JBP has a nice ring to it 😏
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JBP has a nice ring to it 😏
really remarkable how clear eyed Pritzker is about all this
If I discovered that my demeanor & ideology had alienated the people closest to me, I might try to do some work on myself, maybe get some therapy. Another way to go would be launching a national comms campaign meant to shame people who don't want to hang out with assholes.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
They are expert spelunkers by now 😼
every time they curse our names it makes us stronger
Somehow our diseased information environment has produced the net outcome that *the pandemic is considered a political problem for Dems*, not the party that lied about it & got people killed at every juncture. The party that tried, but not perfectly, to save lives, is being forced to apologize.
Thots and preserves
Every proof-of-life photo the White House releases is so lifeless. They should pose him like Guy Blank in Strangers with Candy
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A lot of the studies on media influence on political behavior focus on Fox's position in the channel line-up to generate an exogenous effect. This one looks at the effect of a city boycotting a particular newspaper because of its coverage of a sports tragedy. theconversation.com/did-the-sun-...
In America we've set up a cool system where, when you get *super* rich, you actually pay *lower* taxes.
Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
we can just keep saying he's dead and refusing to credit or acknowledge anyone who refers to him being alive, this will work, trust me and just follow my lead
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
They followed me and I immediately reported and blocked
Maybe Conservatives terrified of American cities should assimilate to the culture
Get in losers, we're doing soft secession
Looking absolutely haggard tho 😏 turkey neck nicely on display 🦃
Oh yeah, well if Trump is alive then why is his golf game such shit?
streets are saying that donald trump is a clone
i need everyone to focus because when it happens we need to immediately end the vance presidency in the crib by starting a rumor he and peter thiel did it
he'll always be dead in our hearts
long weekend at bernie's
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Science: Trump supporters are assholes.
you mean "we're all going to die" wasn't polling well?
A non-zero-sum worldview is, in my mind, the core of what it means to be "on the left." You believe that through cooperation & solidarity, we can *all* benefit. Indeed, if you look back through history, you find that non-zero-sum cooperation is the root of pretty much every human advance!
If you want to build a society around solidarity & non-zero-sum cooperation, you have to find a way to go around these folks, to deny them power, to develop social norms that marginalize them. You're not going to persuade or convert them.
The root of our problems in America come from spending decades responding to the dumbest shit possible with “let’s hear him out” instead of saying “shut the fuck up.”
This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.
We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.
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I love the old man on the Cracker Barrel logo. He's a WWII vet who listens to Beyoncé and hates Trump.
there is no version of bipartisanship I’m willing to extend to fascists you milquetoast freaks
His brain is mush
Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff
It's funny, "every RW accusation is a confession" is one of those things you hear when you first start following US politics & you kind of laugh, hear it as a joke, a bit of exaggerated rhetoric for effect ... & then slowly come to realize it is quite literally true, with virtually no exceptions.
This is politics as community building and social bonding. Participate, and engage with others. Dems should do more of this. The GOP has tapped into a much more destructive version of this via QAnon and the manosphere.
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
also imo: the question of whether people who are literally participating in right wing propaganda campaigns should be setting the agenda of combating the right is one of those that answers itself
Struggle bus
Game on.
Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like. To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
Trump taking a 10% stake in Intel for the government is yet another reminder that Dems, when in power, should stop being afraid of their own shadows and do whatever the f*ck they want and not worry about political norms or rules or conventions or media name calling.
the era of small government is over and we can either have armed thugs with badges disappearing people or universal health care and high speed rail
I thought scolding people about what language they use was part of the problem?
Is it bad that GDP growth is half what it was last year? Half? That seems bad.
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
Every business day, big capitalist institutions depend on having access to unbiased economic statistics. It's time for them to step up and help protect the B.L.S. and other statistical agencies from Trump's encroachments. My latest column: www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
Even if this were possible—which I firmly do not believe—it would be unequivocally bad. We need to stop funding evil stupid ideas with billions of dollars and our dwindling natural resources just because the richest guys in the room are also the most gullible. We need checks and balances on wealth
He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.
No one who has spread rhetoric that has incited attacks on dedicated scientists and healthcare workers should be allowed to hold government leadership positions or elected office. Period.
This is the most justice-serving thing anybody at the Department of Justice has done in a while.
