HOWLdini!

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Run From Everything

I don't know that I buy the "everyone knows" excuse for the collective shrug. That reporter he yelled at seemed sincerely alarmed that he doesn't care about Ramaswamy exploiting a rape victim. Which suggests some folks still harbor the delusion that Trump thinks rape is bad.

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.

Look, sorry, you just don’t understand what good journalism means! You have to be *neutral* to get access to Republicans, to hear their side of every story, so you publish every lie about Democrats and select just enough bad things Republicans have done to *balance* out the coverage <sarcasm emoji>

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

New: In 2019, *1 day* after Trump rally crowd chanted "send her back!" abt Ilhan Omar, Schumer decried GOP "silence" over "despicable" chant Now, *14 days* after raid on Omar home, part of Trump attempt to literally "send her back," Schumer is silent. My story: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chuck-s...

Pretty grim footnote to West's career that he ended up serving the richest man in the world's successful attempt to restore white nationalism to the US government.

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

Great thread

Fascism in Brazil needs fuckery to win

All around the world, fascism is unpopular and requires fuckery to gain and maintain power

This is fantastic. I'm proud to call Binky my friend, and I've had the honor and pleasure to run sound more times than I can remember for his band The Planets, including (I'm pretty sure) at least one where he played this legendary guitar. youtu.be/-GGxgkbkoxE?...

They somehow tracked Acton’s birth mom down, found her living in a car with her cats, in a church parking lot, and took her to a video shoot to make vague accusations about her daughter, who she hadn’t seen in 40+ years, being a liar. Borders on elder abuse.

One of the most effective things Obama could do for the party is let it rip like this all year long. He's so good, but he saves it for rallies a few weeks before elections like it's a severely-limited resource and that's just not how the modern communications environment has evolved.

Republicans feel they can't win on merit, so they cheat. A flailing, immoral, obsolete political organization.

I’ll have a new story soon on the Trump administration’s abandonment of sexual assault investigations under Title IX. Rigorous enforcement ofc would protect women. Trump has instead diverted resources away from rape investigation toward anti-trans initiatives. This, he says, is “protecting women”

GOP does nothing but gin up culture wars. Meanwhile: — GOP slashed SNAP benefits to 5+ million Americans, forcing them to turn to food banks. — Trump's tariffs and war spurred inflation, making it more expensive to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Prices are now ~13% higher than when he took office.

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Great thread

1:18: "I don't know anything about a stepfather" Ok, so stfu, moron.

seeing both neera tanden and matt yglesias do press runs in the span of a week. i believe in free speech but there are limits.

They should make a database of everyone who gets mad at a post like this and permanently strip them of their driver’s license

I hope that whatever psychological defense mechanisms that immigration judge uses don't work. I hope they one day look honestly at what they have done.

Brad Lander is one of the most humane and decent people out there in American politics right now. And he’s a bulwark against genuinely radical anti-Israel politics in the US right now. And still, the Israeli government hates him. They’re writing off a whole generation of non-Orthodox American Jews.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry attacking Brad Lander - a self-described liberal Zionist - by name, simply for doing protective presence, should be the final sign that the Israeli government would gladly sacrifice every last Jew in Diaspora to dominate more Palestinians with impunity.

Limitless corruption

Never ceases to amaze me that anyone still thinks this bag of bones has anything useful to say.

Welp, enshittification at Apple continues: access to clock from control center changed for the worse

it is the same exact thing as demanding that black candidates for office “disavow farrakhan,” which happened quite a bit in the 90s and 2000s

Those of you familiar with him know that Mike Davis is one of the genuinely fascist players in the MAGA legal world. Here he is first lying about what Slotkin said and then threatening her with assassination. A product of the corruption and rot of the conservative legal movement.

Bari Weiss's project firing on all cylinders

Did Scott Jennings write this

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Dems offering College Republicans $400 to heckle Al-Sayed

Milkshake Dolly

Ministry of Shitty Dorks

Before Trump it was just assumed that all this background machinery type shit was in the hands of career civil servants who followed carefully prescribed legal and administrative procedures and one thing DOGE really focused on was disrupting that. Do not assume it still works like that!

It's called a propeller…maybe you've whirred of it

Stepping back to spend more time cramming for the bar