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 · 4d ago

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

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

The 2024 age grouped data is finally available for all the states so I can finally provide this graph that shows the comparison of single year age death rates for states grouped by which party they vote for. My main point is party differences are important.🧪☠️ #Sociology #population #politics

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

“i got dumped because i am a crank” is an extremely funny thing to announce to people

Post-Left Watch@postleftwatch.bsky.social · 5d ago

what

www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2026... Turns out home ownership is at 50% not 65%.

New homeownership measure puts people first | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

An alternative way of calculating the homeownership rate tells us how many individuals own their homes—something the most commonly used metric fails to track

minneapolisfed.org

Every couple years when I see something like this, I flip through a bible looking for "The Gospel of Bothering People" where Jesus instructs his followers to trap strangers in small spaces and harass the shit out of them but I've never been able to find it.

Kash Patel sued a blogger for defamation for calling him a "blatantly incompetent chud" and a "googly-eyed Kremlin bitch," but the case got bounced based on civil procedure doctrine that every law student learns during the first week of 1L year. Beautiful stuff from our brightest minds.

Kash Patel’s Ambitious Defamation Lawsuit Foiled By Basic Civil Procedure Doctrine

The litigious FBI director’s case against a blogger who called him a “blatantly incompetent chud” is no match for International Shoe.

ballsandstrikes.org

This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

www.thenation.com/article/arch...

The Enduring Cult of the Vietnam ‘Missing in Action’

How a propaganda goof by Richard Nixon’s administration midwifed an urban legend that scarred American foreign policy and domestic politics for a generation.

thenation.com

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 7d ago

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

Epstein raped children

So I think a thing often missed is that “everybody knows this already” can be dissuasive to victims coming forward. If everybody knows about it, why has nobody done anything about it? Will they do anything if you speak up or is this a man too powerful to touch?

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

New BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i'm sorry but they would have to send the air marshal after me if I was on one of these flights

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

if there’s any clear indication of elite impunity it’s the fact that the mainstream press has moved Ross Douthat toward increasingly visual formats

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.

Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.

Public trust in every US institution has declined. Tech, media, and govt all lower than higher ed, but considered a crisis—supposedly a self-caused one—only for academia. Looks like a pattern: Not about public trust, but about which institutions have been taken over by or appeased fascists the most.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last wk.

I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...

“Compared to what?”

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One major problem with granting the bad, false premise that every single major reason for "declining trust" in universities is internal to universities is that this totally ignores the common decline of trust in <all societal institutions> in over the last several decades: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Ordinarily, I think it's a good thing when an 86-year-old doesn't know what ChatGPT is, but I feel like extremely influential members of Congress should probably be aware of this stuff. www.mediaite.com/online/jim-c...

Jim Clyburn Says He Didn’t Know What ChatGPT Was ‘Until About a Week Ago’

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) admitted that he didn't know what ChatGPT was "until about a week ago" in a clip posted Friday of an upcoming episode of Vox's America, Actually podcast.

mediaite.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2w ago

No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Bravo! Such a huge win. And such a rarity to watch the DOJ actually back down rather than having an independent judiciary rule against them.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 2w ago

Statement from David McCraw, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at the New York Times:

regular reminder that whatever amount of SNAP fraud you could possibly find is dwarfed by the hundreds of billions in unpaid taxes the IRS can't collect because Republicans keep cutting their budgets in 2022 there was five hundred billion in unpaid taxes; by now who knows

The legacy this administration is creating heartbreaking.

Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive

After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs.

apnews.com

I can’t imagine a more personally humiliating thing than to be Chotiner’d by Douthat. Astonishing.

Dead Republicans do vote. bakersfieldnow.com/news/nation-...

Trump supporter who voted with dead father's ballot sentenced to jail, fighting back with civil suits

The man convicted of voting with his late father's ballot in the 2020 presidential election has been sentenced to jail but not before filing civil suits.

bakersfieldnow.com

Imagine if a woman president spent most her time raving and crying about an election she lost 6 years ago. Emotional. Unstable. Hysterical. Unfit to lead.

As I discovered when there was a "how many degrees of separation are you from Adolf Hitler" discussion a while back, Herbert Hoover is also virtually the only notable American who ever met him.

Denali@denali.bsky.social · 3w ago

Husband just came in to tell me that since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln every American president has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.

I’ve lived in Beijing too. They don’t have elections.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Newsmax talking head: "I've lived in Beijing. I can say the elections in Beijing are much better than California and the United States."

This has fuck all to do with Marco Rubio’s job description. He has no business being involved in this because that’s not the job of the state department or Marco because he has no experience in national security.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 3w ago

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday launched a U.S-led push to focus international counterterrorism efforts on what he called "far-left terror," telling officials from more than 60 countries that leftist violence had been overlooked.