not really an exaggeration to say the Republican Party is a criminal conspiracy and all Republican politicians should be assumed to be criminals until proven otherwise. the fish rots from the head

underrated noxious aspect of Biden's failure is how it incentivizes Dem partisan hacks to invent excuses why it's Not His Fault and attack any critics bsky.app/profile/dave...

he had one overriding job, Get Trump, and he essentially refused to do it

holy shit learn how to be journalists again, i beg you

Biden's presidency and the aftermath we're living through should be enough to destroy the "let's the turn page, let's look forward, let's move on" mantra that has animated centrist Democrats for decades now. Accountability matters. There has to be a reckoning.

The signal feature of every Ezra Douthglesias Take™️ in now is a grotesque disregard for the real-life, on-the-ground impact of the authoritarianism on actual human beings. They are so dedicated to navel-gazing buzzwords (Popularism, Abundance) & detached centrism that they've lost their humanity.

ELON MUSK: every woman should have at least two of my children. well, every white woman. only native-born white people and billionaire white South Africans should be able to vote. let's drown trans people. EZRA KLEIN: guy's just monomaniacally focused on accelerating the EV revolution. admirable.

i hope we all see that this is klein doing the the exact same public self-humiliation ritual to demonstrate his allegiance to musk in the same way that trump demands of his own high-profile enablers

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

Florida banned gerrymandering 16 years ago, it’s in the state constitution and the Republicans are just ignoring it.

time and time again the court holds that rules and maps - even illegal ones - cannot be changed because it is “too close to an election” if the changes would benefit Dems now, it is fine canceling *ongoing primaries* in order to rewrite maps in favor of the GOP

In December SCOTUS claimed it was too close to election to block Texas gerrymander but now allowing Southern states to straight up cancel elections to resurrect Jim Crow

I love Mockler because he’s a white guy who does the thing right wing white guys do to others right back at them - and it infuriates them interrupts, repeats what they say (incredulously) to mock them, scoffs as they’re speaking plus he looks like bizarro Barron

Dems don’t need to spell out in detail how the court should be reformed, but in the face of shameless partisanship like this, they should feel totally unencumbered to a) articulate the double standard and b) promise a reckoning. There’s no defense here, but the justices will notice a non-response.

very funny that ilya shapiro walks around like he is some grand arbiter of merit when he would be unemployable if not for wingnut welfare

These people are boldface liars. How many unlawful maps have been kept in place because of legal pretenses the Court drops suddenly? Alito and the five horsemen of our time are a national embarrassment to the legal profession.

not a legitimate court. owed exactly zero deference by any democratic president.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Jeff Bezos could’ve done what several other wealthy newspaper owners have done — turn the Post into a nonprofit and provide it a sizable endowment. Instead he did shit like this ⤵️

the people who voted for him are evil and we must never forget that

Trump is shitposting slop while his guests wait for him to show up. He's not waylaid in meetings or trying to solve some problem, he's just self-soothing by posting brainrot. Imagine the lack of dignity it takes to just sit there and wait for him to get offline.

the scotus justices have betrayed their oath and must be held to account to the greatest extent of the law

The psychosexual delirium about Hasan will continue until morale improves

jesus

The NYT coverage of transgender people and their rights and medical care has been journalistic malpractice almost entirely across the board. And I only hedge there because I haven’t read every single article.

All you "accountability" table-pounders ... who? Who's going to hold anyone accountable? Every party leader I see is *already* gearing up to do the "look forward, not backward" dance we've seen so many times. So ... who?

We fought. We won. Others can too. www.mediamatters.org/angelo-carus...

Genius guy: Well I’m finally ready to support the right thing but… How fucking brilliant would I be if I only supported it halfway? Bunch of consultants who look like Grima Wormtongue majored in Data Science: oh yes my liege, brilliant gambit my liege

It takes a very special and terminal kind of “strategy brain“ for an elected official to make the leap to the need for an aggressive remedy in the Senate, and then immediately split hairs and qualify it as though there exists in the real world a single voter demanding this kind of sophistry.

Winning a Pulitzer while your employer thinks you don't deserve just cause protections is just so fucking... i dont even know. just so fucked.

Hakeem Jeffries recently said: “I’ve made clear from the very beginning that our top priority is going to be to drive down the high cost of living.” This is political malpractice and @brianbeutler.bsky.social rightfully takes him to task. "Why undermine the rebuilding before it’s even begun?"

👇🎯 "It's simply shameful how many in politics, media, and academia still actively post there." We see you, & we can't help but notice that you don't seem to care that the owner of the Nazi Bar is a Nazi & now also an unprecedented criminal in American history & yet you're still there.

it's depressing that A. this very obviously suggests that the only ways for French to realize the depravity of his beliefs about abortion and homosexuality are for people he loves to die for lack of an abortion and come out of the closet and B. he has no idea that this is the case

listen, everyone's tried their best, let's not drag out the heroics, it's time to pull the plug

This ridiculous idea that academics are supposed to make sure conservatives feel good, even when the empirical evidence goes against what they believe. For people like Matty Y, that is what makes you 'serious'.

Dems thus need to make a different kind of argument than the one their quants want them to make: that All the country’s problems—its economic ones, yes, but the whole pall that’s been cast over it for the better part of a decade now—are Trump’s fault. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-fasc...

I went to law school w/Jan Crawford so I haven't said anything, but the idea that the *narrative that the supreme court is corrupt* is dangerous, but not the corrupt, politicized, power-mad court itself, is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. www.instagram.com/reels/DS0LoR...

I will have 0 tolerance for a Dem DOJ not pursuing these cases, even if they are borderline. They deserve the stress and financial loss.

IRGC releases footage of strikes targeting U.S. vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

“Somebody help me,” the man can be heard screaming. “They are killing me.”

I have faith that someday journalists will finally get to the bottom of this mystery

Corrupt. Corrupt, corrupt, corrupt.

An 80 year old Trump fan shot a 55 year old anti-Trumper in the back at a dog park in Bainbridge.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Yes, of course, but they are able to get away with this because of things like every mainstream media outlet in the country spending last week amplifying the nonsense about the problem being <The Democrats and their tone>. The GOP only gets away with this stuff because everyone in society lets them.

Justice Alito & co killed the Voting Rights Act by combining two dubious moves: 1) they mischaracterized the Rucho justiciability holding as validating political gerrymandering; 2) they treated racially polarized voting as unrelated to the racist appeals and policies of the modern Republican Party.👇

Farmers are coded "working class" as rural white people, even though they own their means of production. Meanwhile, I have a PhD and teach at a liberal arts college, so no one will ever call me working class, even though I earn a lot less and depend on wages. It's gendered vibes, all the way down.

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