I have never, ever heard a reader say their problem is too few books on the market.

I’ve heard MANY say there are so many that it’s hard to find *quality* reads, which is why they’re loyal to certain authors + publishers.

This “business” is solving a problem that doesn’t exist, using stolen work

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

I'm sure this can't be traced directly back to the unrestricted lawless world of tech.

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

This is the real person people are falling over themselves to praise and coddle.

Every time MTG utters anything that isn't batshit, she ends up getting credit for it from the same lineup of desperate people who just want to believe in conservative redemption, when there are people who have been loudly opposing this genocide from day one when the collective punishment began.

same with Candace Owens, or Nick Fuentes. like, just for starters, giving these people credibility and high profile gives them a chance to really delegitimize your movement, because they're fucking Nazis!

obviously, criticizing Israel genocide is not antisemitic. when someone has a history of babbling about Jewish space lasers, though, it's fair to suspect that that may have an impact on the rest of their thinking.

People are so fixated on pointing out that anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism that they blind themselves to the extremely obvious antisemite to anti-Zionist pipeline

While I think ICE agents should face criminal charges for their kidnapping of immigrants, they should face long, and perhaps lifetime, prison sentences for anything like this involving kids. An ICE agent willing to do this is not someone who should be out among society even after Dems retake power.

Because boy, howdy, nobody knows ritual and symbolism like the Catholic Church, and having it turned squarely back on the Very Bad Catholics who have been the public standard-bearers of wielding it for evil for so long is really good to see.

Embarrassing. The Vice President of the United States of America wants a justice system based on vibes.

Vought is not interested in “normal” democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, and sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.

When I tell leftists working class conservatives will not join with them against elites, this is why. They blame the elites for the left's existence. They believe this is a fully astroturfed movement and leftists they know are victims, brainwashed BY that movement.

She knows how to sell a product, but that product is not "news"

She's not afraid to take on a mob, but that "mob" is "most Americans who are not billionaires she constantly flatters"

She's an entrepreneur, if that's a synonym for grifter.

Imagine being "amazed" at the hostile reaction to all that

Bad journalists support other bad journalists because it makes them think they’re actually good at their job. Neither of these people are a good standard for journalism. They’re bad and should not have the positions they have.

As a One Piece fan, Luffy would kick the ever loving shit out of Peter Thiel for a McDonald’s hamburger. There’s a reason you’re seeing the Straw Hat Jolly Roger popping up at protests around the world.

My immediate reaction was St Saturn better keep the Pirate Kings name out of his mouth.

Taxing billionaires into the sun is a public health measure. Having this much money is obviously very VERY bad for you

I'm gonna need St Saturn there to get Luffy's name out of his fucking mouth.

The pardoning of Richard Nixon was the death knell of democracy. Ford should have been impeached for it. North went down for Iran Contra, but not St Ronnie. They didn't even bother to charge John Yoo. Trump got immunity from his SCOTUS stooges. Their crimes just get more and more extravagant.

If the people orchestrating this do not stand trial and face serious legal consequences we will just be back here again. Conservatives are always saying that punishment, swift, and severe, is the only deterrent to crime. Well they need to be fucking deterred.

I know that there are stories like this happening every day. I have complete faith in our remaining real journalists and public servants to carefully document each of them, and preserve these details for historians and for use and future criminal trials against the perpetrators.