NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors

Federal FERC: years of attempts to help Texas power grid

Texas leg during failures: regulations to require national anthem at sports games

"Texas spent more time fighting LGBTQ civil rights than fixing their power grid

"A Texas-size failure followed by a familiar Texas response: Blame California"

"Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world

"Liberal policies like California’s keep blue-state residents living longer"

"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates

"being within California means 40% less gun violence

Crimes per 1M transit trips
NYC: 1.3
Dallas: 38.0

if you want to have a nice and relaxing sunday, do not watch the new Hulu documentary on Hurricane Katrina. if you want to shake with rage and anger over the total failure of this nation's government and media establishment, watch the Hulu documentary on Katrina (this is a recommendation)

Black "looting" food
White "finding" food

NYT editor Jonathan Weisman:
John Lewis isn't really Southern
Midwest POC aren't really from the Midwest

@cingraham.bsky.social pointed out he referred to Obama as “much more white than black” at WaPo in 2008

"Centrist" media editors with narrative power:

Black "looting" food
White "finding" food

NYT editor Jonathan Weisman:
John Lewis isn't really Southern
Midwest POC aren't really from the Midwest

@cingraham.bsky.social pointed out he referred to Obama as “much more white than black” at WaPo in 2008

"Centrist" media editors with narrative power:

Alex Lee is suddenly doing such strategically selective outrage about key Democratic fights now (like redistricting) like Kyrsten Sinema did that he must be getting interest and funding offers (or already got them)

From totally not coordinated billionaire conservative activist groups on the right:

Alex Lee is suddenly doing such strategically selective outrage about key Democratic fights now (like redistricting) like Kyrsten Sinema did that he must be getting interest and funding offers (or already got them)

From totally not coordinated billionaire conservative activist groups on the right:

Affirmative action for any mediocre "useful idiot" for the right

From billionaires and "centrist" media men (conservative editors, reporters, activists) who can funnel billionaire money to push a narrative

NYT investigation:
"role in destabilizing democracy in North America, Europe and Australia""

“I would rather secede from the union than countergerrymander”

If this guy doesn’t have the guts to draw some lines on a map in a way that benefits him he doesn’t have the guts to do what’s necessary for an independent California.

"I would rather start a civil war than do reciprocal gerrymandering" is some uncut crank shit

Alex Lee is suddenly doing such strategically selective outrage about key Democratic fights now (like redistricting) like Kyrsten Sinema did that he must be getting interest and funding offers (or already got them) from totally not coordinated billionaire conservative activist groups on the right

My Democratic colleagues and I just left the state of Texas to break quorum and stop Trump’s redistricting power grab.

Trump is trying to rig the midterm elections right before our eyes. But first he’ll have to come through us.

It’s time to fight back.

Trump is worried he’s going to lose in 2026.

So to shield himself from the voters, he told Texas Republicans to redraw our state’s political maps — in the middle of the decade — to manufacture 5 new seats and protect their majority in Congress.

It’s cheating. Plain and simple.

But to pass these new maps, a certain number of legislators need to be on the floor to conduct business — a quorum.

My Democratic colleagues and I are not giving them one.

If they’re going to cheat, we’re not going to play.

Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton will try to arrest us.

So we’re traveling to Illinois for safe harbor.

We’ll be in the Land of Lincoln — the state where Abraham Lincoln broke quorum as a state senator in 1840 by jumping out of the window at the Illinois State Capitol.

We may not be in Texas, but we’re fighting for our constituents.

We’re not just fighting for Democrats — we’re fighting for Independents and Republicans too.

Because in a democracy, voters are supposed to choose their politicians — not the other way around.

Texas Democrats are breaking quorum

We’re not fighting for the Democratic Party — we’re fighting for the democratic process.

For the American experiment. For the people.

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The Great Khan shelters the brave rebels of the Texas Hegemony. Such generosity! Like a father to his children.

Alex Lee is suddenly doing such strategically selective outrage about key Democratic fights now (like redistricting) like Kyrsten Sinema did that he must be getting interest and funding offers (or already got them) from totally not coordinated billionaire conservative activist groups on the right

"If you're ruthless for the right, you get money put behind you

If you're ruthless for the left, you get money put against you

America First Legal got >$50 million in funding

A left version of the same would get attacked by Dem orgs and donors, and everyone associated with it blacklisted forever"

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Reeling over alleged child sex ring, Alabama community asks: ‘Did no one know?’ At prayer meetings and other gatherings, Bibb County residents have grappled with the realization that horrific crimes may have been happening in their town.

it's interesting that this piece frames this as shock that child abuse could happen in an 'innocent' rural setting, in contrast to the mid-20th century belief that it was something largely confined to 'backwoods' families that couldn't happen in 'nice' areas

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

personally I think that you will find no worse hive of scum and villainy per capita than the average rural village.

one of the most obvious lies imaginable (that wasn’t reported as such by our political press corps)

reminder that for the political press the great scandal of the 2024 election was that harris didn’t give enough interviews

The MSM claim constantly that Trump is the most accessible president in modern times, without the caveat that he also lies to them/us in almost every sentence he utters. Access is more important to them than truth. And if called on it, they all circle the wagons and claim we are in a silo.

"It remains insane that AG Sulzberger was quoted as saying he was slanting coverage of the Biden WH
because Biden wouldn't give AG personally a sit down interview

and it took like three statements for the NYT to actually deny that he said that" bsky.app/profile/unav...

Bluesky threads:

"One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police"

"White nationalists pervade law enforcement"

10,000 family dogs killed by police every year (DOJ: "epidemic")

"Police solve just 2% of all major crimes"

NYT videos of law enforcement planting drugs, felonies:

"another horrifying, related phenomenon: police officers responding to domestic-violence emergency calls and raping the victim

evidence of domestic-abuse problem in police departments around the United States is overwhelming

75 percent of confirmed cases, the personnel file omitted or downplayed"