Got told by the media that the economy was dog shit for four years with job growth that literally had never been this strong in the history of our nation and those same reporters have jack fucking shit to say about the dumpster fire Trump created.
Brian Gocial
@briangocial.bsky.social
Grandson of Holocaust Survivors (גאטשל-רוס, Poland 🇵🇱 ), Son of Immigrants (Sweden 🇸🇪-Cuba 🇨🇺), 1G American (Philly 🦅 🇺🇸). Watching the world crumble, again.
The Trump administration "unilaterally and likely without lawful authority destroyed a large portion of the White House structure and dug an open pit in its place," says a federal appeals court, then "publicly announced to the world the vulnerabilities that self-chosen endeavor has created."
Appeals court blocks Trump’s White House ballroom construction
The court paused the ruling for two weeks to give the Trump administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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"We are aware of no instance in American history in which a President unilaterally and using privately collected funds demolished substantial portions of the White House that Congress authorized to be built and American taxpayers paid for. Until now." www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
OPINIONS 26-5123-2187096
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“documents and interviews establish how a first-time contractor was paid millions of dollars to apply a novel solution designed by a golf club manager to a national landmark.”
How the Reflecting Pool Came to Mirror Trump’s Washington
A hospitality manager for the Trump Organization traveled to Las Vegas to find a solution to problems at a national landmark. This is the untold back story of the fallout.
nytimes.com
El-Sayed, every day for the last 15 months: I am running to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, and pass Medicare for All. This is what my campaign is about. The media, for some reason:
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3d agoCNN had Abdul El Sayed on last. night and asked him five questions in a row about Israel and zero on healthcare, affordability, housing, or local Michigan politics.
“If you cut in half the number of journalists reporting new information and double the number of people writing opinions about that information, you have created an information environment that is objectively less valuable for citizens.”
Paying for News Is Cheaper Than Not Having It
The consequences of privatizing public information.
hamiltonnolan.com
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Trump is the first president to actually hate Americans. 
“Americans take it for granted that the war between the Confederacy and the Union was always called the Civil War, but it was not. Its current name is a result of decades of lobbying to ignore the South’s treason and slaveholding. We should once again call it the Slaveholders’ Rebellion.” (edited)
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again.
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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“I’ve often wondered what it was like to be alive in the summer of 1914, much less in 1938 and 1939. When did people start to realize that the world was on the brink of catastrophe?”
Opinion | World War Two-and-a-Half Is Breaking Out
Whatever is happening in Iran, it isn’t working.
nytimes.com
“No one wants to be subject to a whipsaw foreign policy that doesn’t know its limits, and that is a strategic defeat.”
In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear
With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.
nytimes.com
The Reflecting Pool debacle is a perfect example of why Trump corruption matters. Goons get fat contracts to do craptastic government work. They get rich. Taxpayers get ripped off. And when people point it out, the feds hammer them into silence. We used to mock Communists for this garbage.
“China is now viewed more favorably than the United States in a wide range of countries, including Mexico and Canada and most major European countries.”
Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · last wk.The most irreversably damaging geopolitical harm Trump has inflicted is proving to the world that America is untrustworthy and unreliable. Not his administration, but the American people. open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...
America is weird because we have a free press but also an authoritarian government and so we learn in pretty close to real time the shit that is not revealed in other authoritarian settings until decades later.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w agoMS NOW EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Service felt pressure from the Trump admin to surveil James Comey. Documents detail worries about the legality of the directive to surveil Comey — including surreptitiously tracking Comey's phone without a warrant — in the wake of his 'seashells' photo.
Imagine devoting your life to public health, responding to two major pandemics, and then having to talk with these dipshits
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoMoreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
"I am tired of losing. I want to build a sustained progressive coalition capable of delivering on progressive goals. And that's not what we have now, and that's not what we've had for decades."
To win over working-class voters, Democrats need to stop talking about democracy
Working-class voters have moved away from the Democratic Party. Winning them back is key to the party's future, a new reports shows. But first, the messaging has to change.
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“The case highlights the abject disintegration of the Justice Department under the leadership of internet-poisoned ideologues who think Elon Musk’s house of horrors is real life.”
Harmeet Dhillon demonstrates danger of posting through it
When being terminally online goes wrong.
publicnotice.co
I’ve not seen one story on how Rand Paul got Fauci’s diary or how inappropriate it is for the diary to be released publicly. If this were a Republican’s diary the overwhelming coverage would be about process.
Once upon a time, this would have been a presidency-threatening national scandal.
Pentagon Changes How It Reports Casualties in Iran War
The changes separated the casualty numbers into two separate web pages, potentially making it more difficult to tally the war’s full toll.
nytimes.com
Who knew the trade off for lower high egg prices was explosive diarrhea?
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w agoThis scandal just keeps on growing. Four new states and now it’s not just lettuce. Parsley and cilantro/coriander too, possibly from different sources and not linked to the wider outbreak.
“The Trump admin hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies…and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands. That's it. That's the story.”
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
science.org
“everything explodes and nothing changes”
Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left
Anton Jäger has been lauded for his exceptional ability to make sense of these strange political times – and he’s only 32. The writer and academic explains why we’re living in an age of hyperpolitics
theguardian.com
This is why Trump is so desperate to keep people from voting in November. If these numbers hold, it’s gonna be ugly.
Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be." #cdnpoli
Unambiguous moral clarity, rarely seen these days.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w agoBenjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
We need a journalism for the age of information warfare. “Objectivity” is surrender in the face of propaganda. “Both sides” reporting rewards lies and kills truth. Political reality is not based facts and reason. It is based on emotion, identity, and frames—moral and metaphorical.