Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Let me say this again Republicans know that undocumented folk cannot receive Affordable Care Act insurance but continue to lie to instigate racist bigotry.
Facts.

> @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

Operation Idiot Sicario is very dangerous because once you’ve decided to missile random boats rather than interdict them you’ve ignored the advice of every good person in your organization and ensured your kill chain is exclusively staffed by the most evil, malicious, or lazy bastards alive

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

What these Schatz posts say to me is that Dem elected officials like him seem incapable of perceiving the right as a *political movement.* The response to Covid mitigation and the Floyd protests was not a spontaneous reaction...it was a right wing backlash organized by a reactionary movement.

It remains the case that the key divide within the Democratic party does not map onto a left/right axis: It is between those who want to fight back forcefully and those who can’t/won’t shake the impulse to accommodate, appease, and legitimize.

Politics is not over. But "normalcy" very much is.

Opinion | Do Not Re-Gerrymander California If Democrats gerrymander California, they will lose the moral high ground.

Holy crap, NYT let Charles Munger Jr. write an op-ed opposing the California redistricting without disclosing that he's FUNDING the opposition to the California redistricting. I have 4 mailers he paid for in my house right now and that's just the beginning.
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I agree with @murshedz.bsky.social: people are allowed to make their careers (or supplement incomes) via talent at political communications, but credibility and transparency are linked values. Paid influencers should be making appropriate disclosures lest we need another Blogger Ethics Panel.

“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:

He interrupted a meeting with world leaders so he could call his Russian handler for forty minutes, but he did it in another room because he didn’t want to disrespect *Putin*

A graphic poster showing a black and white butterfly with a crown symbol above it. The text says "NO KINGS

Slow down ICE by helping local businesses put up signs to clearly mark “Staff Only” areas that can’t be entered without a warrant. Protect your community while showing solidarity with immigrant workers and customers: act.indivisible.org/...

Donnie promised to end the war on day one, supposedly using his great statesmanship skills or magical powers. We're now on day 210 and still nothing—he’s even funding wars and genocides. His statesmanship skills are nonexistent, and his magical powers only work on his cult.

Trump said the goal of the summit was a ceasefire. If no ceasefire, there will be consequences for Russia.

Putin gave Trump the middle finger. Said he would continue fighting and committing war crimes.

Trump said ok no problem.

Putin's in charge. Trump follows orders.

What I want to know is where the all-powerful and always scary pharma lobbyists are. How come they weren't scary enough to make sure this research stayed alive?

Headline from nyt of Cuomo resigning from office.

This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.

Everything from military radios to AI can be hacked. At the Defcon hacker conference, researchers showed how they hacked into these systems—not for gain—but to point out vulnerabilities.

First, a student who found that vape detectors installed at his high school could be used for surveillance: 🧵

And since picking up the right's hair on fire stories about liberal outrage is what the media does -- here we are.

Trump said he wants ‘clean air.’ Then he fired America’s clean air workforce. I was fired along with hundreds of colleagues for no reason.

NEW: Sophie lost her job at the EPA. The consequences reach far beyond her.

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Sadly, asking a member of the White House Press Corp to do journalism is now considered an unreasonable request, and it will be ignored.

What happens now that Trump has fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief? When the 100s of BLS people who analyze job stats each month report their findings to the new chief, will that person say, Trump's not gonna like this, change it. Will career statisticians say "okay, sure, right away, boss"?

For context, that is 1.6 times the size of the ground floor, state floor, and residence of the White House and 2.4 times the size of Mar-a-Lago.

He needs a convenient performance space. This place with tables and chairs is meant to be a space where his donors and lackeys will listen to him or to whatever he is DJ-ing that night.

Hey #netde! Alonna Berry running in RD 20 will be talking with Joe Sudbay this weekend. Take a listen before or after this weekend's canvass!

The police insist they need astronomical sums of money and complete immunity from any harm they cause in order to be ready to protect us and then half the time they just decide they’d prefer not to?

Empowering American white women to get their inner Karen on with these kidnappers might be the way all of this grinds to a halt. Certainly this one has more balls than most of our elected officials.

Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S.

The America First geniuses managed to send hairdressers and soccer players into a gulag and *import* a triple murderer into the US. Nice work.

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WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

Early voting has started for DE RD 20 -- Alonna Berry. Get out and vote if you are in that District, or volunteer to canvass or phone bank or contribute.
#netde #delaware

Stunning charts show how disproportionately the Roberts Court favors the Trump regime.

"This pattern exemplifies what scholars call 'autocratic legalism'—the systematic weaponization of legal institutions to consolidate power while maintaining the appearance of legal process."