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Philip Bump@pbump.com · 4d ago

Look, a lot of people are clowning on Adam O'Neal for taking a job for which he wasn't qualified in service of helping a billionaire curry favor with an autocrat, using his position to build an unpopular and facile video series and then bailing on the role in barely over a year.

Slknla@slknla.bsky.social · 4d ago

Editor of Washington Post Opinion Section Resigns After 1 Year www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b... No legit editor should take this job. A propaganda post of oligarch who directs attention away from decency democracy and fairness toward personal selfishness and no accountability of the powerful

Adam O’Neal Resigns as Washington Post Opinion Editor

Adam O’Neal inherited a mandate from the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, to shift toward “personal liberties and free markets.”

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Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Federal law enforcement is protecting one party and prosecuting its opposition…They are confident they can avoid consequences. If they can break the law with impunity, elections are the only consequence they face, [so] they have every incentive to steal them.” open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

A Ruling Party That Faces No Consequences for Open Corruption Has No Reason to Accept Elections

We won't survive if we try to play by their rules.

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Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3w ago

"President Donald Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have amassed a portfolio of defense technology start-ups that are benefiting from new Pentagon priorities and spending" giving the family a direct interest in US security policy new reporting from @washingtonpost.com wapo.st/3R5InT7

Trump’s sons invest heavily in defense tech as father’s administration pours money in

Most investments by funds linked to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have taken place since their father’s reelection.

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Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · last mo.

If you undermine independent judges, media and civil service, shroud decisions in secrecy and let it be known that government is for sale.... Then corruption is what results. America and Zimbabwe in this sense are no different.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · last mo.

No previous president has ever manipulated American foreign and domestic policy in order to make himself a billionaire. Unprecedented www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York, it is the president of the United States who is trying to destroy American democracy."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

LMAO -- Fox News is again broadcasting from Trump's state fair and again there is *nobody* there. I've seen fairs in rural parking lots with more attendees than this.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · last mo.

IMHO, the Supreme Court is a *bigger* problem than Trump, and it should be the primary target for reform. Trump and Congress would both be very different under a law-abiding SCOTUS, which would have stopped government action clearly animated by racism and racially gerrymandered districts.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map. Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · last mo.

New from me: Bari Weiss's Free Press has been amplifying the lie that "Biden's open borders policy" pushed thousands of kids into sex slavery -- and that Trump is now rushing to rescue them. What Trump is actually doing: separating kids from their families, jailing them, and deporting them.

How The Free Press spun Trump's cruelty toward migrants as a heroic campaign to "save" kids

As Bari Weiss guts CBS News -- and sets her sights on CNN -- the publication she founded continues to sanitize this administration's worst abuses

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