if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
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if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
Bluesky has been critical to Democracy Docket's growth and reach. Nate Silver is an idiot.
No lies detected
There is a whole class of pseudo-leftists who have decided that what radicalizes people is experiencing the mildest discomfort. They are just telling on themselves.
a face only Olivia Nuzzi could love
Rahm Emanuel with some classic yellow peril.
Threat? China need only sit back, smiling, and watch.
Why is a berenstein bear pointing at the dragon?
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. That’s traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
No one’s forcing them. It’s just another data point in an avalanche of willing compliance in advance.
I've written a million threads on this theme, it's pointless, I know. But it's insane. Dems have to try, to be responsible, to please everyone. Republicans just have to jump around like fucking gibbons, throwing shit at the wall, and if they occasionally, accidentally hit something ...
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.
yeah “giving a shit about real problems that are actually occurring” being made into a political liability is just an extraordinarily grim development. you’re incentivized to avoid trying to actually address real things because there’s no upside at all politically.
okay yeah this dude is in the homestretch
Definitely has the “mouth involuntarily hangs open” thing going on.
I’m still trying to figure out exactly what it is about that face that is so deeply, viscerally disturbing. Now I know it’s not the wrinkles.
Did they ever find all those lab monkeys who escaped in South Carolina?
RFK Jr’s Worm: PSSST! I’m still here!
my vote is that Kristi Noem gets eaten by a crocodile, but no one ever accused me of being subtle
“I heard the same message from Pope Leo that I heard from Pope Francis, which is the desire to welcome all people, including LGBTQ people,” the Rev. James Martin, S.J., told the AP. “It was wonderful. It was very consoling and very encouraging and, frankly, a lot of fun.” https://to.pbs.org/46hrN7l
(guy who's about to invent fermentation) nah i bet it's still good
Yeah, and the inmates are running it
Sharing from @peg33.bsky.social because this is so SPOT ON1
This is an unsurprising response from a semiliterate ass like Trump. He has to be walked through everything because he can’t actually consume information on his own.
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
The results were so secret that they were published for the entire world to see, even RFK Jr. But, as @jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote back in February, “Kennedy, a science denialist, will never accept the real scientific evidence that vaccines are safe”.
It has met that definition for a very long time. Did you just wake up from a journalism coma, WaPo?
On Sunday, the International Association of Genocide Scholars said that Israel’s nearly two-year military campaign in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of people and left swaths of the enclave in rubble, meets “the legal definition of genocide.”
The World Bank's investments in East African hospitals were meant to help alleviate poverty. For some, however, those services came at an almost unbearable cost (co-published with @icij.org)
New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye. The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza
I have an idea, let’s LISTEN to the women
…because he’s managed to evade incarceration?
10/10 timing Mr. President. No notes.
they are threatened by anyone who lives in reality instead of the algorithmicly-curated simulacrum they've constructed for themselves.
My last few months on twitter the only interactions to be had were with Nazis and pornbots...I guess that is what Nate Silver is saying what appeals to "normal people".
"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.
a very high proportion of centrist punditry now just boils down to "progressives yell at me on the internet and i don't like it." you would think that getting paid millions of dollars per year would give you thicker skin
I mean what does Nate Silver NOT think he knows?
when i think “guy who really gets ‘normal people’” i think nate silver
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
This is pretty remarkable but not that unusual. A lot of people want to portray RFK as having some Good Points. But no-one is objecting to more exercise and healthier foods. It is the anti-science (and specifically anti-vax) ethos that defines RFK and MAHA.
tbh there's a subset of X/Twitter that basically view Bluesky as the last refuge of the woke/Warrenites which is just a very funny mindset to have
i think it is interesting that this view appears to come primarily from people who cannot imagine believing something for non-instrumental reasons
Six deaths from rabies have been reported over the last 12 months in the U.S., the highest number in years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
I don’t normally ask to hear from the president but it’d be nice to see if he can still complete a sentence
I believe that 99% of what RFK Jr. does is motivated by: 1. Protecting his ego and vanity. He must convince people vaccines are bad b/c he can’t be wrong. Endless photos of himself exercising b/c vanity. 2. Creating conditions for his law firm to increase profits from suing various companies.
What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.
The fun would be watching Chump's reaction to it. 🤯 #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
(I think it’s then called a “panini” btw)
Infinitely better than closing a pen or pencil in there. I’ve replaced screens for people who’ve done that.
put your kid on the fucking bus this shit is so stupid
They’re hooked on the tens of thousands of bots and sock puppets that constantly stroke them there
So there’s a thing I’ve noticed repeatedly from people who are still on X, The Everything App - they’re constantly making weird accusations about Bluesky that don’t make any sense if you’re on here, and I think it’s a sign they’re deeply insecure about posting to X, The Everything App.
Exactly, the entire argument for this narrative is that kids rarely die of COVID. That’s true, but it wasn’t the justification for the policy. Teachers *do* die of COVID and kids *do* spread COVID. Some studies find school closures were the most effective intervention for preventing cases!
Much of the language also strongly suggests that they will never be able to “catch up.” This is the underlying absurdity.
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
Ditto.
When Nate Silver continues his obsessions with the website
For being completely unimportant these goofballs really can’t shut the fuck up about us
“If the Left were lobotomized it would win more often”
For no particular reason, I wonder what the effective range is of a paintball gun.
It’s probably polyester, which is flammable, so I sure hope no one gets a butane lighter close to it. That would be bad.
Worth noting that “Sean T at RCP” is Sean Trende, Senior Elections Analyst at RealClearPolitics More than a few prominent politicians consider this disinfo peddler to be credible.
“The damage done by this is incalculable.” — Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics The actual incalculable damage would have been to keep the schools open, you disinfo-peddling simpleton.
🎯 This is the only rational response
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
'blue states closed too early' is said by the same people who are working to close public schools, so you know it's not that they care about children's education.
What they really care about is *controlling* children’s education
Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.
it is underdiscussed how "learning loss" can also be attributed to the fact that millions of people were dying and the kids were fucking terrified all the time - not just that they were on Zoom
My wife wears some men’s shorts in small sizes and just cinches or takes in the waist BECAUSE THEY HAVE POCKETS
🎯 I can go to my closet right now and get four shirts with four different size labels that are all the exact same actual size.
hell i wish brands would post garment dimensions rather than vague sizing charts
I mean OK they still don’t actually care about them but you get the idea
This is a fascist account that has retweeted Nazi propaganda. hopenothate.org.uk/2024/06/20/e...
Well *there’s* a shocker
Contraceptives Stimulate Hysteria, says new study by RFK Jr by Ross Douthat, with Matt Yglesias “Actually, I can instantly recognize hormonally challenged women just by looking at them,” croaked Kennedy. “And not a single one of them is ever pregnant, so the link to contraceptives is undeniable.”
You guys see where this is going? Right?
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
unless they can own them
The people who refuse to do anything about school shootings and destroyed the Dept of Ed don’t actually give a shit about kids and schools come on.
The White House reports that in some places the gas price has dropped to 48 cents a gallon.
In some places [along the timeline]
Great candidate for a nighttime projection
Ashes of the Epstein Files
Throwing hefty bags out the front window goes well with the gold plated motif & parking lot garden
I mean come on. Just detach the damned thing.
The irony/idiocy of this banner screaming "American Workers First" is that Trump has forced more than 199,000 federal workers out of their jobs since Jan. Nearly 1 in 10 federal workers gone. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
This calls for an act of courageous cutting
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
It was just «facilitation»
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Why the French don’t even have a word for «conquer»
Today's a good day to learn Colbert found a new job. Hope it's a good one for everybody! #HappyLaborDay
