Dynamism personified. Proud supporter of the “fuck you, make me” approach to tyranny.
Not to worry! I am sure the Harpers Letter signatories are currently preparing a blistering takedown of this college’s/business’s/state government’s/local government’s/administration’s blatant attack on free speech.
Florida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit SaysSouth Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.www.nytimes.comWe (the general mass of people opposed to Trump) need to understand that millions of our fellow citizens do not get a lot of news about Trump. Local TV news is the primary source of news for a huge swath of Americans and its coverage of Trump is virtually nonexistent.
Ana Marie CoxThese numbers should make me happy or at least feel vindicated but all of these things (except the ballroom, I guess) were obvious two years ago and people voted for him anyway.
I really like this from @joshtpm.bsky.social but I have a question about the dot com bubble- were there as many major players as heavily leveraged as we currently see with AI?
AI and Bubbles All the Way DownLike many others, I continue to be baffled and unnerved at how...talkingpointsmemo.comThis has broadly been the case for his presidency (and the period between), the average American is presented a Trump who does not exist.
Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBCNot a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane
This is something I’ve thought for a while now, rather than confront their collective failure in stopping this, they’ve ignored it.
ryan cooperso many DC elites are desperately attempting to pantomime the old norms, like if you pretend hard enough then you won’t have to face the incredibly obvious threat of MAGA authoritarianism
This post from @eschatonblog.com gets at something that has been broadly true about how Trump and the GOP is covered- there is zero ‘curiosity’ about them and I can’t seem to find a satisfactory answer for that.
How Much DamageAside from this WSJ piece from 3 weeks ago, I haven't seen very much investigation into the true damage Iran has done to US military asset...www.eschatonblog.comTrying to appease fascists is the real world equivalent of Tobias Fünke telling arguing that his open marriage will work.
When fascists come for the news outlets that enabled themThe NY Times and ABC News find that appeasement doesn’t workwww.stopthepresses.newsFor two decades, I’ve had to listen to my colleagues bemoan political polarization but it’s always been clear that the bigger problem is stuff like this.
Sen. Adam SchiffWhat I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.