No one needs to listen to James Carville about anything. But I'll keep saying this until I'm blue in the face: It's not the lefties who hold Democrats hostage in Congress, IT'S THE MODERATES. Bernie Sanders never killed a Democratic bill he didn't like. You know who did? Joe Manchin. Many times.
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h agoIt's the stupidity, stupid. Shut up and go away.
reliance on starlink is a national security threat for every country, including the united states, where musk would absolutely use it to sabotage the foreign policy of a dem president it must be replaced posthaste
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h agoThe White House says the malicious manipulation of Ukrainian access to StarLink and StarShield is over. Zelenskyy says it continues. And Zelenskyy, of course, is correct.
1. he’s so open about it this term! so basically republicans have had to move to “this is good, actually”, can’t deny it’s happening 2. it hits different, even for republicans, when everything is so damn expensive trump grifting billions stops feeling like owning the libs and more like owning you
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · yesterdaySuddenly, Trump's corruption feels like a salient political issue. I don't know why it took this long, but it's happening. Even Republicans are telling pollsters they're souring on Trump's grift.
when critics of bari weiss say that she is not a journalist, we mean that literally. she does not respect or even appear to understand the values of the profession. everything for her is propaganda. www.semafor.com/article/10/1...
Exclusive: How CBS News’ Middle East war spread to the Upper Midwest
Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has personally advocated for CBS News journalists to pursue numerous story angles related to Abdul El-Sayed’s supposed sympathy towards the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Obama's statement should have come from Chuck Schumer et al and the fact that it didn't means that everyone should demand Schumer et al's resignation for being ISLAMOPHOBIC and also TERRIBLE "Leaders"
What do you call it when secret police round up people of a certain ethnic background, concentrated in over-crowded camps, and mistreats them until many die?
Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · yesterdayA 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.
Right, it wasn't just that she violated the ethics of her profession, she failed at the very basics of it -- telling us what happened.
Their politics are all different, but the appeal of Mamdani, Ossoff, and El-Sayed as speakers and campaigners is that they don't seem afraid they're going to get in trouble. That makes them hard to bully or even make fun of successfully.
SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist ties
Thomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.
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Tech bros don’t want you to see Alex Gibney’s documentary, Musk.
TikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Ad Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)
Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens. Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.
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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
Ossoff: "It's the most corrupt administration of all time & everybody knows it. While the crook president & his crook family rake in billions from all over the world, you pay more for everything... they lied us into war & spent most of the last year covering up for the world's most famous pedophile"
Okay these people are clearly watching horsefucking videos nonstop. There’s something going on with the Podcast Right.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d agoTucker Carlson: "If you look at pornography enough or bestiality videos all day, after a while... it's kind of an attractive horse, I get it."
The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRon Johnson blames US for Putin invading Ukraine: "The way we treated Russia after we won the Cold War, how we pushed them. I'm not defending Putin, but we said we were not gonna move NATO one inch to the east. We brought it right to their doorstep basically. What did we think Putin was gonna do?"
I've got a woman in my mentions insisting Chuck Schumer doesn't need to speak out about the president's efforts to strip a Democratic congresswoman of her citizenship because "some people in the House already said something." Oh, word? Then no need for the actual leaders to lead here. My bad.
It's incredible that so many Republicans get away with claims that schools carry out secret surgeries, when any public-school parent has seen teachers do DonorsChoose pages and GoFundMes for basic class supplies.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoAshley Hinson claims Josh Turek supports "allowing kids to change their gender at school and not tell their parents"
🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.
Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump
In this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...
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What’s astounding to me is how “the president builds himself a palace with money given directly to him in secret by the richest people in America,” literally the most straightforward and worst executive-branch corruption story in US history, just gets shrugged at because Trump is unapologetic
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoQ: You said you're gonna put some of your own money into the ballroom. Are you? TRUMP: I may do that. When they run out, I'll be there, okay?
I wrote about the feeble attempt by prominent tech punditry mainstays like John Gruber and Casey Newton to rationalize their continued use of Elon Musk's propaganda website.
Casey Newton And John Gruber Slink Back To Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Propaganda Machine
Tech journalism mainstays are feebly rationalizing their return to a broken, billionaire-run right-wing propaganda website.
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You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.
The things these children have been through, are going through, and will go through and we’ve still got people saying that talking about it is harmful to Jewish people. 🤡
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 7d ago🇵🇸 🥋 Taekwondo training starts again in Gaza after three year hiatus After a three-year hiatus, Mahmoud Al-Kronz is back training children and youth in the martial art of Taekwondo in Al-Bureij, in central Gaza Strip, among the ruins and harsh conditions left by the war.
Democrats, practice the correct answer: We're going to fix this by taxing the rich and their corporations and growing the economy, which Democrats do far better than Republicans.
James Ball@jamesrball.com · 7d agoYou can be sure that every single right wing commentator, along with every market analyst, will suddenly remember the existence of this deficit as soon as a Democrat is in the Oval.
Mamdani: "What you could see in the videos is bystanders outside unsure as to what they were even seeing. Because in that imagery, it feels as if you’re almost looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing someone who’s purportedly representing a federal agency."
Talarico: I've heard credible reports that Ken Paxton has a serious medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice. People are concerned. He has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him.
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
