The woman version of Mr PB but don't write it like that

I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard.

Don't print lies in the newspaper

there is a crown in the gutter and JB Pritzker is the first Democrat to do anything but talk about how he's going to grab it

From a director at the … American Enterprise Institute

He doesn’t want to “reduce chronic illnesses,” he wants to reduce people with chronic illnesses

This is gold.

He looked up Olympian women's times online but he read them wrong and moved the decimal point and then wow, he's got a faster time than that!

They'll care about the fraud only after the price plummets

Until then they're fine with how much money it's making them

a fun game to play with BLS numbers is to go “that’s stupid, why do they do it that way” and then go find the paper explaining why they do it that way to see if you still think it’s stupid, and if you do, you win

I am like 0 for 19 lifetime at this game

FWIW, this was true of historical fascism as well. Capital interests thought they could ride the tiger, they were fatally mistaken.

One of the tenets of my own personal socialism is that capital will always work in its own interests, and seeing that assumption fail in such a spectacularly illogical direction is breaking my brain in a way I just did not anticipate. I simply don't know how to adjust my priors for this.

There's no way to actually get to the second floor, the railing is in the way...

Although it looks like 8 feet tall so I guess you could duck under it pretty easily 😄

also pritzker seems to have understood this assignment (e.g. isp.illinois.gov/Director/Lea...)

how is pritzker the only one who seems to remember that he's the governor of a sovereign entity too

Redistricting fights seem like the quintessential example of the phenomenon whereby Democrats are treated with contempt for having principles that they often fail to live up to, while Republicans get treated with respect for refusing to have any kind of principles at all.

“We must let the courts decide” no we cannot. Even when served a favorable judge, an outcome increasingly stacked against pro-democracy lawmaking, we can no longer rely on the courts as a backstop when these courts are ultimately ruled by a council of right wing wizards that openly accept bribes.

the problem with pointing out that abbott and paxton are flagrantly out of their lane in terms of legal claims is that we now live in a judiciary that is a slot machine for republicans and they are largely willing to slam the slot machine as many times as necessary until they hit a cash out

bsky.app/profile/wh0s...

it’s almost like Trump was just lying about a bunch of shit to see what resonated with the rubes and the plan was to do project 2025 stuff all along

if only it had been possible for news orgs to do something other than take his bullshit at face value during the campaign

alas

Its amazing that reporters at the NYT are too obtuse (purposefully or otherwise) to realize that "superfluous tax that ordinary people are paying but dont have to" is actually the exact opposite of "hard to quit"

Trump’s Tariffs Are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.

NYT gets it backward www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b.... Tariff revenue means Democrats can promise a big tax cut, paid for by taxes on the rich.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

if you donate to the Democratic Party in response to one of its many scam text, you are participating in a "fundraising" ecosystem with an efficiency of 1.8%.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for Ice: ‘They thought they could scare us – but this is LA’ Volunteers with Union del Barrio look for immigration officers and post videos and alerts, warning people to seek shelter

Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for Ice: ‘They thought they could scare us – but this is LA’

They’re more or less declaring parts of the constitution unconstitutional. Section 3 of the 14th amendment for very obvious instance.

"It's Congress's fault" is basically the story behind 85% of our problems

This interview is so clear & quietly devastating. Public media as we understand it is over.

This is not about the end of NPR & PBS. They might be able to find ways to continue to make programs. Instead of content, this is about the capacity to broadcast at all - antennae, transmitters, licenses. 🧵

the Las Vegas tourist economy is crumbling fast, and I suspect a decent chunk of that - apart from mismanagement and price gouging, which seem plentiful - is the disappearance of East Asian gambling tourists as a result of Trump's policies alienating or scaring potential visitors.

TV host: Do you have any hard evidence these numbers were wrong?

WH official: [gives garbled, bullshit answer while smirking because he knows he can say anything and it won't matter]

TV host: All right, let's move on

Art of the Deal:
>> Make a deal
>> Back out of your end