every single statement from every single senate democrat should be that as long as Russ Vought is explicitly saying the admin is allowed to ignore whatever parts of a deal they don't like, there is fundamentally no possible way to make a deal

All hyperbole aside about Jake Tapper, Brian Fitzpatrick is actually his favorite politician

“familiar stay factors” = trump always wins

A cool thing about american politics is that if you describe in a matter of fact way what people believe the people with the most power in the media industry think that’s rude

hero

every time a silicon valley weirdo posts LLM-like language like "This is not about X. It's about Y" it makes me wonder the extent to which LLMs were designed to sound like them versus how much they're altering their manner of speech to imitate the machine

the one thing that’s tying all the various reactionary forces together right now is the belief that the laws of physics are something you can win an argument against

At what point do crews start refusing to fly

trump fundamentally doesn’t scan as a human being but since journalists don’t either, they think his reaction is some kind of epic hilarious Curb Your Enthusiasm moment

without passing judgment on his fetish we actually do know he has changed a diaper, it’s just he’s the one wearing it

political journalists don't criticize republicans for being unaware of the world around them because they themselves view lack of awareness of the world as a virtue

it's so funny how easy it is to tell who on bluesky maintains an account here mainly to go back to the nazi bar and cry about how mean bluesky is

Media headlines are best understood as the media trying to create the world they want, not trying to describe the world they see

“hey Ted remember that time I was a bigger Trump supporter than you” isn’t the epic own you think it is George

So about that moderate “I stopped believing kooky social media stuff” rebrand everyone is falling for

People who swear up and down the mainstream political press have no influence are letting the most obvious coordinated PR campaign in the universe give them a Strange New Respect for the crossfit gorilla

clearly a fundamentally different sport, no REAL football game could possibly end 6-4

remember though, if you say that it's morally and intellectually beneath Jamelle Bouie to continue working for this newspaper, it's an act of racism against him for some reason

I called the New York Times a nazi bar and I was right

the coverage Jay Jones got vs the Nude Swabia guy is a perfect distillation of our media betters

Do you hate the media enough?

Welcome to the Reading Railroad, enjoy the movie, mate!

it’s funny how now that you can see who engaged with your reposts I can see pretty much none of you follow me for the dragon art

Closing down the only place on-base that junior troops can't get to without a car? What I'm hearing is the shutdown is a way to sell more Dodge Chargers

elected democrats are starting to realize the New York Times is full of shit and hates them and it's the single most hopeful thing I've seen

Commission for @krood.bsky.social !

If nothing else 2026 is shaping up to be a pretty conclusive experiment in how much your media environment overrides objective circumstances

I hope Mamdani understands that the media will tear him to shreds like they did Biden if he tries to take the high road or just does some too-clever-by-half shade like Biden tried

sooner or later these guys always get goaded into saying their actual opinions and they’re always as fucked up as you think

Do other languages have similar sorts of writing tics to how reliably stupid English speakers are that capitalize too many nouns

this is best understood as an instruction to the media on how he wants them to cover him

*sips tea* virginiamercury.com/2025/11/05/d...

the extra L in front of her name is so she always has a spare one she can hand to Republicans

it’s not *the* solution but it’s *a* solution for everyone our side to treat them as the enemy of the people and wage psychological warfare on them

Doofus lanyard going door to door trying to shock people

Ohtani will go no matter what because he’s a bitch

Very Serious Centrists told me that the government being in the food service business is a woowoo Mamdani pipe dream

it’s best understood as part of an inside/outside campaign where talking about things the media wants causes them to get more favorable coverage and therefore more of a boost than if they campaigned to outsiders alone

does opposing counsel ever point this out to the court?

I'm looking forward to the smug 'everyone knew' articles about Trump's mental health

is there any plausible argument that this is something other than impromptu memory care

I am 100% certain that openAI is fully aware the main purpose of Sora is right-wing propaganda and I’m nearly 100% certain they conceived and designed it specifically for that purpose

it’s because nearly every white journalist is actively supportive of eugenics, same reason they think Doctor Bobby is sexy and cute

my hope is if enough libs are radicalized against the media, all the National Conversation On Civility finger-wag shit loses a lot of its power

I wonder how much of the SpaceX simp extended universe realize Earth and Mars aren’t always the same distance apart

What It Sounds Like is Golden didn’t have a Path to stop a Takedown so rather than try to come up with a Strategy he’s Free to enjoy a Soda Pop while another candidate shows How It’s Done

it turned out republicans were right about rappers being stupid but for completely the wrong reasons

Jake Tapper says this speech raises questions about why Joe Biden didn’t ever seem to realize that Miami is full of boers

Matt Yglesias’ entire worldview seems to be based around a trans coworker at Vox suggesting he clean up after himself in the break room and Ben Shapiro making fun of One Billion Americans

A reminder, with the MTG stuff, that the political press let Glenn Beck have a face turn