Mark Davies

FWIW, I read what you wrote and read it as you intended.

Sadly, the default posture of the punditry is to respond to Trump, to play on his terms, not to respond to what the rest of us live and see daily. They and their content consumers can't see the forest for the trees.
Have we hit bottom yet? This whole dynamic does not leave me feeling optimistic.

They're just living day to day, trying to keep the bully in the White House from taking aim at them.
Which is why, IMO, many of them are happy to see the Epstein thing not fade. They see his destruction as their salvation and importantly the Epstein issue does NOT have their fingerprints on it.

YouTube video by Progress Action Fund Republicans Blowing Your Taxes

Republicans are servicing their constituents - the ones who pay them. youtu.be/aK-weXT5HxE?...

I see you and your Being There reference, @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
Deep cut. 🫡

a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay ALT: a polar bear cub is laying in a pile of hay

Cory Booker: "I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America."

Historians, crawling back into daylight from the depths of despair: "Did somebody somewhere ask for some wretched truth?"

The Makeup Artist Donald Trump Deported Under the Alien Enemies Act The President has invoked the law to send Venezuelans to prison in El Salvador without due process—and, in many cases, under false pretenses.

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@chrislhayes.bsky.social I mean, you almost convinced me with that Stefanik sympathy. 🤣

You lost him at “read.”

Fuck this guy.

The lights are flashing red. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

YouTube video by The Lincoln Project Vladdy Daddy

Please don't let Donald see this.

They all bend the knee eventually if they need or want to stay in the party. It's pretty gross.

Leopards, faces.

Will this matter to Trump who can’t run again (that is, if the Constitution survives)?

The private GOP panic over the slash-and-burn DOGE firings White House aides are inundated with congressional calls as Republicans fret.

Sad.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Opinion | I Quit Drinking Four Years Ago. I’m Still Confronting Drinking Culture. (Gift Article) Yes, you can become sober and remain social.

I quit drinking just short of two years ago. It's worth it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/o...

Really proud of my friend Brendan Farrington for making his fight with United Health Care to get his prescribed cancer treatments public.

It shouldn't take this much for them to do the right thing.

🤮

Trump has been cucked by Musk before he has even been sworn in. Seems fitting, somehow.

We live in the age of the empowered narcissistic sociopath oligarch.

Prudent.
🧵 is getting spammy - in addition to its problematic ownership.
And ❌ is just fatuous and toxic.

The princiPAL is your PAL.
In my case, probably not - but the above has been helpful to me in sorting those out properly.

Foreign aid is 1% of the US budget.

Joe and Mika were deservedly dragged for their Mar-a-lago pilgrimage, IMO.
But to follow it with this Frum scrum is just ill advised, self-righteous doubling down. When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging, FFS.
At this rate, they’ll be on Fox and Friends by Feb sweeps.

Spot on.
Just don’t say that on Morning Joe. It might be “too flippant for this moment we’re in.”