Exactly one year ago today:

Melania Trump Slams Baseless Reports Linking Her To Wrong Wealthy Pedophile https://theonion.com/melania-trump-slams-baseless-reports-linking-her-to-wrong-wealthy-pedophile/

My cousin sells acid out of his astro van behind Arby's I'll see if he can help out

I recommend following @atrupar.com. His posts aren't particularly PLEASANT. But the NYT, WaPo, LAT, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, WSJ, et al are NOT telling you what's really happening. They're always going to clean up Trump's bigotry, racism, incoherence, and viciousness. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Pete Hegseth Replaces Top General With Horse That Drinks Beer https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-replaces-top-general-with-horse-that-drinks-beer/

Mueller absolutely saved Trump’s ass. He’s just too stupid to realize it. That’s the irony that’s screwing us all. The institutionalists keep institutionalizing while Trump sets about destroying them.

Opinion | The media continues to amplify bad news from the Iran war like dead soldiers and skyrocketing prices, while ignoring the good news—like that managing the war kept Pete Hegseth out of the pubs, and out of jail, all through St. Patrick's Day.

Can this be a solution?

It's mildly insane how the bias works here. Republicans and reactionaries have been doing the opposite for longer than Talarico has been alive. And yet it's somehow radical when liberals reply.

I do think “Graham Platner was a bartender who personally served some DC pundits and reporters and was known to them” is a pretty big part of the skeleton key to unlocking how he got so much cash and media attention so fast and why they’re so determined to stay all in on him now

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

President Trump Scheduled To Fulfill His Constitutional Duty To Rant About Which Ethnic Groups Are Garbage Expectations high for a speech in the spirit of Ulysses S. Grant’s “vile ruddy potato-thieving bog refugees” address of 1872

This is true in rougly the same sense that a guy on the subway reeking of urine, screaming, and waving a knife around is “feared.”

Don’t worry folks, he’s gonna find the guy who did this!

Conservatives always think they’re the ones manipulating the fascists when it’s really the way around. And we’re here precisely because America’s conservative leaders are so vile. But now the GOP Congress will be forced to choose when he demands that the SCOTUS be expanded & packed with loyalists.

This.

My analogy. After they published “J’accuse”, the editors of “L’Aurore” didn’t publish counterpoint from an antisemitic junta. They were devoted to the French Republic. Our press are agnostic about our form of government. They are not committed to a United States governed under the Constitution.

This is really an instance of a very longstanding trend where secular pundits end up unwittingly aligned with fundamentalists in treating the crudest and most extreme version of any faith as the genuine article and everything else as somehow inauthentic.

Conservatives Boycott All Forms Of Entertainment https://theonion.com/conservatives-boycott-all-forms-of-entertainment/

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

DHS has suspended Greg Bovino’s access to his social media accounts. Now, if he wishes to tell lies with impunity or denigrate Americans based on ethnicity, religion, and political affiliation without significant contradiction, he will be limited to American mainstream media.

Oh my god I missed that they implicitly likened her to *Joe Morrissey*, that’s basically a swear word in the EDVA, god damn

If you’ve lost CNN then you’ve lost middle greedy bootlicking corporate America.

I volunteered but failed the medical exam, I want a 4F bonus.

It's quite common for aging leaders to groom hand-picked successors who aren't capable of breaking with their methods and goals. In practice, the successors function as an extension of corrupt, broken, sclerotic geriatric rule. Jeffries is a product of the gerontocracy -- not a break from it.

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

We now live in a nation where constitutional rights exist in theory, not in practice. augustafreepress.com/news/governm...

Wait for it ….

It's worth noting, for those who *do* have a legitimate procedural/rule-of-law objection to illegal immigration, that Trump is not acting on that idea; he's acting on can only be called nativism and xenophobia. lnk.thebulwark.com/48vef8l

There goes “Take Your Daughter To Work Day” for the Pentagon press corps.

This about sums it up.

You might be thinking, wait, didn't Dems win virtually every election held this year? You're forgetting that in DC, "Democrats are flailing" is not a comment on empirical reality, it is a kind of core ideological truth, a load-bearing pillar in their weltanschauung.

Every time CNN or another network do this “Trump has not been accused of wrongdoing” disclaimer, Dems or left-leaning pundits should light them up and say “uhh, excuse me, Dana, but Trump is very much accused of wrongdoing.”

The SNAP program is wildly over-engineered to prevent fraud. Like the food stamps that came before them, EBT accounts are only good for certain groceries. You can’t even buy a hot meal. A universal basic income system with regular money would be better, but more susceptible to this ugly rhetoric.

A reminder that the Epstein files aren't a distraction from the oligarchy. They're an integral part of it.

Democrats ran a variety of candidates in 2025, who tailored campaigns to their constituents—all anti-Trump, but offering different economic specifics based on their locales. It was a big tent approach and did well with voters everywhere. Presenting that as infighting is an effort to generate drama.

Will people notice they are still in the same place? Mysteries of the universe...

As with Bernhard Goetz in the mid-1980s, juries are sympathetic towards Subway vigilantes.

I'd say that Trump's all-stick-no-carrot style of despotism rather broadly connects the democracy and the economic argument; anyway if you're not out there saying that authoritarianism makes us all financially poorer off, maybe politics isn't your thing

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social The real winner of the Virginia’s Governors race? Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Jeffries: "The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program. That's the reason they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva."

More Democrats should get more combative with the media, in particular by calling out questions that have an unspoken premise of "GOP voters are realer Americans than you," or in this case, "the president can break the law if voters in a city choose a mayor according to their own preferences."

the thing you should learn from this is the media hates democrats

Democrats should commit to expanding the Supreme Court and ignoring all of Donald Trump's pardons issued prior to charges. It's what Republicans would do if the roles were reversed.

More like this please.

Because bigotry is confused with patriotism and because these “patriots” are seen by the press corps as the only authentic Americans. Everyone else, and I mean this, is second class.

It has been a tough morning for my Chauncey Billups bobblehead