The optics of a racial justice organization run by white people endorsing the dude who had a Nazi tatto are...not great.
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The optics of a racial justice organization run by white people endorsing the dude who had a Nazi tatto are...not great.
"Vance's classic tremulous about-to-cry-at-the-Apple-store delivery style" is an all-timer... @davidjroth.bsky.social makes it look too easy
General announcement to literally everyone: you enjoyed being in your 20s not because the world was better, but because you were at your most attractive, physically capable, and at a peak of both personal freedom and lack of responsibility for others.
Hegseth drove himself this morning, I see
"But you'd have to be a subliterate, brainless, incurious, uninformed moron with the mind of a small child to think that's how the world works." Yes, have you not been paying attention to LITERALLY EVERYTHING THE PRESIDENT DOES AND SAYS, IN PUBLIC, ALL THE TIME, FOR A DECADE
One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.
Senator, all due respect to Asian Carp haters, for whom I'm sure this is a big deal, I think the fact that he threatened to annex Canada again merits a mention.
Not hard to guess whether renters, possessing no ownership stake in this place, are included in the mayor's definition of an HRM "shareholder".
This is thorough and merciless and more applicable to American domestic affairs than you might expect. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The premier of Nova Scotiaβs ENTIRE plan is based on oil and gas extraction. He just said it on air. That is his only plan. Our biggest industry is tourism and he just cut $$ to tourism, arts & conservation (all reasons why people come here).
Separate from the substance details: how bad must the internal poll / caucus-level unrest have been for Tim Houston to make THIS big a shift in tone from everything he's been saying and doing the past couple weeks?
it's always "Biden bad because Gaza" then two posts downthread "it's good that USAID was dismantled" like dog this is just effective altruism for Even Bigger and More Morally Depraved Dipshits
the "summarize this email" button beckons like a siren, tempting my morbid curiosity
they're all trapped in the eternal-1980s that exists inside Trump's dumb wet head and I love that for all of them
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.Β On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.Β Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.Β "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTokβthe video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
holy shit
Cory Booker @CoryBooker β’ Nov 6, 2012 ... Yes. RT @_Take_This_Dick: Do Newark Public Schools Have School Tomorrow? 17 LT 182 283 il Cory Booker @CoryBooker β’ Aug 30, 2011 Replying to @Jah2Raw4Yall Good 2 meet u. Thanks for your patience RT @AgentSick_Fuck So me and @liv_neverPG jus met @corybooker cool down to earth guy #underwood ... 135 6 =l δΌ Cory Booker @CoryBooker β’ Nov 3, 2012 RT @BIG_BOOBS_CARLY: this is crazy the south word to be exact saint james & ther areas around it had no power since mon i have a cold and we ... 5 {7 23 25 =l θ΄ δΌ Cory Booker @CoryBooker β’ Nov 3, 2012 ... Replying to @BIG_BOOBS_CARLY I understand ur frustration.More teams coming in 2help. Please let me know what I can do 2help in the meantime u can DM me @BIG_BOOBS_CARLY 74 LT 1.1K 1.7K =l δΈͺ
Anyways the best thing he did as a politician was to listen to his constituents as Mayor of Newark even if they had really funny names
It's stiff competition, but Nellie Bowles may actually be the most evil, vapid person to work at her wife's stupid website:
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
Wondering if the media would've chosen "honored" as the verb if Obama had saluted fallen soldiers in a fucking baseball cap
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
I remember reading Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton more than a decade ago, constantly coming across passages about Dorsey and thinking man this guy is really sorta dumb and Just There
and intelligence. he's a world-historical dumbass!
there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
Running for Congress on a platform of sneaking into Polymarket HQ and unplugging all their stuff. Overflow crowds at a local Knights of Columbus hall roar with delight as I promise to pour Florida's Natural Grapefruit Juice (with pulp) into the USB-C port of every computer in the damn place.
Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
damn itβs crazy how the slurs filled the chat all by themselves. couldnβt be helped iβm sure. chats are always devolving of their own accord
The supposed explosion of the federal public service looks less explosive if you put it in per capita numbers and draw a line graph back to the mid-80s.
You can impact this budget bill. Present to the Public Accounts Committee. It's your chance to tell this government face-to-face how these cruel cuts will affect you and your family.
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