The Tuck

“I’m going to seize control of elections even if Congress blocks me” is comically authoritarian and should result in his immediate removal from office.

Yes, he’s deranged, but what’s even more deranged is how we’ve apparently all decided to acquiesce to a dictator because it’s Trump being Trump.

I don’t know is multimember districts “solve” this problem moreso that they expand the field of possible victory. The problem of political risk calculation and support will always exist and it will be exaggerated by any primary system

YIMBYEICC

(Yes in my backyard except ICE concentration camps)

It’s a aspect of how devastating losing a primary is (career ending for many) that higher level politicians are going to be risk avoidant. This doesn’t mean the candidate running is the best.
Almost no politician is going to enter a primary they think they only have a 50% of winning

So much national coverage focused on a mildly disagreeable democratic primary while even level of statewide Republican primaries are full on insane

I love how the media covers it as if the worst thing he did was “harbor an unauthorized immigrant” (Jesus), instead of holding someone he had the ability to arrest in sex hostage.

Being a global hegemon is an unnatural state for a state to be in. It resists it as a structure of its existence

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

Collaborator is still too charitable! He’s a member of the right wing media elite, a propagandist himself

I’ve spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today.

The Atlantic is indistinguishable from Compact.

Or, to be fair, to distribute the drug at all

probably good that we structured the health and well-being of humanity around profitability. oops!

This isn’t meant as a slight against you and the work a lot of smaller and regional outlets have done in carrying the torch of the third estate

Shame how much of the total Epstein specific coverage is going to end up almost exclusively be on academics since student newspapers are the only journalists left in society.
Like academia had a huge role in Epstein, but I imagine a lot of tycoons will get by because national media won’t cover that

Justa little bit to relax. Sometimes you have the weed equivalent to a beer, not a 99 shooter.

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape..."

What a sadistic nation, predatory and grotesquely cruel.

A screenshot of a social media post by James Woods. The text of the post makes inflammatory claims linking puberty blockers and transgender individuals to violence. Below the text is a thumbnail of a video featuring a person laughing. A large red diagonal line is drawn across the entire image with the text "FALSE: NOT THE SHOOTER" overlaid in bold red letters.

A screenshot of a social media post by an account named "Garbage Human." The text reads, "So this is the creature that shot up the school. If only there were some signs." The image shows a person in a pink "Internet Princess" tank top holding a rifle in a bathroom. A large red "X" and the word "FALSE" in red serif font are superimposed over the photo.

A screenshot of a social media post by Aron Pielka, translated from German. The text discusses a "Transterror phenomenon" and makes disparaging comments about gender identity and its effects. Below the text are two side-by-side selfies of a person; the faces in both photos have been heavily obscured with thick red digital scribbles.

A screenshot of a social media post by Alex Jones. The text claims "Demon possession is real" and falsely identifies a person named Jesse Van Rootselaar as a "Trans Shooter" responsible for a school shooting in Canada. The post features a video thumbnail of a person in a dark hoodie. A large red "X" and the word "False" in red text are layered over the video thumbnail.

I can't overstate just how much of a disinformation weapon X has becomeand it's being targeted at trans people in particular. A 6 year old video is going around being passed off as the shooter. Fake images are circulating like crazy along with outright genocidal language.

I remember the day when stripping citizenship from when avowed terrorists was considered controversial

What a profound failure. Less than 0.5% of Tavistock’s actual service users complained. None of that mattered to the online rightwing mediasphere encouraged by this country’s billionaire-owned media.

Kids being punished for the failures of adults.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Can you link?

There are practical realities, such as the status of hundreds of thousands Puerto Ricans living in NYC that an overly simplistic independence mindset ignores. However it’s important not to ignore the long rich poetic and artistic history of independismo in Puerto Rico

You’re right. I’m sorry I guess I just assumed because of how much DtMF is used in indepentista circles

I’m not trying to get into an argument with you about Puerto Rican statehood. Bad Bunny himself is a strong supporter of Puerto Rican independence

Many Puerto Ricans, especially in the arts, are in favor of independence for Puerto Rico, not statehood. Although this line is about preventing gentrification and overtourism

Forever grieving the cancellation of Santa Clarita Diet.

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

Also 100,000 dues paying members is quite a lot 😭

Ricky Martín came on and pleaded not to make Puerto Rico the next Hawaii 😭

Congressman Tom Malinowski Congratulates Analilia Mejia, Warns of Dark Money's Impact on NJ-11 Race I congratulate Analilia Mejia on her hard won victory in the NJ-11 special primary. I look forward to supporting her in the April general election. It is essential that we send a Democrat to Washington to fill this seat, not a rubber stamp for Trump. Analilia deserves unequivocal praise and credit for running a positive campaign and for inspiring so many voters on Election Day. But the outcome of this race cannot be understood without also taking into account the massive flood of dark money that AIPAC spent on dishonest ads during the last three weeks. I wish I could say today that this effort, which was meant to intimidate Democrats across the country, failed in NJ-11. But it did not. I met several voters in the final days of the campaign who had seen the ads and asked me, sincerely: "Are you MAGA? Are you for ICE?"

My convictions - including my support for Israel as a democratic and Jewish state - don't change because of who supports or opposes me. But our Democratic Party should have nothing to do with a pro-Trump-billionaire-funded organization that demands absolute fealty to positions that are outside the mainstream of the American pro-Israel community, and then smears those who don't fall into line. If AIPAC backs a candidate - openly or surreptitiously - in the June NJ-11 Congressional primary, I will oppose that candidate and urge my supporters to do so as well. The threat unlimited dark money poses to our democracy is far more significant than the views of a single member of Congress on Middle East policy. I am proud of the joyful and substantive campaign my team and I ran, and am immensely grateful to the volunteers and staff who made it possible. Their mission, and mine, will continue. -Tom Malinowski

BIG NEWS FROM NJ-11: former Rep. Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia on a positive and well-run campaign, blames AIPAC for his loss, and promises to vigorously oppose anyone AIPAC backs against Mejia in June