The last half of this quote wasn't circulating nearly as much yesterday, but it's actually the clincher. God bless this brilliant, gifted, absolutely deranged man.
Fryda Wolff@frydawolff.bsky.social · yesterdayNic Cage:
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The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h agoUh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?
Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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driftglass@driftglass.bsky.social · 2d ago"Jon Ossoff, my advice to him is, if you start calling your political opponents Nazis, maybe it's time to shut up. That's just not what we do here in this country." -- David Brooks, this evening. Remember, Brooks still gets very handsomely rewarded by the fossilized media for saying shit like this
i don't like that we've created a system where i have to push a button that says "reject cookies" multiple times a week
Would love a focus group with the 23% of independents ("independents"?) who are voting to express their support for the Trump administration.
Ariel Edwards-Levy@aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 2d agoIpsos has a similar (closed-end) follow-up on *why* voters are or aren't enthusiastic: www.ipsos.com/sites/defaul...
Had the great pleasure of seeing Sturgill Simpson perform last night and would highly recommend the experience if you enjoy rock and roll music and/or skeletons.
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
I don't know how but we have to teach people to be better at detecting bullshit. Instead we have this ersatz skepticism where people are suspicious about the wrong things and find their way to conclusions that are worse than if they just blindly accepted conventional wisdom
Rod is one of our greatest Americans and this is so good on how many of his lessons are (unfortunately, seemingly) eternal.
Alan Sepinwall@sepinwall.bsky.social · 4d agoFor The New York Times, I wrote about how Rod Serling create The Twilight Zone in part because it was the only way in the 1950 and 60s for him to comment on the subjects he cared about most, and how that's a good blueprint for contemporary media to deal with our surreal current moment:
Ok, so I wrote the NYT's TV canon-building exercise and why it's interesting that the list ranks the 1st through millionth best gritty lyrical sonofabitch cop shows but not even one Blue Sky procedural. Justice for BURN NOTICE. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/gracie-abr...
Gracie Abrams on the LOST Island
Six Theses on the NYT’s Best TV Shows of the 21st Century
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Journalists keep wanting the story to be "normal working class centrist has questions," not "our country is currently dominated by stupid people in a right wing echo chamber."
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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The Wall Street Journal, the official paper of the owner class, is reporting that clear majorities of Americans support a pause on AI development, a wealth tax on billionaires, Medicare for All, a $20 minimum wage, and to end military aid to Israel. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Americans Want Populist Policies That Defy Traditional Political Labels
A new Wall Street Journal survey finds broad support for caps on prescription drug prices and strong border security.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 2w agoFuck it, I'm putting it out there: Optimism October.
Today, Marist's midnight poll drop is from Ohio: Sherrod Brown leads Sen. Husted 51% to 43%. Amy Acton leads Vivek Ramaswamy 50% to 44%. A key stat: 50% *strongly disapprove* of Trump, in Ohio. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/midter...
Never fun to start your day writing an obit. But here's a look at the career of Pac, an unbelievable talent taken too soon. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Benjamin Satterley, English pro wrestler known as Pac, dead at 40 | CBC News
All Elite Wrestling announced the death of Satterly, better known by his in-ring mononym PAC, on their social media channels Sunday night. No cause of death was released.
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“i woke up every morning and name searched myself on twitter. i am normal by the way”
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w agoThe lede is like something a soldier might have written decades after storming Omaha Beach, and having lived long enough to tell his grandchildren about how he somehow survived that fateful day.
I'm not going to be baited too badly by a NYTimes list but Deadwood TWENTY SPOTS behind Succession and behind White Lotus at all is a sign of a fallen culture.
The idea the entire culture shifted because of a 1.5% popular vote margin was always very strange (and powered by a lot of wishful thinking from people who were tired of pretending they cared about what non-white dudes were saying)
Rob Tracinski@tracinski.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat was really up with all that "vibe shift" stuff after the 2024 election? Like, what was the environment like, what was going on with members of the media that they bought this? I'm genuinely curious.
I think you had to be very online at a time when most people weren't to know that the bush administration was comically evil to the extent that it was, but for those of you who weren't: trust us! these were stupid evil people, not so different from the current ones!
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 3w agolol at all the people who've been going "Why isn't Dubya speaking out about Trump??" folks, he's committed to the same fucking project.
This artifact was excavated at Harappa and radiocarbon dating places it c. 1900 BC
Fankoosh@fankoosh.bsky.social · 3w agoHumanity’s most ancient wisdom
Migration is humanity's oldest, most reliable, and most effective tool when dealing with climate change, full stop. Can't find food here? Don't like the weather? Babies dying of diseases? Move somewhere else. There are always intermediate steps and causal factors, but it's almost that simple.
Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 3w agoClimate journalists against freedom of movement and for subsidized parking is a good microcosm for why broad swaths of the green movement are fairly cooked
Sure, giving in to corporate blackmail is *usually* a bad idea. But maybe this time it will work!!!!!!!!!! 🤮
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3w ago* PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE CORP. HAS REACHED A SETTLEMENT WITH CALIFORNIA AND OTHER STATES SUING TO BLOCK ITS PROPOSED ACQUISITION OF WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY INC. -- BLOOMBERG NEWS @reuters.com @bloomberg.com $PSKY
you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem?
#TeslaTakedown@teslatakedown.com · 3w agoElon has already spent over $5 million backing Ken Paxton. Nearly all of it is filling Texans' feeds and mailboxes with vile anti-trans slop. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is
The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.
