Performative lying

Yep, the idea that the ballroom is popular is the delusion of minds pickled in MAGA online discourse. As I argue here, MAGA seized on the shooting incident to try to force us to genuflect before Trump's imperial/dictatorial presidency. But Dems plowed through the propaganda and emerged unscathed:

"San Francisco prosecutors declined to bring charges against four Baltimore Police officers who have been under investigation in the California city after a woman says she reported a sexual assault that took place there."

Really tired of stories calling things a blow to Democrats when they are actually a blow to democracy

Those of us in the big dense blue section on the bottom left ain’t listening to some motherfuckers in the yellow circle.

If AOC is on one side & Cenk & Ryan Grim & Marge are on the other side it shouldn’t be difficult to figure out who’s speaking the truth & who’s a fucking Russian stooge asshole.

And headed to the new safe haven for political thieves

Roberts's challenge isn't that Americans misunderstand the Supreme Court; it's that a growing number of them understand it all too well. trib.al/0Mlrrvi

Since America doesn’t have a Secretary of State or diplomatic corps anymore, just two guys—the president’s corrupt son-in-law and real estate buddy—any time spent trying to end the Ukraine war on terms favorable to Russia is time not spent on trying to end the Iran war on terms favorable to the US.

It’s funny think back that part of Trump’s appeal was that powerful people didn’t like him. But it wasn’t that. They weren’t positive he was representing their interests and thought he might be unelectable. Once he was clearly corrupt for them and elected they were all in.

Th treatment of Mamdani will be nothing compared to what AOC will get, which amounts to attacking her opposition to concentrated wealth

... if not irrelevant, close to it. I will never understand (nor will @naparstek.bsky.social) why pieces like this do not acknowledge the central role of our dystopian swamp of an information environment. They just pretend there's some direct hotline from Dems to voter ears. It's crazy-making.

Trump is just trying to bomb the Epstein files off the headlines.

Traveling bandits

when u tax the rich

Democrats now have to win the House vote by 4 points due to Republican gerrymandering open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

None of this stops until rich, powerful people — who steal from taxpayers and think they're above the law — start going to jail

Rubio doesn’t come across as the biggest monster in this administration, but there’s a valid argument that he is. Demolishing USAID was a slow moving atrocity. He must never be freed of responsibility for it.

She whittled down who she interacts with on Twitter and with podcasts until her circle had an overlapping Venn diagram with people from The Grayzone.

📌Imagine the five-alarm fire in the MSM if Biden had posted something as insane as this.

Republicans are trying to make it illegal for Democrats to win federal elections. Democrats really, really shouldn’t play along.

I’m hard on the Thunder because I don’t enjoy a bunch of their players. But here’s a guy I do really like watching: AJ Mitchell

It’s coming *entirely* from people who want us to be more racist

Eleanor Shellstrop voice: “*This* is the Bad Place!”

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

They hate AOC more than they hate MTG. Insane.

Democrats could promise every single resentful white working class guy in the country his very own rainbow unicorn & it wouldn't matter because those guys *never hear what Dems say*. They get their information about Dems entirely second had, via sources committed to making them hate Dems.

The same people ostensibly on the left are constantly trying to get us to embrace racism and bigots and it’s the least subtle thing ever

Also, Ryan, no, she "sacrificed her political career" because Trump refused to endorse her for senate.

I think MTG going against Trump is useful in a “let them fight” sense but if you actually think she is on our side and isn’t still an antisemitic bigot who is aiming to take over the MAGA movement from Trump I don’t trust you as far as I can throw you

Exactly. The needle which AOC has threaded quite well about Tucker and MTG is that while it's good that the MAGA coalition is fracturing you also don't have to trust these people any farther than you can throw them. This isn't a hard thing to understand, unless you're paid to misunderstand things.

We should talk more about how all those Knicks fans at the Sixers home games is about obscene income inequality. There’s no way a blue collar city like Philly can price out all those rich Wall Street assholes

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

Your regular reminder that when David Duke ran for statewide office in the early 1990s, the MAJORITY of white Louisiana voters pulled the lever for him. This was AFTER they’d seen the pictures of Duke in a Klan outfit and a Nazi uniform.

It’s extremely straightforward!

“Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf” is pretty funny.

using AI-driven layoffs as evidence of AI-led efficiency gains only works if you forget the past forty years of efficiency-driven layoffs that also didn't work out

Trump suggests a leader cannot safeguard his people if he is overweight and eats unhealthily

AOC is right to say this, and anyone who attacks her for it is wrong. And AOC should under no circumstances be labeled antisemitic.

The whole point of assigning Sam Alito in a case is to demonstrate your contempt for certain principles. He won’t even bother to make it persuasive.

Hmmmm...

“The Roberts court is in many respects a neoconfederate court, and it repeatedly applies the tactics and ideas of the 1880s and 1890s court, whose members likewise could not abide a robust vision of equality”

While you can’t afford a trip for your family this summer, you just paid for Sean Duffy’s 7-month road trip at $4.55 per gallon of gas.

It makes me truly ill that this extrajudicial murder spree has been completely normalized

This is serial murder by your government with your tax dollars.

Republicans: "We just cut down all the redwoods, turned the trees into baseball bats, and now we are using those bats to kill endangered owls and to bludgeon Democrats." Courts, media: *thumbs up* Democrats: "What about solar panels on some things?" Courts, media: *rolls out the guillotines*

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Good grief. “Lake Powell, one of the Colorado River’s most important reservoirs, is set to receive 13% of its normal spring runoff, the lowest amount from upstream snowmelt on record, according to a federal forecast Thursday.”

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