It was 100% among MAGA GOP respondents, not the general public. www.mediaite.com/opinion/cnns...

people who say "who cares this is just cable TV and it's dying" really don't understand what the right wing is building here, despite the fact I don't think it's remotely subtle

CNN currently already does that this will be worse

Straightforward case of where the interests of journalists and the public do not align. Yes, Trump is accessible. And journalists like him for that. But he is also a terrible President. Doing impromptu pressers does not make him better at the job, and has Trump shows, does not increase transparency.

Sanewashing remains rampant in coverage, with outlets either ignoring Trump's actual words entirely or framing them as mere crassness or hyperbole from an otherwise sophisticated, humane, well-meaning President while he gleefully admits he's a sociopath who is ordering textbook war crimes.

Part of the reason you treat anything Nazi adjacent as automatically disqualifying is that once you start excusing it, no matter how reasonable the excuses seem, it's terrifyingly easy to get negatively polarized into continuing to excuse it even after finding out that the original excuses were lies

Just absolutely unable to functions as grown-ups, let alone Cabinet officials who can reassure the public that they have a plan.

I read this, and it felt like the platonic ideal of a 2026 Washington Post opinion column: a knee-jerk defense of civil discrimination, smugly dressed in its Sunday best

Existence of Mamdani in the media criticism discourse is so useful because it demonstrates what the media could be doing to Trump if they ACTUALLY thought that he was an aberrant threat to our Republic. Not that you need to do this for Trump but: You can just write negative stories based on nothing!

“will not appoint people who give press conferences completely shitfaced” seems like a pretty easy commitment the next Dem candidate can make

“And the bigger question is: Why was there a town hall meeting with Matthew McConaughey and Timothée Chalamet? I mean, who deemed this meeting of the minds necessary?"

I think Trump knows exactly what he's doing with the shoes, it's another humiliation thing. If it wasn't, they'd just rebuy the exact same Florsheim shoe in the right size and wear that. But they know he'd notice those aren't the clown shoes he gave them, so they can't do it.

It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.

corporatism wants a Democratic opposition party in name only. They want a two-party system that's comprised of either far right wing corporatists, or center-right corporatists cosplaying as effective opposition. the dire threat of authoritarianism has demolished all that pretense

remembering when Trump had that press conference announcing Google had built them a Covid tracking tool at the start of the pandemic and the market shot up 10% (!) on the news and it turned out to be a total fabrication they just made up

The difference is that they like Trump, think he's a good president and want to help him, and they didn't like Biden, thought he was a bad President, so tried to hurt him

"The comeback kid!" is the storyline the media runs on scandal plagued fuck ups that they like and want to help

Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

it's utterly pathological how the establishment press covers this stuff and normalizes trump and his regulators zero acknowledgement whatsoever of the pay-to-play nature of corruption, or that the U.S. government is authoritarian

Bari Weiss is pushing the “50 year war” narrative at both the Free Press and CBS. The erases both American culpability for the current war (since Iran started in 1979!) and the reasons why a theocratic anti-American regime took power in the first place. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...

"And one of the Justices came up to me and he said, 'Sir,' and with tears in his eyes, he said, 'no one has ever won tariffs like you.' He said, 'no one.' Can you believe it. A big man, and he said, 'Sir, I want to kiss you.'"

someone transported here from 1995 with a layman's understanding of the Republican Party - "they like low taxes for the rich and aggressive use of the military" - would be more correct in their assessment of the party than many ostensibly savvy pundits working right now

The idea that imperial aggression is a "distraction" from Epstein is the worst kind of blind-men-and-the-elephant missing the point, sexual violence is inseparable from imperialism, it's all part of one big worldview that doesn't think certain other people are real

/9 In other words, I reject the Ezra Klein position that if you do evil with the right formalities and debate-team traditions and the right formatting, you’re actually doing good.

WTF. Anyone still claiming Elon supports free speech let alone that he's an "absolutist" is either an idiot or lying.

if you’re a leftist, you need to understand how widespread it is for white supremacists & fascist conspiracy theorists to use populist language to advance their violent, bigoted agendas. they are not on your side. they do not get grace or uplifted due to being a broken clock.

Patrick Swindle is the CEO operating the Dilley concentration camp. There are people behind this. They must go to prison.

Very cool to have a frontrunner for Senate trying to establish a Strasserist wing of the Democratic Party.

It's a concentration camp for kids. That's what we have now.

btw when they said merit based what they meant was that the dumbest, most irresponsible maga ideologue is preferable to anyone else with any qualifications whatsoever bsky.app/profile/eric...

Fantastic piece that counters a bizarrely rosy narrative with no actual basis in fact. Steve is dead-on across the board. It is not the job of SCOTUS commentators to manipulate data in a flagrant bid to launder the court’s reputation …

Being honest about declining trust in U.S. news requires being honest about Republicans and their bottomless bad faith propaganda efforts, and that's bad for financials and access

As I was saying, bsky.app/profile/sale...

General McClellan over here not pressing his advantage.

There have always been horrifically anti-trans groups and individuals. Few have done more, though, to launder their hate into “respectable” conversations than Jess Singal. No publications have done more to help that along than The Atlantic and The New York Times.

Mr. Klion has a point. Serious journalists, pundits, and thinkers are entitled to deference and respect. To thoughtful people, the measure of a social media platform is not whether it has Nazis and pedophiles, but whether Nazis and pedophiles recognize the authority of the best of us. /1

imo the reason the discourse around crockett vs talarico is annoying is that there are pretty good arguments on both sides, but the zero-sum nature of elections means you gotta pretend that there aren't and the case for your preferred candidate is unassiable. (many Dem primaries are like this)

What you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail

When you give this administration a presumption of honesty (regularity), you are acting like a credulous sucker. If you work for the judicial branch, you hurt Americans. bsky.app/profile/carl...

hard to believe that there's not much market for "impractical, barely functional, extremely ugly, prohibitively expensive, and developed by the world's most prominent Nazi."

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

Larry Ellison really is trying to create an autocratic-friendly U.S. state media similar to Orban's autocratic state television in Hungary. It's not subtle. If you're going to randomly inject yourself into the Paramount/Netflix/Warner Brothers debate, you should probably mention that:

the basic desire here is for a woman who is extremely desirable but also so completely insulated from and uninterested in the real world that she could be tricked into being with a dumb loser and never even realize it

what Trump should have done: take the win before the midterms what Trump is actually doing, because he is a tariff otaku with oppositional defiant disorder: EVEN MORE TARIFFS

another win for They Don't Have Enough Guys theory

almost as if the decision to build all of our media and information platforms on the back of corporate ad engagement was foundationally cancerous

love to be looted by our criminal president