The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
April 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
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➡️ Trump and his administration tell a lie.
➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact.
➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie.
➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true.
🔄 Repeat
➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact.
➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie.
➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true.
🔄 Repeat
The devious purpose behind MAGA's incessant lying
Creating a fog of confusion is a feature, not a bug.
www.publicnotice.co
April 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
➡️ Trump and his administration tell a lie.
➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact.
➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie.
➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true.
🔄 Repeat
➡️ Right-wing media reports on the lie as fact.
➡️ Trump administration cites the reporting to substantiate the lie.
➡️ Trump sees the lie on right-wing media and thinks it's actually true.
🔄 Repeat
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[guy who writes a newsletter about charts]
April 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
[guy who writes a newsletter about charts]
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Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions.
"Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.
"Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism
Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.
www.npr.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions.
"Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.
"Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.
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It’s almost like the Biden team, while imperfect, did a lot of stuff correctly and knew that things would change for the better.
THE WORST DEFENSE OF THE TRUMP TARIFFS:
I wrote in the newsletter today about how annoying it is to hear people talk about how we need these tariffs to reindustrialize and counter China in high tech manufacturing.
We were literally just doing that!
Sub here www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
I wrote in the newsletter today about how annoying it is to hear people talk about how we need these tariffs to reindustrialize and counter China in high tech manufacturing.
We were literally just doing that!
Sub here www.bloomberg.com/account/news...
April 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It’s almost like the Biden team, while imperfect, did a lot of stuff correctly and knew that things would change for the better.
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The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP
The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
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“My friend, Madame President: I yield the floor.”
April 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
“My friend, Madame President: I yield the floor.”
Ah crud, I'm sobbing
🚨 Cory Booker has officially broken the all-time record for longest ever Senate speech, previously set by Strom Thurmond in 1957. He’s still going.
April 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Ah crud, I'm sobbing
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Currently 31,885 watching Senator Cory Booker’s substantive Senator Floor speech Live on his YouTube—more watching on C-Span.
11,000 when I 1st tuned in. Attendees have been growing for hours.
Huge achievement. Not just impact on Senate—*he’s holding a rally with tens of thousands of people*.
11,000 when I 1st tuned in. Attendees have been growing for hours.
Huge achievement. Not just impact on Senate—*he’s holding a rally with tens of thousands of people*.
April 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Currently 31,885 watching Senator Cory Booker’s substantive Senator Floor speech Live on his YouTube—more watching on C-Span.
11,000 when I 1st tuned in. Attendees have been growing for hours.
Huge achievement. Not just impact on Senate—*he’s holding a rally with tens of thousands of people*.
11,000 when I 1st tuned in. Attendees have been growing for hours.
Huge achievement. Not just impact on Senate—*he’s holding a rally with tens of thousands of people*.
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Adding Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat is good because then there’s one person who actually cares about national security
March 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Adding Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat is good because then there’s one person who actually cares about national security
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This is the message federal employees receive after trying to send in their mandatory “5 bullets” email about what they did this week:
March 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
This is the message federal employees receive after trying to send in their mandatory “5 bullets” email about what they did this week:
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True story: there were worries that Biden had a Peloton and how that might affect cybersecurity
“It introduces another attack point,” said a cybersecurity expert. “Why introduce that risk?”
A Musk lieutenant ventured onto a roof to install Starlink. The Secret Service didn’t know he was there. The incident triggered a confrontation over conflicts of interest & cyber and physical security www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
March 18, 2025 at 2:31 AM
True story: there were worries that Biden had a Peloton and how that might affect cybersecurity
100% this all the time always. There's no way Trump means (or thinks about) everything he says, but once he's said it and it's gotten him attention, he sticks to it like a goblin to its gold
You can see, in real time, constantly, Trump spouting some half-formed nub of an idea, and then when it engenders controversy, gradually transforming that idea into an overriding policy directive, because the alternative is to admit error, which is psychologically impossible for him
March 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
100% this all the time always. There's no way Trump means (or thinks about) everything he says, but once he's said it and it's gotten him attention, he sticks to it like a goblin to its gold
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There’s been a lot of debate over whether Trump means this as a threat or it’s a troll. But the actual answer is it’s both. He dropped it as a throwaway line but his clinical narcissism does not allow him to believe any idea of his is less than perfect and brilliant, so he’s become committed to it
Trump: "To be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. We don't need anything they have. As a state it would be one of the great states. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it."
