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Scoop: Washington Post editor Ruth Marcus says she’s resigning after a column on Jeff Bezos’s Wall Street Journal-like opinion pivot was rejected by Will Lewis

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Are Democrats the party of the elites? We asked four billionaires at a Trump cabinet meeting.

submitted 4 hours ago • 14 comments

It is far too fucking late to comply in advance, so just do the best you can to not comply.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

James Bond is clever and decisive, but he usually ends up getting a lot of bystanders outside the metropole—and sometimes within it—killed through his clever decisiveness. Thus I question just how "smart" he is, and whether we tend to discount the reckless downside of his decisiveness.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 20 hours ago • 235 comments

Also, start dropping the egg shortage, high pricing into social media and forums not aimed at those engaged in politics. I was noticing this behavior last year with lots of complaints about inflation, say, on music forums that I frequent.

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The whole egg price thing is clearly irritating Trump and his supporters, so no one should get bored with mentioning they are in short supply and continue to be expensive by historical standards. It's dumb, it's mundane, but it's also politically effective.

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This article says the backlash against Tesla has "turned violence," but then describes nothing but property damage, and notes that "Arrests were made at a nonviolent protest at a Tesla dealership in Lower Manhattan on Saturday." PROPERTY DAMAGE IS NOT VIOLENCE.

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jd vance is a groyper part infinity talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

New at Tusk: Democrats are more focused on following public opinion than molding it

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Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

It's interesting that collectively we still can't decide whether Trump is a doddering fool living on luck or a cunning genius of manipulation.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I'm not being out of pocket this man IS the press HE is interested in it. WE are interested in it. It's not the press who is disinterested, it's the publishers...I think. The rich, rich, richie rich fucking publishers.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

the vice president of the united states is a groyper who spends his online time following nazis and esoteric reactionary influencers is true and yet the press seems completely disinterested in it

submitted 6 days ago • 155 comments

It's horseshit, but surprisingly widespread. I routinely encounter it not just on social media but in other contexts as well. It's one place attacks on Biden and by extension Harris as warmongers allowed Trump to be seen as more peaceful by contrast. Which never made any sense. But here we are.

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trump was literally president for four years during which he wildly escalated drone warfare, tried to provoke a war with Iran and got into dangerous saber-rattling with north korea. now, he is threatening to take greenland and the panama canal by force. what is this horseshit?

submitted 6 days ago • 255 comments

Anyway, periodic reminder that congress can, and should, end this any time

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‘Prelude to privatization:’ Social Security confirms workforce reduction targets, continues to shutter offices www.govexec.com/workforce/20... via @GovExec

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Is this one about free markets or personal liberty?

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Opinion | I bought a Tesla, made my book club read The Hillbilly Elegy, and treated Andrew Cuomo's Covid press conferences as appointment viewing. Here's why progressives lack the judgement to hold leadership roles in the Democratic Party.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

The same party that shouted that Obama was a liar and booed Biden during their formal addresses to Congress is now worried about people disrespecting the president with crossed arms.

submitted 8 days ago • 336 comments

It's so cute how they assume there will be anything like regular elections going forward rather than needing to rethink the entire political field and how they might need to work to reshape that given where things are likely to be at in 2026 and beyond.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is 100% bullshit. There are no algorithms. Musk and his incel clown posse are not forensic accountants and do not know how to audit. Discovering fraud is a labor-intensive project that can never be done by looking at payments alone. This is just a thinly-veiled rationale to gut Social Security.

submitted 8 days ago • 249 comments

One way you can tell that DOGE is not doing what they claim they are, modernizing tech or finding waste, is bc Trump and DOGE have ousted 3 entities who ALREADY WERE DOING THAT. @donmoyn.bsky.social describes two here, USDS and 18F. The third are the IGs. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-te...

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

a crypto presidency is the natural endgame, a purely sociopathic endeavor concerned only with personal profit and ready to scam or destroy everyone and everything else in pursuit of it

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This was the end goal of crypto aligning behind Trump - the crypto economy has very few actual dollars in it and relies on finding new people to hold the bag to get their dollars. The US government is the ultimate bag holder and they’re going to use your tax dollars to bail out crypto owners.

submitted 8 days ago • 82 comments

Lemme share something with you. A lot of semi-Trumpy types are saying Zelensky blew it. All he had to do was show up, shake hands, say Trump is great and sign the docs. He couldn't do that. But there are also people in DC who are not Trumpy who are saying the same thing. Now, big picture this ...

submitted 8 days ago • 181 comments

the details here are quite technical. there's finding money and there's finding money. but agreeing to spend USG money that is not appropriated is actually a statutory crime on the part of the individual who makes the obligation. So not Trump, but the appointee/employee who does it.

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

Here’s a 1937 editorial from the New London Day calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme.” Musk is drawing on some of the oldest cliches of anti-New Deal politics.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

are we allowed to point out they're targeting women and minorities then replacing them with unqualified white men or is that woke DEI

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Not holding townhalls because constituents are pissed off is the civic equivalent and stopping testing because that way the COVID numbers can't go up.

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From my 2017 essay, "Send the interns." pressthink.org/2017/01/send... It is relevant again because we have headlines today like this from Politico. "White House seizes control of press pool, will decide which outlets cover events with president."

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I'm just a simple country copy editor hikes overall straps spits into cuspidor but what if White House–covering journalists, such as they are, stopped showing up en masse for White House press conferences, such as they are. What's the loss here.

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Republicans want you dead. All of them. Make a note of it.

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It’s a first step toward advancing key elements of Trump’s fiscal agenda — and a first test of Trump’s ability to force the Republican Party to get in line, even as his administration takes a sledgehammer to the separation of powers.

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I want to address a related point to the one I raised in this thread. A couple years ago the Times did a really strong package about the power of SpaceX. Not only is SpaceX. Not only is it now one if not the preemptive orbital delivery company in the world it also has a fleet of ...

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments