA disability rules. I relied on SSI + Medicaid at the time. In retaliation, they killed my Medicaid coverage.

The feds about to do Mountain Day....

Rosa is an appropriator's appropriator:

@elienyc.bsky.social looks like x account may have been compromised?

So, look, this is a good lede, but can we just take a moment to consider that "MAGA controls the House, the Senate, and the White House" ISN'T sufficient ammo???

Rx Tariffs + TrumpRx (dot) gov A new DFP poll...found that a majority of Americans do not trust Trump to provide public health guidance. As I tried to make sense of this tariff announcement, I was reminded that for the Trump Regime, the confusion is the point... www.patreon.com/posts/140137...

shut it down

They genuinely believe that the federal workforce is made up of people who are incredibly stupid.

Bunch of relatively rich white men on here saying "no one could have predicted how bad things would get under Trump!! No one!!!" Fuck all y'all. Fuck all the way off.

i do feel justified when Matthew posts something like this and then the books get discussed, because I also always zoom in on other people's books, and even when unloading recent purchases from a used bookstore I consider if the shelf is gonna end up online.

"Work requirements" is a winning frame for MAGA. It doesn't matter if you think you're being clever, e.g. "work requirements don't work" — if you adopt their frame, you lose. If you use their language, you lose.

My bottom line up front: I see no evidence of an effort to ban gender affirming care in the continuing resolution. We will face threats in the appropriations bills. www.patreon.com/posts/140064...

This book was publish in 2005

I don't know, maybe "this particular outlet is the silver bullet to turn back electoral defeat" is maybe more TT discourse than a thing on here

i think mystic approves of my upgrade to her hallway box platform (two cold chain boxes taped together instead of one)

If you are concerned about the piece Eric is quoting, please read Eric's thread. Eric is a real journalist, he knows the Hill extremely well. I trust his analysis AND it matches what I'm hearing from the Hill.

re-upping this. stop looking to media outlets run by white dudes as some sort of savior.

Bunch of relatively rich white men on here saying "no one could have predicted how bad things would get under Trump!! No one!!!" Fuck all y'all. Fuck all the way off.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

I'm scheduling tomorrow's @theflytrapmedia.com post and it's gonna be a corker! Subscribe RIGHT NOW so it will be hand-delivered to your very own inbox for your reading pleasure!

at least i've never made the mistake of bringing an Ezra Klein to a Ta-Nehisi Coates fight

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

I'm sure if @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov just post some more about how they want a deal Trump will start acting like a rational actor.

What do you think the odds are that JKR runs as a Reform candidate?

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

There's yet another measles outbreak. Act now. Measles is an incredibly contagious, airborne pathogen that can cause serious illness, including blindness, encephalitis, pneumonia, and immune amnesia (the immune system 'forgets' how to fight other pathogens). www.patreon.com/posts/123491...

The healthcare service and delivery system is crushingly difficult to navigate now. We're seeing entire organizations cancel telehealth visits because of the impending-gov-shutdown-Medicare-telehealth-expiration Those healthcare orgs aren't willing to accept *any* risk they won't get paid.

the one (1) good thing about developing Crohn’s disease was having my vaccine titers all covered before starting humira and being reassured that i am, in fact, still immune to measles 😵‍💫

There's yet another measles outbreak. Act now. Measles is an incredibly contagious, airborne pathogen that can cause serious illness, including blindness, encephalitis, pneumonia, and immune amnesia (the immune system 'forgets' how to fight other pathogens). www.patreon.com/posts/123491...

So someone showed him the "Donald, we know you're buying this shit at home depot" videos

There are other, better, messaging nerds party leadership ought to be listening to.

Forget message differentiation; praising an openly corrupt Democratic politician while refusing to endorse the bright and vibrant hope of the next generation of Democrats goes beyond mere political malpractice into a betrayal of principles much more fundamental than partisan politics.

this is a strong statement.

this is, comparatively, a less weak statement

Message differentiation is apparently not something covered in comms school for whichever Jeffries staffer posted this 🙃

yes! before they abandoned their principles i was a big bean-head

No, please, more random people who I've never interacted with before, tell me more about how the law is political as if i'm not aware

Friday night live will be at 9:30pm et tonight, so about five minutes from now www.patreon.com/1056735/even...

Remember: Isaac Chotiner can't see your Isaac Chotiner interview parody, but your friend who just finished telling Isaac Chotiner about his chummy Colorado ski trip with Peter Thiel and a reincarnated LLM avatar of Richard Nixon can.

Trump is massively unpopular. Most Americans don’t want this. “In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed.”

Everything is both stupid and fake