Steve Cook ❌👑

The true threat is the politicians who listen to him and accept his contributions. If no one listened to him or accepted his influence, he'd be impotent.

Trying to apply reasonable standards to a group of people whose defining ethos defies reason is a fool's errand.

Here's something to cleanse your feed, briefly, from the impending collapse of our democracy. The one on the left is Maude, a rescue and recent addition. The one on the right is Murray, and celebrates his third birthday today. #cats #eyebleach

I suppose your next article will be a profile of Trump's Albert Speer.

There's a reason that Steven Cheung and Kevin McCarthy both graduated from Sac State.

We have to deal with the shittiest Kennedy

We're completely fucked when you can't tell the difference between actual @nytimes.com articles and @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

So painfully true.

I fully expect the NYT to live stream federal agents raiding its offices, completely oblivious to the fact they're being shut down under federal edict.

It's not going to be a shock to anyone who follows conservative politics, but Cory Doctorow does an impressive job laying out how it takes a steady stream of rubes to keep to movement going.

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One of the biggest mistakes @barackobama.bsky.social made at the beginning of his term was taking Timothy Geitner and @ericholder.bsky.social advice and not holding Dimon responsible for the 2008 subprime crisis.

It's not like the majority of Mercedes owners couldn't already do this without the Teams meeting distraction.

To be fair, these are also the people who'd stare at a glass of Nestle's Quick for 20 minutes trying to figure out how the milk did that.

There was no reason for him to grant cert to Citizens United at the stage he did (no national emergency or other time-sensitive reason), and all I can think of is there was a large incentive to do so.

How John Roberts Created the Anti-constitutional Monster Devouring Washington From ushering in Citizens United to granting presidents broad immunity, no one in the capital is more responsible for Donald Trump’s destructive second term than the Supreme Court’s chief justice.

My gut tells me he's a lot dirtier than Alito and Thomas, but just smart enough to make sure even a forensic accountant couldn't find the payoffs.

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There was the cat you dared not pet least limbs be lost. As I remember the owner either liked you or she didn't, and if she didn't, she could be rather pointed in letting you know why.

No need to get smutty.

The only way anyone can think a Seattle dog is edible is if they grew up on Taco Time.

Screw charity. They have to sign a pledge that they'll never contribute more than $500 to a political candidate, ang give up all rights to lobbying.

A fractured media landscape may be great for a diversity of options being available all at once, but you need to be Jeff Bezos to be able to afford it. And this doesn't begin to address the amount of time I devote daily to reading everything I subscribe to.

It's similar to what happened with cable. Every outlet has their own streaming channel, and my monthly media bill has almost doubled when you factor my internet connection into the mix.

I used to be able to pay $5-10/mo to a single newspaper and read a lot of you for that $10/mo. Now you're all independent publishers wanting me to subscribe at $5/mo, and even if I make decent money I can't justify that expense.

Here's from a reader's perspective: y'all are like kittens at a cat shelter. I want to take you all home and give you a safe space with food and shelter, but I can't afford it.

Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com: Susie Barnshaw, a junior at a high school in Queens, is a bitch with a fat ass. Though this is not normally within the scope of our paper’s focus we realized that we were about to be scooped by @LolBigDickBoiii69420 on Twitter.

You're assuming that what she knows contains information that isn't already available.

Middling intelligence.

Even in describing my performance on its ridiculous weekly news quiz @nytimes.com is incapable of using direct language

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