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Completely agree. There should be a digital newsstand that allows people to buy single issues (or even stories) and bills for all at the end of the month. In the absence of that Apple News is the best solution Iâve found (flat monthly fee for access to many outlets).
One problem with being on Twitter is that Elon Musk constantly rejigs the site to push his views. He cannot be sidelined when he owns the underlying system. His manipulation of the Twitter AI to match his views illustrates this point. Via @kateconger.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
A judge has ruled the Trump administrationâs use of National Guard troops during Southern California immigration enforcement protests is illegal. https://to.pbs.org/465T0J6
The founders gave the press special protection under the constitution specifically so the press would keep the public informed. Substituting bothsidesism for telling the truth is not keeping the public informed. The press has failed us.
It does not seem good that a sizable portion of the political and media elite would rather cook their brains on a white nationalist website than have to engage with criticism from the left.
I need to remake this meme, but...
Wow, @governor.ca.gov pretty much sums it up, all in DJT style. đ
fucking wild that the fundamental moral test of our time is something as simple as "can you denounce fascism" and so many people are failing it
Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, whatâs the timeline for the book on how the President went missing like a week after he had weird bruising on his hands?
Itâs not the immigrants. Itâs the billionaires ruining our country. Stop buying into the divisionary tactics of the oligarchy. Itâs time to take back our country and power of the people #LaborDay
Dot com bomb redux
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
My statement on @nadler.house.govâs decision not to seek re-election next year.
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
It's who they are. It's all they are.
Trumpâs mysterious disappearance from public raises new questions about Joe Bidenâs advanced age
In 1885, royal Hawaiian brothers were studying at a military school in California. There, they introduced a sport known as "surfboard swimming." The Princes of Surf exhibit tells what happened next.
âGet it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.â Dwight D. Eisenhower
They said âtaco trucks on every cornerâ like it was a threat.
Thought exercise: If you were writing about a foreign country, would you be writing about that countryâs opposition party the same way? Hungaryâs Tisza Party? Turkeyâs CHP? 2/3
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
Whistleblowers only dogs can hear in this media landscape.
I have a language suggestion, which everyone can do, but is primarily for media members who value truth and Democratic politicians: Instead of asking and adjudicating if an obvious lie is false, make the fact that it's false your premise. "Why are you lying?" instead of "some say that's not true."
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But hereâs thing⊠Schumer and Jeffries literally have no power. The American people handed control of all 3 branches of the federal government to Trumpâs GOP. Too many people refuse to face this reality. 1/3
Does pushing India closer to China and Russia make America great again? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Labor history for Labor Day.
If you enjoy⊠Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays ⊠then youâre part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
Working people have fought for and died for the workplace rights we enjoy today. How will you be honoring them on Workersâ Labor Day? Join Americaâs unions today at an event near you: WorkersLaborDay.org
Pretty sure thatâs the plan.
Honest to god you would be shocked at the number of people who didnât know that raising tariffs is like the most inflationary thing any government can do. And they didnât know that because the press completely abrogated its duty to the American people.
I think that youâre a smart guy and you would not. You would understand that those are minority parties that are out of power and have no control over what the government does. You know that winning elections is the only way to change that. 3/3
Thought exercise: If you were writing about a foreign country, would you be writing about that countryâs opposition party the same way? Hungaryâs Tisza Party? Turkeyâs CHP? 2/3
But hereâs thing⊠Schumer and Jeffries literally have no power. The American people handed control of all 3 branches of the federal government to Trumpâs GOP. Too many people refuse to face this reality. 1/3
This is 100% the fault of the press, an institution whose duty to keep the public educated is so overwhelming that the founders gave it special protection in our constitution. The press has utterly failed the people.
This is a bad take but a great example of what ails journalism.
Why donât you ask Palestinians what they think? Or do their opinions not matter to you?
At some point you have to just admit that the reason this endless farrago of hatred and filth from the intelligentsia of the modern Right doesn't inspire rejection from the media, commentariat, or political elite writ large is that they don't consider it particularly bad.
Whatâs wild to me: NOW, media outlets & medical organizations are âstunnedâ by the damage RFK Jr. is doing to CDC, other health agencies, & public health. Me & my colleagues have been screaming about him for years. Years. Even more so in the last year. We were called hyperbolic. 1/
In this Ohio diner, cancer research is what astrologers do for people born in late June and July. But they do know this: President Trump's landslide 49% of the vote gives him a clear mandate to defund America's scientists.
Absolutely untrue. Talk about âdisinformationâ
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Okay. I just came back to this and you arenât calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
You could try the fire hose dog toys. I ended up just saving the guts of destroyed toys (stuffing & squeakers) and putting them in stranded or old socks.
If voters had simply done the cringeworthy thing and voted blue no matter who, for the last decade weâd have a different president, different scotus, different congress. A better country in every way.
The media should have been called out a long time ago for the tilted playing field that they've created and the damage that it's caused. Keep going. Hold his feet to fire.
