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Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

Dawg

The Ellison/Weiss CBS News of today would insist they couldn't platform Eisenhower without also platforming Göring and if anyone pointed out how ridiculous it was they'd talk about the importance of "open debate" and if you complained loudly enough they'd say "come debate that on my podcast"

Just from this morning's news. Nothing subtle or complicated about what's happening here.

NEW PAPER w/ @cselmendorf.bsky.social & @jkalla.bsky.social: An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods. Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!

"When your enemy is making one catastrophic mistake after another, interrupt them and save them from any consequences they might face." –Schumer-Tzu

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

Citizens waving American flags protest Trump violating the Constitution. MAGA: They’re Marxists who hate America. GOP operatives praise Hitler and joke about rape and gas chambers in their group chat. MAGA: Boys will be boys!

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

The number of times an aspiring authoritarian was stopped through capitulation remains 0

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Supreme Court reform has to be a litmus test for every democratic congressional nominee in 2026/8

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Today in 1792 Alexander Hamilton described what has happened in the last decade.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

As the author of the law that empowers the U.S. government to sanction Chinese and other officials for cracking down on free speech in Hong Kong, I agree with Rubio. Unfortunately, he has ZERO credibility after he locked up students in the U.S. for exercising free speech. (1/1)

Howard Stern asked Trump how young Trump would go. When Quivers asks for his “age limit,” Trump starts out by saying he doesn’t have one — but then gives a point of reference that looks not great in any light, saying he would draw a line at “12 year-olds”: www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House. When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases. For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.

Note how the Washington Post shrugs about whether it’s a slur AND accepts Trump’s frame that bankers are unscrupulous. If Trump dropped an n-bomb the Washington Post would say “Trump Uses Term Viewed As Slur To Describe Black Criminal Class”

Opinion | Yes, I voted for Trump’s megabill despite knowing it will harm my constituents. But if I hadn’t, I’d be primaried by someone who’d vote just like me but not give anti-Trump comments on background to The Times.

I would not be surprised to see it come out that certain members of the Supreme Court had been secretly coordinating with the DOJ on how to frame arguments in order to dismantle constitutional rights.

We really need to stop talking about this as some kind of looming threat rather than a process well underway. It’s not “close.” You have arrived at your destination. The order has been delivered.

Gavin Newsom called the National Guard deployment "unlawful." Good! If he believes the unit is still his to command, then he should order them to leave LA and return to their armory. Give the lawful order for them to stand down and dare the California Army National Guard to defy the governor.

Hate to be caught in the crossfire of my cameraman shooting news footage and the LAPD shooting me with a rubber bullet

Some people condemn professional trolls who share child sexual abuse material. We prefer to take a vaguely amused, aloof stance that treats them as “characters” and denotes our contempt for people with beliefs or values. Tomorrow in the NYT.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

Democrats need to fucking run straight to the end zone with that Musk tweet about Epstein

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

Feel like the President being obviously bribed in ways that violate the constitution should be a bigger deal.

I don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.

1/29/24: “THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET” 4/30/25: “This is Biden’s stock market”

Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.

DOGE will absolutely (on lost tax revenues alone) cost more money than any claimed savings

Waymo is now doing a quarter of a million paid rides a week, Google says. Tesla, which yesterday said it will have 99% autonomous ride market share, is doing 0 blog.google/inside-googl...

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

Why do people (here, NYT) still describe DOGE as a cost-cutting team when ... it hasn't? Just on lost tax revenues alone it's deeply in the hole. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Good, next need to hear “no legal authority to fire a Fed Chair” and “no comment” on monetary policy.

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

Did I miss the part in this piece where it said Congress is where visa categories and policy are set. Because, y'know, it's like, a law? Musk’s Team Is Building a System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

Breakdown of what just happened. Judge Boasberg 1) Finds probable cause of Trump officials' criminal contempt of his order to turn back flights. 2) Gives USG opportunity to "purge" the contempt. 3) If not and if DOJ will not prosecute, he "will appoint another attorney to prosecute the contempt."

Some businesses now showing the “Trump Tariff Fee” on their bills to customers.

people dont wanna listen but the context for this is fox news. fox tells its audience that everyone on medicaid etc is a perfectly healthy male, usually black. their base 100% believes it and people like johnson feed into the lie.

Starting to think that we should sort out a general agreement on trade and tariffs, perhaps housed under some sort of world trade organization. Let's keep the region strong with some kind of of north american free trade agreement. Perhaps a trans pacific partnership could soften China's influence.

Always post your hottest takes on April 1 so that if people don't respond well to them you can say it was a joke