I used to enjoy Noah's posts, but man, his brain is completely cooked by the right wing media ecosystem

Every Democrat in Congress should put out a video saying troops have an obligation to refuse unlawful orders. Make them prosecute all of you. This isn't a close call. I'd add Republicans too if I thought any of them had the courage to actually cross Trump on this.

I'm biased here but it strengthens my belief that global scale algorithmic social media is one of the worst inventions in human history. I'd delete it off the face of the earth without a second's hesitation

The members of this list are probably correct but it's like someone hit the shuffle button on the order. I love the Naked Gun but there's no way it beats out Airplane, Blazing Saddles, the Birdcage, or I'm Gonna Get You Sucka!

the worst people in the world are in charge of everything and i don’t feel fine about it

Most accounts on Twitter turn out to be Russian MAGA bots. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem

To simplify: the thing that made American higher-ed unique was the institutional organization around education as a PUBLIC GOOD, rather than as an elite training ground, or job training. This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.

@anandwrites.bsky.social, in the NYT makes a connection I've not seen made elsewhere: that elites were able to ignore the pain they caused their abuse victims because they are practiced at doing so in other contexts. ➡️ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

I like how Mamdani just acted like Schumer and Jeffries don't exist. Because they don't.

This kind of stuff is the AI companies' profit model. They want to sell influence over their AI models just like SEO

These people are absolutely nuts

Dems don't talk about it though! They have never, once, reminded people that the last three -- THREE -- Republican presidencies going back thirty years have ended in economic ruin.

The cops run municipal government and by and large the public is fine with this. THAT is the root problem.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

We are going to have to burn down and rebuild every federal agency when this nightmare is over.

There it is. The proof of concept that the companies that own AI can make their tools say whatever they want on a subject. I'm sure that ability will be very valuable to politicians and corporations looking to whitewash their reputations.

More of this. Party shouldn’t matter when it comes to protecting kids from predators. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t...

Private equity is going to enshittify yet another thing

Increasingly convinced that if we get another presidential election, the winner will be the one who commits to prosecuting Donald Trump and all the criminals installed throughout his criminal administration.

This is an interesting thread. Having lived in both the Northeast and South, the biggest political difference I saw is how there very few secular counter balances to the local churches in Southern politics. A lot of local elections are won and lost at the neighborhood bible study.

this is a good book

It's no coincidence that the only people Trump has ever beaten in an election were women.

There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago. And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.

There are way too many people in the media - even the "liberal" media - who see Donald Trump as the greatest show on earth and the best thing that ever happened to their careers.

It's going to be modestly unpopular. The moderates are going to feel real queasy about it. But the next Democratic admin needs to come in ready, not just to investigate, but to punish legally. People have to go to prison. There's no argumen that nonconsenusal surgery and med abuse is LE activity.

I'm starting to think that the shut down deal was to extend the ACA subsidies in exchange for allowing the Epstein scandal to go away.

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Also most voters have just never thought remotely seriously about policy. “Should we get rid of illegal immigrants? Well, of course; they’re illegal!” There’s nothing deeper than that going on until they start seeing what that actually entails.

And both parties have been pretending that all of this is entirely happening in the other party while doing nothing about their own internal affairs. Finally some both sides-ism that is true!

There is no strict constitutional prohibition against pedophilia so it’s hard to see why Democrats are so interested in the Epstein files. by Jonathan Turley

Not only was the Times obsessed with Hillary Clinton's emails while ignoring emails about Donald Trump sent to its own reporter, but since then it has constantly attacked anyone who dared look into questions of Trump's character. All with sanctimony. Now we know it was all a big lie.

Being on team democrat in this moment means demanding new leaders and firing collaborators. That’s how we live up to our values as democrats, which too many of our electeds aren’t living up to these days.

Suckers believe Republicans will negotiate after the government is reopened, even though they didn’t negotiate before it closed. Senate Democrats gave up the only leverage they had.

The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.

What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.

The reason everyone thinks establishment democrats hate progressives more than they hate nazis is that any time a progressive criticizes the party online, establishment democrats with anti-trump messages who never engage with nazis will show up to denigrate progressives all day.

It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.

If Senate Democrats really cared about the people, they would've demanded an end to the debt limit for their vote so that the GOP couldn't hold voters hostage again

Chuck Schumer should step down.

People on SNAP are starving and people on ACA who cannot afford insurance will suffer and die but what keeps coming up on Morning Joe? Air travel. First-world problems always trump -- pun intended -- poor people's problems.

Nothing better underscores that Dems have no values or beliefs than the fact that they called every issue except ACA subsidies a distraction and then proceeded to fully capitulate on ACA subsidies

Kinda funny the Dems did the shutdown largely as a show for the base and now people are madder than before lol

There will be some "Wow you can't make these people happy" sentiment but what's really happening is the Dems are beginning to reap the consequences of not really believing in anything. Choreographed maneuvers, too clever by half talking points. People have just had it

Truly amazing that any time the democrats have to bite the bullet and do something that ruins countless lives, there's always *just* enough votes to get it done, but if there is a vote on something that would actually improve people's lives, they are always one vote short. Crazy how that happens.

Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care? What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.

Moderate Democrats saw that voters were energized and might expect something from them, so they needed to put a stop to that ASAP