.@velshi.com âHead in the sandâ? Please. Part of the problem is limp news coverage that turns every Dem wobble into a five-alarm fire while treating GOP extremism as background noise. Thatâs what depresses our base.
They are all perverts who want to legalize looking in girls' pants.
Do you know where this was published?
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September 1st, we are joining with May Day Strong to stand in support of laborers across the U.S. The U.S. recently produced weak jobs growth, amongst increased lay-offs. Our country is suffering and we increasingly canât afford the cost of living. Weâre underpaid and overworked.
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
This is the type of person Trump pardoned. He proudly asserts that they should have injured a US Capitol Police Officer worse than they did on January 6th (@sergeantaqgo.bsky.social) had to medically retire). But MAGA supports law enforcement? Seriously? Then show me by condemning this guy.
When QAnon emerged publicly in August 2018, the media was totally blindsided. Most had either no knowledge, or had actively ignored it. There's no excuse now. The president is sharing insane prophecy cult memes, and it needs to be covered. It's not normal.
www.mobilize.us/mayday/
Not a very long path from "Why wouldn't you want the regime to deploy federal troops in your city when it reduces carjackings?" to "Why would you be opposed to the erection of internment camps for deviants when it reduces crime?" And a good chunk of mainstream media will just follow along.
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus âBiasâ Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer andâŠ
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
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdownâso @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
Why TF is @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy carrying water for Trump? Crime is down in DC because the streets are empty, you moron.
Still staggered that Byline has no less than six contributors named on the Kremlinâs latest stop list - way more than any other UK media organisation. But beginning to wonder if this is as much to do with our investigation of the Levedevs (who still control a raft of UK media)
OTD in 1939 Nazi Germany staged the Gleiwitz incident. After accusing Poland of ethnic cleansing against his countrymen, Hitler staged a false flag to justify invasion & genocide. Imagine such bullshit being tolerated today....
Just a reminder that when it was convenient to pile on former Pres Bidenâs health, a few of us didnât choose the easy path and we calmly stated what we saw, while others scored political points. With the current President clearly aging, remember to trust those who call it as they see it.
Larry David should do one single reunion episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm called âThe Death of Cherylâ about the character dying of measIes.ïżŒ
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Oh my god!!
HAAALLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPING!!!! I am halp.
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
Nope. Jake Tapper. Hands down.
What could go wrong?
Someone pointed out that he could have been alive today (age 84), and it really put in perspective how recent 'history' can be.
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
I hate propane exchanges. Costco has tanks with built-in float gauges. If you keep your own tank you don't have to risk getting a bad tank.
Iâm serious. This REALLY infuriates me. @nbcnews.com @cbsnews.com @cnn.com Do your job. You failed to lift this up in 2024. If farmers are hurting, explain why and who is to blame. And remind Americans that we paid BILLIONS for Trumpâs first tariff blunder. Itâs so irresponsible to ignore this.
Boycott any hotel chain that houses these people.
Perhaps you--a savvy political writer working for a major media platform--could explain to your readers how completely batshit insane this is. 3/3
But here's the thing, those people in Group 1 helped hand control of all 3 branches of the federal government to Trump's GOP. They literally put Dems out of power, and now they're mad that the Dems can't do much of anything because they literally have no power in federal government. 2/3
I think that a Venn diagram of 1) Leftish voters who discouraged people from voting for Harris and other Dems in 2024 and 2) People who are mad at the Democratic Party for not doing enough today has a LOT of overlap. 1/3
Bingo. Putin tried to take Kyiv on Day One and was mighty shocked when his plan failed. Anyone who doesn't understand the Putin's plan is to turn Ukraine into a vassal state and rebuild the Russian empire is not a serious person.
Ryan Nichols is a traitor.
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
I'm expected to put myself between my students and a gunman, but this douchecanoe won't face his constituents in a town hall. Coward.
Trump's GOP: States' rights is for Blue States, not Red States.
I'm a subscriber to @wired.com and I can't believe they let themselves get sucked into her madness.
nothing like a saturday of labor day weekend newsdump, but no time like the present: I wrote a book, and itâs available for pre-purchase! linktr.ee/artbutmakeit...
For ... reasons... I spend a fair amount of time in red California (State of Jefferson). Republicans represent a minority of the state as a whole, but if you get up to a place like Shasta Country it's solid red. It's every bit as bad as Alabama.
Trump can diss California all he wants, but here we have alert systems notifying everyone when an elderly, sickly, confused adult goes missing.
Fuck you, Lisa
Like they dress in the Philippines or Indonesia
It's almost like the federal government has been hijacked by people who are doing the bidding of a malevolent foreign power that's found a way to wage war against the American people without tanks or missiles.
A Call to Spy www.imdb.com/title/tt7698...
Block that guy
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The highest level of support that I've ever seen for single-payer is 43%. If you know of a higher number, show it.
Presumably because you're not a woman, you don't know how the ACA has improved access to healthcare (including free birth control) for women. www.protectourcare.org/the-affordab...