All I ask is for political journalists to get merely as angry about this as they did when Obama tried to move Fox News's seat to the second row in the WH briefing room.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2w ago

shit like this is why i say the press are a bunch of chickenshits. "oh they yelled at us so we just dumped it on youtube" you fucking cowards, air it anyways and dare them to sue you then put the threats in the court record. air a title card saying "THE US GOVERNMENT ORDERED THIS NOT AIR", come on

if matt yglesias did not exist we would be forced to invent him

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

Reading more about Flock I both completely see the arguments against them but am separately worried that the anti-Flock sentiment is being used by a lot of people as a general case against red light and speed cameras, both of which we need way more of imo

the thing is that appointing every american citizen to the supreme court and making every block of Washington DC its own state with two Senators -- both of those are constiuttional. judicial term limits are unambiguously unconstitutional. anyone telling you they will do that think you are an idiot

William Easley@williameasley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Her line seems to be to focus on term limits but I could be convinced that she wants them applied retroactively

really into this guy who krumps to various songs while singing said songs a cappella

For no reason at all, I’d like to report that I’m at the part of Annie Jacobsen’s “Operation Paperclip” where she recounts that the bodies of the Nazis hanged in Nuremberg were incinerated in the ovens of Dachau and their ashes dumped into a river.

Ally Sammarco@allysammarco.bsky.social · 4w ago

Using a children’s book to make fun of children being detained, neglected and isolated from their parents is next level fucked up

Someone should put up a billboard that updates how much money the Trump family has stolen from the government. Like the National Debt Clock, but focused squarely on the grifter in chief.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · last mo.

THE $1.1M-AN-HOUR TRUMP LOOTING SPREE Pocketing billions as families lose food stamps, rural hospitals close, and the IRS lets him off tax-free. Get news the algorithim doesn't want you to see at newsfor38yearolds.com

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

“Look, they may call us enemies of the country to a violent base. They may celebrate when we’re fired or have our shows canceled or die. And, yes, they did just make us decoys for an assassination attempt. But have you considered they respond to emails in a timely fashion?” Dear God, grow a spine.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · last mo.

One you might find surprising. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt & members of her team have been extremely helpful in responding to questions I raise. Regardless of public facing commentary, privately they are willing to engage and address questions. And I have appreciated that. Thank you

In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/

don't mind me, just coming up with new terms for immigrants & naturalized citizens: Self-Made Americans. Volunteer Americans. Americans of the Oath. Aspiring Americans. American Dreamers. The American Promise. The Hope of America. Ad America Per Aspera. Sworn Americans—

i remember the moment when i realized how sick i was of dogpiles. mobbing. of everyone saying the thing because everyone's saying the thing. i just didn't want to be part of that anymore. being committed to the truth means, occasionally, rowing against the stream.

The perception of consensus among your peers, especially the ones you envy or respect, exerts far more influence over your understanding of the world than any distant leader

Lenoxus@lenoxus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yes, algorithms are unrionically more powerful than any president, and their historical equivalents (cultural narratives) have always been more powerful than leaders have been. That's just straightforwardly the case

i think it's natural to immediately draw connections with, like, ICE, but this is also how eg the federalist society operates

The Upshot@upshot.nytimes.com · 2mo ago

How Regimes Rely on ‘Loyal Losers’ New research sheds light on how low academic performers with poor career options tend to be assigned the most brutal tasks, including torture and murder. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

we’re so desperate for good news we've accepted the scaffolding as our wire mother

Never gets old. J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around?

As a student I borrowed a copy of Descartes’ Meditations. The only passage that had been underlined was at the end of the First Meditation: “But this undertaking is arduous, and a certain indolence insensibly leads me back to my ordinary course of life”

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

an entire edifice of belief about medical opiates being non-addictive was built off a citation chain that led back to a four sentence letter to the editor about anecdotal observance. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics | NEJM

To the Editor: Recently, we examined our current files to determine the incidence of narcotic addiction in 39,946 hospitalized medical patients1 who were monitored consecutively. Although there we...

nejm.org

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This remains a very funny hill to die on for me Like yes, you should confirm your citation says the thing you’re citing it for! It’s bad if your whole field is fucking up a common citation! I get yelled at by a judge and potentially sanctioned if I do this

In the US you should be able to lay down and sleep wherever you want—completely undisturbed!—as long as you place a big cowboy hat over your eyes in a way that suggests "not now pardner"

“The U.S. and Israel bombed Ahmadinejad to free Ahmadinejad but the plan failed after Ahmadinejad did not enjoy being bombed as much as he thought he would. Meanwhile, the Kentucky 6th district has deposed its representative due to his opposition to pedophilia.” Sure. Fine. Whatever. I give up.

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

I am training to become a lesbian the difficulty level is pretty high I am 99% gay and 1% synesthesia

I’m really bored of this in-group signalling where you have to add a caveat about how we all agree Goody Proctor is an evil whore before we can suggest that burning her at the stake might not be a good idea

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I don't think Will Stancil should be harassed or anything, but of all the people who have experienced real life consequences from online harassment he's got to be the least sympathetic. His entire online engagement strategy has been making people angry for years now.

I don’t think people should verbally abuse Will Stancil online

being a high profile woman on x dot com must be like living in Gotham from Batman: The Animated Series. Every day some weird little guy appears in your mentions with his own villain monologue

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 5mo ago

very normal reply

That just calmly reciting an objective fact is considered a Breach Of Etiquette tells you what sort of a information environment the Beltway Pundits have created.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Don’t try to shoot anyone over it, which won’t help anything, but it remains absolutely true that Trump is an existential threat to America who should be removed from office as quickly as possible. He’s a sociopathic megalomaniac whose corruption and unfitness is unparalleled in history. Impeach

This is honestly one of the better court reform proposals, and certainly a bold one. It doesn’t just solve the problem of *this* Supreme Court, it solves the problem of bare Court majorities imposing their will on law and policy, permanently.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 5mo ago

In light of the latest revelations of purely partisan motivations, and given their many abuses of their office, @dogsinautumn.bsky.social today argues that it is time to break up the Supreme Court and fix the federal judiciary www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...