Before comic book superheroes were even a thing, religious mythology and indoctrination of children did the same thing and more around the world. bsky.app/profile/indy... I don’t understand this urge to selectively attack one fiction story genre and not the others.
I love @gregsargent.bsky.social’s political analyses, but right now I find it hard to be optimistic re our elected D leaders—especially senior D leadership—who seem to excel at mealymouthed milquetoast blathering rather than doing anything substantial/taking a strong stance. bsky.app/profile/newr...
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
Promo picture for a fundraiser showing that Pete Hegseth as the special guest at a political fundraiser for Zach Nunn
Not only can I not think of a time when a sitting Secretary of Defense was ever the guest of honor at a political fundraiser, but I definitely can't think of a time when he did so weeks after starting a massive, unnecessary war
For the first year of their life, humpback whale calves share a close bond with their mothers. Calves will nurse, grow, learn and play by their mothers’ side as they develop the behaviours and strength needed for their first migration.
🎥: Sebastian Staines
Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post offering “financial runway." This month it gutted its newsroom—more than 300 layoffs.
Whatever you think of legacy news, the hard data shows us that newspaper closures hurt Americans. Here's how: 🧵
A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.
So very emblematic of the sainted New York Times!! (And THIS deliberate fatuity is what loyal NYT subscribers keep subsidizing with their subscription money.)
No words can ever describe how massive the collective 2016 media’s failure of imagination was.
Remember when serious and sober voices assured us that Bari Weiss was not, in fact, an incompetent partisan clown?
Just remember what this is all for…. Distracting from the Epstein files
The mantle of the Gomer-man as the dumbest Congressperson is safe, I see, within their party.
Remember when Secretary Clinton warned everyone about her, without ever saying her name.
she’s such a willing propagandist it’s disgusting
If you are an elected official that opposes military strikes on Iran, the head of CBS News will clap back at you. Will be interesting to see if she does this for other objectors, or just Muslim politicians, but it does raise the question how much her views of the Middle East shape the news.
Has the Republican leadershit always been this gormless and cowardly or is this a relatively new thing? 😒🤔 (Not that I expect anything else from them but still…) bsky.app/profile/atru...
Cornyn on Trump's strikes on Iran: "I don't know what the-- what's, uh -- I'm learning like you are as the news unfolds exactly what's happening"
Post Conversation Bari Weiss @bariweiss 🔥 Quote Square profile picture CBS News @CBSNews · 1h "Mr. Mamdani, you are more than welcome to come to one of my safe houses." Masih Alinejad, who was targeted for assassination by the Iranian regime at her Brooklyn home, responded to a statement released by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani that today's military strikes on Iran Show more
Crazy how Bari Weiss tries to have it both ways. She decries mainstream media for failing standards then she herself violates core journalism ethics by doing biased posts like this attacking Mayor Mamdani. I know she's a Maga-coded pundit, not a journalist but this is still wildly unacceptable.
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
The chief federal judge in Minnesota has threatened to pursue criminal contempt charges against ICE and the state's top federal prosecutor if they don't comply with court orders in scores of immigration cases.
At least 97 violations involving 66 different cases have been documented.
Thanks so much to @melodyschreiber.com for not only writing about this issue, but quoting trans scientists as experts!
This is so unbelievably f*cked up and disgusting.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.
Scientists say crackdown on gender-affirming care could have impact on healthcare of all Americans
Oh absolutely. And this is not unknown, but somehow they are able to hide behind a make-believe “liberal” façade due to the work of hardworking journalists. bsky.app/profile/kaus...
DC political reporters are dutifully regurgitating GOP talking points. Politico was giddy about this today
@msignorile.bsky.social is right. They don't get the world as it is. Too busy listening to their Republican sources instead of, you know, looking at the polls they usually froth over
“Last month, a spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Revenue told The Star that the agency had processed 159 gender changes on IDs since a district court injunction was lifted in October. Officials say they expect around 1,800 people to have their identity documents revoked.“
“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)
the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.
Trans Kansan's being stripped of their licenses due to having previously - legally - changed their gender marker is absolutely shocking.
A person who misses the letter - let's they moved and forgot to have their mail forwarded - could drive to work and be arrested for driving without a license.
