It's also worth noting that if D politicians moved off of X en masse, journalists would presumably feel compelled to take note of that and follow them. I know that most national outlets are owned by right wing billionaires and would respond in bad faith, but it feels like it has to start somewhere.

One challenge is that pols follow journalists. There is a felt need to counter right-wing narratives that get juiced which MSM then legitimize & amplify from X. As long as legacy media like NYT etc monitor + cite X as public sentiment (which they tell us they do) it is tricky for pols to leave

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope" (John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)

The President had literally months to prepare his response to the Supreme Court ruling, yet couldn't even stick with his decision on the s.122 (temporary) tariff from Friday to Saturday, raising it from 10% to 15%.

The most chilling, because plausible, paragraph in today's papers. (From WSJ www.wsj.com/politics/nat... ) Saving face and soothing his always-wounded ego, by launching a war—with zero Congressional approval or public explanation or support.

* End fact-checking on social media * Stop deplatforming those who promote dangerous misinformation Of the two major parties, only one takes these positions Can journalism stand as neutral before them? www.status.news/p/left-to-th... From @status.news [no paywall on weekends]

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker. Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

NPR continues to bring you all the news you can use about Nazgul.

The level of anger normal Minnesota people have at their elected representatives is palpable. It's not about party, but the perceived failure of local/state electeds to do anything of substance to protect residents who pay their taxes and get left facing off alone against masked, armed men.

I think they’ve really misjudged the situation if they believe JD has some kind of special pull in Rome, but if their intention is to keep humiliating him by sending him there then I get it.

Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi owned Palantir stock while voting to fund DHS. https://www.notus.org/money/tom-suozzi-palantir-stock-homeland-security-ice

im sorry, kinda

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Trump illegally imposed billions in tariffs (taxes) on U.S. corporations. Much of those costs were passed onto consumers. The corporations might get their money back. You never will.

In the midst of the most aggressive and alarming federal assault on the First Amendment since the Palmer raids, the Biden-era free speech warriors have focused their outrage on . . . the injustice of releasing the Epstein files.

Masnick: "This is what so many of us kept pointing out throughout the 'Twitter Files' hysteria: the 'free speech' grift was never about protecting individuals from the state. It was about protecting a specific type of speaker from the social consequences of their speech."

I have to admit, 30 minutes into this press conference, Trump is sharp, poised, persuasive, and—ha ha just kidding he's still a no-show, our moist bronze president is still getting himself ready to slur, mumble, and yell incoherently.

Here is video of Rubio telling him the news.

Anyone who shares video of this will be a national hero.

In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...

still remember the "it's too early/hyperbolic/irresponsible to compare these guys to Nazi Germany" Reasonable Posters - whom, I imagine, are waiting for the renovations to be completed before they update their priors

I don't know what else to do besides heart the post, share the post, and then quote it but if I did I'd do those things too.

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

the lesson of the pandemic lockdowns should have been "the only people important to the functioning of society are the workers who actually do things" if every rich asshole on earth vanished in a puff of smoke tomorrow, nobody would notice or care

It is pretty telling that it comes as something of a surprise that the Supreme Court sided with the Constitution over Trump.

The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.

good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

Personally I think a better way to prevent social disorder is actually narrowing the wealth gap by raising taxes on Jesse Watters and the billionaires and using the revenue to lift up the rest of the public.

Wow a Republican what are the odds

New from me: What do Jeff Bezos, Bari Weiss, and RFK Jr. have in common? Each has used the trust trap: they bemoan a loss in institutional legitimacy as a justification for radical actions that further undercut trust in their institutions. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...

Yeah but if your reasonable suspicion is "He looks Mexican," then....

This isn't what SCOTUS *said* (they said nothing) BUT the Court's "passivity"-deciding not to decide or say anything - helps the executive branch aggressively characterize & implement the Court's orders. My draft paper "Passive Vices" goes into this (Law Review editors- it's looking for a home!)

The American flag comes down under a Trump banner amid stormy weather at DOJ.

Sean Hannity is demanding regime change in Iran to stop the country's nuclear program ... which Hannity previously claimed Trump had “obliterated” www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity...

The worst part of this video - and that's saying something - is the idea that lots of people replied that yes they know this one neat hack.

LOL college admissions are so broken; this is not what a real high school student looks like. Only the volunteering at the hospital is real. The internship and research is acquired through connections and the student contributes nothing. The nonprofit is entirely fake. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Put it in the "If a Democrat" Hall of Fame.

Biden would’ve been instantly impeached in a bipartisan vote if he put his face on the freakin’ Department of Justice building

“hasn’t yet decided what the purpose of an attack would be” Might be a reason that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t leave decisions on the use of force to the erratic whims of one man.

I continue to believe that the inevitable J.D. Vance presidential campaign will be destroyed when someone fills one of these awkward pauses by simply yelling "you suck, dork!"

This is highly unusual: Trump is tanking on the economy *and* immigration. Both are issues where GOP typically has an edge. Trump has thrown away the GOP advantage on both. On the pod we dig into new numbers on this and why they show Trump/GOP in such a weak position: newrepublic.com/article/2067...

There have been two GOP Presidents in the 21st century, and they both caused recessions. Meanwhile, Donald Trump told Senate GOP to sabotage a border security bill to undermine Joe Biden's presidency, and they did. "The GOP was strong on immigration." lol "The GOP was strong on the economy." lmao

Feeling down? As an act of self-care, go to the comments of some MAGA "health influencer" you despise and post this with something like "Trump issued an order shielding glyphosate manufacturers from cancer lawsuits??? And RFK Jr supports it??? Very scared rn. Have we been conned? 😧🇺🇸✝️🫶"

"Prince" Andrew arrested for Epstein shit. Yoon Suk Yeol gets prison for leading an insurrection. Trump does BOTH and SCOTUS makes him invincible and we elect him president. This is fucking humiliating, America.

ok but how is the opposition party supposed to win over his supporters now, have they even thought about that

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Americans waking up to news that Prince Andrew has been arrested for Epstein ties