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I will never understand why a publication like the Atlantic would feel the need to validate right wing propaganda by both-siding an obvious situation like this and hanging fellow journalists at CBS out to dry. RIP journalism.
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I will never understand why a publication like the Atlantic would feel the need to validate right wing propaganda by both-siding an obvious situation like this and hanging fellow journalists at CBS out to dry. RIP journalism.
USAID is not a "smallish agency". It has global impact.
Makes you really wonder what Trump actually knows. Which is scary because somehow he's managed to surround himself with people worse than he is.
Makes you really wonder what Trump actually knows. Which is scary because somehow he's managed to surround himself with people worse than he is.
This is horrible. Trump and his crew shut down USAID, which has led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and they had no idea what they were doing or what would be the consequences. Completely immoral.
(From the VF story on Susan Wiles.)
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
(From the VF story on Susan Wiles.)
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
December 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
USAID is not a "smallish agency". It has global impact.
Makes you really wonder what Trump actually knows. Which is scary because somehow he's managed to surround himself with people worse than he is.
Makes you really wonder what Trump actually knows. Which is scary because somehow he's managed to surround himself with people worse than he is.
The real Trump Derangement Syndrome is people like Glasheen somehow agreeing to beclown themselves like this. This guy has worked in counter-terrorism for 25 years. He was head of the Joint Terrorism Task Force! And yet...
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The real Trump Derangement Syndrome is people like Glasheen somehow agreeing to beclown themselves like this. This guy has worked in counter-terrorism for 25 years. He was head of the Joint Terrorism Task Force! And yet...
I remember a leftist moment when (a) student loans were the most important thing in the universe, and (b) Biden was just not doing enough. It was a whole thing until other distractions came and of course SCOTUS ended it all. But now Trump doesn't even merit a leftist peep of disapproval for this.
The delta between what Biden did and how much anger he got for it and the absolute crickets Trump has gotten for making the student loan landscape *magnitudes worse than it was before* is absolutely one of the most enraging things about this entirely enraging era.
Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I remember a leftist moment when (a) student loans were the most important thing in the universe, and (b) Biden was just not doing enough. It was a whole thing until other distractions came and of course SCOTUS ended it all. But now Trump doesn't even merit a leftist peep of disapproval for this.
Excellent article. Much of the trouble we're in right now with the effective death of public health comes from the combination of right-wing ratfucking and people who know better refusing to fight their lies. Even the perception that COVID mitigations were unpopular is one of those lies.
Please read this excellent, imperative piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social.
This is not the time to cede ground to the right-wing effort to destroy public health, and it won’t save anyone anyway.
This is not the time to cede ground to the right-wing effort to destroy public health, and it won’t save anyone anyway.
Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender
It's time we stopped flinching at the assaults of the far right—and started fighting back.
www.thenation.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Excellent article. Much of the trouble we're in right now with the effective death of public health comes from the combination of right-wing ratfucking and people who know better refusing to fight their lies. Even the perception that COVID mitigations were unpopular is one of those lies.
Before 2020 it seemed like political coverage was the nadir of journalism: impossible to do the job worse. But then the pandemic arrived, and somehow political journalism infected public health journalism and we got bothsides coverage of a virus and the people trying to fight it.
Scherer makes sweeping statements about "a medical breakdown" caused by Covid.
"There's been a total collapse of that most basic conversation that makes science work. The scientists have thrown up their hands and said they cannot deal with these people. The dissidents are deeply aggrieved."
"There's been a total collapse of that most basic conversation that makes science work. The scientists have thrown up their hands and said they cannot deal with these people. The dissidents are deeply aggrieved."
December 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Before 2020 it seemed like political coverage was the nadir of journalism: impossible to do the job worse. But then the pandemic arrived, and somehow political journalism infected public health journalism and we got bothsides coverage of a virus and the people trying to fight it.
