I mean they are hesitating: They have not done this yet or attempted to do it. And it would require them to take a risk in order to achieve it!
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I mean they are hesitating: They have not done this yet or attempted to do it. And it would require them to take a risk in order to achieve it!
Lots of bad stuff is going to happen. I wish this wasn't the case! But I don't think it's good or realistic to assume all those things will be beneficial to the authoritarian making them happen.
Like here's a good example: Do we think it'd be *good* for Trump if shooting that boat with a missile ends up getting Americans killed? I'd argue it's bad to have blood on your hands because you did the dumbest thing anyone's ever seen bsky.app/profile/chad...
Yes nothing is off the table for this admin and Jeanine Pirro in her statement laid the rhetorical groundwork for this but I'd counter that it's good when popular resistance like grand juries refusing to indict Sandwich Guy forces Trump cronies to break the law to get their preferred outcomes.
lol yes imagine please a woman enough for her to marry you: "...today’s right-wing masculinities use the performance of bad taste to demonstrate a virility undomesticated by anything so feminine as a sense of style, or worse, a wife." @robinjames.bsky.social www.its-her-factory.com/2025/09/1996...
I'll never forget someone on Twitter calling this dude out for refusing to wear a belt and looking consistently shabby for it. I'm also sure he's considered this at some point, but refuses to look better because that would mean caving to the (fashionable and hot) woke mob.
I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at jmetraux@motherjones.com
Unfortunately, I think I was as well prepared for this moment, intellectually speaking, as I could possibly be.
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
The commander for this team, Tom Clemo, works for the Santa Monica Fire Department.
I would be too embarrased to admit this is how I felt
Well I was close
"Imagine knowing electricity or the internet were coming ... before both fully and wholly upended business, culture and life. That's the AI moment we see unfolding today" - possibly one of the stupidest things i've seen written about AI, great work Axios!
Without a quorum at the NLRB, organized labor is pushing blue state legislatures to codify “trigger laws” that protect workers’ right to organize when the NLRB is unable to do so. From James Baratta: trib.al/NQBO5GT
I'm eating a snack before i march lol
Get their asses
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it. She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody. Status report due at 12 noon today.
can y'all shut up its labor day lmao go find a march
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
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.
This is why it is incumbent upon all of us to pierce the illusion of righteousness that they have built. Grind down their self image to a pulp and force them to face the reality of the evil they are perpetrating, that no one sees them as good or honorable and they will be shunned by history
not the first time someone has told me this 😂
lmao
Do you think this last one is argumentative or not 😅 like it's labor day weekend my man be at peace lol
You didn't come in hot? I bet we genuinely agree on 99.99% of policy so again I'm not sure what the problem is. I've tried explaining my positions in here multiple times and you came back swinging for some reason. Like I'm a total stranger to you dude calm down lol
You know I was trying to be charitable at multiple points in this thread and you've continue to attack for some reason. Why?
Unbelievable you'd turn around and mistate what I said lol
You sure suggested it lol
You've said in this thread that only legislators do policy work, which is false, and you're claiming things about what I think. Again, it's weird for an elected to do that to someone with ostensibly less power than you. I highly doubt you'd speak to a constituent who disagreed with you like this.
Lmao prove my point more big dawg
You're an elected and you're trying to telling me what I think. I think that says a lot!
I'm saying you're drawing lines in the sand over these issues and I think that's a problem within our party, especially when *electeds* do it!
How is that different than what I said?
You told me I'm not a Democrat because we disagree lol
You know I'm just gonna say it's concerning to me all the guys I'm fighting on here tonight who purport to be good Democrats are doing so much work to be exclusionary and to gatekeep. Kind of gets back to my original point.
I'm not saying it's *impressive*, I'm saying it's not a scandalous story. It's just a story, it's just normal journalistic work. The only reason people are fighting about it is because she is a weird person online lol
Maybe take it from a former reporter that she is. I know she's weird af on social media but I've read her stuff over the years and I've never had a problem with it. You should read the actual story we're all fighting about. It's totally fine lol
ffs that's NOT what the story says lol that's the discourse on here 😅
You should actually check hee record on what she's reported. You're mistaking her weird bullshit online for her actual work. I unfortunately am familiar with it given my previous career. Trust me! I always found it wild that she could be insane online but be an excellent reporter lol
You dont know what happens in a newsroom then
What do you think I'm defending sir I've gone on and on with you guys saying how to separate the work from the person. I'm defending the work! I've seen how journos of all viewpoints can work together to report the truth. It's possible for a dickhead to be a good reporter lol idk what to tell you
Lol Michael just FYI I am literally in the replies of this one saying Taylor Lorenz is weird
I literally canvassed door to door in November for two of my local Dem congressmen big dawg (we won)
That's so insane of you to be saying big accounts like Pakman are supposed to do PR work lol, like do you think they want to be seen as that?
No dissent is your policy? Is that how you approach talking to people you represent?
David Pakman ain't doing PR for the Dems, or at least that's not what he claims to be doing. That is a wild claim to make. But we're just gonna disagree on that I guess.
This is not PR??? The fuck lol
What dont I care about? What are you talking about lol (I find it kind of insane for an elected to be saying this to someone in the rank and file; I certainly wouldn't act like this with my members!)
It's not a union party? Or you just don't like what I have to say?
