Kyle

Highly recommend @mjtoma.bsky.social's latest, which tries to locate the place where the New York Times has been weak, while establishing at the outset that it has also been strong ("...the scoops division of the paper is working more or less as it should.") newrepublic.com/article/1987...

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

I just realized that it's*especially* annoying, bordering on infuriating, for a daytime television personality to make this claim

*Interested*

"I wouldn’t be shocked to see this SCOTUS come up w/ a way around the crystal clear language & original intent on who is counted in the census. I’m more skeptical they’ll accept a new one-off census. But they could. It’s a deeply corrupt institution. That’s your path to the dissolution of the union"

it is not about sports. it has never been about sports. it is about banning trans people from public life entirely AT BEST, and at worst, forcing them into situations that will endanger their lives. this is why we don't play along with the "just asking questions" sports bullshit

Teamsters president reveals Bernie Sanders stopped talking to him after he spoke at RNC Teamsters president Sean O'Brien said Bernie Sanders stopped talking to him after O'Brien addressed the RNC in 2024, citing changed attitude and access.

Good. www.foxnews.com/media/teamst...

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

actually it's worse that the Republican Party, while worshipping a corpse-emperor, has a lot of relatively young politicians

That entire second point really makes the "alleged" in the 3rd feel unnecessary

one of the more insane common right wing beliefs is that there are an outsized number of adults that "refuse to work"

Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.

How about high-speed rail on earth?

a pretty sizeable amount of american politics can be easily understood as "liberalism is for girls and conservatism is for boys"

weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him

I assume I'm not the only one who had assumed creating heat wouldn't be a problem in space and it would be like a limitless heat sink, it was interesting to learn that was very much not the case

a post which says "Bush wasn't taking rights away nor was he trying to cheat elections. The most harm caused under him was the Great Recession."

it must be hard to run a country when the whole population gets hit with the men in black memory erasing device every 4 years

Couldn't remember the name for sauerkraut so I just asked a guy "what's the word for German kimchi again?"

Analysis | After 47 years on the political beat for The Post, it’s transition time Dan Balz writes on his retirement from full-time work at The Washington Post after 47 years.

"My coverage did not adequately prepare Post readers for an outcome that has altered the course of the country."

That's Dan Balz of the Washington Post admitting that his journalism failed to meet the moment in 2016.

He's retiring after 47 years at the Post. Read his reflections: wapo.st/4leuE5b

I’m Not panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.

huge W

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.

So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

Conservatism is the deeply held belief that you, a random asshole parachuting into any conversation, are so unmatched in your genius that you instinctively know more than any expert could hope to.

Solar engineers forgot about sunsets until Doug arrived; they sob, now, as they realize the mistake.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

people will often say this about the left but is there any evidence at all the far right has helped men get laid

I’m a real life human woman and my secret advice for men is to talk to us like we’re people

It's the Guns. America is the only rich democracy that features the routine mass slaughter of its citizens with guns. Why does this happen? The data show a really clear picture: It's the guns. Yes, it's that simple.

The idea that there was no way to stop the mass shooting in New York is insane. A few years ago, I wrote this essay, showing international comparisons and debunking many of the key pro-gun arguments. The US *chooses* to be an international outlier. That's it. It's a choice.

I predicted Republicans would push for this when Trump first took office. None of us are safe until this regime is forced from power.

the onion 2 months ago

YouTube video by Democracy Docket Are We Doing Everything We Can to Save Democracy?

NEW VIDEO: As the DOJ is collecting sensitive voter data around the country and the GOP ups the stakes with their gerrymandering efforts in Texas, I am concerned what is going on is being overlooked.

I lay out my concern and what we need to do now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2E3...

we're gone from "we're not cutting Medicaid" to "if you lose Medicaid you deserve it"