She should ask him if Brown v Board was correctly decided, and watch him squirm more.

Some large companies, like Amazon and Apple, indirectly benefited from the tariffs, including because they weakened smaller competitors.

“Biblical Masculinity” is just toxic masculinity with legally mandated misogyny

As a showcase of sadistic amorality, this is down there with the DHS agents who dined in a Mexican restaurant and then ordered a roundup of its staff. Trump revels in sociopathy, and has given chuds across the country license to do the same.

lol imagine being on a submarine right now

For people who care about democracy, unilateral disarmament on gerrymandering is the worst outcome, and there is no serious dispute on this question. (Note that people wringing their hands about this aren't even pretending that voting no would mean the withdrawl of any existing GOP gerrymander.)

Florida's economy works by converting pension funds into real estate speculation & medical debt. I'm impressed it's lasted as long as it has

A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss

The world’s richest man and a kid named “big balls” brought 6.7% unemployment to DC, put uniformed Fed troops in the streets and per conservative estimates cut programs that’ll result in the deaths of millions of people: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Not to be a pedant, but the DOGE triggerboys were Luke Farritor and Gavin Kliger.

"[W]hen Farritor was confronted with a gentle criticism of his actions, he responded with a meme about a crying baby."

Both deserve a summary tribunal and [TOS violation].

5D chess.

RFK, Jr.: "It's amazing how quickly the flu spreads in crowded classrooms. It's a total mystery. No one knows why."

PETE HEGSETH: "It's a well known fact that the flue *can't* spread in a crowded submarine. Jesus said that. Or did I read it on the bottom of a beer bottle cap? Another mystery, man!"

The My Lie massacre

Marco Rubio's job, as I have come to understand it, is to rock those ill-fitting Florsheim's like a bewildered catalog model.

And on that score, Marco is batting a thousand.

So what was Marco Rubio's job again? And is he doing any of the things we normally think of as part of his job description?

Is there any modern equivalent of a country starting a war they fundamentally don't have the stones for and then losing it so thoroughly and so quickly

Yep. Its excuses & scapegoating.

It’s ‘we, the people’ & ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people.’

That’s the entire point, voters have the power

Gerrymandering isn’t an abstract ethics question.

NYT: How Trump Won By Not Sending JD

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Eugenics. Period.

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

Finally, I’ll mention a mindset in vogue among a certain crop of media executives. Although they claim to want politics out of the newsroom — and I do, too —they simultaneously propose a political calculus for their journalists. The new owner of CBS and the current editor-in-chief of the news division, for instance, set an explicit objective of appealing to the center right and the center left. That is a political goal. It is not a journalistic one. And it is a far cry from how Jack Knight instructed his newsroom: “Get the truth and publish it.” That is a journalistic goal. Media owners who substitute political goal posts for news values find refuge in sophistry. They lay claim to ethics; instead, they subvert them. Their path may be one of commercial convenience. Or of timidity. Or of appeasement to regulators, legislators and the president himself. Or the instinctual path of those who see the press only through the lens of politics. But a news outlet of that formulation is fated to compromise ethics when a rock-solid story moving toward publication is deemed to fall outside the designated political comfort zone.

Come for @sulliview.bsky.social's focus on former WaPo EIC Marty Baron's spot on comments about the wildly political content objectives of both David Ellison & Bari Weiss; stay for the criticism of the NYT's Mrs. Bezos fluff.
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Hey chat, what does mass illness do to the effectiveness of a military?

35% with over two years to go and no plan to change course

The most predictable thing in the world

Trump Fed pick Kevin Warsh won't say if Trump lost the 2020 election (he did).

The thing is you have a Secretary of Defense who quite literally does not think germs are real, he explicitly rejects germ theory

The question to ask isn't "why did pete do (x)," it's "why did roger wicker vote to confirm a guy who literally doesn't think germs are real"

Virginia! Today is the last day to vote in the redistricting referendum.

Make sure to vote YES.

You can find your polling location at IWillVote.com/VA.

Theres an interesting thing ppl do online in terms of hate as performance where they gas each other up into more & more outlandish expressions of it in order to in-group signal.

Why I'm Voting Yes on Virginia's Redistricting Amendment Today Virginia votes on a constitutional amendment that would allow mid-decade redistricting — redrawing congressional maps in a way that would eliminate mos...

the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…