WELL HOLY SHIT

Excellent explanation by @crampell.bsky.social of where we stand in terms of the economy, and where we might be going. Stagflation, anyone? Hope not, but fear it could be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQT6...

Trump: - Escalates in the Middle East - Throws the despised ICE at American airports - Gets really ugly CBS News/Daily Mail polls - Is flailing, failing, and doing enormous harm to the country More 👇 open.substack.com/pub/simonwdc...

Trying to turn George Wallace into Lyndon Johnson on coverage alone

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

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This is a national disgrace and it should cost Bhattacharya his job at NIH. It should result in him being ostracized from academia for the rest of his career. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

YES!

During Trump 1.0 the popular idea was that the media liked him because he was good for ratings, and that was when I generated my “balancer media” theory, but both those were inadequate to explain what happened in 2024.

Trump 2.0 has been marked by an increasingly wide and obvious gulf between media elites and the general American public, which the elites themselves seem oddly confused about.

Obviously Trump has always been lying about being antiwar. But think it’s important to see that his base has all been lying about wanting that too. No President has launched more attacks in more places in such a short amount of time out of thin air. They don’t care at all!

UCLA fired me for much, much less. See now, THIS is “celebrating” someone’s death—the factual critiques I posted about open bigot Charlie Kirk were not.

Very simply do not fucking ally with Replacement Theory freaks to oppose Netanyahu or this heinous Trump War

This is the most revealing framing I have seen Tucker Carlson give for why he is against Israel, and why no one on the left should trust him. He’s not against Israel because their govt is ethnonationalist - he’s for ethnonationalism in the US - but because they’re “Eastern” and we’re “Western.”

Trump is just trying to honor his own understanding of the Revolutionary War

Oh god WTAF?!?!

Luka Doncic and Goga Bitadze debate whether they threatened to fuck each other’s family members in a second language: defector.com/luka-doncic-...

Iran deal you say?

Around 7000 Americans were killed on Iwo Jima and 19,000 wounded, and it was part of a campaign that ended with a nuclear weapon being used, so maybe not the wisest comparison.

Like everyone else, Mueller was gentle and deferential to Trump and was rewarded with Trump’s unhinged rage ever since

If 60% of Americans hate the war but 100% of MAGA support it, you’re just bragging how small MAGA is

This quick squib perfectly captures where Trump is. He can’t distinguish between when he’s threatening more punishment vs actually trying to resolve a problem he’s getting blamed for.

One of the fascinating aspects of Trump 2.0 has been the way the media elites who engineered his 2024 victory by, basically, **lying** about his plans and fitness for office, seemed to expect that the **reality** of Trump 2.0 would be broadly popular.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

I’m begging reporters covering the Georgia abortion arrest: STOP TRUSTING COPS For the full video, go to my insta

Talarico is really driving Republicans completely insane with his “love thy neighbor” stuff.

Over on the bad site, Rich Goldberg is hinting at striking civilian nuclear power plants. It's not just criminal, its also stupid.

this should have really just been stopped immediately at "Jared" and asked "why is the president's son-in-law conducting foreign diplomacy when he has no role in this administration and has not been confirmed by the Senate to any position permitting him to engage in it?"

Obviously “expert consensus” is often flawed, but the odds that a non-expert is going to improve on it by independent thinking & doing their own research is, for practical purposes, nil, while the odds of getting sucked into genuinely dangerous error is high.

“Next, we talk to a Trump functionary with zero responsibility for foreign policy about Iran.”

“Let’s put the people who have spent the last year telling people their Real IDs don’t mean shit in charge of airport identification.”

My alabaster milk child Teuton keeps asking for ranch dressing at the caviar factory, it is most epic. The fishmongers despise him.

what Layla is doing is uniquely gross: she’s trying to kill a NYCHA redevelopment project (that would give every tenant of a dilapidated campus in Chelsea a brand new apartment) by spreading lies to the tenants and saying that they will actually be displaced & homeless And Schlossberg is her ally

I did not think this interview could get worse until this moment. They will excuse ANYTHING this guy does.

I’ll bet the Term 1 Cabinet caretakers are speaking pretty frankly off the record these days about what a dumb psychopath they worked for

At 13:00 @maddow.bsky.social is asked about media coverage of the Mueller report. My paraphrase of her reply: We should not have given equal weight to Bill Barr's smoke screen tactics and Robert Mueller's old-school, fact-based, court-tested report... but we did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQdD...

“.. Google Searches for ‘Help With Mortgage’ have soared to the highest level in history, surpassing even the peak of the Global Financial Crisis.” (via @barchart.com)

When people defend Trump’s gutter racism they usually trot out pictures of him with like Don King, but curiously they never talk about his refusal to date black women and how he wouldn’t hire them to be waitresses at resorts and…

WSJ: “Three weeks into the war, the Iranian regime is signaling that it believes it is winning and has the power to impose a settlement on Washington that entrenches Tehran’s dominance of Middle East energy resources for decades to come.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

“War is peace” is now official Republican dogma

On Fox & Friends this morning they had on a TSA union guy, and when asked what ICE agents can do starting Monday he said I don’t know, the training program takes five months, without that they’d mainly be standing around being a distraction and slowing things down

This guy knows he’s full of shit and gets off on these absurd lies

I became so utterly loathsome to my fellow man that the crowd of amoral financiers, biglaw partners, and major landlords at the steakhouses of Manhattan despised me on sight. Regretting nothing, I was nevertheless obliged to retreat to a West Palm Beach Ruth’s Chris for a moment of peace.

The legacy of Mueller is that if you do diligent methodical careful work on a damning report, trusting to our institutions to do the right thing, damned liars will just tell damned lies about your work and the lies will stand, because institutions won't confront power and nobody does the reading.

The second half of this clip suggests that ICE agents probably won’t actually screen travelers/bags but rather will do collateral stuff like ensure no one enters secure areas through exit doors. A more effective idea to shorten lines: fund TSA separately from ICE/CBP, as Dems propose!

The only job they know how to do is deprive people of their rights.

Why can’t our media just call this deranged freak a tyrant? He’s not making it subtle!

What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

just got back from sushi and some asshole at the next table kept trying to order a cheeseburger