@nicollewallace.bsky.social So you complain of media kowrowing to the fear of conservative or Presidential blowback. Kind of like MSNBC has done by firing Matt Dowd? How about a little introspection on your part. Should we boycott your show and network for this like was suggested in your show?

@nicollewallace.bsky.social How can you do a segment on the Kimmel firing without also addressing your own network's dismissal of Matthew Dowd for his inoffensive comments?

"At The Level, we offer two sides to any news story or discussion." For the people who subscribe to my BlueSky account — and for many others paying attention — the problems here will seem all too obvious. www.readthelevel.ca/page/mission

Ok, here's the deal. Democrats have been absolutely horrible at messaging for years, failing to recognize that Republicans (and now MAGA) have been defining terms which the media adopt without question thus allowing MAGA definitions to be the ones which define what is happening.

@nicollewallace.bsky.social Please, by all that is holy, stop referring to them as tariffs. Yes, that is one term, but the politically accurate one as it relates on the real impact on voters is to call them "import taxes".

For all the religious fanatics 👎

This is so cool.

@nicollewallace.bsky.social Is Nicolle not in the studio this week? The image looks like a zoom screen. There are also no in studio guests.

@nicollewallace.bsky.social When Sarah or anyone says people will lose Medicaid and MAGA politicians say no they won't why the hell do none of you SHOW us how the bill cuts Medicaid. Don't just tell us, show us. Any decent writer knows it is always better to show, not tell.

So I'm guessing that after enduring trump's word vomit, this year's West Point graduating class is now well conditioned to resist torture should they ever be captured on a future battlefield.

I trust Naomi Biden a helluva lot more than I trust Jake Tapper. Maybe Jake’s next book will be a defense of birtherism.

The Washington Post bragging about Pulitzer winner Ann Telnaes, the political cartoonist who left the Post because it had turned into an anti-journalism partisan rag, is one of the most shameless examples of misplaced self-congratulations in recent memory.

Sad but true. They want to bring back plantation life.

How can any company stay in business this way?

"When an authoritarian tells you he’s going to do something, believe him. Each outlandish statement is a trial balloon, one step closer to action. And when people don’t push back...the boundaries...permanently shift." Vital piece:

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This

@nicollewallace.bsky.social Thank you for no longer illuminating the lamp in front of the White House during your opening. The light went out inside it in January.

The medisneeds to stop referring to what trump is doing as "tariffs". It is more accurate to call them import taxes. Democrats need to get this framing into every media space they can and hammer it home that these are massive tax increases. Don't use the word tariff.

Hee hee

Oh man, this is so on point. I keep telling people that as bad as you might think it is it will likely get much, much worse.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @MatttDavies)

@maddow.msnbc.com Lutnick's comments are a Salem witch trials level of illogic. "If she floats to the surface she's a witch but if she sinks and drowns she isn't." Yay.

This kind of shit is inexcusable but will sadly become all too normal

Horrifying

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social It's long past time you started actually leading and fighting for the people. This nonsense about not swinging at every pitch would be more believable if you didn't also watch all the hanging curves sail across the plate.

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

Jay Rosen nails it again.

Overheard: The Tesla Chainsaw Massacre.

Tadaa.

Senator Chris Murphy took to the Senate floor on Friday to break down the corruption flowing from the WH. He connects the dots, and makes a clear argument regarding who what where and why Shitler and Muskrat are destroying our govt!! This needs to be shared far and wide!! youtu.be/hycoCYenXls

That’s right. 🇺🇦

"Liberalism’s devotion to fairness and belief in the honor system has made it incapable of taking its own side against those who would replace it with fascism."

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

The problem today was not so much trump but more Vance.

@nicollewallace.bsky.social Michael Crowley's shameful display of sanewashing what happened between Vance and Zelensky was completely uncalled for. Using words like amazing, astonishing, etc. is heard by MAGA world as signs of trump's supposed strength.

OK so here is the deal. If you're someone who is pushing bitcoin or some other bullshit money scam don't waste your time and mine following me. I'm just going to block you anyway.

If you feel this way, you're not along. And together, we're going to keep the Republic. Pass it on.

Trump being made a fool by Macron. Good stuff.

Putinization of America

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

“Attitudes to gender, decisions on taxation and migration, are debated…They should not transform conservatives into anti-democratic far rightists. And yet the leaders and intellectuals of the modern conservative movement have become extremism’s useful idiots.” nickcohen.substack.com/p/why-conser...

I'm reminded of the line sung by the mad King in Hamilton saying we'd come back to having a King.

Yes, 100% true. The glee with which they are going after SS and Medicaid illustrates that the more harm they can inflict on those they consider lower than themselves the better. They celebrate it.

Really enjoying rooting for Team Canada in the 4 Nations face-off