I often see people complain about a headline, characterizing it as not reflecting the underlying story, sometimes even expressing sympathy for the reporter, only to then read the story and see that the headline was perfectly apt for what was written.

This is probably my favorite tweet in this genre. We've always been at war with AntifaSuperSoldiersWhoWillBeheadWhiteParents

In fact, if it weren’t for Chait and his pals, “cancel culture” would never have oozed out of the Fox News/talk radio vessel, and would have had the same reception as “the war on Christmas.” Basically: ridicule.

At the end, I thought this was going to go one way, but it went the opposite way.

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

How about just not putting too much stock in surveys that ask people to assess their own mental health *or* their “mood?” “This guy who regularly sends rape threats and has six “Fuck Biden” signs in his windows says he feels just fine” doesn’t really mean anything.

The thing that will drive me insane is watching the right explicitly calling for violence against their enemies (see also the Daily Caller article) and then in the same breath declaring anyone who even points it out as being a violent extremist, and then the media going “Sure, makes sense to me”

Reactionary centrism is the ostensibly educated person’s version of the witless barfly’s “common sense.” The witless barfly’s outlets for it are the bar and Facebook. The reactionary centrist’s outlets for it are the Atlantic and The New York Times.

"you eat their frame" "your argument is shaped like kirby"

Reporting from “war ravaged” “crime-ridden” Portland, Oregon.

But don't call them fascists because that's mean. “Additionally, ICE informed BPD officials that ICE agents will be again deploying chemical arms, such as tear gas, pepper spray, etc. against American citizens, our residents, and our first responders.”

Well, I think the best way to get across to Americans how terrifying this all is would be for Chuck Schumer to hold up various food products and say how expensive they are. I really think it would take this time.

Trump is releasing Amelia Earhart records for no reaso….. oh of course

The fact that Kaleb Horton died begging for work instead having a column at some hip legacy mag is such an indictment of this industry. People should have been begging to put him on payroll. But nope, we've reserved that space for Ezra Klein

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Remember "slap fight" videos from about 15 years ago? It was two dudes slapping each other. And those vids featuring black kids fighting, which were everywhere. And of course "bumfights." There are so many crucibles for all this. The Internet made proud stupidity and vileness widely acceptable.

What used to be “Russian trolls” is now “bots.” Those things really exist, and they’re pernicious, but we’re often way too quick to ascribe assholish behavior to them when really, it’s our fellow citizens, led by mercenary ghouls producing propaganda.

I’m telling you, there’s just not enough outrage about the craven actions of Speaker Mike Johnson.

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

How long before the federal government’s first public lynching? And then the Supreme Court’s decision that it was legal?

Well don't I feel stupid

I endlessly marvel at the ease with which Republicans replaced a massive chunk of U.S. media with rank propaganda while Democrats and journalists stood around befuddled with a thumb up their collective ass (while lecturing people on responsibility and community values, no less!)

"responsible broadcasting matters" says the company that routinely airs climate denialism, false election fraud claims, dangerous vaccine/autism health care disinformation, and 24/7 homeless fearmongering

This is what we get after a half-century of ostentatious patriotism, scholarly “originalism,” American exceptionalism, flag pins, Freedom Fries, nationalistic fervor, the Tea Party. It’s kinda like how so many of the loudest Christians get caught molesting kids. Same people, too.

For me and so many others, this is all 1,000 times more maddening because for decades, we were yelled at for noting what was wrong with conservatives. This even though even the most critical among us didn’t recognize the severity or the ubiquity of the pathologies we cited.

Quiet, unassuming, studious John Roberts might, depending on what unfolds, go down as one of history’s greatest monsters. Whether or not that happens (hopefully, he’ll mostly remembered as a clueless dolt with no moral compass or sense of shame) he is the epitome of the banality of evil.

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

The best windows into how we got Trump might be via police bodycam videos. Huge numbers of people loudly insist that their own vague, wrong understanding of their own “rights” is so obviously true that you’d have to be an idiot to not get it. It’s “common sense.” They’re all charged with resisting.

Since we’re doing deep cuts, let’s see the Joe Hill files.

Update: so it appears that Kirk really did play on an all white Serbian basketball AAU team in the Chicago area. The Wikipedia page on the Serbian "White Eagles" is, shall we say, interesting. The name derives from a fascist paramilitary group from the WWII era. bsky.app/profile/matt...

This has been pushed to the background, but pay attention: Right now, a stack of bills aimed at reining in AI companies and big tech sits on Gavin Newsom's desk in California. These are the bills Silicon Valley and the GOP tried to ban outright. Now they await Newsom's signature—or veto.

Better yet, we should shun and marginalize them, and stop pretending they have political “concerns.” It’s funny how all the apologists assume we want to inflict misery on these people, when all we really want is to stop their viciousness and stupidity from being normalized and validated.

Before you let the news about Secretary Shitfaced calling all the generals home raise your blood pressure one iota, remember:

he's very good at this

In reporting this piece on the new trial for a Huntington's treatment, I was struck by one thing in particular: The joy. One of my sources wept for joy. He has spent his entire career studying this disease, he said it was the happiest day. www.sciencenews.org/article/hunt...

This was the peak of American political journalism.

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos.”

And your job is what exactly? The Article I Crisis.

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

I assume most people at the American Journal of Race Science and Cancellation Studies work at home, but I still like to imagine Adam Serwer walking into Jeff Goldberg's office with sheaf of papers. "Here's that indictment of elites you wanted, chief."

A propos my hypothesis that those looking for democratic unity lack the the psychological fortitude to weather personal conflict When you avoid the unpleasantness of -gasp- rejecting association with your opponent, you displace your discomfort onto those most vulnerable to your opponent’s abuses.

Even though it’s bullshit the media is running COMEY INDICTED headlines which is how Republicans win messaging every time. They’re hoping most people won’t know the difference between this and a real indictment and the media helps them by not plainly saying “Trump Forces DOJ To Indict” in a headline

Genocide: not popular.

The fucking Wikipedia page for this calls it a massacre

“Regulation is the antichrist. I am a very serious person”

This is pretty much their approach to everything, all with the imprimatur of the fascist-majority Congress and the fascist-majority Supreme Court.

With about 70% of the posts I’m seeing today, I have a deep urge to confront the people — reactionary centrists and post-leftists — who have insisted for years that people had legit reasons to vote for this shit. Like because Clinton called bigots “deplorable” and Harris supported trans healthcare.

It amazes me how much more media attention the putative radicalism of Mayoral candidate Mamdani (often for things like free tuition or tax increases on the wealthy) gets than the undeniable extremism of key figures in the Trump administration, including the President himself.

I don’t think I’ve ever loved anything as much as ICE loves violently attacking women.