Scott Cory

Legacy media has been complicit in covering sexual abuse and violence to protect wealthy men, mostly white, for decades. The scrappy newcomers do not have the same aversion to investigating and reporting on SA/SV stories.

Good morning -- three (unrelated) things: 1. Regularly stepping away from social media is a good thing. 2. Repetition and building new (good) habits is hard at any age, but age and ADHD make it extra spicy. 3. Get out and vote, and help others to do the same. Learn from Brazil, Serbia, and Hungary

A reminder that an independent and effective board of directors would remove a CEO if they behaved as Donald Trump has behaved for (checks calendar) 40 years, but in particular, now. Not removing him now is gross dereliction of duty. Congress serves as our de facto board of directors.

"world-leading scientists are being fired from the NIH so that the Trump administration can continue to promote disinformation & impose its anti-scientific ideas such as the totally discredited notion that vaccines cause autism" www.caprisa.org/News/Read/20... Science IS under attack from MAGA/MAHA

This relives 2.5 years' worth of work in 12 minutes. Marcy puts it in stark terms that the mainstream media refuses to even consider. Did what I could to help stop the worst sellout of my country and freedom in American history (derogatory).

There's no reason to trust claims from Trump, Patel, or Blanche considering their histories of abusing authority for political retaliation. Federal prosecutors must take a stand against this continued weaponization. No president should be able to use the justice system to settle political vendettas.

Today’s indictment of Virginia state senator L. Louise Lucas is yet another politically-motivated attack from the regime. For years, we have watched the president weaponize federal law enforcement to go after his political opponents — especially Black women who stand up to his destructive agenda.

(Re)building investigative reporting, fact-checking, and objective editorial decision making isn't cheap. And rounding up sustaining money is hard work. @thebarbedwire.com is doing great work and deserves your support if you can.

In our poll of battleground state voters, 60% said it should be congress' TOP or HIGH priority to investigate Musk and hold him accountable. The people pulling the strings are the voters, dude.

When the US's failings of sexual and political violence collide, expect real ugliness for the victim.

"What's in it for me? If there's enough, I'll take it and let you go. If there's not, you go to prison with the little people."

Finally! A front-page story about the “growing sense of alarm that Trump will harm American democracy by undermining the integrity of the vote to keep the Republican Party in power.” I was just going to write about the media ignoring this. Maybe I still will. wapo.st/4z2uENE

It will be no surprise that none of the people charged with illegal voting are Republican incumbents whose primary residences are not in the states from which they are elected to serve.

A long and well-supported thread on the seditious Leonard Leo and his intentional corruption of organizations and people to achieve the goal of a Christian oligarchy without that messy need for the consent of the people. Thanks @jennycohn.bsky.social.

The Trump Regime and much of Silicon Valley's disregard for data governance, accountability, and transparency is a huge issue. Rational decision making and trust amongst groups and individuals depends on knowing both what and why actions are taking place. Thank you @laylaayanna.bsky.social

Most folks don't understand that a well-educated, (mostly) apolitical officer corps and carefully tended and bounded military civilian relations largely kept the United States from misusing military force from 1920 - 2000. This is an important issue that must be addressed moving forward.

Jake Tapper's working with Trump's claque getting background for his tell-all on how they enabled a demented sociopath to continue in a role he should never have been in. Joking. He's in on the grift, too. Just today's latest insult.

Do you know who uses East Potomac Park today? The people of Washington, DC and the surrounding communities. Donald Trump wants to steal our public resource for his gratification. Fuck that.

Thinking about this some more, and the need to constantly call out Trump’s hate even though it’s endless. Some might say it’s no longer news. We have to keep calling it out, not as further evidence of his inhumanity, but as evidence of our own humanity. And to teach our children a different way.

Thanks for the effective reporting @marisakabas.bsky.social. The extremists and paid provocateurs have been hiding in plain sight for a long time. What's been missing are candidates and their campaign staff willing to call them out, with facts and connections, for what they are.

This is why an objective, independent media is critically important. I'll opine that almost everything going on in liberal democracies (or formerly liberal democracies) is a response to and consequence of 40-plus years of neoliberal economic and social policies that concentrated wealth and power.

This. Purging then rebuilding the officer corps and enlisted ranks will take decades and will make civilian - military relations perilous and make operations complicated.

Never underestimate the depth and ferocity of the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry, and Wolverines' ability to take on and take out Buckeyes.

This. 10/10, no notes.

Marylanders deserve better than this self-righteous martinet.

I didn't know who Andy Harris was until today. Congratulations, Andy, you sucked so hard even the national media heard it.

Read the entire thread that @doctorow.pluralistic.net published (and the formatted version, too), but I'm pulling out this visualization of the distribution of accumulated assets in the United States because it's powerful and extremely well done. Neo-liberal policies are unjust and inequitable.

Making poor white people suffer greater economic hardship allows the authoritarian elite to direct their anger at "the other". LGBTQ+ people were among the first communities after Jewish people targeted by the Nazis in Weimar Germany and after the Nazis took power.

Raise your hand if you’d like your lettuce to NOT give you explosive diarrhea. 🙋‍♀️🥬 Public health is public safety. And it IS worth fighting for.

Is it too much to hope for a MAGA-Broligarch-White Christian Nationalist circular firing squad to follow their years of human centipede ingestion of lies and depravity? I worry about the damage it might do and that the amount of schadenfreude could be fatal if unprepared for and unmoderated.

Here’s a reminder Democrats should scribble on sticky notes as part of turning over a new leaf and committing to real accountability. www.offmessage.net/p/exposure-i...

Want to increase energy security and reduce multiple risks? Build more local solar, other local renewables, and battery storage. There are multiple other benefits, both short and long term.

My sweaty t-shirt questions the measured relative humidity and dew point. Welcome to the Fall 2026 temperature and humidity roller coaster!

Oligarchs and their enablers do not respect national sovereignity, international treaty obligations, and freedom.

This is what you get when you allow self-proclaimed "elites" to act with impunity and without accountability. Getting elected to office doesn't place you above the law.

I wrote about the foundational belief on the Right - that equality is an “un-American” evil. This piece is free to read. But recently, only paywalled pieces have generated new memberships and thereby revenue. I am hoping we can buck the trend so that I can keep publishing free essays regularly.

who the fuck signed this warrant

Adding on: Musk was an adult when he committed the fraud.

Reconstitution of our governmental institutions and processes in the years following the end of the Trump regime and the erosion and delegitimization of government institutions and processes will take experimentation, time, effort, and discernment on the effectiveness of the implemented changes.

Reconstruction after the Trump regime mean rebuilding institutions like the judiciary and law enforcement at all levels of government. The US Attorneys need to be at the top of the list, and properly reset and redirected to deliver justice *for all* directed by the rule of law.

YEAH BUT JUST LIKE A COMMON CRIMINAL, DAMAGE IS ALREADY DONE...

Demonizing Democracy The Right has long derided any attempt at leveling racial and social hierarchies as anti-American “socialism” or “communism.” What they are actually fighting is equality. My new piece:

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.