Noel
@nsper.bsky.social
Dilettante historian, professional know-it-all.
mass layoffs at Pixar despite Toy Story 5 about to cross $1 billion at the box office. there is simply no amount of money that will make corporations happy enough to not upend people’s lives.
Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Studio Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers
Pixar Animation Studios, despite riding high on the success of summer blockbuster "Toy Story 5," was hit particularly hard in a wave of corporatewide layoffs at Disney.
variety.com
What 'moderation' really means is adopting the views of a very small group of loud, centrist writers and their big business backers, and is increasingly out of step with (a) the big problems in the US and (b) the polling on what Americans say are the biggest problems they want government to fix.
Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 2w agolike 1/3 of the country can't breathe and we've had a parasite outbreak, we're in a perma-war with Iran, but resenting what other people get and policing kids sports teams seems like a top strategy to deal with that
He's not going to accept the legitimacy of the midterms or recognize a House and maybe Senate with Democratic majorities. What if any concrete action comes of that, who knows. But that's what he's going to do and he's telegraphing it in advance to prepare support when he does it.
"Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend its tired text and interpret the super-secret invisible version that tells you exactly what you want to hear."
The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning
“Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend ...
buff.ly
I wish I had any confidence dems will have the backbone to reform the court once they take back power. But Dem establishment seems to think democracy is about etiquette rather than substance
I don't know the deal with the AC discourse but I'm confident 99% of people DGAF
It should also be noted that the right never chases its tail this way. There are hundreds of Republican reps who have said abhorrent things, but the GOP just moves on. For some reason, Dems see it as their solemn duty to denounce any statement any Dem has ever made that is deemed problematic.
W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · last mo.Jon Favreau is upset that Darializa Chevalier knew what Israel was going to do to Gaza too soon. That is unacceptable. You have to wait until tens of thousands of children are dead and pretend Biden's doing the best job he can for a year before you finally turn against it.
The issue is that nonpartisan, independent, and fact-based (good goals for journalism) have been replaced by centrist and equally critical of both parties, neither of which are journalistic principles. So confronted with a radical wing of the GOP, legacy media invents equally radical Dems.
🎉 Gidgetwidget @gidgetwidget.bsky.social · last mo.I am so grateful to learn I am not alone in the excruciating pain of legacy "news" not doing news & "journalists" not doing journalism. This exchange was so painful to watch. & of course, fire all the news hounds & replace them with reality tv showrunners & performers, voila. 🤬🤮🔥
Race can be the main ingredient in acts that promote white supremacy, but can’t be a single ingredient in acts to dismantle it.
it’s refreshing to hear honest descriptions of these reprobates from the Democratic elected officials who serve with them
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Ossoff: "Mike Collins is a bigot and antisemite under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars, widely known as a man of poor character who lacks the judgment and integrity to serve in the Senate."
They've established a higher standard for proving discrimination than proving murder. Not only do you have to prove discrimination, but you must prove that no other motive, plausible or not, could have existed in conjunction with discriminatory intent.
as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service
NYTimes telling on itself by framing white as a default position and thus not a racial category
Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2mo agoThat Trump is “opposed to racial preferences,” is news to me, and hard to square with, well, basically everything. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
Here @paulwaldman.bsky.social suggests the novel strategy of trying to tarnish the brand of the Republican Party. Why this isn't the foundational goal of all Democratic Party communications has been an infuriating mystery to me for 20+ years now.
"They Think You're Stupid"
Democrats need to worry less about how voters feel about Democrats and more about how voters feel about Republicans.
paulwaldman.substack.com
The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.
a VRA map that recognizes discrete and compact communities and creates districts accordingly? illegal race discrimination. packing every black person they can find i to a single district crossing the whole state? colorblindness and equal protection thank you sam alito
Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 2mo agoLouisiana House Republicans have passed a new 5-1 congressional gerrymander targeting 1 of 2 Black Dems. It packs Black voters from New Orleans to Baton Rouge in a snake-like 2nd District to make the other 5 heavily white/GOP. GOP senators already passed a similar map www.nola.com/news/politic...
Beltway political coverage has become indistinguishable from celebrity gossip mags
Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 3mo agoTee-hee!
If Dems take back the house the first order of business for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should be to expand the number of representatives to counter the gerrymander schemes.
In 2018 Dems took 41 seats. Assuming the worst outcome for gerrymandering, reduce that by 20 seats and throw in another 10 for Dem underperformance...Dems still get a majority. The redistricting fight is important, but only get R's so far
What if...and just hear me out...the defense of human dignity isn't a canny political strategy but an expression of values
'Never Throw Anyone Under the Bus': Beshear's LGBTQ Bet For 2028
The popular Democratic governor leaned into LGBTQ protections in an interview with TIME—even as some 2028 hopefuls edge away from the issue
time.com
Assuming this is true, given these three posts — DHS DOJ and DNI — have been his main conduits for election interference, seems like an effort to sweep the decks to bring in people who will more forcefully undermine the midterms
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 4mo agoSadly the victory lap from Laura Loomer--who coined the term Blondi--is more focused on Tulsi than Bondi. But I wouldn't be sad to see Tulsi go by end of week.
🆘 Euth List! Maxy Waxy! Hasn’t this poor baby suffered enough, now this damn shelter wants 2 murder him & carry him out in a garbage bag! Fuck No! If anyone needs a hero it’s sweet Maxy Waxy! He needs a Foster quicker than a New York minute! Free2foster- Rescue pays expenses! Have a ❤️ Pls Repost!
Netanyahu sucks, AIPAC sucks, but "we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby" is just code for "blame Jews." Trump wasn't forced to do this. Trump's supporters—like Kent—weren't forced to elect him and embolden him. They're not absolved of any responsibility.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigns over Iran war. x.com/joekent16jan...