Step up or step aside
I've seen people either saying, Oh corny. Or, oh he's just running for President. And my thought is, AWESOME. Let the 2028 Dem Prez primary be about who can fight against Trump and for our democracy and our rights the most effectively and aggressively and let it begin today.
the left did their part during Biden's presidency - they weren't the ones gumming up the works, everything that didn't pass was because of Manchin or Sinema now, in the face of open fascism, a little party solidarity is the absolute least they should expect
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥
It’s just like his approach to COVID — the problem is never that people are suffering, the problem is that the government is bothering to keep track of how many people are suffering.
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
I think one big issue is that rich people never experience any real problems so they start to invent new ones
What if everyone eager to throw money at a "liberal joe rogan" that doesn't exist instead bought one failing local newspaper and hired a handful of real reporters and simply told them to go do journalism and print it.
i'm just as frustrated as anyone at how the NYT does news, but maybe it's simply time to accept that their front page is no longer the yardstick for what's actually important and relevant.
Statement from @wgaeast.bsky.social @wgawest.bsky.social Fact: on July 15, Stephen Colbert called the 60 Minutes settlement a “big fat bribe” to bag the Paramount-Skydance merger. Fact: on July 17, Paramount canceled the Colbert Show. We call on NYS AG Letitia James to investigate.
HBO should fire Bill Maher and give his time slot to Stephen Colbert.
yeah okay let’s talk him into running for President
Hard to see this as not being connected!
I genuinely am not kidding about “maybe we should nominate Colbert”
Colbert should just run for President. I mean, it worked for Trump when his show was cancelled.
On the other hand are we about to get ten months of unhinged Stephen Colbert with nothing to lose?
Publish it again. Every journalist who has published Epstein stuff before should just publish it again.
One last thing on this for the moment: Scorched Earth Conan was incredible TV for a few weeks, and Scorched Earth Conan's enemy was fucking Jay Leno. Scorched Earth Colbert should be really good TV.
i have really come to believe that this — treating the public like its too stupid to understand anything complex — is one of our big problems.
If you refuse to endorse the overwhelmingly popular Democratic nominee for mayor of America's largest city, you should not be leading Democrats in the U.S. House
a few more days of answers like this and i'm going to have to conclude that it was trump and ghislaines procurement operation and Trump framed epstein for it
take this shit, stab it deep into the attachment between low info, low trust voters and donald trump, and twist
RTing these comments re Edu Dept. They know the legal technicalities better than I do. The essence of it is clear to anyone who understands the basic logic of the constitution. These decisions, which the 6 arent even willing to issue as decisions, go past corrupt into something more like criminal.
The United States summed up in two headlines.
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
Ban private jets how about that instead
The obligation to help mitigate the effects of climate change are on all of us but rest much more heavily on the wealthy and corporations that have been poisoning the planet for decades than it does on you not wanting to sit in a 90 degree apartment and don’t let anyone gaslight you otherwise
No
They got people killed. Stop tip toeing around it because people are still being recovered. The next storm could literally be tomorrow. They say on their hands and only did a Facebook post even after the river gauge showed a massive spike. The job of public officials is to serve the public. Period.
Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!
Kristi Noem must resign now.
Big Money turning to fascism not because they needed protection from socialism but because they were bored and poisoned their brains with social media is the story of this century I think
Jätte bra!
this shouldn't just prompt a resignation, it's almost like negligent homicide if any of those people died
lol @ Ken Paxton trending #3 on here, live your live in such a way that entire niche microblogging websites don’t rejoice when your spouse kicks you to the curb
LOL, @beyer.house.gov ftw
So the floor won and we should celebrate it?
Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas Fire her. Blood on her hands.
It’s rich seeing major outlets who originally declined to write about FEMA’s shitty response in Texas just now publishing stories and without crediting my original reporting.
Why does Bluesky have so much criticism of the New York Times? Perhaps people smart enough on info environment to leave Twitter are the same people smart enough on info environment to see NYT Politics for what it is.
I'll sign on to this and give it my own simpler version: the court is deeply and irredeemably corrupt and must be thoroughly reformed. Ideally this would be through expansion and a new system of ten year terms and cases heard by subset panels of justices.
probably a total coincidence that the CEO of X steps down the day after the platform's AI bot cosplayed as hitler