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No??

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

To paraphrase Peggy Lee, that's all there is: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We just walked out of the state of the Union. My shirt showed Trump an important message: NO KINGS LIVE HERE. In the spirit of student protestors from the Civil Rights Movement, I’m proud to have protested and walked out with many of my colleagues. This is NOT a normal time.

submitted 7 days ago • 2020 comments

Reminder Trump is accused of sexual assault or harassment by more than two dozen women, and was found liable for sexual assault

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Ezra Klein's interview with the man who said Donald Trump became president when he bombed Syria was a waste of my precious time. Handsome doesn't make it sound any smarter. Zakaria tied the bow on his tired package with recommendations of books by Robert Kagan, Kissinger, and Walter Isaacson. Feh.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Whither Steven Cheung?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/

submitted 19 days ago • 41 comments

Rename Avenue of the Americas Avenida Sexta.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Just to remind what’s going w Musk, Doge, the trump administration. The real puppetmaster is Leonard Leo.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Stephen Miller : Emil Bove :: Pope Benedict : Uncle Fester

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

submitted 26 days ago • 556 comments

And for the third straight day, the rest of the legacy media did nothing to stand up for the First Amendment. No boycott, no walkout, nothing but business as usual. Then, they wonder why people are canceling subscriptions and turning off their TV's while independent news outlets are thriving.

submitted 26 days ago • 492 comments

I remember when Obama mildly criticized Fox News, the entire journalism world -- hey there, @jaketapper.bsky.social -- rose to its defense. Now Trump is excluding the AP from briefings & all the other media quislings are lining up for their slop without a word of protest.

submitted 26 days ago • 64 comments

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

submitted 26 days ago • 425 comments

My top Super Bowl memory is when Musk tweeted “Go Eagles” in 2023 from the game and then deleted it after a similar tweet from Biden got more engagement. Then he flew to Twitter HQ and demanded his workers find out why his posts were doing poorly, starting a multi-day fact finding mission.

submitted 30 days ago • 214 comments

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

submitted 30 days ago • 160 comments

There are a million things to be outraged about right now (this is by design). My number one is, trans people don’t have the numbers to defend themselves from all the ways these people are trying to strip them of their humanity. Feels like a “first they came for (x) and I did not speak out” moment

submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

Perfectly captured.

submitted 37 days ago • 1486 comments

House Dems’ superPAC is going up with this ad on cable nationally. youtu.be/7vqpeeq6Slk

submitted 39 days ago • 26 comments

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

submitted 39 days ago • 852 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 40 days ago • 2305 comments

I think I was happier before I knew Tim Walz existed. I just don't think I can handle the psychic damage of knowing there is a Democrat out there like him telling other Democrats exactly what they should be doing and getting ignored every time. I was happier thinking the entire party was clueless.

submitted 39 days ago • 84 comments

the richest man in the world has been installed in the government and he is very clearly trying to subvert it for his own ends.

submitted 39 days ago • 140 comments

Dems should not allow anything to move in the House or Senate until this is dealt with. Dem have the power in both chambers to jam up the works, and they need to use it. That isn't a radical tactic, it's what the GOP has done for years for trivial matters. Unlike this, which is catastrophic.

submitted 39 days ago • 98 comments

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Appreciate this candid @pkrugman.bsky.social in the Contrarian on why he left the Times opinion dept. I get it contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

submitted 42 days ago • 16 comments

Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.

submitted 42 days ago • 64 comments

One thing I really wish more journalists would repeat like parrots when discussing birthright citizenship is that, unless you're naturalized (and a few other exceptions), that is how you got your citizenship. Even if your family goes back to the Mayflower, you got it that way.

submitted 50 days ago • 25 comments

Proud to have never, not once, clicked on a PMel P*ul opinion headline.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

News: Pamela Paul is out at New York Times Opinion nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 53 days ago • 57 comments

Let me state this more clearly: If Dems can't make a stink out of fact that Aileen Cannon is preventing Dick Durbin from learning info directly relevant to Kash Patel's suitability to be FBI Director, they wouldn't make use of any report that gets released anyway. www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/15/k...

submitted 58 days ago • 32 comments

We stomped the mangosteens with added malice after the guard forbade us from eating them. Our appeal to the spirit of João VI the Clement, founder of the garden, went unheard in our Google Translate Portuguese.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Opposing the majority party is being the opposition party; signing on to what the majority party does makes you the junior partner in a governing coalition. When they succeed you get zero credit and when they fail you share blame. This isn’t hard, nor is it new ground.

submitted 60 days ago • 12 comments

Interesting “repetition” explanation below for egregiously kneecapping of an award winning cartoonist from the guy who pubbed two columns in two days about Biden being old by two guys, both named — checks notes — David. A double Dave, if you will! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/b...

submitted 66 days ago • 26 comments

What’s almost worse is that there’s no evidence Bezos even knew about this. It’s David Shipley (and probably Will Lewis) making the cowardly call.

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

“‘Not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force,’ [The Post’s opinions editor David] Shipley said in [a] statement.” (ɴᴀʀʀᴀᴛᴏʀ: ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ɴᴏᴛ ᴀ ᴘᴀʀᴛɪᴄᴜʟᴀʀʟʏ ʀᴇᴀꜱꜱᴜʀɪɴɢ ᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴀʏ.) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/b...

submitted 66 days ago • 212 comments

my pet theory is that when voters say they want "bipartisan" what they mean is "policies I like without vocal opposition to them", while when Congress hears "bipartisan" what they mean is "half measures that make both parties fully complicit in presidential governance."

submitted 66 days ago • 15 comments

Israel is killing Palestinians in Gaza on Christmas Eve. Israel has been killing Palestinians every day for more than a year. Every day, Palestinians in Gaza face new and unimaginable horrors and massacres. The U.S. supports, funds, and is complicit in this genocide.