Greg Moore

Trump's cratering continues. This is a good example of why authoritarian/autocratic rulers fail. They can't accept new info and adapt, because everything must always confirm their sublime world historical greatness without exception, and anyone producing contrary info is purged

Cowboys fans accepted George Pickens as one of their own. They deserve what they get.

What’s Being Lost in the Documentary Space As Congress Defunds Public Media "We may have lost our funding, but unlike Congress, we have not lost our way," writes ITVS boss Carrie Lozano as she assesses a less vibrant documentary landscape without the $9 million her organizati...

"PBS is the foremost distributor of independent documentary, featuring stories and storytellers that don’t meet the interests or priorities of commercial media like the big studios and streamers."

bert from sesame street is reading a book while sesame street characters are talking to each other . ALT: bert from sesame street is reading a book while sesame street characters are talking to each other .

As a member of the First generation to watch Sesame Street, & having identified with Bert, I have my monobrow furiously knitted

Pitt beating West Virginia in the 2007 Backyard Brawl

Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.

Absolutely worth reading. If you’ve been told that government is worthless, this is how you might act.

“This is what Medicaid fraud looks like.

The vast majority of it is committed by providers like hospitals, nursing homes and pharmacies …”

Is this cancel culture?

How Liberalism Sabotages Itself Our intentional blindness to bad faith is a loophole fascists use to gain respectability and power.

"Right-wing operators in particular are groomed and trained to argue to embrace bad-faith argument as a tactic. And yet even in the Trump era, when the bad faith is so thinly veiled, liberals remain reluctant to treat it as disqualifying."

Man oh man is @brianbeutler.bsky.social right about this.

The most racist administration in over a century

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

The tariff-driven inflation that economists feared begins to emerge Inflation rose last month to its highest level since February as President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs push up the cost of a range of goods, including furniture, clothing, and large appliances.

AP: "Inflation rose last month to its highest level since February as President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs push up the cost of everything from groceries and clothes to furniture and appliances."

Once upon a (quaint) time, this would be a front-page scandal: An American president vowing to use the government to go after a political opponent even if it’s “wrong.”

Colbert, CBS, and media’s final surrender | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, Gaza war crimes demand a different kind of Democrat.

CBS didn't start being pro-establishment toadies yesterday. Some of us remember the Smothers Brothers

Still, Colbert's ouster feels different. This isn't just capitalism but fascism, and there's no Murrow or Cronkite to cut through the billionaire BS

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I think people are missing something big. Trump's manipulation of the bureaucracy to manufacture pretexts for DOJ to prosecute his enemies is happening right now. It's actively underway. It's not theoretical. It's upon us.

Author Of New Book Profiling Trans Teens Visiting Charleston This Month - West Virginia Public Broadcasting The ACLU and Plot Twist Books have invited journalist and author Nico Lang to the South Charleston Public Library on July 26. Lang recently wrote "American Teenager," a book following the lives of eig...

Join us with author Nico Lang at the South Charleston Public Library 1-3 p.m. this Saturday!

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.

The main upshot of today's birthright citizenship ruling (that I'm still making way through) seems to be that each person victimized by an unconstitutional Trump order has to pretty much sue individually.
Trump is free to act unconstitutionally to everybody individually.

🚨In its fourth decision, the Supreme Court holds that parents who object to LGBTQ books in the classroom have a First Amendment right to "opt out" their children from seeing those books. Alito writes for the 6-3 majority, with all three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

A thread on Alito's opinion in Mahmoud v. Taylor. The Court holds that religious parents get to opt out their kids of exposure to/reading of books with LGBTQ+ characters (or messages) in public schools. It's bad in its reasoning, baffling in the test it sets up, and potentially broad in its impact

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

Just went to the #NationalArchives website, and the announcement shared below has been removed.

It seems the question of whether historical research is a "legitimate business need" is moot, at least for now...

www.archives.gov/college-park

#Archives #NARA #ArchivesAreForEveryone #speccolls 🗃️📜

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court ALLOWS states to defund Planned Parenthood, holding that Medicaid does not give patients a right to obtain care from its providers. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

instead of doing critical coverage, Hegseth urges reporters to "Wave an American flag. Be proud of what we accomplished."