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Hey, @nytimes.com & @patrickhealynyt.bsky.social, how come the news piece on this report from House Committee on the Judiciary Dems doesn't get into the credible new rape allegations? As a decades-long subscriber, tell me how does this not rate the "But her emails" treatment Hillary Clinton got?

What Kamala Harris proposes in not impeaching Trump is this the same reason why letting Jefferson Davis and the rest of the Confederate soldiers and leaders off the hook was a bad idea.. We've been paying for it ever since😡

Here's hoping! (Made in Photoshop, not with AI.)

It's amazing how editors will say "we can't see inside this public figure's mind," "we can't assume their intentions" — and then write stuff like this.

Seal of appoval.

Lot of folks (self included) expressing despair that despite aggressive prosecuting fascists ("doing everything right") Brazil was still going to get Bolsonaro-ed and the fact this guy gtfo-ed as quickly as he did should be a big signal for the AOC DOJ to go *hard* in 2029.

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Hey, @nytimes.com @patrickhealynyt.bsky.social, so what's up with underplaying this? Trying to find out if there's a "Hillary's email" angle to it?

@nytimes.com @patrickhealynyt.bsky.social Why is the USA "paper of record" hiding that the House Dems' report revealed more—and previously unreported—credible allegations of rape by Donald trump?

@nytimes.com @patrickhealynyt.bsky.social So what's up with the USA paper of record not recognizing this as an important story? Haven't found the angle that could implicate Hillary Clinton's emails yet?

@patrickhealynyt.bsky.social @nytimes.com As a decades-long NYT subscriber, I would also like the answer to Marisa Kabas's question.

@nytimes, why are you not reporting this prominently? Not as important as your legendary coverage of the "But Her Emails" scandal?

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

@nytimes.com How is this not news?

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Will anyone ask Mike Rogers, Susan Collins, Darlene Graham, Roger Marshall, Michelle Tafoya, Jon Husted, Vivek Ramaswamy, Dan Sullivan, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Ashley Hinton, Pete Ricketts, Ken Paxton, Mike Collins, or Michael Whatley?

Donald Trump saying Barack Obama isn't a smart guy will be in heavy contention for 2026's Least Self-Aware Remark.

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.

@brunodias.dev: Lula won yesterday's battle in a hybrid war because "large numbers of people laboriously [worked] to unfuck the nation's informational environment." 🧵

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

Bolsonaro had corrupt media on his side, Meta interference on his side, US propaganda operations, and his party's officials actively sabotaging public transport in Lula strongholds to prevent turnout. Yet he was still beaten by the power of voter turnout.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

The Cheesecake Factory “controversy” is nice because it’s a rerun of the exact kind of stupid shit we had to sit through every day of the Obama administration. Now Zoomers don’t have to feel left out of having their own Obama “controversy” to reference.

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

🧵 There's a very unfortunate tendency of some very loyal Democrats to misapply "Murc's Law." For those who don't know of it, Murc's Law is the concept that the mainstream media acts as if only Democrats have agency in politics, and that Republican can't choose to act more rightfully.

WOW.

On the money 🧵

It seems impossible for our political system to hold the politicians tied to the actual invasion of our Capitol to account, but any random Muslim candidate is reflexively labeled a terrorist.

Every D should ask their R opponent why they're taking money from a creepy sieg-heiling racist transphobe fascist CSAM distributor.

It’s never been more clear that racism is a scam perpetrated by wealthy elites to convince working people to blame someone other than the wealthy elite.

Republican running for Oklahoma Gov just straight up admitting they carved up OKC to prevent another Dem win

Why does everyone want you to vote early? And what makes it different from voting on election day? We break it down for you ⬇️

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Yglesias shouldn't be welcome in any democracy-oriented gathering. Primarily for moral reasons. But also because he's FUCKING WRONG. Immigration ISN'T as good an issue for Trump anymore precisely because officials like Chris Van Hollen & folks like the Minnesota protesters didn't follow his advice.

This online, digital, technological system we've been herded into is not sustainable.

The time to determine whether Dan J. Sullivan Jr. could appear on the Alaska ballot for U.S. Senate was months ago, and Alaska courts did so. What's additionally batshit about this is that the candidates' names are printed on the ballot in a way which makes abundantly clear who's who.

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

All these so-called “independent” Republicans will go right back to voting for Johnson as speaker, confirm every Trump nominee, vote with Trump on everything, and continue doing zero oversight on his corrupt regime. A vote for any one of them is a vote to continue all of that.

Think of everything we are facing—concentration camps, deportations without due process, secret police, massive corruption, the decimation of voting rights, civil rights, economic rights—and thank John Fucking Roberts and his band of fascists. #EXPANDTHECOURT

i really do think that a successful impeachment and removal of hegseth is a live possibility if dems win the senate. he is a genuine disaster.

Bundle of bad faith & zero self-awareness.

It took more than a year for the 1st UK punk single (released 50 years ago today) to get what may be its 1st local review in Minneapolis. Here is Terry Katzman in the Nov. 1977 Insider, reviewing the "New Wave" import compilation LP, including "New Rose" by the Damned. @mplsmusichistory.bsky.social