the one truth in america that you actually arent allowed to say is that republicans and anyone supporting trump are dumb as dog shit. like actually very stupid people who should not be in charge of anything

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Holy shit — the purpose of this Trump event is to announce that he’s changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” It will be interesting to see which if any institutions and companies go along with this

first of all, it's not "shrekking," it's "roger rabbiting," and second of all, jessica rabbit legitimately saw roger rabbit as hot and if you don't understand that, you shouldn't be writing about any of this

the news media understood perfectly that stuff like this was what was actually at stake in the 2024 election and told voters instead that the larger issue was that it was a scandal that Tim Walz retired after 21 years in the national guard

Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)@kleinman.bsky.social · 5d ago

We were on the verge of breaking up Ticketmaster, every music fan's dream for the last 4 decades, until Trump intervened www.wsj.com/business/med...

remember when there was that train accident in east palestine ohio and the right wing talked endlessly about how biden & co didn't care about the middle of the country? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/u...

Desperation Mounts as Thousands in Indiana Endure 10 Days Without Power

Floods from powerful thunderstorms devastated Gary, where a third of residents live below the poverty line and full restoration isn’t expected until next week.

nytimes.com

How @nytimes.com covers progressives today vs the tea party in 2010

I wish everyone in America would read this. Unfortunately, those who I believe most need to read it will not. (Gift article)

The Wrong Kind of American

The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.

theatlantic.com

It's remarkable that you have not just incredibly stupid people like this. But whole movements based on this stupidity. Having your currency as a global reserve currency means that the whole global economy is structured to your advantage and most hard constraints that everyone faces you don't.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2w ago

JD Vance wants to end the US dollar's position as a global reserve currency. (Loud cheers in Beijing and Moscow)

January 6 was only 5 and a half years ago, and we’ve already cycled through investigation, indictment, conviction, pardon, and now gleeful promises to do it again only with actual hanging rather than just chants about it. Nice job GOP.

hey whats up im a cis white guy who memoryholed gamergate and im here to tell you how to remember "woke 1" because i actually believe that you will change what you remember experiencing if i inject enough authority into my tone. i have important things to say and i don't respect my audience at all

they like the republican and want to help him win, so they cover his most reasonable opinions and ignore his most objectionable. they do the opposite for the democrat in the race, amplifying years old social media posts as the #1 issue in the race and ignoring her popular views.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interested to see how much news coverage of the WI Governor raise follows Fox, framing Hong as a radical, regardless of the fact that her opponent is an election denier. Has our media basically bought the claim that wanting everyone to have health insurance is radical but opposing democracy is not?

i just don’t understand why these men go out of their ways to confirm all of the boorish and stupid impressions people have of them. you sound like a tedious, irritating, sexist asshole when you say shit like this, and the conclusion i come to is that you are, and you don’t care who knows it.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m starting to realize that all of the annoying pundits just suffer from oppositional defiant disorder increasing your kids’ risk of melanoma to own the libs

“I lived through peak woke” I write about the left, referring to an ongoing period of rising global right wing authoritarianism. Insights like these earn me millions annually. 

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ross Douthat lives in...Connecticut. To be fair, I haven't been there recently, but did I miss its "civic and educational collapse?"

I just think if people say democrats ought to moderate their politics you should ask them if they think abortion should be legal before you consider whether to take them seriously

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

seeing a journalist downplay the very real and harmful effects of covid on here is breaking my brain for a few different reasons but my solution for that is giving a big Fuck You to anyone who claims we did too much and were too cautious

A reminder of what Abraham Lincoln thought of the Know Nothings, the party that championed "heritage Americans" and attacked immigrants in his day. quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4w ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

occasionally reminded that they charged the DJs on Radio Rwanda with crimes against humanity

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

"First the traitors then the invaders" is Elon Musk endorsing an open call to prioritise political murders + assassinations before violence against migrants and minorities. Still little recognition in the UK government at the persistence of the promotion of political violence - inc murder - by Musk

I don't know why these two particular episodes (out of so many) stick out in my memory, but: the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan & Claudine Gay "plagiarism" "scandal." *No* Trump scandal has received the quantity or intensity of mainstream press fury that those two attracted.

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

"This doesn't help your cause" by Person Who Fucking Hates Your Cause And You And Jimothy Too

Do you want to know how popular school vouchers are? They have never won on a ballot. Not once. In any state. Ever. The only way states are able pass a school voucher scheme is behind closed doors. Legislatively. The people would never approve their tax dollars going to private religious schools.

“Have you heard about the President’s unique style of strategic ambiguity?” is simply not how we were presented Joe Biden’s withdrawal from 🇦🇫, after everyone spent years saying they wanted an end to the Forever War.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Again, this "The President has a unique style of strategic ambiguity" is simply not the way Joe Biden & his inability to provide a 100% surgically clean implementation of Donald Trump's totally unplanned timetable for an 🇦🇫 withdrawal were covered in 2021. Just an incredible double standard.

matthew always brings the receipts

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · last mo.

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Forbes@forbes.com · last mo.

Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.

I hate to be that guy, but please go to Taco Bell's contact page and tell them that you appreciate that they took cyclosporiasis seriously and intend to eat there more often as a result. Corporate needs to hear positive feedback or they won't do it next time. tacobell.com/contact-us/

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · last mo.

This lettuce is literally everywhere and usually it’s in contexts where no one knows/discloses it. Taco Bell is one of the only places doing the right, proactive thing here and misleading headlines are flipping things around making seem like they’re a site of danger instead.

Turnabout would entitle Democrats to blame Trump for the explosive diarrhea epidemic, even if he was in no way to blame. That's how Republicans have been doing politics my entire life. www.offmessage.net/p/diarrhea-d...