The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
Again, ~every poll on ~every policy issue is like this. We’re “polarized” in the same way the family Thanksgiving table is “polarized.” It’s a comfortable way to avoid talking about a deeply uncomfortable reality because hard family conversations about the relatives are hard.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w ago6% of Republicans think climate change is a major problem, down from 13% in 2009 news.gallup.com/poll/708050/...
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
AOC is propagating dangerous nonsense about MAHA: That it’s “not partisan,” driven by legitimate concerns. No. Stop it. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right, channeling vague grievances into a radical project. I spelled this out here:
The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation
MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it
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Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4w agoI like AOC, but this is an incredibly bad analysis of the MAHA movement.
No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 4w agoGonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles
We’re stuck doing deep textual analysis on Hasan Piker, a Twitch streamer, to discover if he said something offensive. Then the actual Secretary of Defense is gleefully picking out random Canadians and mocking them for being overweight, and it’s like “Well Trump will be Trump!”
Fox News complains that underage teenage girls aren’t getting pregnant enough: “The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 70% in the last 2 decades, which means we are telling people who are young not to have babies.”
Hasan Piker isn't part of the Abdul El-Sayed campaign. Lorenzo Sewell is a member of the Mike Rogers campaign. And he's a proper extremist and bigot who the media isn't covering. I brought receipts in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one?
Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · last mo.Ahead of the midterms, Trump isn’t even being subtle about his brazen politicization of federal disaster relief aid, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and election results. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Abdul El-Sayed is a Rhodes Scholar who has two Doctorates (Medicine from Columbia and a PhD in Public Health from Oxford) who was a 16 year old high school student in suburban Detroit when 9/11 happened, and I'm curious what possible logic is behind this post other than abject racism.
Every oppo dump on Piker has the same format: A short, deceptively edited clip accompanied by a paraphrase even more incendiary than the words Piker says in the video.
Lunar #Eclipse from the west coast. Wasn't set up well as I expected clouds but thankfully only had light overcast. Shot on a Canon 70-200 f/4. Heavily cropped.
“X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” www.404media.co/xs-algorithm...
X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.
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Given the overwhelming demand (🤥), here are the editorials I've written on covid origins: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... and www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🚨 Yet ANOTHER study finds "NO evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime." There has NEVER been evidence to support this racist BS❗ Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com
Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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There's something ironic about the fact that AI slop is the primary method being used to spread misinformation about utility-scale solar projects
In rural communities, fears amplified by ‘AI slop’ and social media hamper solar boom • Tennessee Lookout
Solar panel misinformation, spread by bots and by neighbors, derailed a project in Cajun Country that promised millions in local tax revenue.
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Third Way, a professedly "center left" group, is spending tens of millions of dollars to convince voters to vote for Republicans in November
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is a glorified single-source interview with the head of Third Way. It quotes far more moderates saying they support the progressive candidates in the general election. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
Alexandra Fasulo runs one of the most prolific anti-solar campaigns online, regularly telling over 2 million followers renewable energy is threatening farms and wildlife. But how much of her rhetoric is actually true? @alexhannaford.com spent months parsing through the nuance for HEATED:
The influencer teaching millions to fear solar
Alexandra Fasulo says she’s protecting farms and wildlife. Her campaign is becoming a blueprint for the fossil fuel right.
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I could be wrong, but @theatlantic.com seems to have hidden my reply with this article. So here it is again.
If The Atlantic Wishes to Honestly Understand the Origins of MAHA, They Need to Investigate The Atlantic.
The Atlantic has some of the best writers around. But they were also eager to launder right-wing talking points under the guise of a being liberal, reasonable, and moderate publication, able to see a
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The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2mo agoA lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:
“Why can’t Democrats be like Republicans?” gives Ezra Klein’s game away. He doesn’t understand at a fundamental level what pluralism and democracy are
MLB is like the Democratic Party in that they’re deeply concerned about popularity and all their actions seem to be aimed at capturing some mythical person who has never become a baseball fan and will probably never become a baseball fan meanwhile baseball fans are yelling PLEASE JUST PLAY BASEBALL
Just a reminder that the whole "#MeToo has gone too far" social media backlash wasn't organic. (More on that later in this thread.) Leaving aside men *convicted of crimes* (e.g. Weinstein), it's hard to find any men who actually lost their careers over allegations. www.avclub.com/mark-twain-p...
At Mark Twain Prize, Louis C.K. recalls Bill Maher's friendship after becoming an "outcast"
At Mark Twain Prize, Louis C.K. recalls Bill Maher's friendship after becoming an "outcast"
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But existing elites can't see these modest efforts to redress inequality for what they are. So they resort to hysterical pronouncements about the "threat of socialism" like it's 1953. Stop whining! If progressive taxation to pay for services is socialist then we're socialist already.
Tina Peters stole an innocent person's identity, turned off the cameras, and stole election technology. She was found guilty by a jury of her peers, prosecuted by a GOP DA. Her conviction was upheld by the courts. She has ZERO remorse, and Gov. Polis knew that when he commuted her sentence.
Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW: Tina Peters, newly freed by Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D), begins her MAGA media tour by telling Steve Bannon that Democrats are cheating on elections and she was imprisoned as retribution for exposing voting machines that flip votes.
There has been over a year’s worth of polling showing that Gaza didn’t break the top 10 issues people voted on but people are surprised the DNC autopsy didn’t include Gaza? No really…over a year’s worth of polling. I lot of people are upset they can’t use the issue as leverage but won’t admit it.
Some of the people interviewed are three-time Trump voters who nonetheless consider themselves political independents who distrust both parties, in case you needed another reminder of what that actually means
Reuters@reuters.com · 5mo agoTrump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These rural voters agree. reut.rs/4dL2y14
Biden presided over likely the greatest expansion in US manufacturing in history and our public intellectuals decided not to notice it. People's lives were materially getting better. Wages rose because labor was in such short supply.
The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
the game that the republicans are playing is that democrats are institutionally more timid and less likely to wipe local republicans off the map. they are stealing seats now so that they can call for calm later. investigating virginia state sentator lucas is part of the game.
ósanwë 🦭@isilanor.bsky.social · 5mo agothe maximalist calculus right after a blue wave midterm simply doesn't work out for republicans, but they're doing it anyway, because they have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation