i see elon took care of that nasty bot problem on the hellsite

My CARP (corruption above replacement president) model estimates that the bribe that Tom Homans took amounted to only 0.001% of the bribes that Trump has taken. And I tell you the best way to blow 50,000 bucks at a CAVA. All that and more in the next Silver Bulletin.

John Adams: "Facts are stubborn things." Joseph Mather: "Facts are seditious things." Ronald Reagan: "Facts are stupid things." Ah, postmodernity.

it's genuinely kinda wild how so much of post-Nixon conservatism has basically been constructed around never letting any Republican president be held accountable to the same degree

i feel like we're learning why this is a mistake

Michio Kaku on H1B being the secret weapon of the US.

Even W did a spot on Colbert after the 2006 WHCD www.cbsnews.com/news/troops-...

This isn’t getting enough coverage: Hundreds of people once held at Alligator Alcatraz Florida have vanished from federal records, prompting lawyers to accuse U.S. authorities of running a detention "black hole," as a new sprawling report from El País has revealed.

If only.

Every mayoral administration leaves behind successes we can learn from—even if we disagreed with the mayor themselves. Good to talk a little NYC history on @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social with @jonathancapehart.bsky.social this morning.

Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

Just thought I should add: I’m *not* rooting for a shutdown, which would be awful. But Dems simply agreeing to whatever bullshit Thune puts in front of them would be awful as well. There’s no good option here for Dems, only degrees of bad options. Terrible things will happen either way.

No it doesn’t. It requires Democrats STANDING FOR THINGS instead of constantly knifing us in the back, thus attracting support from people who don’t vote because they are (rightly) cynical about politics.

Cutting the baby in half: I think regular people aren’t using X, The Everything App as much anymore, but elites still are. When they talk about winning the battles of persuasion, they’re talking about the battles to persuade them, not the general population. In that way, the right wing is winning.

The dooomers are idiots. All progress we have ever made was made beginning when things were bad, terrible, horrifying.

Trump’s delusional if he thinks this ends with Bubba from Oklahoma landing a tech job. Tech firms will just move operations overseas to reach top-tier talent. 📌 After Trump slapped a $100K fee on new visas, several passengers bailed minutes before takeoff, afraid they couldn’t get back into the US.

Which is easier to move? Siloed, dug-in Trumpers, or disengaged apathetics?

It’s true that you’re probably not going to convert someone by roundly humiliating them for being a moron - but you’ll convert a lot of people who may have silently agreed in a totally permissive environment, but do not want to end up similarly labeled a moron.

It’s the culture of total ideological permissiveness that got us here - the idea that everyone has a completely unrestricted right to endorse ideas that are stupid beyond belief, and that if you make them feel like an idiot for acting like an idiot, you’re the problem. No. We need MORE judgement.

I agree it’s good to convert voters. The thing that DC Dems can’t seem to get into their thick skulls is that kumbaya listening sessions convert no one. What converts people is creating a social penalty for stupid beliefs and ideas

ABC could just cancel their contract with Nexstar. Disney knows it. This isn't about cowardice. It's about submission.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

🧑‍🌾 NEBRASKA REPUBLICAN Rep. Don Bacon: “We have a company that makes combines moving their entire operation to Europe BECAUSE OF TRUMP’S TARIFFS. Hundreds of jobs. Our farmers are really struggling.” Hey @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @CSexton25 @RepChrisTodd @rustygrills you up?

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

MAGA working as hoped

The next democratic president is going to make progressive promises. Hopefully it's a progressive President. But i need us voters to realize now that undoing things from this current administration will take time and we may have to be patient as both happen.

To: Lorne Michaels Re: #SNL Host Please have Jimmy Kimmel host the first episode of the 51st season.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Get in losers, we’re grieving

Is it Christian to publicly call for the murder of all homeless people? That's what Brian Kilmeade did on Fox a week ago. He still has his job.

Trump trying to send a DM to Pam Bondi but actually posting it on TruthSocial instead raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental acuity.

Does anybody truly believe that Tom Homan's $50,000 payday was a one-off? (Presumably the FBI didn't, or why would they have launched their investigation?) I hope investigative journalists and others with the ability to dig into his whole range of activities will pick up the torch

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Everyone in the Thump Administration is a criminal or a wannabe criminal because no one with any decency or integrity wants to be associated with this dude.

Remember when Richard Nixon accidentally broadcast his smoking gun tape to the nation and Nixon said 'I didn't do that, there are no tapes it's all a hoax' and the media and the politicians and all his supporters said oh ok fair enough and everything went back to normal?

"Media outlets committed to liberal democracy should take the side of liberal democracy against authoritarianism. Period. The end."

It's like they made a clone of Goebbels but somehow the volume got stuck on "screeching banshee"

“We love that he’s an openly racist, corrupt, mob boss rapist piece of shit.” Yes, we know. That’s kind of the problem.

Some of you really want to be the person who is like “you know that story about the Black man being arrestee because a white woman didn’t want him…sitting? Actually what’s awful about that is the shitty design of the only website covering the story” & you think you don’t sound like complete dicks!

The first time free speech broke my heart was Snyder v Phelps. The Westboro Baptist Church case. It broke my heart because what they were doing was so hateful and egregious - but I knew it was also protected speech. Supporting someone’s right to say something so hurtful was hard but necessary.

Did the audience at the Metropolitan Opera season opener (“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay”) just boo @schumer.senate.gov and yell at him to either fight or retire when he gave a pre-show speech? Yes, yes, we did.

im having a harder time with politics than i ever have in my life, including the iraq war and the recession. we're in a full blown fascism explosion and the so-called opposition party has never been weaker. everything we've stood for as americans is being eroded, with a whimper.