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you absolutely don’t gotta hand it to her but it’d be a mistake to pretend weiss’ project hasn’t been wildly successful. it has. any effort to build better us media must solve for the fact that spoon-feeding right-wing bile to reactionary billionaires is currently the only scaleable business model
If your thing is “free speech” but you only worry about right-wing extremist access to universities while cheering Republicans as they ban research & discussion about anything they deem “woke” (1) your thing is not “free speech” it’s right-wing extemism (2) congrats on your new job running CBS News.
people like bari weiss make me wish cancel culture were real
Too bad the US doesn't have a single remaining news organization that will hold truth to power... But at least we can soon count on CBS News to do a deep investigation on any student who ever questions an Israeli action.
Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
The Killers of Kill Tony are like the free speech A Team, if someone has a problem and they need a group of unfunny guys to come and call things gay, they will be there
Yeah it’s sort of funny but I’m a 100% unironic believer in that “good times create weak men” shit now, it’s totally accurate, it’s just that the kind of guys who posted it the last few years were the weak men in question.
She gives them cover to be shitty people.
Um, everybody with any decision-making authority at CBS it seems...
His flights over will be free.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the master race...
Just spitballing here, but if a government doesn’t have the evidence to arrest or convict someone they shouldn’t have the ability to murder them either
Didn't we already basically do that with SV Bank?
Currently hoping to avoid catching Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease from an infant stuck at home. Do not enjoy...
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
Maybe this 37-year old, artistic Wiener (citizen of Vienna) just can't stand Jude Law's portrayal of The Young Pope?!?
hey man its me, Elon Musk I’m the ceo of four companies, which proves that I’m a super genius (it does not prove that ceo is a fake job). Anyway, thank you for buying my cars that explode
I really want to see the JAG memo which purported to justify the idea the military can randomly drone strike a boat in international waters because we suspect it might be doing something illegal under civilian law. Preferably because it's being used as an exhibit at trial.
Vivian transitioning has gotten Elon out of her life, so does that count as a transition to get ahead?
Impossible. AI technology is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. There's no way it would just make something up...
I’ll never understand how “you get the post-1945 international political economy of the entire world rigged in your favor and I get to wear a dress sometimes without being murdered” was seen as an arrangement unfairly rigged in my favor by like half of American elites.
Some people just really wanted to say the R-word like they did growing up... And they'll happily sacrifice the lives of countless minorities to regain that right.
Weird, because as the same demographic I have just the same amount of freedom as last year. Maybe less with the government taking a pretty hard stand against speech that it dislikes...
Look at them actually marching in step...
And if they're ever faced with a choice between Trump and another Democratic candidate, they'll likely come home to their big orange papa due to their continuing gullibility as well as underlying bigotry (and misogyny if said candidate is a woman).
Laura Loomer has more power over your government than US Senators.
"the typical black American has much deeper American roots than the typical white American. Trump himself, whose grandparents were all foreign-born, is an excellent example of relatively shallow white American roots." www.niskanencenter.org/logic-populi...
Donald Trump has recognized the basic truth that a critical mass of Americans will cheer the more brutal you are to people they see as criminals.
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
Yeah, this has long been on their wish list. It's not about the rule of law. It's about being the law and ruling.
Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.
Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
I know it’s all bad faith bs BUT I keep thinking about how the whole “reason” we apparently can’t pass any effective gun control legislation to prevent mass shootings is the idea that we need an armed populace in case the federal government decides to invade our cities and towns. Like??????????
One of which being the minor detail that deploying them off federal property in the territory of one state under another state's authority without the permission of the government of the first state is quite literally an invasion
Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & well, 👇
Why is this so difficult for everyone else to say?
Maybe they can bring a Marine landing craft up the St. Lawrence and into Lake Michigan to bring the invading army ashore at like North Avenue or Oak Street Beaches...
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.
Always a cheap game to play, but could you imagine the response from the Right if Biden had started deploying troops to Texas and Florida?!? Hell, Alex Jones and other wackos got worked up over the completely made up Jade Helm under Obama.
Influential based on what? I don't think anyone outside of liberals who can't stand him could tell you who he is or what he thinks about politics...
Honestly might be easier to stay in Gary, IN and commute to their little racist raids on the Southside from there.
J.B. Pritzker says he's heard intelligence that Trump is "staging" the Texas National Guard to invade Chicago. It's hard to believe this is really happening, but Trump seems to be recreating the war between the states.
I'm sure their graphics teams are hard at work on stuff for the coverage of the invasion while the advertising teams are getting excited over the ratings that they're going to get and how it will help them sell more ads.
This dude sounds like he's on death's door. Why the fuck should anyone listen to him regarding health topics?
One thing Trump has really done a great job of is exposing Jake Tapper as a gutless pussy and a partisan.
Putin told Trump that mail-in voting is bad, and that became a bug in Trump’s head, and a couple weeks later Trump relocates a military installation because of that mail-in ballot bug in his head. NOT GREAT.
One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.
It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.
