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Also, surely this should be the core media narrative about this war - they’re not doing it for any reason they can articulate! There’s no intelligence supporting their claims, Trump himself seemed to think it was a bad idea a week ago, but no one’s in charge and Trump is an easily-pressured fool

This is a truly despicable way to treat a person who put their life and honor on the line for this country. What the fuck is wrong with these people.

You almost have to appreciate just how beautifully this illustrates the gerontocratic nature of American politics: the Ancient Umbrella is imbued with more experience simply because it existed longer.

Every accusation is an admission

Double.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

"Lose 3 pounds a week easily with this one unexpected ingredient!" Traditional headlines summarize the information in a news story as succinctly as possible. Forward-references headlines drive clicks by teasing but not revealing the key point of the story, Anyway, now in the gray lady.

Welcome to America, where protesting illegal kidnappings without due process is an insurrection, but attacking the nation’s Capitol is not.

Democrats… learn something from this

This should have been the USA on January 21, 2021

When Obama and Biden won, Republicans said “fuck them, we’ll break them” and went on to rally their base. When Republicans win, Democrats blame their left and say “we’ll work with Republicans.” And it fucking sucks.

WSJ: BLS “told outside economists this week that a hiring freeze at the agency was forcing the survey to cut back on the number of businesses where it checks prices.” 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/cpi-...

new loyalty tests for federal workers www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

it is funny that I somewhat rebelliously got into film as the "lower art form" when I was in school reading the great books, and now I feel like I'm championing film as the "high art form" in a sea of short form slop. But I didn't move, culture did

rule of law is endangered, says man who made the president a king

What in the entire hell?

This is why they don’t want to do due process.

Trump-appointed Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’ www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Just to be clear, we reached the arresting-judges-and-deporting-US-citizens-without-due-process stage of the slide into authoritarianism today. And the citizens in question included a toddler and a child with cancer who needs treatment in the US.

there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of more moderate democrats being aggressive opponents of the white house and holding public events highlighting their opposition

Circling back on this…

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

Do you think, if Joe Biden was like “we’re going to cause a recession but after that we’ll have a golden age,” that the Washington Post would say “oh he’s just not explaining his plan very well”?

“Artillery in the war against the entropy of our attention” is a god tier sentence, Andy Greenwald, still got it

Eric Adams is Tammany Hall 2.0 www.thecity.nyc/2025/03/15/t...

Selection of German headlines this morning: “It’s now the law of the jungle” “The former leading power of the West can no longer be relied upon.” “Now it's up to the Europeans” “The worst case is now the new normal” “The free world needs a new leader”

If one guy holds most of the tech people rely on, it is a vulnerability, but also it's one guy: as a global population we should be able to easily just take it from him, so it seems to me the real vulnerability is an internalized belief that private ownership is more sacrosanct than human thriving.

Obama and Biden may think they are honoring the office of the presidency by keeping quiet at a moment like this — if so that’s just preening vanity — they owe it to the office and to the Republic that until last month it served to speak up loudly and clearly and without relent.

Firing the militaries legal oversight to rollback “Roadblocks to anything that happens” Is just the republicans telegraphing that they are going to deploy troops into the country to kill our neighbors and friends.

This land is your land, this land is my land. The kleptocrats want to steal it from us to add to their riches. We cannot allow the disposal of federal lands. As important, we need people working every day to care for our land.

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

The people running the federal government hate New York City and want to punish people who live here for (by and large) having views and living lives that they dislike. Any gussied-up justification is working backwards from that desired result

If Hochul had a backbone and had the political instincts of a republican, she would refuse to honor this and direct the MTA to continue to do so anyway. States rights!!

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

NY City Council speaker Adrienne Adams: "With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign."

I’m sorry, is it 2003 or 2025?

Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.

I don’t even think they’re smart enough to realize this is what would happen - they’re too hyper focused on immigrants to think through the implications of the laws they’re writing. But rather than back down, they will just shrug when it’s pointed out that this will disenfranchise 69 million women.

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

she is useless and worse than useless

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.” www.slowboring.com/p/what-usaid...

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

been thinking about/working on a "can cowboys and patriotism ever be reclaimed" essay and honestly thank you kendrick for doing a very good object lesson in how we might

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

There is still beauty in this world

The depressing thing for me about the hot coffee case is how many people were so keen to side with the massive corporation. Even if all the mythology for true - that the plaintiff got millions just for getting a slightly-too-hot coffee - I'd still be somewhere between on her side and indifferent.