also god please have more all black productions of shakespeare PLEASE

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

They say beauty is only skin deep, but this man's ugliness goes clean to the bone.

This is Red Guards shit, I don't know why people keep getting mad at that comparison

How do you read stuff like this and not feel like our democracy is being swallowed whole by billionaires?

How many Trump voters waved those little "Mass Deportations Now" placards and are now comfortably able to look away? Never shown or forced to see the harm their selfishness is causing innocent people? They shouldn't be able to look away.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

people on here apparently need to learn a lesson most of us learn in elementary school, which is that it’s fucking rude to correct people on zero stakes things and doing so leads rightfully to social ostracism

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

People who live in big cities and have MAGA relatives in rural and suburban areas are getting deja vu, that's for sure. We've all had conversations with relatives who insist they know better than us what our cities are like. That we must be deluded not to see the constant riots and muggings.

Prosperity Gospel, and its attendant implications about who "deserves" wealth, and who wealth belongs to, have been a rot on our society. So many of the wealthiest among us are the weakest and most craven. It's not a coincidence.

Respect Patrick's perspective, but since Scalia's passing every 5-4 ruling has been substantively illegitimate. And with the sweeping adoption of unsigned shadow docket rulings, they've tipped over the ledge to becoming procedurally illegitimate as well. This era will be one of counter-precedent.

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

keep calling and telling them to stand strong the difference between last time (when they got yelled at incessantly for caving) and this time needs to be a chasm in terms of the feedback they're getting from constituents we can get them to hold

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

REPTAR IS ANTIFA. SUPPORT OUR ANTI FASCIST RUGRATS KING.

“Either this machine will be powerful enough to take your job or it’ll blow up and you’ll lose your job in a recession” is a tough outlook for white collar workers over the next few years.

USAID was both morally correct and a huge part of our foreign policy, and that duality is hard for people to grapple with in a sincere way. But if we're going to reconstitute USAID after this shitshow is over, we should think about the pressures that creates and how to mitigate them

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Finance, Program, Development

This is King Trump directly taxing all of us and then choosing which pet groups get the spoils, solely for his own political benefit. Like, yes, fund WIC. But do it because we the people say so, not so Trump can avoid the political blowback of his disastrous shutdown.

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

People are usually lying when they say "I am protecting you from the monster and if you don't do exactly as I say then the monster will destroy the village."

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

Focusing on paperwork crimes instead of real ones.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

This man is a walking "kick me" sign

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

This is how you wake people up.

this is incredible

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

There's something to be said about how similar corporate media and SCOTUS have both become, in this way.

Bari Weiss would've of course worked for CBS without buying out her website, but the oligarch class wants to reward her for her years of service to their cause including her time as an infiltrator destroying the New York Times from the inside.

CBS News: the Corncobbing Broadcast Service

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately. The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities. She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

At this inflection point for Trump's authoritarian project, the democratic resistance has a chance to rise to the occasion by linking together its legal prong (lawsuits), its political prong (the government shutdown fight), and its popular prong (No Kings). A moment of challenge and opportunity.

All the free speech absolutists looking around at each other this morning, asking "Are we the baddies (complementary)?"

“…we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024

anyways www.liberalcurrents.com/forming-an-o...

Bari is going to run CBS News not because of her journalism, or even because of The Free Press, but because much of the mainstream media serves as a vessel for elites to distribute power to their allies