this pattern is because they like trump and they want to help him rule over us

I know @nytimes.com pays well compared to other journalism jobs but surely not enough to let people sleep at night manufacturing consent like this

Unlike many NY Dems, Hochul deftly managed the rise of Mamdani and allied with him to avoid a primary challenge. The Times recasts her savvy maneuvering as a naive fuck up because they hate Mamdani and are looking for any angle they can to halt his momentum.

Pierzynski gave Leo the final out ball from Game 1 of the 2005 Series, the game he attended.

Bethany Mandel everyone: normie Jewish people I disagree with are the servant of Nazis but not like our cool Nazi friends

If he loses they’re gonna say he should have been nicer to them even though none of them live in Texas

I am of course not a lawyer, but I doubt sentencing people to 50 years in prison because you don't like their ideology is going to hold up on appeal.

giant baby brendan carr is very upset that ABC is starting to form something vaguely resembling a backbone

So you're saying that some determined antifa vandal didn't take a box cutter and cut a slit the length of a football field through the stone bottom of a water-filled pool?

This whole thread is great, but this part especially. The tech bros insist that they're not selfishly stealing from artists for their own profit. No, no, you idiots. They're *selflessly* creating something that will let anyone become a master artist. Out of the goodness of their hearts, you see.

Within 6 hours everyone in the Trump cabinet will claim that Trump has a daughter named Honor. Within 6 days they'll produce an actress to play the role. 6 weeks from now some corporate news media outlet will do a completely credulous puff-piece profile of Honor Trump.

This is a great example of a news story where every individual reported element is factually accurate but someone coming to the story without context would get the exact wrong idea of what was actually happening in the real world.

there needs to be a coordinated global effort among democracies to destroy this man's financial and social media empires and leave him impoverished and powerless

Weirdly enough, I'm reading this while in Belfast. Over the past decades, the community here has been working toward peaceful co-existence. Musk is trying to empower right wing fascists who want to change that.

The thing is you gotta be obsessed with the Nazi regime to even reach for a Bonhoeffer reference here and you gotta be an incredibly twisted soul to think Bonhoeffer’s nonviolent heroism is the tragedy we can’t repeat in that story.

The policy is eugenics, and legacy media is complicit.

Oh man I thought I was just being a broad History Knower observing that the Belfast pogrom was by people whose parents probably did similar things to Catholics, I didn't realize there was a guy involved who literally stomped a Catholic to death in the 90s

the Republican Party is not going to improve after It Happens and must be dismantled and locked out of power entirely

Consolidation of media into multiple outlets geared to churn out state propaganda to maintain the illusion of choice.

Hard to come up with bans for this sort of thing, but a party / movement endorsed “white list” of legit PACs could help, not to understate the difficulty of making that process transparent and trustworthy.

Jesse Singal pretends to be disturbed by my comment about Elon Musk, but is not disturbed by Elon Musk’s vigorous attempts to encourage pogroms in Europe. Being disgusted by the latter is cringe, sophisticated people aren’t.

The official position of the government of the United States is explicitly and overtly white nationalist In domestic and foreign affairs. This is a change from being implicitly and covertly white nationalist.

Still flummoxed that Republicans say corporate election expenditures and contributions are the purest and highest form of First Amendment speech, but corporations have no constitutional right at all to participate in boycotts or disassociate with objectionable clients. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

It's time for an immigrant caravan

saying this after shitcanning half the staff and appointing partisan appartachik Bari Weiss as editor in chief is like "Putin Promises Territorial Integrity for Ukraine"

Grand Jury options: Bill No Bill Crock of shit

The ultimate boss of failing upward.

Stop using fascist framing. Stop granting fascists points for anything, especially bigoted and dehumanizing talking points. Don't even give them credit for getting something right; they're getting it right in service of their ultimate goals of white supremacist mass murder and general enslavement.

this was a predictable outcome of Democrats refusing to stand up the VA Supreme Court on redistricting. Declared open season on defiance of the law. Reminder that if you do not seize the power that voters have given you, someone else will take it from you.

“I’m no conspiracy theorist but Republicans don’t just lose in California” is so good

And then she ends by saying she spoke to Trump and set up ANOTHER INTERVIEW. This is why I’ve lost all respect for the cringing complicit corporate media. Spineless. Pathetic.

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

they like Trump and want to help him

Every last one of these people needs to face the harshest punishments we can collectively imagine. Nothing should be considered too cruel or unusual.

Chris Cillizza is such a feckless, simpish, unremarkable troll cosplaying as a truth-to-power media critic. he's so foundationally embarrassing I'm surprised he isn't in charge of CBS or CNN yet

they are announcing their intention ahead of time to steal our money from the treasury. intolerable

maine, summarized: 1. graham platner sucks 2. he is going to win the primary 3. he is, still, probably going to win the general 4. he’s going to be better than susan collins, because even joe fucking manchin would be better than susan collins 5. we will need his vote to do reconstruction 2.0

they like trump and want to help him

The plot to enslave America

The only newsworthy aspect of Trump's emotions is how they show he is unfit and dangerous. If NYTimes wanted to center his emotions as the story, the headline is, "President Trump Continues To Unravel As Another Vanity Project Is Found To Be Illegal."

This is traditionally known as "pulling an Eichmann," hopefully this time around we can speedrun the whole thing

the move towards openly embracing being a terrible person has been very bad for us, it’s not good that so many folks are just proud racists these days but my god the weaseling excuses from these insufferable assholes who still want to pretend they’re moral are excruciating

all this stuff is just barely-veiled code for "talarico is a [f-slur] and you're one too if you vote for him"

If you read these two pieces side by side it's impossible to come to any conclusion other than that the Biden administration were complete chumps to release visitor logs. Press punished Biden for his transparency with erroneous speculation and reward Trump for his secrecy by repeating his lies

He’s not, and most of you know better than to ask us about this sort of thing.

yeah this is just lying like, this isn’t fudging, “we’ve only used this projection that’s favorable to us” type statistics manipulation like we’re used to, this is just flat out up is down black is white lying in the service of pushing nazi policy and it should be treated as such

TCW spent years warning the world that the biggest threats came from the intolerant left, and has spent the last couple of years arguing that ok, while some of the right may indeed be bad, its still somehow the fault of the left.

Real sickos know that although the idea of a novel about the annoying comedy Star Trek guy marrying Troi’s horny mom sounds like the worst thing in the world, the fact it is written by Peter David means it is better than Don DeLillo’s Underworld