Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
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Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
uhhhh
A reminder at awful times like this
I keep coming back to the fact that views are monetized incentivizing posting the most horrendous crap so it gets people to qt, outraged or otherwise.
The replies to this tweet were recommended to me when I opened the app. The people making these replies are making hundreds or thousands of dollars off them - they're monetized and look how much engagement they're getting. It's become a fullbore funding mechanism for white supremacy.
Twitter has become a terminal cancer for our country, a neverending crisis pouring the worst kind of bigotry imaginable into the public mind, and no one will even talk about it. Most of our elites in journalism and politics still rely on it!
🔥 Sometimes fighting for democracy and opposing the rise of fascism means throwing on a sleeping mask and catching some Z’s on the house floor 😴
LA: “Your children will one day grow up and know their fathers or mothers were kidnappers against our own people.”
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
And through it all, he hasn't offered single suggestion he might have been wrong. So yeah! Be mad at the guy!
No, I think the anger at Yglesias is merited, frankly. The practice of floridly insulting people to build social cred is toxic in pretty much every instance, including when it's directed at him. HOWEVER: he is also hugely influential in top Dem circles and his political philosophy is very harmful.
as always, the secret is to combine two items in your inventory into one :)
The interpreter is putting her whole signussy into this and I'm here for it.
Can one of y'all check my math please: 5 bank accounts + 3 ounces + 2 vehicles = Me - You Does this look right to y'all?
it just might bsky.app/profile/atru...
We do need to collectively examine how if a tech bro or physicist or tech bro claiming to be a physicist says anything about anything it’s treated as totally plausible and worth listening to.
🚨WATCH: “THIS PROJECT & AIRPORT ARE IN MY DISTRICT.” Lee has Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social BLOCKED from entering an event announcing a state-sanctioned private Tesla Tunnel from Nashville airport - Elon Musk will control. (Republicans were allowed in) Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DMsqzpJ...
“When he reached the Israeli prison, U.S. human rights defender Chris Smalls was physically assaulted by seven uniformed individuals. They choked him and kicked him in the legs...” Assaulted an American illegally kidnapped from international waters, and US politicians will say nothing.
The Trump administration has failed to provide access to attorneys for people detained in horrid conditions at “Alligator Alcatraz.” Representation is a legal right — we’ll see Trump in court.
Linda McMahon, Trump’s education secretary who is the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, was sued last year by former WWE “ring boys” who said McMahon knowingly allowed a ringside announcer to sexually abuse them. 6/
Absolutely relentlessly on-message, even when he's meeting the RZA it's like "have you heard about my campaign theme of affordability?" (in response to a genuinely tough question!)
average online discussion tbh
Casts Mike Johnson's decision to cancel votes and flee in a somewhat different light. Would LOVE to know when he was informed that this was coming www.wsj.com/politics/jus...
A secret cabal of pedophiles and sex traffickers with ties to politicians and the rich and powerful? There’s only 2 men cut out to get to the bottom of this case
We are so fucking back dude
SCROOGE (Walton Goggins) (VO): It had been seven years Old Marley had been dead. Unless this is known, nothing fantastic can be understood MARLEY (Danny McBride) flings open BEDROOM DOOR: Hey Scrooge what's up you sassy son of a bitch. Who decorated this place Jack the Ripper
3) failure to interrogate the news. who wrote it? what do they want you to hear? who are their sources? what do their sources want you to hear? when did everyone say or do the things they said and did, and is that different context than now?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Big ups for being one of 12 people who still remember and love this musical.
Bruh he would eat Donald Trump ALIVE.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) will FINALLY be deposed today, under oath, with regard to his role in the Dr. Richard Strauss sex abuse scandal at Ohio State University. thehill.com/homenews/sta...
he would then tell lies to every group he cultivated about how his power came from other groups whose dynamics the others did not understand. he sold the idea of being involved in intelligence to billionaires. he sold the idea that he was the center of a billionaire conspiracy to intelligence. so on
[whispering] the same is true of a sufficiently large social media following
oooooo, now this is SPICY.
"the chatbot is always going to gas you up if you tell it to" is a core thing to understand with these goddamn tools
ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days. They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention. Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...
FBI agents assigned to review files in the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein were explicitly instructed to flag any documents that mentioned Donald Trump. #3E #OpDeathEaters www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/t...
Chuck Grassley Complicit in Sending Dozens of Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/17/c...
As the esteemed progressive Harry Jaffa once famously wrote, extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
It is not ideal and it's not democratic, but it's necessary for us to continue to have a democracy at all.
Another pattern: many of the "Bluesky is dying"/"Bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces make the fundamental error of assuming that social media platforms like Bluesky and X exist solely or primarily for the purpose of U.S. partisan political debate, to the exclusion of other forms of posting.
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
Christmas Creep but instead it’s declaring you’ll never vote for someone a full 3.5 years before the election in question.
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.
[MAGA world suddenly looking at the photos and videos of Trump being weird with teenage girls and putting it together like the end of “The Usual Suspects” only it takes three hours because there’s a LOT of material to get through]
They're literally burning food because they didn't want to give it to starving black and brown people.
“Can Democrats keep up the pressure to make GOP defections and discomfort more likely? And can they not only fan some MAGA flames but explain to the broader public that there is an authentic scandal here? This last point is key.” www.thebulwark.com/p/what-donal...
Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
💯💯! Right now, we've seen most corporations bowing to Trump. But when millions of us show our resistance, "civil society" (universities, businesses, media, health systems) can see that aligning w/ us against Trump aligns w/ their own interests. And that's required to pushback. ✊🏽🤜🤛💪🏾
What’s going on with my "boubas" and, in some cases, "kikis?”
