This is what I mean when I talk about the Fantasy of the Optional Pandemic, where the virus was erased from the equation and mitigation measures were always portrayed as an avoidable choice. Headlines about what actually happened are never even acknowledged.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

one thing that infuriates me so much about this shit is that they act as if the women making the allegations are being massively rewarded for their actions when in fact most of what they face for coming forward is being called liars and harassed by assholes like them

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

matt stoller fully embracing his role as sexual assault denialist

When the air quality emoji informs you that you're all just dead now Like this apocalypse is slow moving and kinda boring with wayyyyyy fewer opportunities for "Leave me behind, I'll slow em down!" moments of bravery then I'd been led to believe, but at least its pretty hilarious

Louie Den Pop

kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w ago

your baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals

Haven't cared about celebrities since I was 13 but I just screamed for my daughter to share the news and give her the full back story on these two. They're wonderful and adorable and I am INVESTED

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a much more impressive accomplishment than becoming a trillionaire

Didn't watch the game. Did watch the livestream of NY outdoor watch party cuz seeing men going through every human emotion, then collectively crying/screaming/bonding for life in celebration is heartwarming AF #Knicks

omg ffs we just want healthcare

There’s really only one conclusion here: Trump cannot live in the realm of reality. He pathologically makes claims that cannot be supported and acts as if he is delusional. If all elections are rigged, as he says, how did he win in 2016 in 2024? He is a danger to this country.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

ok, this place has the juice

We live in a white supremacist country under the rule of a white supremacist Supreme Court and President.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: By a 6-3 vote, #SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use its never-implemented 2023 districts in this year's elections. They're likely to result in a 6-1, R-D split and the loss of 1 of 2 majority Black AL districts. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Absolutely fucking intolerable. This is why the shadow docket needs to go immediately. Staff SCOTUS appropriately so that they can't claim a need for urgency preventing them from explaining themselves. If you're going to be an inconsistent hack, you say it with your chest

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#BREAKING: Over public dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants stay of district court injunction in Alabama redistricting cases, clearing the way for Alabama to use its 2023 map.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

this is true. there's a practical question abt how much value there is in doing it without the votes to convict. but it hurt Trump a lot. There's simply no question about this.

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For one thing, the idea that the first Trump impeachments accomplished nothing, and even backfired by creating a rally-around-the-leader effect, is bunk. www.offmessage.net/p/the-revisi...

CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get? LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire.

Trump didn't settle a lawsuit. He dropped the lawsuit so there's no lawsuit to settle. He's just stealing this money. The lawsuit was just for show so he could say he settled a lawsuit.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

JUST IN: Trump settles $10B suit over leaking of his tax returns, as well as Russia probe & Mar-a-Lago raid damages claims by setting up $1.8B "weaponization" fund at DOJ to issue payments to unspecified victims of "lawfare." w/Danny Nguyen www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

I don’t know that it’s appreciably worse than Anything Else Going On Right Now, but learning that my tax dollars are about to fund a billion-dollar slush fund for Trump sycophants and literal January 6 insurrectionists is filling me with a new and special flavor of rage

Hard to describe what it's like watching someone who paid terroristic house visits to you and tried to overthrow the government get 1) pardoned and then 2) paid richly for it, probably

Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One of the J6 riot convicts has a pretty huge personal grudge against me for wrecking his Philly Proud Boys chapter back in the day. So the fact that Trump is possibly about to throw millions at him that he can weaponize however he wants, uh. Sure does not feel good on a personal level

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Congrats to all of who keep getting up, taking care of our families, doing our jobs, and staying sane while we eat shit non fucking stop

Alexandra Petri@petridishes.bsky.social · 3mo ago

sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

"Democratic governors and state legislators need to realize that this is no longer about fairness; it’s about fighting back so that they are not engineered out of the House forever. And I get that Dems don’t have the stomach for this kind of warfare--- find it."

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 · 3mo 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/...

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

Not yelling at Dave here, but the fundamental issue is that the bedrock assumption of our country's politics is that conservatives losing faith in the system is seen as an indictment of the system, and liberals losing faith in the system is seen as an indictment of liberals.

Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As this site's unofficial eeyore, I can tell you: Rs see the grey hair at No Kings rallies, and the collapse of BLM, and are confident that any liberal protests will be ineffective (waving signs around) or will backfire (violence against Rs)

The Trump Administration has been using law enforcement to target elected leaders, particularly Black elected leaders, since they singled out Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver when they tried to inspect a detention center.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The FBI has raided the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L Louise Lucas. This comes weeks after she spearheaded a redistricting effort in Virginia, netting up to four new blue seats.