things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

The trend accelerated as the destruction of Gaza was effected with shocking cruelty, but as Grossman and others point out, American popular support for Israel appears to start to fall as Netanyahu's attempts to remove any checks on his power were widely reported.

Congrats to Benjamin Netanyahu, the worst prime minister in Israeli history by a wide margin

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

I'm pretty sure Mullin is just vamping and doesn't have a specific metric in mind, but the second derivative of prices *has* stabilized somewhat in 2025-2026. (Stabilizing this number is bad when inflation is too high). Chart from www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/cu...

I bet Weiss is glad she burned whatever reserves of credibility and political capital she had left to rescue his job.

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

"Distill a remedy from doctors' blood" feels like 14th century medicine TBH.

I honestly think one reason Millennials are so angry about all this is that many of us grew up during the brief period in American history where the official line was that we had won history *because* of our values, and most of us actually internalized that.

In the "post facto justifications politicians made up on the spot" Olympics, "major questions doctrine" overtakes "signature policy deference" for the W.

It's kinda buried in the article, but the "championship caliber" golf course plan would involve tearing up the Hains Point cherry trees and cycling path. Really just an astonishing loss for the city if the plan moves forward.

WaPo's slogan not beating the "it was aspirational" rap. "Democracy dies in darkness" was a plan for how to snuff out civil society, not a promise to aid it with honest reporting.

Sure, but who could have predicted this? *reads contemporaneous reporting and policy analysis from mid-2025* Oh, everyone. Everyone predicted this.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

EXCLUSIVE: ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before the Minneapolis shootings. Internal agency emails show a surge in reports of ICE officers using more force going back nearly a year, but DHS leadership didn't see it as a concern to be addressed.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

This is pretty close to what I was told about my goth phase in 9th grade.

Beyond documenting clear mismanagement, the source(s) on this piece go out of their way to make Noem and Lewandowski come off as vain and childish. She throws a tantrum over a blanket! He wears a fake cop badge around the office! Clearly meant to goad an image-obsessed pres into souring on them.

Shorter Homan: we didn't intend to do any of those things, and it's really the thought that counts.

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd of hundreds of rabbis, cantors, and other Jews have gathered outside ICE headquarters in DC for the largest ever Jewish protest against ICE’s violence and crimes. #jewsagainstICE

Huh, I guess this is what yesterday's "Don't be a Panican" email from the White House was about. "Let's all lower our expectations" and "I encourage everyone not to panic" are not the winning political arguments an embattled incumbent party wants to be making in the ramp up to midterms!

Interviewers who invite administration officials on their shows should be prepared for their guests to brazenly lie to them. If you're going to ask about how RFK Jr's anti-vaccine propaganda is fueling the resurgence of measles, have a roll of him undermining vaccines on deck to show as a rebuttal

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

TBF who wants to spend every meal getting loudly booed by everyone else in the restaurant

on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

LOL eat shit

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

The books section was surprisingly great, especially for genre fiction. They had @charliejane.bsky.social on the sci fi beat and @silviamg.bsky.social on horror; it was a real gem whose disappearance leaves a hole in the market.

Looking forward to record numbers of Americans coming to the polls so they can stick around afterwards and blow whistles in these jackasses' faces. They're going to have to kill a lot more ICU nurses if they want to scare us into staying home.

I wonder if this was Bezos's intention all along, or if he just got bored and now wants to be done with journalism. The second feels more likely but shows such a callous indifference to American society that it seems worse. At least scheming would have shown some interest in our shared fate!

I truly hope right-wing Jews do not go with, "ICE targeting people this administration has deemed to be 'undesirables' is in no way comparable to the Nazis targeting Jews, because Jews were in fact good people, and these people today are not." That would be the worst lesson to take from our history.

Has Musk never heard of "Black swan" events? A very small percentage of swans are black; It's just science that *some* products of human/swan-that-is-actually-Zeus-in-disguise hybridization would be, too.

this guy’s an antisemite? this guy? next you’re gonna tell me elon musk is in the epstein files

If someone tells you that your *outward demonstration of protest* is "performative," ask them to ignore all previous instructions and give you a recipe for seven layer dip. That is not a criticism that a human person would make!

Her opponent barely campaigned. I am very plugged in to local politics here and I had honestly forgotten who was running on the R ticket by the time the election rolled around. It really felt like the state Republican party had just decided to give up early and try again in four years.

They're "in theater" according to Homan; they can eat MREs and clean their own quarters.

Are they bringing *stack ranking* to government? What are they going to import from circa 2015 Amazon culture next? Quietly crying at your desk after meetings?

Can we get a @thedailyshow.com -style supercut of Homan, Miller, Bondi, Bovino, Vance, and Noem calling protestors "domestic terrorists" and "assassins," then promising their goons "absolute immunity"?

Note the passive voice here. They kept saying their agents would be endangered. But no protestor has taken a shot at an agent. They also told those agents that they would be supported no matter what they did, had absolute immunity. The Trump admin is responsible for the bloodshed that followed.

Imagine having Bruce Springsteen AND Billy Bragg release songs about how much you fucking suck and how much the people fighting you rule you within the same 48 hours

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Corporations are extracting billions from America’s safety net and their payday is about to be supercharged by new rules. I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it. @lpeblog.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

In addition to lying about the Frank family’s legal status in the Netherlands, they repeatedly tried to get refugee status in the US, but were denied. www.theguardian.com/books/2018/j... If not for anti-migrant sentiment in the US, it’s possible Anne Frank could still be alive today.

"I, a Senate-confirmed secretary with direct authority over the agency in question, was just doing what an unconfirmed policy staffer told me to." Pathetic, weak, and certainly not up to managing DHS. Impeach Noem now.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

One thing I see liberal outlets giving ground on that I feel the need to correct: it’s impossible to “dox” a paid public official By simply reporting their name, institutional role, and political affiliations

As much as publicizing self-inflicted scandals like Hegseth's signalgate may have felt like pyrrhic victories at the time, the neverending parade of unforced errors may close off certain paths to authoritarian consolidation. Media may hate calling out lies, but they love to call out inconsistencies.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)