The 2024 media failures, from “fact checks” to active disinterest in Trump lies, to … everything is infuriating. When people say “I didn’t vote for this” sometimes I believe them, because the media whitewashed a TON of Trump’s more distasteful positions and statements.

Using ChatGPT

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Mailer, Oates, and that wretched Blonde movie all got their time in to use her abuse as launching points for their assumed virtuosity. This piece is a new low, even less regard for her life,abusing her after her death

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

I know it's basically just bait so whatever but if you use "thought police" unironically you should be forced to sit in a corner without your phone for a full hour

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

If only

10 hate incidents over those two years in Texas were tied to Libs of TikTok, including bomb threats that were lobbed at four Planet Fitness locations after she highlighted their trans-inclusive locker room policies. Now it appears Gov. Abbott is taking her orders.

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Trump vs. US was the final straw imo. You cannot read that ruling and continue believing they have legitimacy. It is not only against the plain text of the constitution, it is anathema to the national ethos. It is offensively, insultingly un-American and they ceded legitimacy by committing that sin.

A'ja Wilson is THAT GIRL 💅

Not only did she hit the game-winning shot, she became the first player in WNBA history to record back-to-back 25+ PTS and 10+ REB games in the Finals, and now holds the record for the most 30-point postseason games!

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Good lord.

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This is what every Democratic state needs to do, tell its state university leaders that they will lose all state appropriations if they sign the compact. Take the decision out of feckless college administrators’ hands.

In some ways this is the government now

Embarrassing how much they want to cover for their mad king

This is an image from 1992, in case you were curious

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

Do stretches daily. Every small hit you take has 100x the damage potential for whatever reason, and being flexible saves you from tearing god knows what over a slip. Also makes getting out of bed a bit less painful.

Ten years and five months apart

They still haven't found the bodies of all the children who died in the Texas floods. But THIS is what Abbott thinks is the best use of the TX Guard...

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.