The government hands your tax dollars out as gifts to the President‘s criminous toadies.

He is really obsessed with and constantly referencing “big men” especially if they have tears running down their cheeks, or are sporting ridiculously over-sized steroid-fueled muscles—see his love of wrestling, boxing, life-guards, and perhaps RFK Jr. He loves that which he covets.

WAT

Like, I get that the point of Bari Weiss is to make CBS news maga-friendly or die trying, but she keeps seeming **genuinely surprised** that it’s not going well in a business or reputation sense.

once again: this is not what she wants this may serve the broader political project of the ellisons but it is also not what they want (they want to set the agenda like the murdochs) but bari, particularly? she wants to be seen as a news savant and now she’s a laughingstock she hates it

Key context here: While CBS News is down in both the mornings and evenings, ABC News and NBC News have seen total viewership increases. In other words, the numbers from CBS News are an anomaly in the current television news landscape. www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...

I do think this matters. yes, she was hired to impose a fascist ideology...but Ellison believed that imposing a fascist ideology would be extremely popular with viewers. the fact that it is not is a surprise to him, and not a happy one. 1

anyway; at the very least it's good that they're crashing and burning since it is a signal to other actors that going all in on trump destroys your business.

I agree completely, insofar as the people in the White House can be said to believe things in any useful sense. When you are swimming in irony & cynicism, free of real consequence, who is to say they are quite wrong? The posting is satisfying. The thing itself is trivial. Everything is porn.

i think that the people in the white house legitimately believe that things happen solely through posting

the administration’s social media posters are going to be posting in tongues that maybe 100 people can even understand by the time we swear in the 2027 house

👌🏻👌🏻 It’s a big, beautiful wooden horse. Perhaps the biggest wooden horse ever built, the most beautiful. People are saying with tears in their eyes “Mr. President, that’s the most beaut horse ever built.” There’s laughing coming from inside so you know, it’s very wonderful and so we’ll see. 👌🏻👌🏻

they’ve been telling this lie for years because they want you to think americans are maga and anti-trump politics are unpopular when the opposite is true. the maga-ified cbs is tanking and the daily show is having its best ratings in years

ICE agents at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) manhandling a woman are getting called what they are: “Assholes.”

The only reason the Supreme Court of the United States is now examining the legality of a mail ballot receipt law is that Donald Trump is an election denier who still can’t his loss, and Republican lawyers have decided to legitimize and sanewash that denialism as a matter of federal election law.

All of us: There is no one.

One of the real problems with establishment Supreme Court journalism is that there has not been a meaningful accounting for the fact that Sam Alito now has the politics of your average InfoWars listener

All of us: There is no one.

Yikes

LOL: Paul Clement to Kavanaugh: there’s no Purcell problem (changing rules too close to an election) with banning states from counting absentee votes received after Election Day for upcoming midterms! (Purcell means never too late to disenfranchise and help Rs; always too late to help democracy)

HOWLING

As a baseline for what would work instead of this, "we're against insane Trump stuff that most people hate" is a good enough starting point

HOUSTON (IAH): "[ICE agents] standing in a circle in the middle of terminal A with some folk filming them + occasionally an agent is walking up + down the long lines of people. No evidence they are doing any work of a TSA agent...counted about 12 or so...only seen them pacing and cracking jokes."

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

Wild that we allow nine random lawyers in a nation of 325,000,000 to set national policy by just making up whatever facts they want to fit their ideological priors. And we have not bothered to really think about how to stop them from doing that.

Some very disturbing questions from the Republican-appointed justices in today's Supreme Court arguments—definitely several votes to strike down laws in 30 states which count mail ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day, as long as they're cast by Election Day. Not what I was hoping to hear.

And Trump's just making shit up, again www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

First images from those meetings

It is a shared condition, this radical uncertainty, in which the fate of missing people can seldom be resolved by any accessible authority. Their names appear on no casualty lists, prison databases, or death registries. They are simply gone. Gaza today. Great share from @harmancipants.bsky.social

This story, from Mahmoud Mushtaha and our friends at Palestine Reporting Lab, is not an easy read. It's about the paralyzing state of not-knowing in Gaza, which also becomes a bureaucratic maze. Access to forensic technology would help at least some of that pain www.wired.com/story/hassan...

the president lying about high level peace talks taking place with the country were at war with, all to juice the stock market, is a gigantic scandal but also its just kinda another monday

It is a well-established fact that the universe has a sense of humour. Three weeks into the Iran war, reality has passed through the looking glass, out the other side, and is now selling tickets to the gift shop.

This is literally their demand: that Trump’s word is law but he’s not responsible for anything

a peek inside my brain: -- hmm maybe I should clean out the t-shirt drawer today -- oh, gotta send out the newsletter first -- but I need to make more coffee before I can do that -- oh look a squirrel

Imagine joining ICE because you were broke and wanted to tear gas brown people and now you’re yelling about bins for eight hours straight while Hartsfield staffers roast your shoes

honestly making ICE do TSA duties is low key hilarious and would cause massive attrition.

I don't know, I think pointing out that other people are losing their jobs for saying far less than Trump says daily is worth it. I also think pointing out how people would react to other leaders doing the same is valuable. I also think mocking him when he does this shit is good.

OK, so it’s official from the President of the United States when someone you don’t like dies it’s OK to say “I’m glad he’s dead” we got it in writing folks

the “everybody just calm down” brigade has been proven wrong so many times over the last 10 years

the failure of the Mueller Report, ultimately, was the successful result of the conservative project to make sure that what happened to Richard Nixon would never again happen to a Republican president

My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

kind of assume that Elon Musk named his son Saxon for not-good reasons.

Elon and his ilk are so simpleminded that they think being an entitled dick is an inherently interesting provocation. Yeah, people are put off by it, but not because you’re so interesting and transgressive, dude

What is outrageous about this, among many other things, is that makes relief turn on whose loved ones have the resources to hire or luck or network to get a lawyer to file for habeas. If you don't know to file or can't, even "we have no opposition" cases lead to continued detention.

Mueller absolutely saved Trump’s ass. He’s just too stupid to realize it. That’s the irony that’s screwing us all. The institutionalists keep institutionalizing while Trump sets about destroying them.

Nope nope nope. There will be folks who want to indulge him and ask what’s the harm. No monuments; no national holidays; no triumphal arch. He gets nothing. Any democrat who votes to pacify the crazy man currently occupying the Oval Office with anything “permanent” should be launched into the sun.

"Trump has talked to longtime advisers about what it would take to officially make his birthday a national, federal holiday. Similarly, he has already repeatedly inquired about getting a Donald Trump-shaped monument built in our nation's capital…" zeteo.com/p/donald-tru...

Well that’s quite a chart. Chat, is this a good thing?

Reminder that CBS spends thousands of dollars a day on an unnecessary security detail for Bari pagesix.com/2025/11/03/e...

A reminder that this is the person who thinks she can fix broadcast news.