Calling a nigga that got shunned by his entire nation and stood ten toes onnat while STILL being hated by every nation soft gotta be some kinda crime 😭😭
And this shit right here is why ALL PROTESTS ARE IMPORTANT. So miss me next time with your "But what is your twenty point action plan to turn this protest into change" bullshit.
As someone who is brown, and disabled, no, men are pretty "picky" about race and disability. Ive had men curious whether the epilepsy makes the sex "extra fun" but quite clear that it made me "unworthy" of being around. Men most certainly are not unpicky.
ALRIGHT, I was hoping they'd start with this for Werewolf night. This is the BEST werewolf movie ever made, and I will DIE on that hill. #MutantFam #FrightClub #TheLastDriveIn
Chesterton's fence is, in short, the principle that it is foolhardy to remove a fence without knowing why it was put there in the first place.
Not arguing is not the same as agreeing. It doesn't surprise me that people who write articles like this would confuse the two, though.
Not arguing is not the same as agreeing.
Read also @jacobgrier.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net on Superman. We as a nation need to confront the fact that Superman *is* woke. Our greatest heroes are all woke. That's *why* they inspire us.
Under Kristi Noem's leadership, ICE is illegally obstructing Members of Congress from conducting oversight. She has spent billions of dollars to terrorize our communities and inhumanely detain our neighbors. I have already told her to her face - Kristi Noem must resign!
Who trynna go bop for bop rn?!?!
How is it possible Will Stancil was the victim of Elon Musk, the most hated man in the Twitter refugee community that is Bluesky, and people can't respect him for fighting back?
Tbh, I think the problem here is less the Democratic Party and more the "centrist" media. Like, Dean Phillips is not currently elected to anything, and he is actually pretty disliked by the Democratic establishment for being a rat. Why are they interviewing him except to push an agenda?
"Everyone is entitled to an opinion" falls sooo short. First of all, I don't think entitlement is a requisite. Second, if your opinion is under-informed and/or based on spurious or malicious nonsense, then no-- it is not entitled to an objective discussion in public.
this is good shit.
...personally, if you can win an election in your district and you'll vote for a Democratic speaker, I do not give a shit if you don't think socialists should be in the Democratic party, I would like to control the House and the Senate.
i'm the guy who replies to your top 10 favorite albums list, an extraordinarily subjective and exclusive list by its very definition, with "you forgot music o'clock by gary guitar and the rockin' instrument band"
"Our disagreement with fascism is, ultimately, one of values." Opponents of fascism "must offer a clear, compelling, and coherent story" about "just how dangerous, how utterly society-destroying, the far right's story is." Really rich essay by @polphilpod.bsky.social.
My only comment on the 'bluesky user number' discourse is that assuming the project is bascially sustainable from an economic lens, not every social platform needs to become huge. My RPG-and-old-EVE-buddies discord has, like, two-dozen people in it and it does exactly what I want it to.
Thanks jibjab hot dog.
A Trump to Zohran voter, cites his support for making housing affordable and that Zohran "seems to listen us." gothamist.com/news/why-man...
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
I would, perhaps, not take New York Times reporting on how desperate other Dems are to stop Mamdani at face value
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Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.
Y'all are amazing.
Add to that, the entire point of being a Public Servant is that you are serving the public, even when it requires you to risk yourself.
WE JUST NEED FOUR REPUBLICANS TO STAND WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. FOUR.
In general it’s fine to post “we’re fucked” on your own account because you might feel that way and it might be therapeutic to say how bad everything is, but it’s not fine to reply “we’re fucked” to everyone and everything because that might not be what other people need to hear all the time
German death camps started as deportation camps. In the beginning, POC & Jewish Germans were told to “self-deport.” Then came the kidnappings, arrests, trains, & gas chambers…. Evil happens when good people do nothing. What this administration is doing is evil & inexcusable.
i'm taking "mini unemployment" by eating a mid-day meal at my job lasting 30-60 minutes
Doing a leave of absence (looking at Bluesky on my phone during a boring meeting)
taking a “sabbatical, jr.” (trip to the bathroom)
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CALL YOUR REPS! Especially if they are MAGA. Tell them to change their vote. Tell them they will kill their constituents if they don’t. Tell them you intend to support anyone running against them if they don’t kill the bill. DON’T QUIT.
There are a lot of people in my comments today who don’t seem to know that: 1. congressional offices track calls by topic area and comment 2. tying up staff resources always gets to the Congressperson in charge 3. flooding the lines sends a message that we will not roll over for fascism.
A very precise message. Principled, clear, strong, but not hyperbolic. And he has a much larger national platform than he did when he won because he’s been attacked by the President & prominent Dems. Political Jiujitsu. Well done.
inspiring leadership
The more I think about this statement the more remarkable it is. Zohran Mamdani is basically saying: If you threaten immigrants with your secret police, you're threatening all of us. Very solidaristic. Dems can learn from this.
Can only speak for myself, but in a piece yesterday I used this term because as far as I knew there was no official name for the facility. But I’ve been reflecting as I work on a potential follow-up story and have decided moving forward I will refer to it as a concentration camp.
jesus fucking christ bro we get it you're evil
I knew it! “Some companies may actually find it profitable to create hassles for complaining customers.” (Harvard Business Review) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
the most pejorative words are accurate, or accurate enough. Is "Nazi" the perfect description? No, it really isn't, as the MAGA christian nationalist ideology has its own specific character. But it's a fine word to use honestly. but concentration camps and fascism are simply correct.
people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research
even if that somehow meant 30% less CEO innovation in Cool Ranch Doritos packaging then this would still be a price a democratic citizenry should be willing to pay
1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them
Dionne Warwick may have randomly saved this show btw.
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