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Kennedy claims antidepressants influenced the mass shooter. Sen Tina Smith (D): "I dare you to go to Annunciation School & tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit.You shd be fired.” www.thedailybeast.com/minnesota-se...
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Everything modern is “woke.” I wonder if the Luddite era was like this?
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Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
This is the ballgame:
Generic ballot also has Dems up 8. ??
I am puzzled: Dems are said to be losing voters by the trainload, but they are up 8 on generic ballot and keep winning special elections.
this one from @froomkin.bsky.social not only runs down this criminal admin’s ever-expanding assaults on our govt, our rights, our society, it also concisely sums up what media has failed to do - and, even at this late hour, how to correct it. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
So much of their power flows from the way people quietly bow out of their way, forcing them to expend essentially no political capital to shred vital and popular institutions. And then, having done so, they look even stronger, and it’s even easier next time.
Of all the photos posted by the Strib related to the shooting at Annunciation Church, this was the one that got me the most. Maybe because we cant see the (presumably) mom’s face, so it seems more universal? arc.stimg.co/startribunem...?
looks a lot like policing up cigarette butts during basic training.
If you are suggesting federal troops for Minneapolis, I call serious bullshit.
NEW on HEADS UP NEWS: This year, Labor Day is no picnic www.headsupnews.org/p/this-year-...
This is dumb. And useless
It's also because people away from Indian Country may have missed the historic realignment underway in the relationship between Native peoples and the majority culture and political authority. Native peoples are reclaiming their power; that's a good thing, and recognizing it is really not optional.
How is it that Dems can be losing members to GOP and have significant lead on generic ballot in the same moment?
I would never disagree with you on national issues; respect your experience and counsel too much.
Huh. He's from Minnesota. Oops.
I, too, am missing the point, parly because I came in at the middle but also because, well, I'm simple. Could you explain.
These land acknowledgements are simply part of life in Minnesota. Some are better than others. All express a value we should honor.
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Fat Fascist Fuck
I'd like to start a group called something like, "Journalists for the Restoration of Professional Standards to the American Media." Or perhaps, "Journalists Who Know How to Objectively Describe a Fascist Dickhead When They See One." Or maybe, "Journos Who Actually Give a Fuck About Their Trade."
Heather Cox Richardson's Aug. 23 column contains the best, most accurate summation I've read of what has happened to us as a nation over the past 80 years. The best stuff starts with the graph that begins, "After World War II..." If you missed it, here's a link: substack.com/home/post/p-...
FFS, this is a five-alarm constitutional crisis and you report it as though it were a focus group on a new flavor of ice cream.
It’s not. About. The mortgages.
Froomkin saw this sort of newsroom behavior emerging long before anyone else, way back when he was at the Post.
The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state. presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Akshually, no you don’t
Totally agree with this. We’ve been here before, and recently. Early in the Iraq war, Bush lied, Cheney lied, Rumsfeld lied, and at the Times, Post, many other places, opposition was voiced in sonorous pronouncements from ivory towers. Gutter-fighting opposition was needed. Now even more.
I think it more that he doesn't suffer fools.
Slideshow of today in Washington DC, and how it looks when a terrorizing government scares people away. By me, no paywall: fallows.substack.com/p/a-summer-a...
Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism. Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?
makeup over old-man bruise. no big deal
Actually not true.
A key point we try to get at here: Media is covering Trump's militarization of cities AS IF IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT CRIME. But it isn't. It's about the CONSOLIDATION OF AUTHORITARIAN POWER. Yet many headlines and analyses are all about whether it's true that crime is as bad as Trump says it is.
John Deere laying off workers. Pepsi hiking prices. Sony raising PS5 costs. Electric bills up 10%. Welcome to the Trump economy. All going really well, right?
You guys. The Lisa Cook story isn’t about her mortgages. Please please please stop being so credulous.
I can't speak to the whorehouse decor, but I spend a lot of time in Vegas, and even the gaudiest parts of Caesar's aren't this crapified
I sit here in Minnesota reading all this, and what I think about it has zero effect. To some extent, Greg Sargent's view will get dismissed as New Republic view. That's why it is so important that these government people, bureaucrats, speak up vigorously -- and be reported widely
Trump and team already have gone way too far; they just don't know it. Something will happen to break the dam, and the real fight will begin. We must be patient and build strength for the battle. And while we wait, we can smile and cheer as Gavin Fucking Newsom gives it to Trump with both barrels.
But then somewhere I will see a small kindness or action that shows empathy, especially the ones that capture black, brown and white people celebrating life and each other, and I KNOW we will prevail. There's just too much goodness in this country to succumb to fascism.
I'm sure I'm one of many who get so tired of hearing about the latest Trump outrages. I've been condemning and deploring for so long I've forgotten what "normal" life is. No more evening news in our household; too depressing. We've become part of the Weary Brigade.
Oops. Meant IG.
Kidding, right? You do an excellent job, but all a former AG can say is "irregular" about, in your words, "how corrupt this process is?"
Yes, well, your "former IG" needs to find stronger language than "highly irregular." This is fucking outrageous. Can we start talking in ways that reflect the five-alarm fire we're witnissing?
Perhaps he means Vietnam?
Discussions like this are intellectual popcorn, of no use to anyone.
