Let me know. Who is it who still wants to know what James Carville has to say?

More than this I could not say.

Reading as an act of resistance.

Everywhere in Cheever, there are little treasures: “Her accent was a fraud, her tastes were fraudulent, and the seraphic look she assumed when she listened to music was the look of someone trying to recall an old telephone number.”

Bezos and the Waltons are freeloading welfare queens. We can’t afford them.

LSeefeldt@lseefeldt.bsky.social · last wk.

Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Anonymity does not disturb copy editors, because we are indifferent to vulgar acclaim.

Once again I'm incandescently angry at our billionaire-owned news organizations. Please click through and follow the independent and local journalists in the starter packs in this thread. We HAVE to support and get our news from better sources.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2w ago

@laminda.bsky.social's essential starter pack of independent journalists and news rooms. Follow these folks and pick a couple to support with subscriptions/donations. We save ourselves, and they're part of "we," unlike billionaire-funded fascist apologists. go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

They’d rather be told they’re liars who should be subjected to violence by those who don’t read their work than be told they are stenographers who are failing at their stated principles by those who do read their work.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2w ago

A lot of criticism of the White House press corps on Bluesky tonight, primarily coming from a journalism as fourth estate, truth to power, informing the public, valuing free speech perspective. In case you were wondering why many prominent media figures prefer spending time on X.

Yes, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner has been a joke for nearly 40 years, but it is hard to imagine that anyone with serious pretension to being a professional journalist would attend the event tomorrow with Donald Trump.

I don’t know how to convince anyone of this, but the hundreds or thousands of words many publications run below the headline aren’t decorative. Often they contain nuance that doesn’t fit into ten words.

What have you done for me lately?

There was a discussion in the bar today about Episcopalians, and how they differ from Catholics and Protestants. I have an explanation, but it’s only likely to be understood by other Episcopalians: I am basically a deist with a taste for ceremony.

THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.

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Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3w ago

I will not be listening to opinions on gender and biology from those who think women originated from a rib cage…

The Old Editor limps along. Post in comments.

As an aside, if they encountered bad roads in Baltimore proper that’s a function of Governor Hogan spending all our tax money making the roads where his supporters live as smooth as possible while sabotaging Baltimore at every opportunity.

America has never been susceptible to communism. It has always been susceptible to fascism. Know your history. Know your context. Know smokescreens when you see them. The threat of communism has always been a smokescreen used by fascists in America.

They fear us and they know they cannot kill us in a way that matters. There Will Be A Reckoning, and our revenge will be living happily in front of them. Their hell will be living in a loving egalitarian society that keeps them safe but powerless and tells them they're silly geese for talking stupid

Julie Rei Goldstein@julierei.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, says he walks around worrying that someone who's hopped up on hormones and Trans surgeries is going to try and kill him.

People are right to be mad about the predictable Platner fiasco, but it's worth remembering that last year a ton of establishment Democrats supported disgraced sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo against clean-as-a-whistle Zohran. Tolerating problem men is an issue across the ideological spectrum.

Watching Fourth of July coverage on CNN. Vapid chatter with pasted-on heartiness. Thomas Jefferson, what have you done?

Sing it anyhow.

there are many reasons the Trump administration sucks but the fact that everyone in it is OBSCENELY wealthy and yet they're all so tacky and cheap is, like, top 5 on my list.

Hari Kunzru@harikunzru.bsky.social · last mo.

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

Can everyone just step back and realize how insane it is that the US Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of the US CONSTITUTION and the vote to uphold the Constitution wasn't unanimous!!!

As I was saying: anti-immigration politics is insatiable—literally cannot be satisfied—by any concrete menu of policy changes because it's not about policy! It's about ethnic purity, & purging the body politic of the enemy alien. Every 'reasonable grievance' is a stalking horse for ethnic cleansing

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last mo.

Here's the argument: MAGA can't accept a sealed border, an end to TPS/asylum, and the closing of other legal pathways as success. Their movement isn’t really about securing the border. It’s about ethnically cleansing the country. My exchange with Raul Pinto on this: newrepublic.com/article/2125...

Just delivered to my hospital room (vertigo, don’t ask) with get-well wishes from Hannah Gaskill, Cody Boteler, Emily Opilo, Lia Russell, Leah Brennan, Hallie Miller, and Maddi O’Neill. Even my flinty old heart is touched.

Please. The only time Dems actually group up to pass any kind of progressive legislation that improves life for people is when there’s already enough headwind in that direction… …generated by real progressives. 1/2

On the U.S. side of the pond, the Democratic Party has been one of the most flagrant abetters of the underfunding and dismantling of humanistic higher education They should change the name of their party.

idonthaveacoolname@idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social · last mo.

The worst thing is that there is not any outcry from other institutions whether public or private. This clearly isn’t just an economic decision, this is political and it’s shameful that the ”centrist” parties have abandoned “education“ and replaced it with “training”. A direct assault on democracy.