A really weird irony about the "authenticity" debate wrt rural volk vs cosmopolitan elites is that the actual culture of rural red state America in the 2020s is not actually authentic in any meaningful way?
Michael Gatton
@mgatton.bsky.social
Retired NYC teacher. NC Democrat. Anti-fascist. Angry old man.
When America is gone, remember NYT headlines like this and never again ask what role corporate media played in normalizing the most dangerous man on Earth
If we had journalism instead of access journalism, someone would have asked Jeffries: * Who called the meeting, you or Jared? * What was the topic of the meeting? * What was decided at that meeting? * Jared is not an official member of the government, so in what capacity did you meet with him?
NPR cheerfully announced an upcoming discussion of "what tech billionaires want for our democracy." So many layers of fucked-uppery about that sentence I don't know where to start.
I regret to inform you that Ezra Douthglesias is at it again
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 2d agoContemptible, indefensible both-sidesing by @ezraklein.bsky.social: “Twitter was, and X is, as happy to be a slingshot for the great replacement theory or anti-Semitism or Islamophobia as for calls to defund the police or abolish ICE.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/o... seriously wtf
Contemptible, indefensible both-sidesing by @ezraklein.bsky.social: “Twitter was, and X is, as happy to be a slingshot for the great replacement theory or anti-Semitism or Islamophobia as for calls to defund the police or abolish ICE.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/o... seriously wtf
Opinion | Twitter Broke the Left. X Will Break the Right.
Democrats paid a price for forming their politics on Twitter; the right will pay a price for forming theirs on X.
nytimes.com
To explain why Jeffries met with Jared Kushner, instead of Jeffries making plans to investigate and imprison Kushner in a truth and reconciliation process, please read this profile. Jeffries is a fundraiser not a fighter
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3mo agoAs the leader of the minority party in the House of Representatives, a fundamentally majoritarian institution, Hakeem Jeffries has little ability to get anything done. Can he help the Democrats get back into the majority? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/-zeVmE
Finding common ground with the Nazis is always a winning strategy.
Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d agoNew York--you can do better!
Dear remaining "liberal Zionists." Let's at least be honest. The problem is not Ben-Gvir, Smotrich or Netanyahu. The problem is "Israel." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Netanyahu rival Eisenkot vows no Palestinian state: 'Not now, not in next gov't'
After Mansour Abbas called for an end to the occupation and a Palestinian state, Likud and its allies attacked Eisenkot, accusing him of backing statehood and a coalition with Arab parties
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When you do stenography for liars, you’re the liar. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...
Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Rejected
In an interview, Jamieson Greer, President’s Trump’s trade representative, laid out details of what the United States offered to Canada before talks crumbled.
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In addition to the morally reprehensible aspect of private corporations getting filthy, morbidly rich while we rank near the bottom in health outcomes.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2d agothe other thing is that most of the DSA program would be net money positive up to like the top decile. my federal taxes would probably go up 50% under Medicare for all but zeroing out healthcare costs would more than compensate
the other thing is that most of the DSA program would be net money positive up to like the top decile. my federal taxes would probably go up 50% under Medicare for all but zeroing out healthcare costs would more than compensate
the abbot of unreason (a returned archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 2d agothe average well-off DSA organizer is basically organizing to pay higher taxes the rest of their life and in a society where that level of selflessness is pretty rare I don't think anyone should be giving them shit for it
In a few years when the US is alone in a China-dominated world, Americans who don't follow the news will wonder how we lost our allies. The answer will be that Republican politicians didn't think strategically at all. They just wanted to get re-elected, so they slavishly obeyed a deranged criminal.
Not what people want to hear but it's long past time to stop eating beef.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d agoThe peasants aren't allowed to know where their foreign beef comes from.
The peasants aren't allowed to know where their foreign beef comes from.
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
Ansley Erickson@ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 3d agoBreaking my heart this morning: “Fitting ankle monitors on noncitizens without a criminal history who remain in compliance with their immigration cases has little precedent.” True in the narrowest sense. False given how the history of slavery and peonage roars through each part of this story.
Henry Ford was a terrible, terrible person. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8mo agoHenry Ford bought the Dearborn Independent in 1918 to disseminate his pathological antisemitism. Dealerships often placed the most recent copy of this periodical on the passenger seats of newly purchased cars. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 3d agoThe vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
The Stars & Stripes was operated as an independent newspaper from 1861 until it encountered Pete Hegseth...
Correct. The White House was deliberately designed to NOT be a palace. Early Americans defined their country AGAINST European monarchies.
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 3d agoThe vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
john roberts, basically: "trump can lawlessly destroy the white house and build a new installation with unauthorized taxpayer dollars, as a treat"
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d agoChief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay In the ballroom case—which effectively allows Trump to keep doing what he’s doing while the full Court decides whether to let him keep working indefinitely while the case moves forward (which it probably will, given this intervention).
The Roberts Court has revealed that the Supreme Court is an essentially useless institution which only meaningfully acts in defense of the interests of capital.
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 3d agoChief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay In the ballroom case—which effectively allows Trump to keep doing what he’s doing while the full Court decides whether to let him keep working indefinitely while the case moves forward (which it probably will, given this intervention).
