Eric Beckman

Bari Weiss joins CBS with a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news CBS' parent company is buying The Free Press and installing Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

"...a mandate for 'balanced and fact-based' news..." is nonsense; like a requirement for donut-rich, weight-reducing diet.
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Oh, Wurman. 🎵 When you're a hack, you're a hack 🎵

like it genuinely explains a lot of what is happening and why people are so cruel and so unquestioning. i really feel that. (my book Wild Faith gets into this also. obligatory plug.)

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related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

“Trump’s invasion”

"Where, say some, is the king of America? I'll tell you, Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the royal brute of Great Britain.... So far as we approve of monarchy. . . in America the law is king. . . ."
~T. Paine

“The punishment of transgressions does not bypass the great ministers, and the rewarding of goodness does not neglect the common folk.”

~Hanfeizi

Pew Finds Just 6% of Journalists Are Black as Crisis Grows with Recent Firings BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — the Black voice is too often invited in only to be pushed out when it dares to speak of the nation’s truths. Attiah, the Post’s only Black female opinion writer, said she was terminated after more than a decade at the paper for posts she wrote on social media addressing violence and the dangers of white extremism.

Pew Finds Just 6% of Journalists Are Black as Crisis Grows with Recent Firings | @blackpressusa.bsky.social
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I need people to understand that fascism isn't on the rise. It is already here dancing in our faces. Of course, it is here in the US, but also look elsewhere: Germany, Hungary, etc.--right-wing groups are gaining more attention and power. This is not a hyperbole.

claims that men are falling behind because they're not going to college fail to understand that men go to college at lower rates because thanks to sexism they have more and better non college options. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/women-outn...

3 frames of a surveillance video showing a pile-on one guy.

One of the cases dismissed involved a 7-person takedown of a guy for waving in front of someone's body cam.

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And yes these means nuking the filibuster.

10 min in: 💣 filibuster
12 in: expand Court
15 in: confirm slate of Justices w/o hearings
20 in: expand House, John Lewis Act
22 in: DC statehood
25 in: strip Trump hires of civil service protections.
30 in: break up DHS

There should be working groups, & they should not include consultants or serve as sinecures for high-level policy aides (see Project 2029). There are a few things that are not up for debate. If Dems don’t unpack the Court — no matter how much pundits yell — any effort will be over before it begins.

For sure! Those of us with Democratic Representatives and Senators need to be pressuring them now to restructure the republic and defend democracy.

The lesson of the Trump era is to stick with your principles. He’s coming for you anyway, whether you do or not, so you might as well stick to your principles so people don’t laugh at you afterward and you can look yourself in the mirror.

tinpot dictator crap

Again they want to see armed troops in Black communities because they genuinely believe our mere presence is dangerous enough to merit military occupation. Don’t forget it.

While this country has been out here slandering us, calling us DEI... I have to chuckle.

The average Black person raised during or before circa 1990-ish has more than likely led or organized *something.*

If we're outspoken, from home to school to church to the 'hood...

Y'all aren't hearing me.

Tweet from DHS. Image: angry Uncle Sam, glaring at the viewer, holding a newspaper that reads "Join ICE now. America needs you." Text on image: THEY HAVE GOT TO GO! JOIN.ICE.GOV". Tweet text: "EVERY CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN MUST GO. AMERICA FOR AMERICANS."

Exactly what you'd expect from an administration whose big convention was a sea of white faces, waving signs that read "MASS DEPORTATION NOW!" Ethnonationalist fever dreams.

That sounds more like Peter's idea, tbh

Well this is confusing/fascinating/scary.
My favorite combo!

Quite a Kinsley gaffe from the Speaker of the House

It’s a refrain, a strategic frame, and a call for action. Expect the rank and file right to start collecting “evidence” (producing content) to support the “health care for illegal aliens” frame.

You don't have to swallow frogs Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

Several people recommended this @andreapitzer.bsky.social piece, and I agree that it is well worth reading even for folks not invested in the two subjects. It's about living in these times.
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Preregistering:
1. The shutdown will break the record for longest shutdown (35 days).
2. Attitudes about the shutdown, and who's to blame, will be polarized along partisan lines; there will be no coherent or consistent narrative about its cause.
3. The shutdown will persist until context changes.

this has been my thought exactly with all of these funding resolutions

like, why would I agree to shit if Trump is just gonna impound it and do whatever he wants, regardless of how the money is appropriated? if y'all want our funding decisions to be meaningless, let's not have em

Right. Militaries that lose wars also kill and break. Lots of examples, but thinking of Russia's failure to conquer Ukraine despite a lot of killing and breaking.

It is making me so irrationally angry and I know it isn't personal but I want to fight every time I see it. More than a decade of warnings and evidence and yet...

As a historian who grew up in Germany, I studied a lot on the collapse of the Weimar Republic and German fascism, especially the early 1930s. The intellectual question of “how could people do this/let this happen” were answered then. Now, people are answering the emotional aspect of that question.