I will admit to a certain amount of schadenfreude seeing all the covid minimizers who I was told were just reasonable centrists, unlike those childish zero-coviders who just want the moon, finding their true homes in the eugenicist filth of the Trump administration. Like... we told you so.
"Putting Tracy Beth (Hoeg) in charge is like dropping an atom bomb," one (FDA) source said, adding that multiple top-level officials are preparing resignations. "It's an extinction level event. (She) has never supervised a drug review...conducted a clinical trial...doesn't understand laws & reg's."🛟
Appointment of controversial FDA official rocking agency like "an atom bomb," scientists there say
The Trump administration's elevation of Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg to lead a high-profile office within the Food and Drug Administration is raising alarm among multiple senior FDA officials.
www.cbsnews.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I will admit to a certain amount of schadenfreude seeing all the covid minimizers who I was told were just reasonable centrists, unlike those childish zero-coviders who just want the moon, finding their true homes in the eugenicist filth of the Trump administration. Like... we told you so.
Good thread. A shorter version might be that the Nazi interns who worked with Grok to write this are basically doubling down on spreading white supremacist fascism throughout the world while not understanding in the slightest what actually made the US a powerful nation.
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Good thread. A shorter version might be that the Nazi interns who worked with Grok to write this are basically doubling down on spreading white supremacist fascism throughout the world while not understanding in the slightest what actually made the US a powerful nation.
I will say Jeffries gets a lot of flak for stupid things, but this... this is disqualifying. Being anti-corruption in this day and age is just the lowest of bars.
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I will say Jeffries gets a lot of flak for stupid things, but this... this is disqualifying. Being anti-corruption in this day and age is just the lowest of bars.
I actually kind of hope that we end up with SCOTUS deciding that you can revoke a pardon via executive order. That will solve a number of future problems.
December 3, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I actually kind of hope that we end up with SCOTUS deciding that you can revoke a pardon via executive order. That will solve a number of future problems.
One of those things that could turn out to be the biggest discovery in medicine in quite some time.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
One of those things that could turn out to be the biggest discovery in medicine in quite some time.
It is somewhat surprising that the SecDef who made "war crimes are good, actually" his brand while on TV is now telling the troops to commit war crimes.
November 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
It is somewhat surprising that the SecDef who made "war crimes are good, actually" his brand while on TV is now telling the troops to commit war crimes.
Not sure how to federalize it, but I 100% support this initiative.
a culture that's a cesspool of kid-beating has a pretty obvious weakness right where it hurts, too
i support sending CPS on an Inquisition
i support sending CPS on an Inquisition
The 30% has to be put back in their place. they tried to wage war on us, we’ll return the favor and dismantle their culture.
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Not sure how to federalize it, but I 100% support this initiative.
100% this, and it was the plan all along. Put vaccine makers out of business. Congress needs to intervene fast.
I can't read this as anything other than a direct assault on the vaccine industry. Full stop. They are laying the groundwork to prevent all vaccine R&D. Not directly, but by requiring study designs for approval that are scientifically unnecessary and financially inviable.
Here's Prasad's full email, if you'd like to read it for yourself: www.washingtonpost.com/documents/30...
And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
And I jotted down a few thoughts on my substack, including how the strategy of "asking more evidence" — which on the surface, sure, everyone wants more data — can lead to red tape.
November 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
100% this, and it was the plan all along. Put vaccine makers out of business. Congress needs to intervene fast.
Fascinating thread. It's hard to know what's going on because we don't have control groups anymore. Everyone in these cohorts faces the same global-scale trauma, has been overexposed to social media, has been pushed to use LLMs, and has been repeatedly infected with a brain-eating virus.
And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Fascinating thread. It's hard to know what's going on because we don't have control groups anymore. Everyone in these cohorts faces the same global-scale trauma, has been overexposed to social media, has been pushed to use LLMs, and has been repeatedly infected with a brain-eating virus.
This is a pretty good analysis of MAGA. They are not all racists, and not all corrupt, true. But every one of them is at least one or the other. And neither faction minds what the other is doing as long as it furthers their own goals.