I distinctly remember people tutscolding me when I said musk bought twitter for information warfare purposes lots of "you're over thinking it, it's not 4D chess" and "he tried to back out of the purchase at one poont so there's no way this could be true," and other weird comments
Eric Daugherty has a bachelor's degree from Florida Gulf Coast University, but assumes he's qualified enough to assess Judge Jia Cobb, who graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern and cum laude from Harvard Law School, clerked for an appeals court, taught law, and made partner in a law firm.
Check out the river and pathways next to it that cuts across downtown. They tore out an old highway years ago and made this cool, peaceful stretch of river through the city.
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...
Critics of Bluesky hilariously acknowledge this by intentionally misspelling it in their criticisms on Vichy Twitter because they know Elon censors discussion of Twitter competitiors (especially the "find me on this other site" posts) bsky.app/profile/dust...
"Not enough people is the number one threat to the West, followed closely by too many people." (Or are there some adjectives missing?)
The argument is: We're all meant to sacrifice a bit, so that tariffs can help rebuild American manufacturing. Let's ask American manufacturers whether they're helping.
Get out of here with your factual based statements. Matt's feelings are hurt because we don't all claim him to be a genius on here and that's obviously way more important.
Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.
"Americans already understood Trump to be corrupt, and proved themselves willing to tolerate that. But now they are coming to believe that he is inept. In American politics, that is an unforgivable sin." 🧐
"Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up." www.ft.com/content/b86b...
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price
And yet statutes like that were also enacted with the assumption that the President wasn't a fucking idiot who just calls everything and emergency as an excuse to exercise unconstitutional power.
Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
I've never met Ben, though I know a bunch of people who know him, and my guess is he'd chuckle condescendingly at my reaction to this, but JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, I feel like there are historical precedents for careerists who refused to take a stand as the nazis consolidated power
And did @oliverdarcy.bsky.social ask the question again after this pathetic dodge? If not, how does he still have a job as a journalist?!?
There must be something about fame and rich, white men that breeds this extreme inability to handle even the most mild of criticism.
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.
And C) To become the most famous person in the world.
Presidents historically became president to push an ideology or, perhaps, idealistically, to help people. Trump wanted to be president to A) avoid prison and B) make a fuckton of money.
Have you considered that your opinion here, Mike, is only based on the flop and maybe the turn? Have you considered that Nate might already be on the river and know more?
Remember Nate Silver refuses to use Bluesky and says you'd have to pay him over a million dollars to use it, so I'm going to suggest he not only doesn't know what "normal" people like, he doesn't even know what Bluesky is.... Signal and the noise guy is full of noise once again.
Damn, what LLM-based editor let this stupid shit get published?!?
Might be the first useful thing to come from crypto mining...
6'2" and 165 lbs? Um, chest size small, waist size tiny.
"Democrats need to avoid Blueskyism" says guy on Elon Musk's website.
Fantastic joke.
Just zero self awareness from stupid crypto bros.
Hilarious. Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance's favorite big-brain philosopher on X, got caught not knowing that "Roma" and "Romanians" are completely different and then tried to play the old "I was trolling! It was a joke! It was bait! You fell for it!" trick.
![@curtis_yarvin on X: Yet in every other country, in almost every sociological category, the Roma stand out as underperforming outliers. A statistical puzzle. What is the secret sauce? Can it be served to other underprivileged populations? Maybe we just need to give the youths more standardized tests [Article about Romania] 31 Aug 25](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eppsmw5nfmdzhfeymtzd3xbe/bafkreifrigfudrmpct3cfaxfldtrmkoi5kagqx7fqladcwdpwcevf7aagy@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Pretty much what every conservative Catholic in America has said for the last two Popes.
You've really got to be a little wacky to buy into all of that as an adult for the first time. I mean, transubstantiation? Come on...
you thought I was stupid, but in reality, you thinking that I was stupid means that the stupid one is actually you
this is the guy that the modern right wing considers one of their finest intellectuals
The extent to which ICE is ignoring all civil rights and due process is astounding — and indicative of a culture where they’ve been told they can do literally no wrong. Agency and admin leaders must face sanctions and legal consequences.
As we all know, the American Revolution was fought to ensure the chief executive could impose taxes without representation.
Gonna sound obvious but in retrospect the right's half-century-long campaign to convince the public that the government doesn't actually do a ton of useful stuff was among the most successful PR campaigns ever
Broke: Western forces deployed in Asia due to the deteriorating security situation. Woke: Asian forces deployed to the West due to the deteriorating security situation.
median elon musk loyalist behavior
Such a shame that he ruined the Rose Garden to install a patio like his shitty club.
the jokes are good
Trump dying in office after Biden lived through his term would be such an indictment of the press. Made “Biden Old” the top story, treating it as an uncovered secret, a scandal. Then lamented not covering it even more. All while treating “Trump Old” as a nonstory. Because he’s loud and lies a lot.
Just a pathetically stupid own goal by the US, led by people who allegedly were trying to counter China.
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
There's obviously going to be a ton of parties co-scheduled with the funeral. Is going to be like a weeks long party
Welp guess who figured out a new way to explain bad tariff policy to his kids.
Assuming that Democrats can manage to not fuck everything up and eventually regain the presidency, a future Democratic president can just refuse to fund ICE then.
Ah, but were either Trump or Hegseth in the military when they conducted the sexual assault? Nope. Checkmate, libs.