March 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
There’s been a lot of debate over whether Trump means this as a threat or it’s a troll. But the actual answer is it’s both. He dropped it as a throwaway line but his clinical narcissism does not allow him to believe any idea of his is less than perfect and brilliant, so he’s become committed to it
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Rep. Sarah McBride: “We will not take a lecture on decorum from a party that incited an insurrection. I appear to live rent-free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues. I wish that they would spend even a fraction of the time … thinking about me, thinking about how to lower the costs.”
March 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Rep. Sarah McBride: “We will not take a lecture on decorum from a party that incited an insurrection. I appear to live rent-free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues. I wish that they would spend even a fraction of the time … thinking about me, thinking about how to lower the costs.”
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#Opinion: After Sylvester Turner's death, it's up to Gov. Greg Abbott to set an election date. Politics shouldn't mean that the 18th District is left unrepresented.
trib.al/9a7g8S3
trib.al/9a7g8S3
Gov. Abbott, don't play politics. Call a special election to replace Rep. Turner
After Sylvester Turner's death, it's up to Gov. Greg Abbott to set an election date. Politics shouldn't mean that the 18th District is left unrepresented.
trib.al
March 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#Opinion: After Sylvester Turner's death, it's up to Gov. Greg Abbott to set an election date. Politics shouldn't mean that the 18th District is left unrepresented.
trib.al/9a7g8S3
trib.al/9a7g8S3
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one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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A reminder to please always add alt text to images as a service to users like me who can’t recognise any celebrity who became famous in the last ten years
March 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
A reminder to please always add alt text to images as a service to users like me who can’t recognise any celebrity who became famous in the last ten years
This is one of the most unhinged things said so far. God sure doesn't give people the right to have a federal job, but the federal government sure does give workers the right to not be unlawfully fired, so 🤷♀️
Gill on veterans getting fired by Trump: "Nobody in the United States has a right by God to have a job at taxpayer expense at the federal government."
March 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is one of the most unhinged things said so far. God sure doesn't give people the right to have a federal job, but the federal government sure does give workers the right to not be unlawfully fired, so 🤷♀️
This piece is so very very good
On what went wrong for Dems in 2024: being the boring Mom party.
(Featuring insights from @panicworld.com @cartoonshateher.bsky.social)
open.substack.com/pub/danielle...
(Featuring insights from @panicworld.com @cartoonshateher.bsky.social)
open.substack.com/pub/danielle...
The Mommy Party, The Daddy Party, and 2024
OR: Democrats have a Katherine Heigl problem
open.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This piece is so very very good
Hey look, the "do something" faction calls you useless if you're there, but also useless if you're not there. (This is in response to AOC, fwiw. She is the opposite of useless.)
March 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Hey look, the "do something" faction calls you useless if you're there, but also useless if you're not there. (This is in response to AOC, fwiw. She is the opposite of useless.)
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This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid
March 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This list is so long and taking up so much real estate in his speech it’s almost like they want to distract from their massive cuts to Medicaid
Trump: we're no longer letting unelected bureaucrats run things
GOP Members: *longer than usual standing ovation*
Elon: ... I'm RIGHT HERE, my dude
GOP Members: *longer than usual standing ovation*
Elon: ... I'm RIGHT HERE, my dude
March 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Trump: we're no longer letting unelected bureaucrats run things
GOP Members: *longer than usual standing ovation*
Elon: ... I'm RIGHT HERE, my dude
GOP Members: *longer than usual standing ovation*
Elon: ... I'm RIGHT HERE, my dude
GUYS GUYS GUYS
hear me out
THEY SHOULD HAVE EGGED TRUMP
There would be LAYERS to that protest. Missed opportunity
hear me out
THEY SHOULD HAVE EGGED TRUMP
There would be LAYERS to that protest. Missed opportunity
March 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
GUYS GUYS GUYS
hear me out
THEY SHOULD HAVE EGGED TRUMP
There would be LAYERS to that protest. Missed opportunity
hear me out
THEY SHOULD HAVE EGGED TRUMP
There would be LAYERS to that protest. Missed opportunity