Twitter/X is a story on its own:
🔴 While users have become more Republican
💥 POSTING has completely transformed: it has moved nearly ❗70 percentage points❗ from Democrat-dominated to Republican-leaning.
In a nutshell, the ANES data shows:
📉 Social media use is shrinking; engagement collapsing
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~70 POINTS to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme
”How is this legal” is a really funny thing for a republican to say in 2026
They think you're stupid.
Ok last post
Good reminder that Black, Asian, and Hispanic voters big part of Virginia Dem coalition
Another election showing a shift from 2024
Also reason why Yes won
Also mailers invoking Jim Crow for No didn’t work and probably backfired
all of these ppl are repositioning to catch the next big grift wave. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
what remains to be seen:
—What Florida Republicans do in a special session next week.
—What Missouri's supreme court does with ballot petitions to block the new Missouri map (accounts for 1 GOP seat).
—What Virginia's supreme court does with the GOP lawsuit against the Virginia referendum.
wild scenes from Virginia
Rainbow Virginia that Fairfax will control
key election update
this is so profoundly dishonorable
Turn your outrage into action. Moms in Texas are organizing to get 10,000 of us across the country to keep this issue in lawmakers faces, turn up the heat till they #CloseTheCamps and #FreeTheFamilies
Sign up for 4/16 action - actionnetwork.org/forms/10000-...
Trump did't take over Venezuela, he kidnapped two people and acquired a corrupt socialist client state.
I wrote about how the debate over Democrats engaging influencers like Hasan Piker is missing the point. The question is not whether to talk to these people, but how to do so in a way that makes the audience smarter—one that scrutinizes not just the influencer’s opinions, but their facts. Gift link:
2025 Politico headline: Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’
John Gramlich skeet quoting Trump in NYT today: Trump: “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”
A sowing/reaping for the ages
"Clean energy is now scaling fast enough to absorb rising global electricity demand, keeping fossil generation flat before its inevitable decline."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products. n.pr/3Ovl8k8
The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
ICE detained the wife of an active-duty U.S. Army Sgt. First Class after she showed up for an immigration appointment in 📍 El Paso—then still threatened removal despite legal protections.
Her husband (27 years active duty) said it plainly: ICE is out of control.
"Elon Musk cooked his brain online. Marc Andreessen and others seemingly struggled with being in virtual spaces where their ideas and status were challenged, and rewired their political beliefs as a form of cope."
Good deep dive into tech broligarchy madness:
At a certain point, the right-wing education people are going to realize that "Return to the classics" and "Ban all queer and sexual content from education" are not reconcilable objectives.
It's notable that Sen. Ossoff is pressing this attack in a tight re-election fight in a purple state. The rest of the party needs to pay attention.
Garak says "you're obviously a prisoner of Federation dogma"
anti-electoral leftists badly need to recognize the responsibility they have to engage in harm reduction for all of the people affected by our foreign policy, even if voting won't bring about internationalist utopia
the thing that's so unbelievably weird about this is that it's a dogwhistle against the culture that invented algebra
The concept of "this is deeply evil, but it's the normal kind of deeply evil that states sometimes do, not a satanic conspiratorial evil" is remarkably hard for a lot of people to grasp
It's a war of the oligarchs against the professional administrative class, the only class capable and willing to resist them.
Jake Tapper, long-suffering... @jaketapper.bsky.social Going to a formal event that celebrates Freedom of the Press where some of the other guests don't understand the importance of the 1st Amendment? The Reporters Committee for the Free Press has some great accessories - including the below pocket square! Image shows pocket square on a table with handwritten font style reading: CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, CROF THE PRESS
the autumn and the scarlet @beneprism.rip (in case anyone missed it) Image shows Tapper’s signature next to the font on the pocket square
Look, CNN, the NYT, and other places remain essential for original investigative reporting.
But at this point I don’t know why anyone is turning to these places for opinion news when they could be reading & watching @thebulwark.com, @liberalcurrents.com, @newrepublic.com, @theunpopulist.net, et al
