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incredibly racist...

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

this asshole's dad, were he alive, would have disowned him...

have they ever fucked up in the opposite direction, quoting some guy they say is a rando but is actually a dem operative? why is it always republicans?

there are a ton of hilarious examples of this but none will ever top the participant in the NYT's recurring 2024 "focus group" who worked for one of the largest Republican political consulting firms in America.

Also, I'd love to know how two different stories -- each written by three reporters, with no overlap in the authors -- managed to find Jolene Riessen and make her the stand-in for apolitical Iowa farmers.

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

It’s late October. People are voting right now. If you cannot deliver a convincing, full throated endorsement of the Democratic nominee in the potentially deciding race for the Senate, stay the fuck off television

Not that it's the point of this to inform but none of these people really know how elections work

counter-point to matt's: i think what's less healthy is that a few obscenely wealthy people have developed strong rooting interests elections in countries they don't live in...

Note the key phrase "so many people." Yglesias thinks it's fine—good in fact—that American billionaires are very interested in foreign elections and routinely influence them to promote corruption and fascism. His concern is that filthy plebs like you and me might want better things for everyone.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

The US is not about to have a free and fair election. The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor the ruling party in multiple ways. It's a mostly free, somewhat unfair election. But still one where the ruling party can be overwhelmed by numbers. Hence the term "competitive authoritarianism."

These people don’t want to win; they don’t even want to persuade. They want a world where they are a pure and rarified elite, with none of the responsibilities of actual power, only the smug gratification of being right.

i would bet $100 that trump neither wrote or even dictated 90% of this...

I'm going to point out that Jesse Singal has a very public track record of being intensely, specifically cruel to individuals, specifically the trans people who criticize him, whom he has hounded to their workplaces, harassed online, and (at times) successfully gotten fired from their jobs

i've been thinking about this for hours, and i think i've come to the opinion that stevens should lose any democratic party primary she runs in from here on out. she is very literally and publicly *refusing to be a team player.* i had her read from the drop...

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

if an athlete said some shit like this, more often than not they'd get traded...

I’m a father of two and you could not torture this story out of me.

When Democrats do well this fall, we’re going to see a lot of “strategists” trying to take credit for their approach. The trans panic people have been nothing but a drag on Democratic momentum and they need to fuck off into the sun

Interesting what overseas kids Elon sympathizes with and which he throws in the woodchipper.

Jesus Christ, these people fucking suck. What is even the point of not responding with a simple, "Yes, of course"? Even for people who don't like El-Sayed, you sound like a fucking mutant who was raised in a lab with this answer.

Obama is still the most gifted political communicator of my lifetime and it isn’t particularly close

thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"

Getting special exemptions for SpaceX that put it into stock indices unprecedentedly early, thereby getting money from big funds that can buy only safe investments, was worth more to Musk than all the hundreds of millions of dollars he’s spent trying to buy elections. Much more. Incredibly corrupt.

i was taking a sip of beer when i saw this and literally almost did a spit-take...

internet connection. weed. leonardo dicaprio. taco bell not fucking up my drive-thru order (barely).

not that i do, but someone that cares about the people who run polymarket should explain to them that fucking up peoples' small joys in life is not only an ineffective way to advertise - this is like putting up a billboard blocking the swings at the park - but people will actively hate you for it.

james carville gets in the news for a hot minute, again... sensing that, his heir apparent, yglesias, springs from his perch to present himself as the new bastion of defeatism...

let me get this right, Tesla wants to put a reverse Oceangate sub disaster next to a select group of the richest idiots and Elon Musk stans alive... and you're booing?

It strikes me that Yglesias just has no concept of non-electoral politics whatsoever. He has a set of cookie-cutter advice for political candidates in general elections. He applies this advice to literally everyone all the time. This is dumb for obvious reasons that are hard to miss.

Running for Congress in Iowa.

from the bottom of my heart: matthew yglesias seems to desperately want to accede to james carville's spot in politics: chief purveyor of saying selling out on an issue is a smart move for the dems, when he's really just trying to intellectualize his own personal prejudices and hang-ups...

People were uncomfortable sharing drinking fountains with black people. Their need for comfort doesn't supercede others' need for liberty.

The fetishisation of "debate" as some sort of grand public good that everyone should do is so thoughtless and jarring to me because the more you actually do it the more it becomes apparent that genuinely constructive debate is actually a pretty niche thing.

Evil billionaire pushes thousands into sex work and death from lack of medicine while he profits from politicians he bought and paid for would sound absurd in a novel but it’s literally the Elon Musk story

if you ever write an article about a guy saying hes done with politics and then a month or so later hes making the largest political donation in history then you need to quit and find another line of work

The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!

It's bleak that Serious News Outlets will tie themselves into knots writing headlines that obscure the horrors of a story while @people.com just waltzes in and calls it like it is.

Democrats should really feature these creeps their extensive ties to this administration.

The Republican Party has become so utterly fucking vile I hardly even know what to say any more. If you support this kind of shit, you're just a bad person and should feel bad about yourself. I don't know whether that's "helpful messaging" but it's the truth.