I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

please take a minute to support UConn graduate workers in their fight for a fair contract! actionnetwork.org/letters/ucon...

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very funny to see an athlete say jesus christ is the reason they were able to beat america

My annual reminder that St Patrick was not a magical snake-foiling wizard, but a man who said things like “The one who offers a sacrifice taken from what belongs to the poor is like one who sacrifices a child in the very sight of the child’s father” in a letter castigating a warlord’s troops

Quite a few things have felt off to me about this war on Iran and one of them is that this would have been a weeklong story a few years ago and it won't rate at all now. There would have been chatter, columns, etc... about callousness and disregard etc... But now and with this guy, nothing.

When it comes to retaliatory strikes by Iran I feel we are being lulled into a sense of false security because I know those strikes against us are coming, sooner or later.

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Judges deny bid to cut 75-year sentence in 2004 West Haven killing

A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

CBS News conducts a poll. It finds that only 18% of Americans advocate removing Iran's leadership "by force," and 74% say Trump needs congressional approval before starting a war. So their headline is, "CBS News poll on Americans' views on Iran prior to conflict." www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

You can trace this group -- which fights for oligarchic, low-tax, low-service, exploitative capitalism and uses racism & xenophobia to prevent solidarity among the working class -- more or less to the country's founding. They've been squarely under the GOP banner since at least 1980.

At a Cleveland newspaper, reporters assigned to the suburbs “are now expected to file four stories a day with the help of AI.” Also: one reporter “said they were caught off guard when their annual performance review indicated insufficient AI use.” Gift link wapo.st/4aX44e1

You can just say things.

conservative think tanks believe corporations should get to do whatever they want to *unless* the thing they want to do is ethical, in which case the government should get to ban them.

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues. In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

This is consistent with what we’ve found in our polling - term limits for Supreme Court justices are extremely popular and enjoy bipartisan popular suppprt Dare I say it? With the right kind of elite alignment, it could even be “amendment-level” popular support (still unlikely)

i love that the alternative conservative media apparatus is just open sexual assaulters and pedophiles

(Free) How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System and Why This Story is Important open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

ABSOLUTELY AGREE 💯%.......

Hey remember this

I think about this more or less constantly in my day job. Electoral politics has become a battle of 10-second clips and how to get them on your FYP.

Definitely the first State of the Union where the president talked about the military killing unarmed fishermen as a laugh line

I think we need to move away from electoral democracy as a political system. It has clearly failed - and just to pre-empt anyone who says it's the best of the available systems - I disagree and think the widespread adoption of a Sortition system (like how we select trial juries) would be superior.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. crusaded for years against a controversial herbicide ingredient known as glyphosate. But now that he's the nation's top health official, Kennedy is falling in line with President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at boosting glyphosate’s production.

if there is one more huge day of snow that leads to many days trapped indoors with a toddler because the snow is too high I’m going to crawl into the jan brett mitten with all the live animals

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Wow Canada dominated the whole game. And winner through the five hole.

I know “thinkpiece on Clavicular” sounds dire, but this one is really good about how and why Clavicular was suddenly everywhere last week open.substack.com/pub/couldabe...

New in PN: A conversation with @sulliview.bsky.social on the state of political coverage in 2026 "This is a long-term campaign against a reality-based press. Thanks to a lot of factors that are going on in the overall media ecosystem, it’s been successful."

Re: tarrifs The thing to remember: none of the massive retail price increases from the last year will ever be rolled back. Just like the covid price gouging scams, those increases are here to stay.

Suspects in Fairfield home invasion on Candlewood Road to appear in court Friday

The UK arrested Prince Andrew. Hakeem Jeffries is telling Democrats not to boo Trump at the State of the Union.

why would the Mellon Foundation do this?

ok but how is the opposition party supposed to win over his supporters now, have they even thought about that

The brunchlord establishment press hates progressives (especially female) exponentially more than fascism and it's simply not subtle

Olympic athletes, some of whom are teenagers, are held to a higher level of expected maturity than the most powerful man in the world.

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Reading public testimony on bills before committees in the Connecticut General Assembly, surely it'll all be normal--

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is