There are a ton of red flags for those who want to peek under the hood but this is a big one.
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There are a ton of red flags for those who want to peek under the hood but this is a big one.
I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.
There was a time, in 2006, when this itself was a major scandal and the White House looked terrible for having dismissed a US Attorney for similarly political reasons. We have fallen so far, so fast. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...
Stay safe. Sources and documents in the replies.
It’s funny in a very dark way, because people expressing fear and insecurity are typically met with reassurance and compassion but now, no, it’s “fuck you you stupid asshole” confirming the exact distrust in the first place.
the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok
MAGA has discovered 2015 wokeness timeline audits. I repeat. MAGA has discovered Dark Woke.
National day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk motion passed the Senate by unanimous consent. Zero Democrats objected, which would have stopped it. Tommy Tuberville is presiding — and smirking. www.c-span.org/networks/?ch...
I'm all about comedy being different for different people. Usually I can identify the humor without finding it funny myself. But I just don't get Gianmarco Soresi. He seems to punch down, make obvious jokes, and provide nothing new or surprising in his material.
Hearing that that Senate Republicans have a vote queued up today for a national day of remembrance for Charlie Kirk - and Dems can stop it by simply objecting. Will one of them do it? Word is that no Dems are saying they will object right now.
This is the most personalized take I've seen yet. 😂 Like, it couldn't be more YOU.
i just know we're all going to have to sit through a three minute clip of joe rogan saying "i can't believe censorship is happening"
Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
ah, well
If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to start building your indie shit
I say this a lot. People in this country used to pull rich people out of their houses and spank them in the street. THAT is the alternative.
a lot of rich people are currently putting themselves on the path to discovering first hand that the economic order of the post WWII era was a compromise which was arranged *for their benefit* and that the historical alternative tends to involve pitchforks and torches
"If you act like a jerk, you can face consequences by your employer. But if the government is compelling that company to take action against you for speech the government doesn’t like, then we’re fucking fucked. And friends, we’re fucking fucked." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/the-man-show
I still use the Star Trek: #LowerDecks virtual backgrounds that got released toward the beginning of the pandemic. Thanks to @mikemcmahan.bsky.social and whoever had the idea to release them!
news.gallup.com/poll/656708/... My political strategy is to alienate 10% of our potential voters. Gimme millions of dollars please
Congress is planning to spend millions of our tax dollars to increase their personal security to protect themselves from the Second Amendment. Fuck the rest of us.
Just days after a Fox News host called for euthanizing homeless people, there have been two mass shootings at a homeless encampment in Minneapolis within just a few short hours.
One pretty foolproof way to know your government is fascist is when your government tries to punish you for calling it fascist.
Coming soon... "Are you or have you ever been a member of antifa or espoused anti-fascist thoughts or beliefs?"
“In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s DOJ deleted a study from its site stating right-wing violence ‘continues to outpace all other types of terrorism & domestic violent extremism’ in 🇺🇸 — The study was available online until Friday.” newrepublic.com/post/200537/...
Democrats have this really weird tendency to think wonky technical tax patches in huge systems are what people want in the year of our Lord 2025, when what people ACTUALLY want is something on the scale of The New Deal stapled to Second Reconstruction with Nuremberg 2.0 as a dessert.
You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.
It is honestly kinda funny how cartoonishly evil this is.
"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Q. Why is there a special election in the Minnesota House tonight? A. Because the Democrat who held the seat was assassinated in June. www.the-downballot.com/p/morning-di...
One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.
This ultra aggressive ICE stuff is edging into geopolitical risk territory.
More alarm bells today as USA Pirro's office has now dismissed 11 felony cases over the past month, per Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh: “It sems like one takeaway could be the government is filing these charges and investigating them afterward." www.wusa9.com/article/news...
“Israel is the ethnostate that MAGA wishes the United States were.” @attackerman.bsky.social explains how MAGA sees itself in the apartheid state. Read the full article: zeteo.com/p/in-israel-...
"US Tiktok users would be asked to shift to new app" controlled by Trump friends Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz. Good fuckin' luck with that.
He also told her to "delete this exchange" which she did not, instead turning the messages over to police. She's not being charged with a crime nor accused of wrongdoing. I cannot imagine how terrified she is, knowing her partner committed such a heinous act and many are now scapegoating her for it
An old, tired take, but still relevant. There was an entire book about this: A Generation of Sociopaths by Bruce Cannon Gibney
An old, tired take. There was an entire book about this: A Generation of Sociopaths by Bruce Cannon Gibney
"There is no center between fascism and democracy." – @rbreich.bsky.social Full episode at www.levernews.com/robert-reich...
The right wing billionaires are soon going to control almost every single major media outlet.
Boy that was a real whipsaw from "looks like the law may be on the side of the sane Murdoch children trying to break Rupert and Lachlan's hold" to "the Ellison family now controls CBS News and TikTok and is reaching for more"
A friend at Cato just did some great work quantifying this and his main point was to underscore how relatively rare it still is, to throw a bit of a cold water on the panic. But he also found, as any serious methodology inevitably does, right-wing outnumbered left-wing several times over.
this is just how racist they're willing to be in a formal document vetted by attorneys. imagine their closed door meetings
Exactly right. The way to stand up a bully is to refuse to give an inch.
In Pam Bondi's America bakers may refuse to make cakes for gay or trans people, medical pros may refuse to provide women with complete healthcare, military personnel may refuse vaccination orders—all for "religous" or "conscience" reasons—but an Office Depot employee may not refuse to print a flyer.
There's a quote that the heart of conservatism is there are ppl the law protects but does not bind, and others the law binds but does not protect. Wilhoit’s Law, IIRC.
The managing editor (or whatever) who oversaw voicemail hacking in the UK and other horrendous tabloid acts wasn't a bridge too far? Bezos preventing them from running the endorsement they already had typed up wasn't a bridge too far? These centrists will be the death of this country.
The managing editor (or whatever) who oversaw voicemail hacking in the UK and other horrendous tabloid acts wasn't a bridge too far? Bezos preventing them from running the endorsement they already had typed up wasn't a bridge too far? You centrists will be the death of this country.
Worth the click through on this one.
I do feel like part of the hatred extended toward Bluesky is a function of preferring to think that the alarm about the state of the country that’s common here is misguided or exaggerated. Dismissing the site as liberal doomers allows you to dismiss those concerns, too.
You can tell who was and who wasn't bullied as a kid by how they respond to Trump. Give into a bully once, and they'll keep taking forever. Stand up to a bully, and they'll move on to an easier mark.
It truly cannot be restated enough that earlier this year Trump pardoned everyone involved with J6, the largest event of political violence in the US in my lifetime. They have absolutely no credibility here and deserve to be confronted with this fact whenever they're in public.
Please permit me to remind you that just as the First Amendment protects Nazis, who would suppress our speech, it also protects the New York Times, which has sold out every American right and value for the mess of Park Slope potage that is false equivalency, false neutrality, and access.
The problem here is that the liberal institutions, faced with a life and death threat, are just going to roll over and die. The solution is that everybody hates these motherfuckers and together we're going to stop them Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein
I mean what do people think? This is slowing down? They are getting less interested in doing these things?
www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/p...
Legacy media is literally caping for white supremacy now. Quoting the man they’re venerating, whose proud life’s work was disparaging marginalized groups, is officially a firing offense, but calling for the homeless to be euthanized is not. Wild.
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Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents
Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.
It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...
All because a MAGA candidate in a Republican district tried to out-MAGA the incumbent with the anti-immigrant idiocy. Politicians in Republican primaries have every incentive to push things as far right as imaginable and we're all going to suffer from it. Another problem with gerrymandering here.
Danish soldiers are training and practicing in Greenland together with allies from Germany, France, Sweden and Norway. It is one of the largest military exercises in Greenland in recent times. US is not invited.
Here is Stephen Miller clearly indicating that we're about to see a McCarthyite campaign of state-sponsored persecution against the liberal-left, all fake-justified by the murder of Charlie Kirk:
The professionalism trap. They seem to think their job is to adhere to difficult and complicated professional standards rather than actually produce results. It's the kind of thing makes lawyers fight to keep known innocent people in jail because the trial was conducted correctly.
It's Miller. It's always been Miller. ⬇️
Firing liberals over stuff right-wingers get away with every day is truly honoring Charlie Kirk's legacy.
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
The Patel thing is funny to me because *duh* man, he sucks at his job, no shit, wow! There's no one in Trump's cabinet who isn't wholly out of their depths with the possible exception of Bessent who is at least enough in his depths to know he should be hitting everyone else in the face
Wild that no one seems to be pointing out that moving from an aisle to a middle seat does not allow 2 people to sit next to each other. 😂
US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
“[Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries] are the absolute antithesis of what the Democratic Party needs right now.” @markruffalo.bsky.social blasts Democratic leaders for refusing to back Zohran Mamdani — on the new episode of 'We’re Not Kidding' with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social.
This reply sums it up, IMO.
Amazingly there are multiple industries of underemployed people out there that are good at describing boring shit and making it sound interesting
You think i mean comms and marketing but actually i think they need to hire one single sales bro
The Washington Post is worth more to Jeff Bezos dead than alive
For the umpteenth time - immigration is a labor market problem
The way the sports writers prop up Notre Dame is hilarious. It makes for headlines like this, which devalues their opinions.
The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.
Jasmine Crockett pointed out recently in an interview that the reason she gets more fundraising than most other reps is because she's not doing what all the consultants, staffers, and handlers tell her (and everyone else) to do. It's almost like doing what got you elected is a good thing! 🤯🤣
Color. Always, with very few exceptions. I detest the automatic assumption that a B&W shot is more artistic or classy.
"But I am not shutting it down because of health care." "Opinion polls show that people care about health care. It is about health care." "Do the opinion polls show people like fascists and rapists?" "We don't poll that. We poll health care. It is popular."
"Ok, I want to shut down the government because I do not want to give a fascist rapist that runs the government and tried to murder me trillions of dollars. How should I spin this?" "Talk about health care" "What?" "This is about health care. Talk about health care."
Good framing here on Stephen Milker as the world's most powerful unelected bureaucrat," from @swin24.bsky.social and the gang. Also note the idea that Miller is dictating to Hegseth the militarization of cities and more: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
It shouldn't escape notice that Trump explicitly threatened to use *the state* to target anyone he and MAGA scapegoat for Charlie Kirk's murder. We really could see Stephen Miller and Kash Patel use the FBI for 60s-style domestic persecution. Some thoughts on that: newrepublic.com/article/2004...
The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...
…He is the problem. The problem with most authoritarian or totalitarian despotisms isn’t the true believers per se. There usually aren’t enough of them. The people who prop it up while not be earnest true believers and just going along to get along are the fuel for these repressive nightmares
It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.
Anyone named Brian Kilmeade should be involuntarily euthanized immediately /1
Ugh, all these girls and young women wearing the carpenter-style jeans that my first teenage crushes wore is really fucking with my head! 😂
So ratioed, you should delete your account.
Ok PBS just let David Brooks say that his friends texted him “this is our George Floyd”