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#NoKings coverage was better by smaller outlets while editors of influential news outlets like NYTimes / WSJ / WaPo continue downplay & dampen coverage of the pro-democracy movement and demonstrations like #NoKings. See our analysis: mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/no-kings-c... 1/n

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

The NYT decided to kick trans people in the teeth the day after Skrmetti. They wrote a hit piece blaming trans people for their own oppression and attacked the people who have fought hardest to stop this effort to eradicate us. They turned to Brianna Wu to further their narrative.

submitted 4 days ago • 125 comments

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

submitted 4 days ago • 167 comments

Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 5 days ago • 739 comments

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

submitted 5 days ago • 197 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 5 days ago • 542 comments

The answer is in ICE's selection of targets: * Democratic politicians in public * Immigrants attending court hearings, at work, or at schools None of those people will be armed. On the flipside, ICE is scrupulously avoiding raids on cartel affiliates, drug dealing sites, etc. They might be armed.

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

I did not have "The Senate version of the Big Beautiful Bill would dump more people from Medicaid & subsequently kill more people" on my Bingo card. But that's exactly what happened. Here are the details from the Senate Finance Committee's draft, released yesterday: prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Trump Mouths Lyrics To ‘Happy Birthday’ While National Anthem Plays

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1966...

submitted 12 days ago • 162 comments

Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

submitted 11 days ago • 115 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 12 days ago • 503 comments

Love Ezra, but he's wrong. Counterpoint from this neuroscientist: Emotions are evolution's way of organizing our brains to coherent action. Deployed well, emotions win wars & create revolutions. Hating authoritarianism is a way of recruiting normies. Of course one must look like one is in control.

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

More broadly, political commentators & strategists need to get it into their head that most people’s “opinions” on most political topics are so shallow as to be virtually nonexistent. The practice of polling itself has manufactured this illusion that voters have views on every imaginable policy.

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

Somehow the "We need to support policies that are popular" crowd never land on the very popular polices like "taxing big corporation more," "making health care more affordable," or "paying teachers more." It's always just "be 10% more racist."

submitted 19 days ago • 46 comments

“The president’s solutions-focused approach to legal roadblocks necessitated thinking outside the constitutional box.”

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

Can't recall a Dem with this high a profile ever before calling Susan Collins out, in so many words, as a fraud. When the topic turned to Collins, Obama and Biden typically puffed her up -- either to telegraph their bipartisan bona fides or woo her. (Never worked. Not once.) Progress! #MEpolitics

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

It’s fine, he’s just got all your personal data. 💊💉

submitted 23 days ago • 419 comments

The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an input by a much broader swathe of manufacturers. econofact.org/steel-tariff...

submitted 23 days ago • 42 comments

Thanks so much, Greg! The piece we talked about is here: www.weekendreading.net/p/the-re-eme...

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

This is a powerful indictment of how badly elites failed during the 2024 election to alert voters to the full scale of the threat of corruption and authoritarianism that Trump posed, from @mikepod.bsky.social on the pod. Transcript here: newrepublic.com/article/1956...

submitted 31 days ago • 49 comments

Bringing this to Bsky bc @steverattner.bsky.social hasn't posted it yet and it's so critical. The entirety of the cuts to Medicaid and food benefits are to pay for tax cuts for people earning more than half a million a year. Call Congress: 202-224-3121

submitted 32 days ago • 58 comments

The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up "a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president

submitted 32 days ago • 220 comments