I think Lizza sucks, but I think his holding back the Nuzzi scandals so he could torpedo her comeback is much more justified than other times journalists held stuff back. NYT sat on warrantless wiretapping and Vance vetting to, at best, avoid GOP whining. Haberman and Woodward (like 50 times) 1/

Admin wants to invade Venezuela because they’ve concluded that war helps incumbents win reelection and sideline dissent. I think the ambiguity relates to timing. Too early and the election is in the messier insurgency or postwar chaos phase. And maybe it’s a question of whether to wait for 2028

American public opinion is largely generated by foreigners who make money by lying to Americans over unregulated social media. Out of respect to those entrepreneurial foreigners, we will continue to treat their commodified fictions as one side of a reasoned American debate. -The Editorial Board

Former “pro-Palestine” activist speaks out about the movement.

For the record, the reporters and pundits who stayed on X and insisted that it was real and representative while Bluesky wasn’t were stupid and wrong

this is mesmerizing

It would be extremely funny if the upshot of indicting Comey is Halligan immediately losing her job

you do not participate in politics any more than the red-faced 50-something guy yelling at the yankees pitching staff has participated in coaching a major league game

not once in your life has something political which you predicted or wanted to happen actually happened. what you imagine as a philosophy of transcendence and struggle has largely been, to you, sitting in front of the computer and placidly complaining about things beyond your control, doing nothing.

Republicans can’t seem to decipher Epstein’s emails, so John Stuart does it for them‼️ What they mean is “difficult to react” GOP GUARDIANS OF PEDOPHILES!

these guys legitimately do not seem to understand that other countries exist and get a say in how things go

It makes me viscerally angry that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia knows that he owns the President of the United States

Are Supreme Court justices immune from insider trading like Congress is? Because those mfers know what will happen when the tariff decision comes out

I feel like the insane Nuzzi profile has drawn attention away from the pathological level of pretension and self regard it takes to title your book about yourself “American Canto.”

"Let me put it plainly: there’s a lot of unmistakable antisemitism going on around the world right now and your silence in the face of it all is beyond disappointing." share.google/C4y0dSlZlnZq...

Yeah I mean (granted it was 10 years ago, but,,,,)

It’s funny that the GOP response to the Epstein emails is to say that they’re selectively leaked. The emails say what they say. It’s not like each one has a corresponding email saying “that other email is fake” that didn’t get released

“The American people should ask themselves just what the president meant when he concluded every issue of Time Pedophiles with the motto ‘Three cheers for molestation, and may every historical era be another wonderful secret!’”

Somehow I don't think it's gonna work. bsky.app/profile/robe...

It actually is the news media’s job to make objective assessments about how significant or newsworthy a scandal is without being led by the nose. Reporting isn’t just passing on the parties’ press releases. 1/

A CR with payments for MAGA senators is not a clean CR

“will this make us look independent?” as your guiding light doesn’t remove politics from the equation, it centers politics, and what’s worse, all but guarantees bad political calculations

Every senator let through the unanimous consent to make the whole thing take 5 minutes. Every one of them is lying to you about their opposition

Omg they didn’t even get this

Sad to have been right about this

I am starting a pool on which of the 8 Dem yes votes to end the shutdown will be the first to admit that other Dem senators agreed with them about caving and that they took one for the team

The more I think about it the more I realize how fucked up it is that the entire Senate Democratic caucus is a conspiracy against their own constituents and the country here. The yes votes obviously coordinated with Schumer and others over who would bite the bullet. None of the no votes are …

With this deal, Democrats have lost the shutdown. They were clearly winning it and positioned to continue to win it, and instead they have chosen to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for no good reason in exchange for nothing. GOP was getting blamed, that wasn’t going to change. 1/

All these people are asking where Senate Democrats’ balls are, and I tell them, “check the tariff shelf”

Feeling pretty good about this take and the idea that the bad Schumer one-year extension offer was genuine rather than 3-dimensional chess. And I don’t know why people were acting like one year from just after Election Day 2025 would be right before the 2026 midterms instead of right after them

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I was part of the internal Trump administration team trying to convince the president to end the shutdown in 2018 - 2019 — for 35 days — before people went hungry, workers lost pay, and government services collapsed. Here’s what I learned: he doesn’t give a shit.

Stuff like this didn’t used to happen. Legislators could not get away with claiming to support, let alone taking credit for, stuff they directly voted against. Now GOP does it regularly. Real testament to our stupid and complicit media and stupid voters

This was a really good distillation of how the GOP spends money better than the Democrats. I would add that the relative scarcity of employment in Dem politics skews hiring towards top 10%ers, which in turn skews strategy towards what top 10%ers think make for good politics.

The Epstein files stay hidden, but the Epstein Ballroom will be a prominent display.

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

“Let he who is without—“ Nazi tattoos? Yeah, me, here, I’ll cast it

Trump and his racist administration think it’s inherently suspect for a black woman to purchase real estate

Other countries have gone a long way to stick things out with us and try to massage Trump’s ego, but this is going to be a red line for them. Not going to require killing someone from each Western European country for them to decide that the US unapologetically murdering foreign citizens in their…

MAGA are such intensely devoted Nazis that they have a hipster-like connoisseurship of it. They know about this version of the MJ song. Gorka has to wear his obscure Hungarian Nazi pin. I bet there are group chats where they shit on “amateurs” who don’t know the Wessel song

If y'all are shocked by the racism of the Young Republicans, I got some bad news for your ass about the older ones.

The Republican Supreme Court wants to declare the 1960s civil rights movement unconstitutional

It would be extremely funny if the upshot of indicting Comey is Halligan immediately losing her job

For any disaffected men who think the GOP is looking out for you, please note that the unapologetic GOP position on Medicaid is that young men who can’t find a job don’t deserve healthcare

This is also why they assume all protesters are paid