It's striking how some members of the administration want to create a worse, poorer, American ethnostate and think they need an authoritarian kleptocracy to do that and some members of the administration want an authoritarian kleptocracy and think they need white supremacists to do that.
unironically i think he wants to impose the conditions of his childhood onto the entire country
November 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is a pretty good analysis of MAGA. They are not all racists, and not all corrupt, true. But every one of them is at least one or the other. And neither faction minds what the other is doing as long as it furthers their own goals.
I will say that after reading the 28 point plan, it was pretty obvious that the author was a Russian speaker and it was probably translated from an original Russian draft. If you're familiar with that kind of thing, you'll see it in the doc.
November 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I will say that after reading the 28 point plan, it was pretty obvious that the author was a Russian speaker and it was probably translated from an original Russian draft. If you're familiar with that kind of thing, you'll see it in the doc.
US foreign policy continues to be dictated by 13-year-olds with oppositional defiant disorder. Good job, everyone.
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
US foreign policy continues to be dictated by 13-year-olds with oppositional defiant disorder. Good job, everyone.
Somehow, this makes me happy, sad, amused, and depressed. All at the same time.
Russia flat out rejects Trump's 28-point peace plan: "Even in a reduced military and territorial form, Ukraine would remain a significant danger, requiring us to keep our forces on the western borders."
November 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Somehow, this makes me happy, sad, amused, and depressed. All at the same time.
If anyone thinks this SCOTUS will allow some lowly federal judge to block Republicans' precious gerrymander for the 2026 midterms, I have a few bridges to sell them.
Supreme Court blocks order that found Texas congressional map is likely racially biased
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/g...
www.npr.org/2025/11/21/g...
Supreme Court blocks order that found Texas congressional map is likely racially biased
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas' 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race.
www.npr.org
November 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
If anyone thinks this SCOTUS will allow some lowly federal judge to block Republicans' precious gerrymander for the 2026 midterms, I have a few bridges to sell them.
And so here we are...
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 AM
And so here we are...
This is shaping up to be the most embarrassing episode in the history of US foreign policy.
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is shaping up to be the most embarrassing episode in the history of US foreign policy.
In a fair media environment, Republicans would have been branded years ago as the party that simply cannot govern and are incapable of producing any kind of policy proposal beyond sloppy tax cuts and deregulation. That perception should hang on them like an albatross every election.
Republicans admit their plan to double ACA premiums & throw 15M off health care is a disaster.
Trump’s “big idea” — a one-time check of AT MOST $6,500 — won't even cover cancer treatment or childbirth.
Health care is a human right. It's time to expand Medicare & cut drug prices.
Trump’s “big idea” — a one-time check of AT MOST $6,500 — won't even cover cancer treatment or childbirth.
Health care is a human right. It's time to expand Medicare & cut drug prices.
Republicans finally want to talk about health care. That’s good — but their ideas are absurd. - The Boston Globe
Their proposals would take our already broken health care system and make it even worse. Here’s what we should do instead.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In a fair media environment, Republicans would have been branded years ago as the party that simply cannot govern and are incapable of producing any kind of policy proposal beyond sloppy tax cuts and deregulation. That perception should hang on them like an albatross every election.
Sadly ironic that all those QAnon voters voted for the Epstein Administration.
So it's not just Trump and Bondi running interference for pedophiles. Bessent is a key part of the Epstein coverup. I plan to seek Senate approval of my bill to force the Treasury Department to release its Epstein file in the coming weeks because we need to keep on following the money.
November 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Sadly ironic that all those QAnon voters voted for the Epstein Administration.
The Republican party thinks you are really really stupid. Vote accordingly.
Cassidy: "If she goes and gets 2 types of shampoo & one is a dollar cheaper, she'll get the cheaper one & the other lowers their price. Once you give her the power of making the decision, she's gonna shop -- that begins to save her money and squeezes waste out of the healthcare system."
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Republican party thinks you are really really stupid. Vote accordingly.