Ted

Disgusting.

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Enshittification, in a single skeet.

Whether it’s Hillary Clinton sharing a risotto recipe over email on a private server or Donald Trump choosing to fly in a plane packed with the electronics of a foreign country, both leaders have tested the boundaries of acceptable security practices.

CNN homepage with How Trump managed to get his much-needed China trade win in big letters and then a separate article in small letters saying Trump's China trade breakthrough might be enough to avoid self-inflicted recession

As an example of how much the media is failing the nation I present to you the first thing you see on CNN right now

C'mon - that's just sophistry. They are using unitary as meaning not subject to legislative or judicial branch control - even King Henry VII assigned all kinds of efforts to Thomas Cromwell and other courtiers.

And read PARADOX OF DEMOCRACY by Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing

I've said this a million times, but I'll say it again: it is truly striking how many Democratic politicians, pundits, and commentators have internalized the idea that the right shapes public opinion and it is the job of the left to respond to it.

Photo of an older woman being lifted out of a crowd by a dipshit trooper and she’s throwing peace signs A woman who asked about Trump's tariff plan was lifted out of her seat and carried away at Mike Lawler's town hall meeting. Shameful.

Okay but what a bamf

WSJ headline that reads "breaking news: openAI has abandoned its controversial plan to convert into a for-profit company"

[finger to earpiece] sir I'm getting word that people aren't exactly in love with our plan to steal all copyrighted material and then make money off of it

"All of a sudden, out of nowhere," the courts said we have to follow the Constitution.

So standing up to the fascists just makes them tuck their tails and give up hmmm…

IDEA: Stop covering politics like its a fucking sporting event.

The GOP spending cuts don't provide an "opening" for Democrats to attack. They are either going to harm people or not. Journalism is supposed to be about informing people.

Free speech is essential for democracy. Could it also be democracy’s downfall? Margaret Sullivan and I talk about my new book, The Paradox of Democracy.

You might also be interested in THE PARADOX OF DEMOCRACY, which looks at evolution and impact of different media throughout history: www.vox.com/vox-conversa...

You know you grow up taking the Declaration of Independence for granted, then you reread it rn and realize that it goes so damn hard

This is utterly shitty behavior. This person should be fired and never work in publishing again. Authors, please know that even when good agents can be overwhelmed with the volume of submissions, we would never be publicly derisive about any of them.

I write, and I teach writing. I have the necessary credentials to get read by anyone I choose to share my work with.

I'm the audience for this guy's "humor" and I'm telling him and everyone else that punching down isn't funny. It's just mean.

Every industry has its toxic assholes.

Growing a Spine on El Salvador Is Good Politics Grant Democrats the courage to change the things they can change and the PR advisers to help them talk about the rest.

Only a political consultant could ask whether it's really good politics or not to oppose the Trump administration disappearing refugees to a foreign concentration camp.

I simply do not understand how a NEWS ORGANIZATION is basically existing in a stage of siege but very rarely conveys in its political coverage that we are in a state of emergency

Reminder that Joni Ernst, who is up for re-election next year, voted to confirm Hegseth. After pretending she wouldn't

Reminder that Thom Tillis, who is up for re-election next year, voted to confirm Hegseth. After pretending he wouldn't

Reminder that Lindsey Graham is up for re-election next year

To paraphrase @brendannyhan.bsky.social, we're endangering the future of the richest and most powerful financial system in the history of humanity. For nothing. Over nothing.

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With the news media’s enthusiastic help, Trump turned a minor breach of communications protocol into a “Lock her up” scandal that lasted years. But Pete Hegseth’s sharing of military attack plans with his wife and a journalist are no biggie.
Everything Republicans say is bullshit.

The official White House Twitter account tweeted the following: "Fixed it for you, @NYTimes. Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen — he’s NOT coming back."

The sheer fucking arrogance here is just something else...

If it was worthless they wouldn't have stolen it, and this should be obvious to everyone.

If you had told me during the Clinton impeachment circus that Alan Dershowitz, Mark Penn, Jonathan Turley, and Mark Halperin would all be full-blown fascists some day, I would have said that you were probably right.

Say more, Senator. Who, specifically, are you afraid of? Who do they work for? To which political party do they belong? What are they doing/saying in particular to make you afraid? Why will you not explicitly call out the perpetrators and organizers of this mass campaign of terror?

A stamp that reads “Not to be removed from the library”

10/10 tattoo idea right here

this is just a horrible, pathological liar. we know that. but they know they've lost the public on this one. the escalation is the giveaway

A plea.

Can we stop declaring this a “constitutional crisis?”

It’s bigger.

It’s a crisis about fundamental American ideals and structures.

“Constitutional crisis” makes it sound like an abstract lawyerly crisis

It’s bigger.

"This isn't a battle of your choosing. But it is the battle for which you will always be judged. This is the moment you must show the world and history which side of the Edmund Pettis Bridge you are standing on." - Stuart Stevens

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process.

If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.