🧵 Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"

Dude they sliced Austin like a pie ten years ago.

I hate how outlets treat this crap like the Wacky Races where Snidely Whiplash is just expected to cheat without consequence and everyone else has to just act like that’s normal.

What is "remarkable," @nytnickc.bsky.social, is that it didn't even occur to you to ask, hey, why are there these mid-decade redistrictings happening in the first place? What did Trump say the goal of them were?

Kinda weird isn't it? Kinda weirder than a "Dems are hypocrites!!?!" angle?

Democrats Once Loathed Gerrymandering. Now They’re Pushing for It.

The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article.

Neither does the word "decade."

"Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

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#SolarCanals💧☀️🔌💡

The most despicably racist public statement of our lifetimes came from the perverted mind of RFKjr who said “every black kid” should be taken away from every black parent by government and “re-parented.” Listen to him say it & hear the sound of American Nazi madness.

FCC chair Brendan Carr, who has threatened to revoke the licenses of broadcast outlets whose Iran war coverage displeases him, plans to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as a guest this Saturday.
The suck-up media will never learn: When you invite fascists to dinner, they devour you.

Tesla saved $400 million on its federal taxes by shifting billions of its U.S. profits to countries with lower tax rates.

Yes: While you paid your taxes in full, giant corporations maneuvered to pay as little as possible — and it’s all perfectly legal for them.

The system is rigged.

We live in the dumbest times

They are explicitly and specifically targeting people with long covid because, to put it bluntly, there's fuck all else available to us. MAHA decimated long covid research funding and now the grifters are swooping in....

This is easily a new litmus test for candidates

Chavez-DeRemer has stepped down so that her family can spend more time creeping on her former staffers.

It’s all just right out in the open and anyone who isn’t disgusted just thinks they too have dirty free money coming their way

Timeline on Jared Kushner, Qatar, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House Policy A comprehensive account of Jared Kushner, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House support for the blockade of Qatar after the Qataris rejected Kushner Companies.

Timeline on Jared Kushner, Qatar, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House Policy at www.justsecurity.org/69094/timeli...

Trump Admin Wants To Take Major Bite Out Of NASA Budget

Trump got his PR stunt with the Artemis crew and a complete distraction from the Epstein-Trump files. He lied that the Artemis mission was his (it was started with Biden).

One week later, Trump wants to cut 23% from the NASA budget. Can't make it up.

It’s always the illiberal regimes doing this. You never see Canada paying a bunch of guys to write about the expanded EITC or congestion pricing.

2004 Garner murder case: Officer placed on leave, considered person of interest in homicide Two decades after a Garner teen died while walking down a neighborhood road, investigators are taking the case in a new direction, one that involves a police officer.

In 2004, a teenager in Garner, NC was killed while walking in his neighborhood. No explanation has ever been offered. It now seems like he was probably killed by a cop.

@gregdoucette.bsky.social say the thing

Dinesh D’Souza’s son in law.

The Shadow Docket Memos Are Damning. So Naturally, The Right Is Talking About The Leak. - Above the Law New York Times reporting reveals the birth of the modern emergency docket was sloppier, more ideologically driven, and less legally rigorous than anyone admitted. The right's response is to demand we ...

No, because as my colleague pointed out today, they are going to flood the zone with leak takes to crowd out any engagement with the substance

Plenty of criticism on the right of the #SCOTUS leaker and the Times’s reporting, but has anyone actually responded to the argument that Roberts’s assessment of “irreparable harm” and his refusal to balance the equities is completely inconsistent with his subsequent behavior in all the Trump cases?

The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. The Iranian regime is still firing on ships. Trump has accomplished nothing.

Just FYI.

Jon Husted on Trump's Iran war: "This is good news for the global economy"

New evidence pulls Jon Husted deeper into Ohio's $60M bribery scandal New AP reporting adds fresh dark money documentation and previously unreported texts to the mounting evidence contradicting Sen. Jon Husted's denials.

Another scandal ridden GOP ass.

The Strange Death of Orbánism Franz Pokorny

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

Just another day in Donald Trump’s Endless Clown Show.

a bunch of Ds voted yes on her confirmation.

just vote against them all, you fucking dopes. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

As with declining trust in universities, you cannot explain the timing or this trend, or fix it, without first acknowledging the reality that the the primary driver of these is the Republican Party’s near-total collapse into far right authoritarianism in the last decade:

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Trump's running out of women in his cabinet to blame.