Want to add that @mford.bsky.social can speak to this phenomenon in way greater depth than I can

The Media’s Groundbreaking Discovery: Anti-Corruption Is Good Politics The chattering classes have belatedly stumbled upon a way to defeat authoritarianism. Now if they can only practice what they preach.

I wrote about how the elite media recently discovered that corruption was bad

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Roberts & Co. are also forever giving the lower courts shit for not being able to predict how the conservative majority is going to play each successive round of Calvinball. It’s not their fault that SCOTUS is a right wing super legislature now.

you love to see it

to mangle Adam Serwer's line, everyone who voted for Trump voted for someone to get got, they just didn't realize that they were that someone to somebody else

I've been enjoying NOTUS and I am rooting for them to pull this off

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

they truly are!

it's crazy how much I like the most recent two Kim Gordon albums

Caitlyn Jenner asks Trump for help after impact of trans passport policy "I can’t travel internationally anymore. I can’t use my passport," Caitlyn Jenner told Tomi Lahren in a recent interview.

this is of course an injustice but it's a net good that Jenner is feeling the visceral pain of her own choices

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hey, maybe I could shit gold doubloons

Based on today’s tally she would bring the vote to a tie

How Mikie Sherrill Won Latino Voters Back for Democrats The governor-elect’s focus on targeting and mobilizing voters in areas with high Hispanic populations helped her undo Trump’s gains among these voters in 2024.

Another feather in the cap for Make The Road Action NJ, whose organizational efforts helped Mikie Sherrill win the statehouse. If you want to win back Latino voters from the GOP, talk to them, because they're doing it.

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Democrat Analilia Mejia will win House special election in New Jersey, CNN projects, further narrowing GOP majority | CNN Politics Analilia Mejia will win a special election in New Jersey’s 11th District, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, allowing Democrats to further narrow Republicans’ razor-thin majority in the US House.

you love to see it

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Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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the level of incompetence among media owners is so vast right now that it allows a dipshit like Jim Bankoff to fly under the radar

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hey man who said you could weaponize these weapons

A lot will depend on what proportion of Swalwell voters were specifically drawn to Swalwell and how many backed him solely because he was perceived as the likeliest to win

what a surprise that this dickhead was also a fabulist

a lot of the rest of it is "don't be the caricature that the right invented for us to put in the newspaper as if it were true" so obviously we have a ways to go with these dipshits

Crucially, Mr. Magyar made corruption a core campaign issue. He had spent more than 20 years as a member of Mr. Orban’s Fidesz party, rising to senior roles in state-controlled institutions. But Mr. Magyar quit Fidesz in early 2024 to protest a scandal involving the government’s pardon of a well-connected former official who had sexually abused boys. Mr. Magyar said he was disgusted by the corruption, and he gave a viral interview in which he claimed that “a few families own half the country.” He then joined the Tisza party and rose to become its leader.

great to hear that the editors have finally caught wind of the fact that Trump is corrupt many years behind the rest of us; a suggestion: direct your staff to more often say this in plain English and leave off the dedication to sanewashing him

The campaign platform of the party Mr. Magyar leads, Tisza, was titled “Foundations of a Functional and Humane Hungary.” It criticized the inefficiency of government services. Its agenda included tax cuts for working-class families, expanded health care, increased pensions, larger child benefits and a pay increase for support staff members at schools. It said it would help pay for these programs through both a wealth tax on the very rich and the recovery of European Union transfer payments reduced because of Mr. Orban’s anti-democratic policies. Mr. Magyar’s party spread its campaign themes in innovative ways through social media, making Mr. Orban’s state-run media messaging look old and tired.

The NYT edit board's "How To Defeat Trumpism" blog is an intrigiung artifact. This whole "how Magyar did it" recounting includes a whole paragraph of stuff to which this edit board would be frothingly hostile if a Democrat proposed it

we are gonna get absolutely dogwalked at the Etihad on Sunday

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

elizabethrosehalligan 11h So I'm not trying to knock the gesture here, I get the sentiment. I feel for the astronaut who lost his wife as it was devastating to lose my father-in-law, who I loved very much, to glioblastoma suddenly in 2023. But 4 astronauts deciding to name a spot on THE FUCKING MOON after ONE GUY'S WIFE while the other 8 BILLION of us down here have no input on NAMING SHIT ON THE FUCKING MOON still feels like colonizer behavior to me. I don't care if one of them was a black dude.

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yesss manifest this

it me, the Mystics fan who was nevertheless deeply invested in Azzi going to Dallas

the face you make when your protégé jd vance is not good at anything

CTRL+ALT+DEL loss comic except JD Vance runs into the room to find two beds, with Viktor Orban and the Strait of Hormuz.