Mark Potts

Also: last year MLB genuinely had one of their best events in recent memory with the Rickwood Field Negros Leagues game. They had amazing guests talking genuinely about racism while highlighting the league’s coolest dudes. And someone said “okay now let’s do one for the conservatives” and did this.

We think of the White House as a big mansion, but the point is it's not a palace. It's a house. It's modest, one of the smallest residences for a head of state. The east and west wings are deliberately minimal and unobtrusive. It's not Versailles or Buckingham. It symbolizes civic republicanism.

Melania Trump did this to the White House rose garden so her husband couldn't bury her there.

If it was such a sure thing, then why did Hearst see the need to raise its bid? The courts will get to decide this one, I suspect.

Re the Hatch Act, they literally staged the 2020 Republican convention from the White House. Like physically there, at the White House. When anyone said "Isn't that the biggest Hatch Act violation in history?" they said "Go to hell, we do whatever we want."

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President of the country that thinks a quarter pounder has more meat than a third pounder

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.

losing my mind at this. apoplectic. want to punch a wall, or a human being

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I'm not saying it would change much but I do kind of wish reporters with access would repeatedly, like every day, ask Republicans in Congress why they have decided that blatant corruption of the sort that has been consensus illegal for centuries is now basically entirely legal for this one guy.

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.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Similarly: Elvis Costello on the supermarket PA. Kills me every time.

One of the reasons that I push back so hard on people fixated on the Fairness Doctrine (aside from the fact that history matters) is that many liberals still think that such measures are magical solutions to the crisis of democracy.

The Peculiar Persistence of the AI Denialists The history of the world will be split into a pre-AI and a post-AI era. Too many people are still in denial.

The Peculiar Persistence of the AI Denialists
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A spreadsheet of home paint colors/manufacturers/sheens is one of my prized possessions.

By a vote of 50-45, the Senate confirmed Jeanine Pirro to be US Attorney for DC. 5 votes did not count for failure to hit the two drink minimum.

Remember "cooties" in grade school? The imaginary infectious agent that was really a proxy for social status?

These RW dudes are scared of getting cooties from the people they imagine are taking the subway: poor folks and PoC.

this fundamentally misunderstands who stephen miller is and why he matters. miller is powerful *because* trump is old and weak. it is not coincidental that he was far less influential in the first administration. do these folks want to nominate biden again? because that’s how you’d get a dem miller

Another question: At a club with over 150 employees, how did Donald Trump know that a 15-year-old girl was no longer working in the spa? He said he knew when Epstein "stole" her. It's not like Donald is a man known for paying attention to every little detail.

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

Assuming we have a functioning judicial system in 2029, we will need to establish an apparatus to determine the culpability and penalty for officials who made things like this happen.

Remarkable reporting via @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and @mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

The worst human trafficker of young girls, convicted on six charges gets detained in a minimum security prison. A fruit picker from Camarillo, with zero convictions gets detained in a barbaric concentration camp.

Clearly Trump wants Sesame Street gone so people won’t learn how to understand shitty job numbers

Acyn @Acyn Q: Your administration has been very open about the fact that American women are not having enough babies. There was an ad this week. Sydney Sweeney, an actress, was in an ad for Blue Jeans. Does America need to see more ads like that? And maybe fewer ads with people like Dylan Mulvaney on the cover? FINNERTY FINNERTY EXCLUSIVE WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP 5:20 PT LIVE

I am staring at this question like the apes stared at the monolith in “2001”

McMorrow: Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining. Nothing is working right now. Our automakers are gearing up for the worst…

And just as a reminder: all of this was man-made. Trump chose to do this. And it’s just a mess on the ground right now

Is the White House not a listed historical building? Is that a stupid question?? I’m just baffled that no one has to approve plans to modify it, as is true with almost any other government or historical property

Trump fires labor statistics chief after large revision to jobs report Trump orders firing of Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after release of large revisions to employment data

Before I covered sports, I covered the economy. Reported and analyzed BLS data monthly. Interviewed then first woman BLS commish Janet Norwood a statistician regularly. BLS collects data. Period. It doesn’t make up stuff which Trump does and wants it to do.

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Trump firing the BLS director for a bad jobs report - days after demanding the Smithsonian remove him from the list of impeached presidents - is banana republic stuff.

If a Democrat pulled these stunts, Republicans would be setting themselves on fire outside the White House.

‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.