Why would comms folks within the DNC write a contract that gives them broad discretion to kill certain content? Maybe that would be over Gaza, maybe it'd be over some other policy. But that leads me back to my point: What ELSE would it be lol?? This is the one issue we're fighting over lol
What are we arguing about lol
Is there a fight going on within the party right now over how to talk about Gaza? That's what I belive lol, seems like this entire conversation is proof of that 😅
I literally did shift lmao what the hell are you talking about, go to bed 😅
Y'all work directly with us (unions!) on policy so idk what that's supposed to mean.
Have you worked in a newsroom? I'm just telling you there are checks and balances that occur. What does them correcting the story mean to you? Idk why folks are so weird about a story that doesn't seem on its face to be really negative.
I'm a union organizer my guy, I'm in the trenches. I disagree with y'all about how Dems are broadly handling Gaza I guess but I'm backing whoever is the nominee to the hilt.
Oh come on
Do you really think Wired is interested in publishing lies? What's their recent track record tell you?
Lol sir calm tf down. Me getting overheated then backing down over a nuanced point is me maintaining a conspiracy theory? Chorus not being explicit in writing is a smart way to do business. But you have to be kidding me if you're saying Gaza criticism is widely accepted and would be endorsed.
Bud you've been going after her for years lol please get real. I completely agree her online persona is bizarre & that she has made claims about really weird shit. But doing the work is different: There's checks and balances in journalism. The fact that they corrected at all is a testament to that!
Lol again I think y'all are going kind of nuts because it's Taylor Lorenz. My point is she is just reporting this stuff. The story is not all that critcal of the DNC! But I am lol: I absolutely don't trust a bunch of leaders of MY party to be good about this and I'd like them to change.
Honestly, because you directly asked! It made me take a beat. So I went back and read the story again. You're right that it's not "don't talk about these subjects." Given who got contracts, I still think they're choosing folks who shy away from criticizing the DNC over Gaza.
Again, so what? All she did was report about the existence of the program and what's happened so far, how that process compares to what the GOP has done to build their network, and the pitfalls the DNC and some of these creates have run into so far. That's just reporting!
Well we don't know right lol, that's not spelled out in the contracts? That's not what Taylor reported either. I would bet anyone writing up contracts like that is not going to spell out what topics are off limits anyways; they want as much control as possible, and a list of topics is limiting.
Well some of them lol. Also I'm just confused what the scandal is here, it just seems like news. TBH the story itself doesn't make any of this seem particularly scandalous, it's just revealing stuff about how Dems are operating this program, warts and all. It's just news.
Yes it's kind of remarkable how much work all these guys are doing to make it seem like something else. This is pretty straight forward lol. It's also not a huge scandal or anything, it's just stupid! They're literally breathing more life into the story!
That is insane lol
That's not what they said lol David Pakman is not doing PR work for the Dems! Neither is Brian Tyler Cohen! They present themselves as independent. I wouldn't have a problem with them getting paid but just make it clear then.
These folks were not hired to do PR! They're doing political commentary, seemingly independently. I mean it's sort of a problem for someone like Pakman not to disclose the relationship. Obviously he is Dem leaning but I was under the impression he didn't have a financial relationship with the party.
Ok but Michael she immediately disclosed that lol, that's a huge difference isn't it 😂 isn't that the entire point
Theyre not copywriting, they're doing political commentating, and they are vaguely journalists. It's a different standard.
But that's what's in all the contracts! What subject did they want them to avoid! Seems obvious lol
I mean that seems like absolutely what happened
I'm very confused. Did she have a contract with Chorus?
How is this shifting the goalposts? I thought the story was about how the creators' contracts with Chorus required them to *avoid* certain topics, while also not disclosing their affiliation.
What has been debunked about her article? Are you saying she was paid by Chorus?
The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. “We didn’t know” “Nobody told us” “He promised he wouldn’t…” This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
I did not think Lincoln Riley was capable of making a chill and cool decision like allowing Rob Ryan to live in L.A. where he can rent a Venice bungalow to smoke weed in
I feel it is a failure of my personal brand that no one broke down my door to inform me the second it was announced Rob Ryan joined USC's coaching staff this offseason
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Do they think Grant was not aware of this
What
Here’s the context for those who are unaware: the scene in every police procedural where the detective “runs the serial number on the gun” in some search engine? That does not exist. Republicans made that illegal to happen. Firearm records are, *by statue*, on paper or un machine-searchable PDF.
Oh it's gonna survive. My people won't let it die, but we are mad as hell and may shout at you for awhile
Ol' Jeff Davis started coming up with reasons it wasn't slavery almost as soon as the bullets started flying lol
If California was on the wrong side of the single greatest political issue of our time and that issue was the most abhorrent thing I knew existed, I would not be fighting FOR California lmao idiot
I'm reading Battle Cry of Freedom for the first time and it's pretty funny that the attempted rewriting of history on Robert E. Lee was that he personally detested slavery and understood why it was bad but was too loyal to Virginia to fight against his home state like brother that is DUMB
The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
is something about to happen to me (im 35)
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I will always love Spotlight for absolutely nailing reporter outfits, down to guys rolling up their sleeves
Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just demanded a special Senate committee hearing on the crisis at the CDC, making RFK Jr testify under oath on the disaster he's created. Go Bernie!
O'Neill is a "longevity guy" and is buddies with Bryan Johnson and... "He has also supported the libertarian idea of creating new geographic zones, possibly at sea, in which residents can live by their own rules (including, notably, permissive regulatory regimes for new drugs and therapies). "
This administration's immigration policy is fundamentally sick. Trump has wrongly detained lawful green card holders and even CITIZENS. No one should assume this was necessary. These firefighters put their lives on the line for us ALL and Trump is detaining them.