I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

🎶 you know the day destroys the night night divides the day tried to run tried to hide BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE

A touching scene of a man and his cat reunited after time apart. (Warning: Get your tissues out)

this would fix the website

one time the biden administration politely asked social media platforms to take down covid misinformation to save lives and the rightwing ecosystem spent years screeching about the perils of censorship

These people are so fucking stupid. Just complete morons, I’m in awe they’re able to hold a regular job.

this is the same type of posting they did when cracker barrel changed its logo

it is verboten for comedians to make fun of our mad idiot king

Charles, as we know, is being treated for cancer

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

Thinking again about how Mackenzie Scott has given away $19 billion of her $38b and still seen her net worth increase, these are some weird little pissbabies

So that’s Musk, Zuck, Thiel, and the enshittifiers of Google. Good fucking riddance, and good luck in Florida. Learn to swim.

Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."

*raises hand* Hi, yes, just to clarify. The Trump admin is trying to force a university to turn over a “list of Jews”? A list. Of Jews. Do I have that right?

i wrote about how boomers seem to see millennials as a tribe of thin skinned tittybabies www.patreon.com/posts/156443...

📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

By this same logic, Donald Trump bears direct personal responsibility for the murder of Melissa Hortman, the assault on Paul Pelosi, the guy who showed up armed at the Obamas, the attempted pipe bombing of several prominent Democrats, the January 6th rioters who assaulted cops, and many many more.

“People react to those kind of things.” Except, of course, for calling for the execution of political enemies, or calling them traitors, or saying they hate America, or that they eat dog and cats, or that they are destroying America. Nobody reacts to that.”

lol the shooter has a BLUE SKY ACCOUNT, well here’s one excuse that won’t work:

the problem is that MAGA was already using this rhetoric when they saw someone use "latinx"

The gunman by all accounts did not get close to Trump; he wasn’t “exposed” to him. The security plan balanced keeping the hotel open to the public with securing the discrete event that the president attended and, in this instance, it achieved both objectives. What’s the flaw?

TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?

does really feel like a vibe shift when the media is like “so the shooter said you’re a pedophile rapist, thoughts? did he have a point?”

It’s notable, I think, that no one who signed up for bluesky before the 2024 election has ever tried to assassinate anybody

this doesn't mean it was staged. it means he doesn't care about other people being hurt. someone actually *was* hurt.

The obvious response to this is “then don’t go to this private event”, followed by “if this puts the president’s family and staff at risk, why is he calling to do it again in a month?”

it’s weird how the WHCD has mutated over Trump’s presidencies from an event honoring the press to an event where the press honors the president, and the attendees just keep clapping like seals and don’t notice the change

I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

O'DONNELL: It looks like you go down TRUMP: No. What happened was I started talking with them, and they said, 'Please go down on the floor.' So I dropped to the floor.

Hello to the FBI/Secret Service/NSA people now monitoring this account because apparently the attempted shooter liked a few of my posts in the last month, here's a picture of my cat to get you started

This is how they respond to literally everything though, at some point it just becomes background noise because there isn't actually any way to escalate it any further.

Republicans laughed at Paul Pelosi, and the president said nothing about Melissa Hortman.

Amen. Never a solution, and in this case would only make him a martyr for his cultists. I'm still holding out hope that he shits himself to death on stage.

"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"

Anyway. I’m glad nobody was hurt and I’m sure the journalists who attended the WHCD will not center themselves and their personal experiences and instead remain focused on holding the powerful accountable and informing the people about their government.

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

No way that this happened TWICE now to this guy lmao

Just a reminder that past motives for assassination attempts have included: "because the ghost of William McKinley told me to," "to save the trees" and "to impress Jodie Foster."

oh do news reporters know what it's like to be a public school teacher now

Every school in America is going to need to build a ballroom.

This is how you know nobody in the WHCA is an actual journalist anymore.

I’m going to be quite honest and say that I don’t think it’s very responsible for the President of the United States to be posting stuff like this

The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incited an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while people don't believe him and create their own narratives. #whcd

The consistent absence of actual facts from the president’s briefings is, even in this horrifying moment, a tell. He just doesn’t know.

my political cause is being shitty to any journalist who would attend the WHCA dinner

Yeah I dunno but I wouldn’t claim to call myself a journalist and president of the WHCA while sitting next to the man who said Jamal Ahmad Hamza Khashoggi probably deserved to be dismembered alive by a bone saw. Just a grotesque group of people.

I don’t regret calling every person in that room who’s not a wage worker a soulless sack of shit, because that’s what they are. The servers? The bartenders? That’s who I feel bad for. The ones who were actually working tonight, and had to return.