It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable

I hope everyone who thought Greene would become a health care hero feels foolish right now. She's just as eager as the rest to make sure we all pay $1000 a month to private insurance companies to get nothing in return.

it’s kind of perverse for any journalism outlet to require everyone be in an office. The whole point of journalism is being Out There

"The Republican view is that businesses should negotiate directly with the president....There is no reasonable way to interpret these actions except as a wholesale rejection of capitalism and the free market by the Republican party. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-the-fut...

If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree. If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.

The meritocracy has been performing terribly but somehow the anti-DEI moves from the Trump Administration have almost complete buy-in across the political spectrum among white people.

I honestly think it's just that he doesn't talk down to people. His great innovation is to not treat the voters like contemptible idiots he has to deceive.

They said ICE would go after criminals. They are arresting cops.

When you get your COVID vaccine don't forget to thank the COVID conscious people whose activism forces our government to keep it available.

awesome news, if true. I'm not sure what "disbanding" looks like. I'm sure Leonard Leo and the Opus Dei snakes on SCOTUS will find another rock under which they can hide. what will be done about all the money that flows through Opus Dei?

all 6 gop justices are opus dei or opus dei adjacent. i hope the pope excommunicates them for refusing to give up opus dei traditions.

Is he trying to justify pedophiles by lying that girls are hitting puberty early?

The complicity of the press, by @macltoons.bsky.social

Nothing says "silenced" like a Manhattan trust fund loser with a podcadt. What avenue could they possibly have to express themselves? Their daddy cruelly refuses to get them an NYT op-ed column for their birthday, and they're not far-right enough for WaPo. It's hard out there for a treatboy.

Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

Sadly, my milquetoast Dem representatives are still too afraid of seeming anti-cop or pro-scary-brown-people to say anything critical of ICE.

this is an absolutely unhinged connection to make. literally the thing that every single teams user reports is that they HATE IT THEY'RE IN TEAMS BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO BE FOR THEIR JOB

Where we stand, in long arc of history: -Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people. -Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites. I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

"House slave." Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

I will not stop banging my drum that US Catholics who try to ally with the alt right and Christian Nationalists because of any correlated issues, are the frog sitting on top of the scorpion.

gosh it's been a month or two since Mark Cuban said something stupid, got justifiably criticized, then single-handedly created an entire week long media newscycle about the dangers of "Bluesky echo chambers"

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

My hope is that this mass exodus of military reporters from the Pentagon puts an end to press release journalism and we usher in a strong era of investigative journalism

They say that CEOs are paid the big money because they shoulder the responsibility and risk of the big decisions. When’s the last time CEOs suffered the consequences of their decisions? Even if they get fired, they still get a golden parachute.

imo if your workplace culture is such that employees feel comfortable displaying swastikas in their cubicles then the swastika-displaying employee is somehow not actually the biggest problem

I appreciate the Trump administration finally providing us an answer to the perennial question: “Who Would Jesus Shoot in the Face With a Pepper Ball?”

Best of luck to an individualistic assortment of citizens, bc they can't quite be called a community, during the collapse of the empire. Bc it's only through organized intentional community that folks will survive this.

GOP Speaker Johnson refusing to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva despite winning her election 2 weeks ago with 70% of the vote is a practice run for what GOP plans to do after 2026 election. They will not seat Democrats who won to keep control of the House. Dems need to fight hard this issue now!

I’m so tired of this dance. MANY Republicans: *do a Nazi thing* Normal people: So you’re Nazis, we can all clearly see that now, right? MR: But ARE we? What if Hitler stands for Handsome Intelligent Talented Loving Ethical Rascals, ever think of THAT, lib? Tee hee! Media: Why are Dems the worst?

the elon musk doge plan was to kill black people. its working.

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

The entire budget for USAID for FY2024 was $35 billion, and it was keeping millions of the world's poorest people fed and alive. Trump just sent $40 billion to Argentina to prop up the fascist chainsaw freak in his upcoming election.

When someone looks at "free" buses like it's some insane idea, I ask them "How much did you pay the road to get here? Did you have to drop a quarter into the street lights to get them turn on? Another into the traffic lights to turn green? Who pays for all that then if you didn't?"

the NYT does still do good journalism, of course, but we know how they can get "mad" at a black lady running Harvard University and not mad at... all this

Jeanne Shaheen - the DINO Senator from New Hampshire keeps looking for ways to surrender to Trump and MAGA in Congress. @punchbowlnews.bsky.social Just one year extension of ACA subsidies would be a pathetic cave at this point. #noblankchecks

Have the “respectable intellectuals” admitted that their labeling of the left as hysterical about Trump’s fascism was wrong or are they still blaming the left for Republicans march into fascism?

“Women are cringe” —a reflexive bigotry that a kind of shocking number of people have mistaken for a politics.

With the assumptions in place, the main event: why are people distrustful of democracy? Put simply: because they're told to distrust it. They're told it's betrayed them, that it's failing. That's why people are becoming disillusioned—& it's why some support parties who say so. But WHO'S SAYING IT?

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

The empty formalism used to constitutionally forbid diversity-enhancing or remedial action—that to “stop discriminating on the basis of race we must stop discriminating on the basis of race”—is possibly the most invidious trope the Roberts Court has cultivated in our modern legal culture.

Cleaning off my glasses and reading this again

New pope bringing back social justice as a cornerstone of Catholic faith. Love to see this (signed lapsed Catholic who grew up in a social justice themed Catholic Church). Maybe I’ll unlapse

Elon Musk is a mass murderer.

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Johnson feigning ignorance again. Beating anyone is very serious. Violence against anyone is very serious.

MAGA MIKE doesn't think beating a woman isn't serious enough to talk about? This who they are. #BelieveTheVictims #ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinHomanFiles

Re LRP yeah the contents of the Politico chat just are turned into euphemisms like “edgy” humor and “provocative” statements by the press. The coverage sands off the edges of what they’re clearly nodding towards, and the people who are targeted with slurs are held out as unreasonable and biased.