In the now all-too-common category of things that are completely unsurprising and yet utterly shocking, Republicans have completely memory-holed the killings of the Hortmans and shootings of the Hoffmans in Minnesota. As far as they’re concerned it just never happened.

The edits CBS made here are severe, and depict a man who is much more petulant and incoherent than the broadcast would suggest. trib.al/xaPuJZc

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden. This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years. But he’s the one who is actually doing it.

All part of the GOP economic program: redistribute income up. If you aren't part of the 1% and you still vote GOP, you're a mark.

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus? That was this week.

This isn’t journalism. This is creative writing by fascist sycophants.

If Jake Tapper & Ali Velshi can read Trump's unhinged post live on television, print-digital outlets can surely include the text within news stories. Sanewashing this insane & threatening message is journalism malpractice.

Donald Trump claims we don't have enough money for childcare, Medicare, or Medicaid—then requests $1.5 trillion for war. Remember that.

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

freestyle diplomacy & wild ultimatums? The @nytimes.com is dancing around Trump's incompetent warmongering with cutesy headlines like these. Can't help but thinking if it was Obama or Biden, the headlines would be stark & to the point with words like chaos, erratic, miscue even failure.

Candy is being crushed at heretofore unseen levels.

Evergreen

Honestly, good for him.

In the summer of 1993, I lived and worked on campus at my college. I wrote a movie in my college's computer lab every night after work. It was called EVERYBODY'S DEAD.

Things are not okay.

Trump pardons allies who boost his crypto coin. Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating. Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business. The list goes on. We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.

In cases you were wondering . . . this is a photo that annoyed Pete Hegseth so much because he thought it was "unflattering" so he got the photographer barred. I encourage all of you to use it as often as possible.

Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

He was pardoned for serious crimes - facilitating the financing of terrorists and sex predators. Because he agreed to put millions into Trump’s pocket. Naked corruption. Out in the open for all to see.

the White House, last week: "Donald Trump does not actually control his Truth Social account or what gets posted to it" newspapers around the country, this week: "President Donald Trump says on his social media account that..."

trump wrote the post himself and everybody knows it.

I keep thinking about Ted Cruz, who fervently backed Texas Republicans' partisan gerrymandering scheme, crying online about how mean it is that Virginia Democrats pulled off a partisan gerrymandering scheme. I know he has no principles, but Jesus Christ, man, have some self-respect and dignity.

We've only been aware of Trump's racism since a 1973 article about his real estate company refusing the rent apartments to black people, the first ever mention of his name in the NYT. That's why his Obama meme comes as a total shock. Who knew?

He lied to the Senate in his confirmation hearing. Democrats must move to impeach. We know it’ll fail but they need to get in front of cameras and mention this every chance they can. This is exactly the sort of thing voters mean when they insist Dems do something. apnews.com/article/rfk-...

Every American to the left of Susan Collins is somewhat responsible for the murder of Charlie Kirk, but it’s unclear if the President is responsible for the video he posted.

In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down. They should be reminded of it. Often.

He's looting the U.S. Treasury, people. Most crooked dictators find covert ways to get rich. Trump intends to simply order his government to transfer money into his bank account.

I could make a point about how a version of whiteness that excludes Scandinavians underlines how much white nationalism is an identity construct. But that would be so close to critical race theory that it would be illegal for me to say it on many US campuses thanks to Rufo. bsky.app/profile/zack...

Thank you, Sal Buscema for all the years of joy you brought. Thank you for all the punches the bad guys richly deserved.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

A hideous, unbelievable insult to our allies, who suffered a full third of the war dead in Afghanistan. And this from a soulless swine who knows everything about using his bone spurs to stay all the way back, entirely off the front lines. Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

White supremacist talking points. No dog whistles.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social, former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, describes what a "radically truthful" journalism would look like. www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-to-bui...

There is no evidence that the officer who shot the woman was injured at ALL, despite Trump’s claim here that he is “recovering in the hospital.” Immediately after the shooting you can see him walking completely normally, and he stayed on the scene for a while before driving off.

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.

They’re trying to cover up a murder that is playing on a loop on every phone.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies