There is truly nothing you could do to make fun of the NYT covering the Obama Cheesecake Factory quip instead of Trump being accused of rape. It’s completely beyond parody.
I just refuse to believe a Congressionally investigated violent rape charge against the sitting President wouldn’t be on the front page for every other President in history
Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell
Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · yesterdayNew: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
i hope if nothing else, the media ignoring this finally stops people from saying "the reason the media doesn't run drumbeat scandal coverage on trump the way they did on Clinton is because Dems don't make a big deal of it like Republicans do"
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 15h agothis is just insanely damning stuff when you lay it all out democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
it does kind of seem like yglesias also thinks this is true of their own countries, and indeed he would prefer the people not participate in politics at all, and leave the hard business of running a country to the smart people (him)
brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social · 2d agoYes well it does require things like “empathy” and possessing a basic understanding that all of our lives are interconnected
It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.
of all of the people in this administration who deserve to go to jail stephen miller deserves to go to jail the most
Jennifer Shin - WTAF@jennifershin.bsky.social · 3d agoMiller deserves everything that's coming. He's afraid of state prosecutors because a presidential pardon only covers federal offenses; and beyond prison, there's also future congressional investigations and civil lawsuits. www.rawstory.com/rs-exclusive...
imagine if a democratic candidate anywhere said something like this about a jewish candidate, would be a ten-alarm fire in every media outlet for days. but the literal president promoting this sort of insane bigotry against a muslim won't even merit a story
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3d agoTrump: “Abdul El-Sayed is a jihadist. He should not be allowed to serve in our Senate.”
if they attempt to do this and we let it stand, the country is basically over. cooked.
Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social · 4d agoScoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...
has mmfa or someone like that compiled a comparison of airtime and front page headlines given to hunter biden vs jared kushner, given that kushner's alleged corruption is about 1000x larger, you would expect it to receive more coverage than Hunter's, right?
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...
The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d agoThis would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.
hard to imagine anything further from "law enforcement" than any action of the Trump administration. a pack of criminal gangsters to a man
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 6d agoMajor news this morning. Louise Lucas, a chief antagonist of Trump and Virginia Republicans (and one of the most vocal proponents of gerrymandering the state earlier this year) is criminally charged by the feds over her marijuana business:
ordinarily the government would have to pay Elon to nationalize SpaceX but in the case of capital-T Treason I think an exception can be made
"Some may object as follows: Musk owns Starlink. Doesn’t he have the right to do what he wants with a business he owns? No." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
It’s Time to Take Starlink Away from Elon Musk
Americans did not give him the right to make national security policy
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somehow one of baseball’s owners - who, remember, are so impoverished that they absolutely can’t go on without a salary cap - can afford to contribute money to a political campaign dragging a childhood sexual assault survivor
Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 6d ago“A Popular Information analysis of campaign finance records reveals that the [Ramaswamy] ad was funded, in part, with contributions from the PACs and executives of major American corporations, including Bank of America, Deloitte, DraftKings, Kroger, and Nationwide.” popular.info/p/the-corpor...
They are trying to help him rule over us like a king. They are part of the plot to enslave us
Amy Westervelt@amywestervelt.bsky.social · last wk.Here we have state media (CBS, now under the direction of op-ed writer Bari Weiss and her patrons, Trump mega donors the Ellisons) reprinting the lie that Trump “created” a women’s health division at NIH that has existed since the 1990s.
think the thing is that it just can't be like this. of course it isn't like this. and the other thing is: the supreme court will affirm that the president has the power to pardon his own crimes. not, he does not. do not give me a legal argument about this. no sane person would write that law.
Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · last wk.I am yet again staking out the position that a pardon issued as part of a corrupt or criminal scheme in which the President is involved or materially benefits from is void ab initio I’ll find some Blackstone or Coke quote supporting this when I need to
like, there was a *weeks long* protest addressed at collins, *specifically about how kavanaugh would vote on abortion*, her saying there was no way to anticipate how he would vote is legitimately a really offensive and bald faced lie!
🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃@golikehellmachine.com · last wk.if you could not have predicted how a lifelong federalist society member and former bush administration staffer would vote on an abortion case before the court, then you genuinely are too incompetent and unqualified to be a senator
if you could not have predicted how a lifelong federalist society member and former bush administration staffer would vote on an abortion case before the court, then you genuinely are too incompetent and unqualified to be a senator
Republicans want to make it illegal for Republicans to lose elections because they don't believe the American people should be free to govern ourselves.
Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc)@purrtah.bsky.social · last wk.Texas Republicans starting to consider stripping away the Lt. Governor’s powers in the event Dan Patrick goes down
Retired guy whose healthcare bill is entirely paid for by working adults talking about how he shouldn’t have to pay for other people’s kids to go to school while standing in front of a mansion he owns is really just an excellent encapsulation of the Republican base.
democrats in Congress really need to start building the case to lock Elon up and be ready to hand it to the next attorney general on January 20th 2029
Based on their public comments, NYT leaders view the kind of insider details discovered by Haberman and others as essential to understanding Trump. I don't think that's correct. Public documents (Project 2025) and events (Jan 6, DOGE) to me describe this presidency better than insider accounts.
Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 2w ago"Democracy dies unless Maggie Haberman has access to senior Trump aides and McConnell/Romney Republicans respect us" is essentially the argument Times editors have been making since 2018. I can't tell if they actually believe that or it's a pretext for their decision not to change their approach.
"Democracy dies unless Maggie Haberman has access to senior Trump aides and McConnell/Romney Republicans respect us" is essentially the argument Times editors have been making since 2018. I can't tell if they actually believe that or it's a pretext for their decision not to change their approach.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2w agoThis morning I re-watched my video argument with the NY Times' Patrick Healy, and it's clear that the Times believes if it says explicity that the Trump regime is assaulting democracy, that would undermine its work to investigate how the regime is assaulting democracy. What an absurd position.
NEW STOP CARING ESSAY IS LIVE Our first of a two-part commissioned series of women's perspectives on Marvel's Wolverine. @dykedeitz.bsky.social reviews Wolverine, so utterly lacking in merit that she has some strong words for the state of criticism as a whole. www.stopcar.ing/everything-o...
Everything Old is New Again
Sticks and stones won't break his bones, but they really should.
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The Israeli political consensus is that it is essential for the State of Israel to continue to deny self-government or self-determination to 33% of its population indefinitely, and virtually no mainstream American analysis will even engage with this.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w agoEisenkot, the most likely alternative to Netanyahu for the next head of government in Israel, says yesterday that "two states for two peoples is a mistake" and that "Ben Gvir probably did some good things in the prisons". He also said he would not coalition with any of the Palestinian parties.
This man started his term by selling control of the federal government to his richest donor. He then spent the remainder of his time wiping his ass with-never mind the constitution--the declaration of independence. There's no such thing as legitimate official acts from him as far as I'm concerned