This is because Nate Silver has 300K subscribers on Substack and Heather Cox Richardson has 2.7M. Mediocre men CAN'T STAND successful women, and even blame them for their own failures. Pathetic.

The American right insists that it has the secrets to a happy life. But what they offer is a prison ship of reactionary politics, misogyny, and contempt for anyone who doesn’t conform to their retrograde expectations. Read my latest at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/marriage-mis...

The trick is most right-wing types who see what Chris Rufo says believe they are the manipulators, not the manipulated. Few besides the Very Online see Rufo’s words directly. Weirder is how his targets in mainstream media treat him like an assignment editor, as if that shows how unbiased they are.

OPINION | Trump is deteriorating rapidly before our eyes, it's hard to know if he's falling apart faster than his own MAGA movement, writes @djrothkopf.bsky.social. trib.al/KozSIpV

it is also just hilarious to insist that eight months of rush job “scholarship” outweighs decades of settled history and 140 years of settled law

The 25th anniversary of Bush v Gore is today. The conspiracy mongering & corruption of the GOP has been brewing for a long time. Roberts, Barrett and Kavanaugh were all on Bush's legal team, where they pushed unfounded legal theories. SC justices were already enmeshed in voter fraud myths.

We must approach each day with these questions: What can we do to protect free and fair elections? How can we counter what the GOP is doing? How can we advance the voting rights of every eligible citizen and ensure their ballots are accurately counted and elections properly certified?

Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes: What Could Go Wrong? newrepublic.com/article/2043... via @newrepublic.com

Welp, Senate Republicans went and did it. Voted down subsidies that made health insurance affordable for their own voters who are entrepreneurs, farmers, small-business owners or employees, or lower-income people whose jobs don't come with health coverage. www.thebulwark.com/p/three-dumb...

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

“How many United States military veterans have you deported?” Magaziner asked Noem. “Sir, we have not deported U.S. citizens or military veterans.” Little did she know there was one staring right at her. trib.al/HtvW3WG

Here's every Community Notes mentioning Ukraine (24K) notetracker.socialmedialab.ca/?start=2021-... and Russia(19K) notetracker.socialmedialab.ca/?start=2021-.... As you can see, most proposed Community Notes never see the light of day and die a quiet death.

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“Asian wife sharing,” Pentagon press policy, and me: Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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BREAKING: The DOJ has filed its opposition to my motion for expedited processing of the EPSTEIN TRAINING VIDEOS. They're arguing that there's NO WIDESPREAD PUBLIC INTEREST. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-doj-re...

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

Whether or not this case takes us another mile toward an oligarchic free-for-all, we’re already in the bad place.

It's not ignorance. It's not malice. It's not that he's owned by petrostates and polluters. It's ALL of these things! #ScienceUnderSiege

This is INSANE www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... and these are our closest allies!

Israel has officially come out in support of Russia. Netanyahu brags about being in daily communication and coordination with Putin. Israel is also invested in attacking the EU due to Europe still upholding international law and the ICC.

Political reforms which would set us on a path towards a new system which don’t require a constitutional amendment: - Proportional representation in the House with RCV in the Senate - Expanding the Supreme Court and limiting its power - Abolishing the filibuster - Adding DC and PR as states

1) Impose massive tariffs on China 2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports 3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans 4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase 5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Tomorrow, the oral arguments at the Supreme Court kick off in National Republican Senatorial Committee vs. Federal Election Commission: a landmark campaign finance case. 🧵 Here's what you need to know:

NEW: Last year we found the acceptable level of exposure to formaldehyde set by the EPA left people at risk for cancer. Now the Trump administration has roughly doubled it www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

It's so sad that Alina Habba, a wholly incompetent Trump attorney, will no longer be flipping her hair in front of New Jersey juries before losing yet one more case.

What's most galling is Wurman and Barnett aren't stupid. They both know exactly how dishonest this is. Whatever their motives, and I don't really care, they're not doing scholarship in any of this. They're willful liars abusing their credentials in an aid of a lawless attack on fundamental rights.

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IMO, the best framework for understanding all of this infighting is that Tucker, Candace, TPUSA, Fuentes, and the Daily Wire are fighting over their respective audience shares of the relatively small number of people interested in consuming their nonsense.

Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged against them?

If the Democrats win the majority next year they'll investigate and issue lots of subpoenas. Yay. But am I wrong or did many members of the previous Trump administration just tell them to go fuck themselves? Will this time somehow be different?

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In a surprising twist, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to let Texas use its mid-decade gerrymander for the 2026 midterm elections may end up strengthening California’s defense of its voter-approved map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Musk and Medvedev remain unavailable for comment about other federal states, such as the Russian Federation and the United States of America.

Will Hoosiers shoot themselves in the foot? If the Indiana Senate approves the state House's draft, Republicans gain two seats...but lose any chance of power in a Democratic Congress in 2027. My latest, at Fixing Bugs in Democracy: samwang.substack.com/p/will-hoosi...

I didn't know this would be about Ben Shapiro when I started writing this. But I think it's fair to say it's about Ben Shapiro.

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The Indiana state House just passed a new congressional map that'd make the state's delegation all Republican (9-0, up from 7-2 now). Now, up to the Senate, which has been resistant: They're taking it up Monday. www.wishtv.com/news/politic...

A Ray of Hope Amid the Climate Information War newrepublic.com/post/203935/... via @newrepublic.com @hsouvainehorn.bsky.social

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength" -- George Orwell (1949)

Steve Ballmer, Fire Lawrence Frank ASAP! Preferably in the middle of the night on a road trip. www.espn.com/video/clip/_...

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

Hey, quick question about this photo from Epstein's island: What the fuck

12 former commissioners of the FDA came together to write a Perspectives piece for the New England Journal of Medicine; raising our concerns about recent changes to vaccine approval policy at the FDA and its implications for patients and public health.

Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

The new chair of ACIP, Kirk Milhoan, is a spreader of vaccine disinformation. He was fact-checked by AFP for wildly misinterpreting a study about myocarditis in athletes, claiming the vaccine was to blame. None of the athletes had been vaccinated. They had, however, had COVID19.

Somehow this is the worst part. Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.