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NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

at least all that fawning and bowing and scraping of those silicon valley ceos is really paying off...wait wat

MSNBC has zero moral authority to talk about cowardice of Disney, ABC, or Republicans for bending the knee to MAGA when they did exact thing in their termination of me and others. They are doing the exact thing they complain about others doing.

If you're still pretending that the Republican Party has the slightest interest in democracy, or the Constitution, you're either a complete imbecile or you're working with them.

I can kind of see why this would boil Karl Rove's piss - it must seem disgustingly low effort to someone who cooked up fake weapons of mass destruction evidence to present to the UN. That took months and months of actual work

they are furious to the point of rage over the fact that obama reminded them he is black and in doing so implicated them in racial prejudice

Exactly. Politics in the US is no longer a debate about which policies to adopt within a liberal framework of accepted rules. It's now a blood sport and one side playing it like it's still cricket won't work

We have far more disengaged lean D people who are erratic voters than potential swing voters, and this kind of pandering to moderate Rs around social issues is what keeps them disengaged and suppresses turnout.

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

Jesus Motherfucking Christ

FINALLY. Enough with the whitewashing BS.

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

Target was hoping for a back-to-school sales bump that never came. Foot traffic is still down for the 7th month in a row | Fortune In August, foot traffic fell 3.3% year over year for Target.

Good. Fuck them.

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man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

The subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement. Our investigation continues and we will continue to release information in interest of transparency FBI Director Kash Patel # © @FBIDirectorKash • 3h The subject for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody. Thank you to the local and state authorities in Utah for your partnership with @fbi. We will provide updates when able.

In a suit filed earlier today by three fired FBI officials, Patel and Bongino are portrayed as being so obsessed with social media that it could “risk outweighing more deliberate analyses of investigations."

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

The people who cover politics cover the sport of politics as distinct from government. To them a very successful political influencer *is* more important than a state legislator. They’ve heard of him before.

(Because this is bluesky so it helps to be explicit — this is bad)

Not at all a fully formed thought: Charlie Kirk’s assassination had way more salience than (eg) the Minnesota lawmakers’ because so many people, particularly media elites, were in a parasocial relationship with him via the podcast/etc

Have I been living in a cave under the ocean or something I have never heard of Charlie Kirk but it seems like everyone else has

This is a friend of mine and the median normie voter and exactly why it's so weird people are flying flags at half mast and op-eds are being written.

the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously

Mfer is salivating for that job.

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?”

Dr Bill Foege

Out of all the elite schools capitulating to Trump , Columbia is the worse. Avoid this school like the plague.

"This whole thing is just such bulls**t": Not every Democrat wants to talk about Epstein "I don't think this issue is big outside the Beltway," one prominent centrist House Democrat told Axios.

my beef with so many centrist democrats is honestly less their ideology than their total lack of political instincts. the actual public is going wild with epstein speculation and this anonymous idiot is skeptical that it is playing outside of washington www.axios.com/2025/07/24/j...

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

STARMER'S POLITICAL MYOPIA IS TYPICAL of politicians and commentators I would characterize as reactionary centrists-those who, in addition to having moderate policy preferences, share a view of the far right as having unaccountably low agency, and figuring them as simply reacting to the actions (and alleged excesses) of leftists, progressives, and advocates of social justice. 1 Reactionary centrists rarely imagine solutions to political problems that do not involve a policy move to the right, especially on social issues. Won an election? You'll need to give ground to govern. Lost an election? You'll need to give ground to win next time. That this is obviously unfalsifiable doesn't bother them in the slightest.

reactionary centrists have a totally incoherent theory of politics whose primary upshot is that they validate and legitimize the far right

When Moderation Becomes Appeasement If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.

"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."

www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump