Jesus to his disciples:

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.

Would love to see someone from the moderate, Majority Dem faction really address and wrestle with the political effects of what Labour has been up to.

people like shapiro and david french know exactly who their allies of convenience in the republican party are, but they would prefer to side with deranged sadists who are openly baying for their blood than give autonomy to women and essential services to poor people, so they do this pathetic shit

I had to look up what this was referring to and it's honestly beautiful. Even the English voice actor ended up using the drawing as their profile picture!

This is what i mean by the post below. People are (JUSTIFIABLY) angry and afraid, and there are bad actors who want to take advantage of that in order to push regressive, reactionary legislation that will only hurt marginalized groups. be very careful about what you boost.

#SaveSpeech if you've seen a video going around of Epstein survivors talking about their abuse, you need to be aware that video is promoting World-Without-Exploitation, an organization whose website supports legislation like KOSA, and advocates for the "Nordic model" they are not your allies.

In the wake of all this Epstein stuff, you need to be extremely dilligent about information and media you share There are orgs that want to use the energy around all of this to push for censorship/surveillance legislstion as well as promote swerf ideology under the guise of supporting victims

Weird that Trump and Vance didn’t do any “don’t embarrass our guest” when Zelenskyy was attacked by a reporter for not wearing a suit to the Oval. And yet ask MBS about killing an American….

if you're a reporter and you're NOT insubordinate, you might not be a reporter

If you're wondering why the Saudis are suddenly everywhere, it's called "sportswashing" www.burnsnotice.com/we-do-not-ha...

"Things happen" says Trump about the brutal assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. “It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said. www.propublica.org/article/andr...

If you think that isn’t about kitchen table issues then you don’t understand narrative at all

It is political malpractice for any Dem to not keep hammering this as hard as possible because A) It clearly drives him nuts in a way basically nothing else can and that’s useful But even more B) It’s very entertaining to see him so angry and frustrated that he can’t bully this into going away

It's a deflection of course but it never ceases to amaze just how soft and coddled this giant baby is

not a general purpose post but for the nerds, here's a look behind the scenes of our generic ballot model at fiftyplusone. each point is democratic vote share in a poll released over the last 3 months, colored by population of the sample. no clear trend, lots of variance, and big population diffs

reminder that if you get subpoena'd or otherwise are surveilled in anyway, you need to stop posting and shut the fuck up. seeing replies saying "dont comply in advance" - that's not what this is. its keeping yourself from digging a grave. talk to a lawyer, and stop posting. (1/4)

It's always eugenics.

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

#SaveSpeech Ana's situation has gotten more severe. This is blatantly targetted debanking and [extremely unfortunate] proof that these call campaigns are getting under paypros skin Keep calling Visa and MC and demanding they stop discriminating against adult content! stop-paypros.neocities.org

i'm sorry but the possibility that jeffrey epstein scored an awesome deal on seo reputation management has k*lled me www.theverge.com/report/82231...

Some good news for your Monday. Remember this kid? A federal judge just ordered him to be released!

It’s an inkblot, testing how sincere of a person people think MTG is. Scuttlebutt on Capitol Hill is that this is revenge for Trump submarining her Senate ambitions, but if you believe she was radicalized online like a typical MAGA base voter, this is a reasonable theory.

Vale, Rebecca. May her memory be a blessing.

if the Washington Post editorial board is now perceived as Bezos stooges, that actually opens up a massive opportunity in the district for a credible, 'good government' local interview and endorsement operation

Let's call it the Trump Murder Memo. Based on what we know about it, this memo looks like it may be substantially worse than the Bush torture memo. Liberal commentators should be talking more about this. #TrumpMurderMemo

You cannot act like you had "concerns" about Mamdani and "antisemitism" and then throw your arms wide for this woman. I mean you CAN but it is an idea no reasonable person should accept.

this is more or less the whole thing imo

The US is not a liberal democracy, and hasn’t been since January. Constitution, rule of law, checks and balances, individual rights — all not in operation. It’s now a mixed regime, autarky, competitive authoritarianism. Not at risk. Not could be. Is. Doesn’t mean that’s forever. But it is now.

I've never been more sure of anything than if Jeffrey Epstein had continued living and corresponding as a free man up to the present day, him and his friends would constantly be linking each other articles from The Free Press.

Folks you do not have to read the Nuzzi thing. In fact, you are all better off not doing it. I promise you people outside of Bluesky are not reading it. Go play a video game, read a novel, look at trees, anything but giving any part of your one lifetime to reading any single thing about her

I remember awhile ago listening to a Democracy Now episode where they spoke with someone about Epstein and I had that scintillating moment you have when you arrive at the doorstep of a conspiracy theory and everything inside it makes sense.

this is something we got into in our post-Zohran pod. the case for popularism, *made explicitly in public,* is that we should lie to the voters about what we believe. at least some voters will not like that! www.leftanchor.com/e/the-2025-b...

You know you’re in good shape when you have your people out there going “isn’t unemployment relaxing?”

"Trump is historically and deeply unpopular. it’s not just that people disapprove of him; they strongly disapprove of him. This is the biggest story in US politics. [It's] bad for Rs and getting worse." On the pod @speechboy71.bsky.social is great on the big picture: newrepublic.com/article/2032...

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

Jamie shut the fuck up

“whatever they are legally entitled to” is the tell here - they’re going to hold back the worst of it and come up with some bullshit as to why

Schatz and his critics alike are just posting social-media-ready phrases that people interpret like inkblots. What does it mean to "welcome into the tent"? 20 things to a dozen people. It means whatever your dearest hope is, or whatever you most want to get mad at.

OMG this kicker in the Harvard Crimson article!! College journalism kicks ass, again

Need an analog to the “police passive” for this kind of description of sexually abusive men “being Me Tooed”—as if they were merely caught in a storm, their own actions and behavior irrelevant to their outcomes. Call it the predator passive.

KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true? HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart-- KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.

Once again, I have to point out how obviously inorganic the entire anti-trans backlash is. A handful of billionaires are astroturfing the whole thing with enormous amounts of cash.

The thing about Nuzzi is that I absolutely get doing ludicrously self-destructive shit for no other reason than desire, but you have to accept the destruction. The life you were living before you did the most outlandishly stupid thing imaginable is over now. Change your name and get a desk job.

@americanprogress.bsky.social - absolutely shameful that Larry Summers has a leadership role (or any role whatsoever) in your organization.

Nothing to worry about, just the chief regulator of the media pressuring a television network to fire a critic of the president.

You don’t hate the press enough.