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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1h

I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.

Doug Pennington @morfaleji.bsky.social · 1h

This never stops being true, but I’m not sure Ds have ever, at least in my lifetime, learned to apply it for good. *Creating* public opinion either never occurs to them, or if it does, offends their sensibilities? It’s exasperating

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, look at this portion of the Trump interview that 60 Minutes didn't air tonight -- it features him boasting that "60 Minutes was forced to pay me a lot of money," saying Bari Weiss is a "great person," and that David Ellison buying CBS is the "greatest thing that's happened in a long time."

They replaced him with somebody, the press got behind her. Oh, they were so behind her. But eventually she failed because she couldn't speak. She wasn't a very intelligent person, in my opinion. But she couldn't speak properly. She could not speak.

And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don't have to put this on, because I don't wanna embarrass you, and I'm sure you're not-- you have a great-- I think you have a great, new leader, frankly, who's the young woman that's leading your whole enterprise is a great-- from what I know.

I don't know her, but I hear she's a great person. But 60 Minutes was forced to pay me-- a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can't have fake news. You've gotta have legit news. And I think that it's happening. I see--

NORAH O'DONNELL: Mr. President--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: --I see good things happening in the news. I really do. And I think one of the best things to happen is this show and new ownership, CBS and new ownership. I think it's the greatest thing that's happened in a long time to a free and open and good press.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Wait, did they edit an interview? Did they not air every second?

I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 4h

I'm getting a lot of responses from blue wave accounts talking about Trump. Frankly, that is already a known threat. What I'm trying to raise the alarm about here are the NYT, The Atlantic, and other reactionary news outlets that still carry legitimacy in liberal urban circles for some reason.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

online: it’s bad for us

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

woof

In the months after Harris’ loss, much was made over the demographic shifts in the party. Young voters, Hispanic voters and Black voters — all central to the Democratic coalition — had moved substantially to the right. But Priorities’ post-election polling revealed an equally staggering swing: Between 2020 and 2024, people who consumed at least three hours of YouTube a day had moved 10 points toward Trump — a bigger swing than Black voters, Black men, young voters and a slew of other categories that were dominating headlines.

“The driver of behavior in ‘24 was so much more about your media consumption,” Butterfield said.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 5h

"Schumer’s abstention only serves as yet another illustration of how detached Democratic leadership has become from the desires of their base, who crave drastic change." newrepublic.com/post/202554/...

Chuck Schumer Walks Out Rather Than Say if He’s Voting for Zohran

The Senate minority leader says he’s still talking with Zohran Mamdani, despite the election being just days away.

newrepublic.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

I have to say, I really appreciated Jared and Michael for talking to me instead of just ABOUT me. One of the strange things about becoming a meme internet character is that everyone is always responding to a version of you that other people created; you lose control of your own identity in a way.

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 14h

Out now: How Will Stancil Became a Meme feat. @whstancil.bsky.social

We talk cyber bullying, far-right ghouls, AI cartoons, bad first dates, and more:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

050: How Will Stancil Became a Meme feat. Will Stancil

Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · 11/02/2025 · 1h 25m

podcasts.apple.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13h

Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive

Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes

Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left

Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14h

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."

Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

Ezra Klein

This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism

I saw a poll a few weeks ago that struck me. It was from The New York Times and Siena University. It asked Americans what they thought the top problem facing the country was. No. 1 was the economy. That was what I expected. But No. 2 wasn’t immigration or inflation or democracy or climate change or even Trump. It was political division. In that same poll, 64 percent of the country said we’re too divided to solve our problems. They’re not wrong.

I hear it when Trump says, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.” When I hear that, I hear something scary, but I also hear an opening, an opportunity: In the end, most Americans want America to work. They know we disagree with one another. They don’t want us to hate one another.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14h

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."

Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Holy shit. Friends, here is a panel on the question "why don't Americans trust the media?'

I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ...

Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!

Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani

Anatomy of a credibility crisis

harpers.org

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 8d

Comparing the relation between the presidential election results in 2020 and 2024 with the post-election commentary is a fascinating exercise.

2020
Biden 81,283,501 popular votes, 51.3%
Trump 74,223,975 popular votes 46.8%

2024
Trump 77,302,580 49.8%
Harris 75,017,613. 48.3%

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 1d

mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

5 *local* elections you may not know about!

1. Dems trying to flip the conservative school board in CO's Douglas County

2. Seattle's prosecutor race: boltsmag.org/city-attorne...

3. the sheriff race in Bucks County, PA

4. the labor referendum in Olympia, WA

5. ICE stakes in Albuquerque

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

everything else aside, “i got the issue i cover completely wrong for several years straight, anyway let’s all move on” is an incredible move.

Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Go fuck yourself

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

this also applies to interpersonal conflict online

you’re allowed to just think people are annoying and you don’t like seeing their posts, and even block them for it

this does not mean they are ontologically evil, you can just not vibe, it’s fine

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

one of you on here coined “importance-washing”, I forget who, and it’s kind of an awkward term but it does capture a real thing: you can just think people are lame and dislike their vibe. that’s allowed. it doesn’t have to be anything bigger than that.

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Ash Parrish @adashtra.bsky.social · 1d

Homey literally said "touch mass"

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

why would he come for online trads like this

In recent years, many young people have approached the faith through social media, successful programs and popular online Christian witnesses. The danger is that a faith discovered online is limited to individual experiences, which may be intellectually and emotionally reassuring, but never “embodied.” Such experiences remain “disembodied,” detached from the “ecclesial body.”

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 1d

Please consider these generally unknown details.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The problem was that the migration surge post-COVID was just way too much to handle, and the admin was caught off guard by the speed and scale by which migration bounced back. They also dithered on strategy for far too long and didn’t want to lean into the issue — instead, they ran from it.

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 2d

Allow me to summarize:
1. 5 IDF soldiers caught sexually molesting a Palestinian prisoner.
2. IDF files charges.
3. IDF AG faces enormous pressure from government to drop charges. Mob storms base where it happened.
4. IDF AG leaks video documenting the molestation.
5. IDF AG pushed out (continued)

IDF's legal chief resigns over suspected involvement in Gaza detainee abuse video leak

In a Statement Friday Morning, Defense Minister Israel Katz Cited the 'Severity of the Suspicions' Against Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi in the Sde Teiman Affair, Saying She Won't Be Reinstated. Sh...

www.haaretz.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

The subway on Halloween night is one of the greatest things about NYC.

Melanie @grammar-girl.bsky.social · 2d

The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Not only that but the IRA disproportionately located those jobs in red and purple states.

They thought it might make it harder to cut.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2d

This is bad and probably should be illegal, but what a fascinating text

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Cuomo keeps embarrassing himself with AI slop ads.

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Darin 🙇🏼‍♂️ @darinmckenna.bsky.social · 1d

Just too too on the nose

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

I wonder if that Bill Gates letter is having the 100% predictable effect? [finger to ear] I'm getting confirmation ...

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