I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

I’ve said this a million times but: freelance journalists are barred by the federal government from unionizing. They consider it price fixing. So these companies can exploit the fuck out of us and there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it.

they get really upset and start whining when you call ICE the modern day gestapo which is exactly what it is

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

CHOTINER: And yet you installed him as headmaster. XAVIER: He’d changed for the better! He was my friend. CHOTINER: So it’s okay to lead a group literally called, let me check, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants—if they’re your friend. XAVIER: I didn’t say that. CHOTINER: Didn’t you, though?

One amazing thinks about @ichotiner.bsky.social is that he makes use of civility dynamics. People in power tend to think that their authority and the respect they command mean that as long as someone talks to them civilly, they can make an ass of themselves and their foibles will get cleaned up.

Chotiner interviews Janeway

Mainstream political media is not equipped to communicate the basic realities of life to people whatsoever because it prioritizes power's interpretations of reality over verifiable facts.

I agree and this has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time. The US has *always* been mostly empty rhetoric on representative government. The slavers who wrote our constitution intentionally created an anti-democratic system with Democratic trappings! Our constitution is a big problem!

The fact that so many who are opposed to America's current trajectory keep talking about preserving the current constitutional order is even more evidence that Osita is correct here. The system that was vitally important in getting us here? Oh no, can't change that. It's functioning too well!

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

Schrödinger's Shooter exists as both a deranged leftist motivated by dangerous rhetoric AND as a misunderstood troubled youth who needed Jesus until the waveform collapses

Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.

look up why Erikkka Kirk isn’t allowed in Romania. in 2008 Erika Kirk, then known as Erika Frantzve, was involved with an org in Romania called “Children’s Relief International” that was allegedly trafficking children.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Fox News can’t make you indifferent toward children. Can’t make you cheer using a child as a threat against their parent. It reveals it. You are that way.

I'm just gonna keep reposting this inane BS from Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence on the roving immigration patrol case from LA.

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

Here's my theory on the rapture: It already happened but went unnoticed because pretty much everyone who was swept up was impoverished, hungry, unhoused, and/or a refugee.

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

5 companies now control 90% of the 🇺🇸 media market. Not great! And they have all either caved to Trump, or are owned or may soon be owned by his allies. (Per @moreperfectunion.bsky.social — A 1996 bill signed by Clinton set us on this path 😕)

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special. Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views. Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

do we think it's good that entire economy is based on the same entities passing money back and forth on speculative investment without anyone making anything that someone outside the loop is buying

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

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Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

I hate it here. Brett Favre stole money from poor folks and he's walking around free as a bird. They want to throw this Black lady in jail for 10 years for this foolishness.

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean. Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified. No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing. President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n

I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

It's done to death, but man, imagine if Joe Biden had openly threatened to use the government to block Rupert Murdoch's business deals or strip away broadcast licenses from their stations unless Fox News fired Jesse Watters or something.

/7 Klein’s other theme seems to be that even if people are advocating terrible things, things that dehumanize others, we should find a way to act as if they are not, in order to find common ground. But is that really right? And what if it’s not reciprocal?

If you don’t bother writing it, why should I bother reading it?

I am amazed at just how inept the Democrats’ congressional leadership is on this moment of crisis. Trump is moving troops into blue cities and declaring war against the left, and these guys are complaining that the GOP Congress is pushing a partisan budget. Jesus Christ, wake the hell up.

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

This is extra wild when you remember that Tori Branum, the white woman who called ICE, did so because she claimed the 450+ workers were here illegally and they were trafficked and suffering human rights abuses, and she saved their lives.

I for one love to have my nation’s content moderated by like the same five guys with close links to the belligerent ruling faction

Larry Ellison will control tiktok and through his son control CBS News and CNN by next year. The oligarchs are seizing control of all the media and platforms.

Really wild how we're doing conservative cancel culture right now but for repeating Charlie Kirk's own views

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

The shape of politics in the US right now is increasingly that the media, political and economic elites are allied with the Trump regime against the actual people of the country who hate it

Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest

I don't mean to necessarily talk shit on China and its history of laissez-faire regulatory safety but if they're now taking the lead from America haha are we in danger haha

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

Question for the white liberals who have written columns praising Charlie Kirk in the name of "free speech." Where are you columns actually DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH of people who are being fired for [checks notes] quoting Charlie Kirk? (Which most of you white praisers didn't have the guts to do)