The US had presidential elections in 1812 during the War of 1812; in 1864 during the Civil War; in 1916 during WWI; in 1944 during WWII; in 1952 during the Korean War; and every war & conflict since. Trump's remark is an affront to the US Constitution he swore to defend and an insult to Americans.
Fucking idiot bullies. Can't wait for them to get theirs. We gotta take names and then kick ass.
Eyeopening walkthrough of DC by this creator. If you aren’t in DC, worth a watch all the way to the end—
Just call him “3/5s Haggerty.”
As if the people inside will be intimidated by this nonsense.
Hamas’s crimes do not excuse Israel’s actions in Gaza. The Jewish state is a democracy. Its leaders should hold themselves to higher standards than terrorists
Media critic Jay Rosen says journalists' regular fact checks are overmatched by today’s political lies. What’s needed now, he says, are “reality rejection checks” as Trump and his supporters deny established facts. My Q&A with @jayrosen.bsky.social in this week’s free Stop the Presses newsletter.
One room, many doors.
Jicymi - here was @betoorourke.bsky.social with @brianbeutler.bsky.social at @netrootsnation.bsky.social today #NN25 It’s really worth watching.
If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.
new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
There is no fucking way to get water from the Pacific Northwest to California. Can we please just say that loud and clear and repeatedly? Don't just laugh at him; fucking correct him.
Dark Brazilian Santos is our cherished morning coffee. Last I heard, they grow no coffee here.
Exactly.
Why the fuck would this reflect anything at all about Democrats?
It is not possible to find the words for this.
If Trump were actually the strong-man he pretends to be, he'd tell Netanyahu to allow the food to flow, so innocent Palestinian children don't die of starvation. Talking about how sad this is in between rounds at his golf course in Scotland is weak beyond words. Feed Gaza.
News should remind us that this disruption in econ flow *of entire world* is SOLELY and ENTIRELY at the whim on one single person. Not Congress, not any international agreement, just one person. Who also happens to be ignorant, petulant, grievance-driven, etc Caligula /Pol Pot /Kim Jong Il time
This whole thread needs to be read by anyone in campaign work. There are huge lessons here about how to appeal to a broad audience, not just immediate followers. Also lines up with everything I wrote this morning about the need for positive, hopeful vision right now that appeals to the masses.
A leading Israeli human rights group has accused Israel of "committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza," becoming the first such organization to make the claim.
And send in 1,000 kilt-clad, ax-wielding Scottish warriors to liberate the focking golf course.
It's the "dealing with it" part that frustrates me. I am tired of showing up in small bands in our little village to protest the horrible and the frightening. I'm eager to help take the fight to Trump and the GOP, but how to do that is elusive. "Condemn and deplore" only gets us so far.
It’s too bad people are more moved by Epstein than by the alligator concentration camp. But that’s the real world. The good guys can’t just be against concentration camps; they will lose again. Give people hope for something positive, something more than the absence of Trump & his horrors.
jerk.
I need something to vote FOR, not just something to vote against.
bsky.app/profile/hcri... Emmett Till was born 84 years ago today. He was 14 when he was murdered—his killers walked free. In 2025, ICE agents tased a man and said, “We’re gonna end up shooting some of them.” They arrested the teen who filmed it. Not again. Not here. Not in our name.
It's not the highest on my current list of grips. But each time we see Trump sic the DOJ on one of his enemies reporters will say, "You were against weaponization. Aren't you just doing the same thing?" Let's keep reminding everyone forever that Biden/Obama "weaponization" was completely made up.
Without Hulk Hogan, Peter Thiel would not have been so effective in media-suppression Without Peter Thiel, we wouldn't know today's Musk or JDV Without Musk, we wouldn't have DOGE (and would still have Park Service, State Dept, NIH, etc) So we note Hulk Hogan's passing, as we might Roy Cohn's.
How about going all in on defense of Ukraine? That should actually do it.
Our beautiful Elkhound Scarlett, 13 years ago today, taken while picking blueberries. She loved to eat them off the bush. Seeing this photo causes me to recall in great detail putting my nose in her warm fur and inhaling her scent. Miss her.
Is this true? Sure seems far-fetched to me.
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
Yes, what will CBS staff do and what will we do?
She needs to go away.
In the awfulness flowing across America now, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless. But sometimes there appear opportunities to act in kindness, generosity and love for others in our human family. This is one: : www.onespiritlakota.org/post/an-urge...
Aaaannd, they were rising faster than inflation under Biden.
😜That was a real beaut, coming from a scholar who expects us to respect her ability to reason well.
She lost me at "knocks it out of the park because it's such a layup." Hard to take person seriously when they talk like that.
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
Ya know, I was born in the Nevada desert a hundred miles from anywhere. Long drives were a way of life, to get groceries, see the doc, get repairs done when they were beyond our well stocked and well used garage. To me, this sounds like someone looking for something else to worry about.
We seriously need a crowdfunding campaign to put a billboard up like this everywhere
Isn’t this fun: All of the culinary North Stars for the MINNESOTA Star Tribune are in the Twin Cities.
Well earned rest, but sorry to see him go.
Revolt! bjboyd.substack.com/p/revolt
This.
“Trump behaves a lot like the leaders of those Latin American gangs he claims imperil our way of life. Rather than tattoos, his insignia is the long red tie.” - John Harwood for Zeteo:
President Macron, "The only way to overcome the challenges of our times will be to go together, hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder. This is our common destiny" "Long live our France-UK friendship" "Long live the UK. Long live France"