at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

anyway god speed to the good folks at cbs news who will now be taking editorial direction from this genius bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

This is (another) massive violation of the appointments clause, right? You can't just skirt around having the senate confirm a new commissioner by just inventing a new position, right??

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

the thing about the “official antifa” citation is that it is just definitive evidence that she’s a stone cold dumbass

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

"Our mission is clear: to ensure this global platform remains a place where people can seek the truth, gain understanding, and engage with the facts. That is why we are appointing as editor-in-chief an unqualified hack in an adversarial relationship with the very idea of good journalism."

A traveler from an antique land--great guy--said to me with tears in his eyes "Sir, two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert." And I said wow, that's really something. But we'll be building a big beautiful statue to my hubris and it will stand for eternity

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks. On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Power to em honestly

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen newrepublic.com/article/2013...

If you still think you can fix things using the system we have, then *at minimum* you have to run on "Give us enough votes to impeach and remove the criminal president" and there seems to be no appetite for doing even that. If that's out, what's left?

So much of what's happening right now in mid-tier "elite" opinionating is auditioning for an imagined right wing nomenklatura. And it's disgusting.

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

looking into the article, important part to it is this was initiated by italian unions, making it possible to organize such action at all. which reinforces for what and why such union restrictions exist in america. keeping labor down doesn't just generate wealth, it also suppresses other movements.

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

BREAKING: The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 100-page opinion -- says it is unequivocally, lopsidedly easy to determine that the Trump administration's view of birthright citizenship is wrong. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

not that it will happen but at the very least any reporter who wrote about trump “distancing” from project 2025 owes their readers an explanation for why they published obvious lies

At the risk of hyperbole these really may be the most horrible people to ever live.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Everyone in this admin is a different type of tik tok guy. Natural cures only no medicine guy. Alpha warrior guy who hasn't been in a fight with anyone except his wife. Evil trad wife

How it started. How it's going.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

This is illegal, plain and simple, with penalties including removal from federal service, debarment from federal employment for five years, and a fine of $1000. 5 U.S.C. § 7326. A country which valued the rule of law would enforce its laws.

I’m really grateful for Pritzker. But that he’s so good at this also makes clear just how badly most other Democrats are failing to meet the moment.

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

just the hubris on this guy! like every chauvinist mediocrity, he sincerely believes he is a top specimen, the pinnacle of human achievement.

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Also, as a reminder, now that its October, my Monsterification commissions are open wide for all-- I have had an absolute TON of fun making these (it's been a dream really) and I would LOVE to make some more. Just shoot me a message! #art #october #halloween #design #furry

the idea that you could just pass specific bills on specific areas with simple majorities is just beyond the ability and comprehension of most lawmakers in congress it seems

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Democrats should never vote to fund a government that's waging war on its own citizens and firing officials *because* they insist on following court orders instead of breaking the law. Let Senate Republicans nuke the filibuster. None of this is normal and it shouldn't be treated as such.

Well don't I feel stupid

Gonna have to teach everyone from scratch that the president isn't your boss, he's your employee

Frankly, as a journalist, people in power *should* hate me. I don’t understand people who get in this game to kiss the ass of the powerful, instead of staying with their foot up the ass of the powerful

Like every mf that’s been forced into our public consciousness via him since 2016 has been wack as hell. No swag, unfunny, zero bitches, clearly hated by everyone they’ve ever met, no homies, weird smile, probably fuckin stink and go to hotel breakfasts barefoot and drink milk. You know they type

They've lost the 9yos

I wrote a bit about corporate cowardice in an age of fascist attacks on speech, and the bravery that independence can lend those who speak. www.the-reframe.com/independence...