it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
Let's all sit with the fact that the president wants to jail some random person who is self-evidently innocent. It's not surprising, but it's amazing that much of the media is almost completely disinterested in this fact.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 16h agoIt's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
It’s a direct attack on rule of law from the highest levels, aimed at permanently ending US Constitutional democracy and imposing a dictatorship. Always has been. Anyone who tries treating it as something else—as if they’re dealing with mistaken impressions rather than lies—gets egg on their face.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 16h agoIt's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis
A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.
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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
nytimes.com
Bennie Moreno is making a scene so the SEOs pick this up instead of the fact he did absolutely nothing against his former son in law that burned his daughter with scalding hot water and likely broke his two year old granddaughters collarbone
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
Something I talked about repeatedly in 2024: 20 million people, to say nothing of 30, would be the largest forced population transfer in human history, larger any of the three post-WW2 transfers (partition of India, expulsion of Germans, partition of Palestine) or the post-WW1 Balkan cases.
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 3w agoHave to get serious because this is the thought that has consumed and motivated me for the past 2 and a half years. When Trump/Miller talk about 20/30 million immigrants to deport, and that number reaches 100 million for the real freaks like Bovino, verily I say to you: THIS IS MEIN KAMPF SHIT
In a less deranged version of our country, skies full of smoke would inspire us to bold climate action. There’s an American majority that loves blue skies & air we can breathe more than fossil fuel profits.
So the guy DOJ has put in charge of charging antifa “domestic terrorists” is himself one of the j6 boys …
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3w agoEXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched with Crowd on Jan. 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...
The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.
could not possibly be happier for karl-anthony towns. this team was his basketball destiny. this run would not have been possible without his sacrifice. great player, better person.
.@eggerdc.bsky.social: "So thoroughly poisoned are the minds of Trump’s base voters by now that they no longer need to see even pretend evidence to believe his claims that this or that election are rigged." Read the latest Morning Shots, only @thebulwark.com: open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Get Ready for November’s ‘Stop the Steal’
Republicans’ reactions to the Los Angeles mayoral race preview their reactions to the midterms.
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At the risk of stating the obvious: when reactionaries say elections are "rigged," what they mean -- in their hearts, in their guts -- is that their opponents are illegitimate and it only counts if they win. That's what they've always meant.
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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Essentially the media’s position is they’ll underplay Trump’s cognitive impairment as long as he’s still good at blowharding.
Scott Pelley is a hero, and it really makes you wonder: where has this spirit been? In other media figures, other executives, other people who have seen these oligarchs degrade everything of value in this country? Why is it so striking & unusual for *anyone to fight back*?
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2mo agoOliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
There is no world in which this is okay. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵
Samuel Alito’s Son Has Been Quietly Working for Trump’s Treasury Department
Philip Alito has been working as an attorney with the Treasury’s office of the general counsel for months even as the Supreme Court takes up cases involving the department.
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Got a theory that we are all living through a crisis of agency, at least online. Bots, algorithms, clip armies, & the flood of AI stuff have scrambled notions of popularity, turned everything into a ‘psyop’. AI tools/ agents are reversing the fundamental human, collaborative promise of the internet
The Feeling of Control Slipping Away
AI is causing a crisis of agency.
theatlantic.com
"He was the kind of tech commentator anti-talent who makes a smooth and remunerative career for himself by being enthusiastic about gadgets while seeming think-y and writing at a low fourth grade level." — @rusty.todayintabs.com
Who Is Nick Bilton?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton just sent me a telegram from hell that says: “WOW THIS GUY SUCKS AT WRITING STOP.”
todayintabs.com
NEW: An investigation by @thecity.nyc, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented population.
We Found 430 ICE Street Arrests in the NYC Area. More Than 93% Targeted Latinos.
An investigation by THE CITY, based on a database of more than 1,200 lawsuits, shows that ICE agents in the field have seized Latinos in numbers that far exceed their share of the undocumented…
projects.thecity.nyc
a world-historic midterm walloping - with republicans losing in places they never dreamed were at risk - is a necessity at this point we need Rs to realize that if you're going to lose your job because of trump one way or the other, you might as well lose it for telling him to go to hell
Micah@rincewind.run · 3mo agothe party is staring down a truly apocalyptic midterm and trump's strategy is to make them vote on ever more absurd bullshit in order to prove their loyalty they are stuck between a rock and a hard place and it couldn't have happened to a bigger group of assholes
Michael Flynn, who has already received a payoff, twice pleaded guilty to felonies in open court, as part of the Russia scandal that was not at all "fake" or "phony." He’s a hopelessly ridiculous example of a “victim.” tinyurl.com/67yt87te In related news, Byron Donalds just isn’t good at this.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoByron Donalds defends Trump's J6 taxpayer-funded slush fund: "We can talk about what happened with Michael Flynn. He was persecuted by this government under the phony Russia collusion scandal which we all know now was fake and phony. What about him? What about the anguish on his family?"
The Capitol Crawl, the protest that marked the difference between public support for the ADA and apathy, was about visible discomfort. The discomfort of disabled people having to haul themselves out of wheelchairs and up burning hot steps for access, yes, but more specifically, viewers’.
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3mo ago"If you won't even sacrifice your comfort to your principles, you won't sacrifice greater things, that's for sure." www.the-reframe.com/are-you-brav...
Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.
The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
it's not like the political media can't make a big issue of this stuff when it wants to. see the coverage they gave to Rev. Wright while Obama was running for President despite Wright being less close to Obama than Loomer is to Trump and Wright's comments being much less offensive than Loomer's.
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt should be a huge scandal that a close confidante of, and adviser to, President Trump and Secretary Rubio reacted to a deadly terrorist attack at a mosque by calling the mosque "evil" and calling for the deportation of all Muslims from America. But it isn't. *sighs*
Bill Clinton used to have to walk across the street to use a private telephone to make fundraising calls so as not to violate the Hatch Act by using public resources for partisan purposes. Trump makes campaign commercials from behind the Resolute desk.
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · 3mo agoTrump released a last minute video against Thomas Massie. He really wants to defeat the guy who forced him to begin releasing the Epstein files.
I know it shouldn’t surprise me, but watching the other panelists just smugly waive away Trump’s brazen fraud after years of ranting about Hunter Biden is something to behold. Not an ounce of shame or principle in their entire being.
Jessica Tarlov@jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Trump administration says it is going to go after fraud. It should redirect its attention to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Everything is a scam to get richer. He’s made $3 billion since coming back into office!
Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.
The world is installing grid batteries at a blistering pace
A total of 112 gigawatts of batteries were deployed around the world in 2025 — 10 times the amount added just four years prior.
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