John Roberts has been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ. Today SCOTUS will hear case that could dismantle what's left of VRA, turbocharge racial gerrymandering & rig House for GOP. Huge stakes for American democracy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It's all about "energy dominance" *cue finger guns* drilled.media/podcasts/dri... Petro masculinity! Oil, gas, and truck nuts! Playing in the sand box with our big boy toys! Yee with a side of haw! People get elected to the highest offices on the globe on this platform. *commence laugh/cry*
I bring you: the pouty presidency. And the essence of MAGA manhood: everything is someone else's fault. Ran across this trying to look up a Biden-era order.
" @katieporteroc.bsky.social is disliked by the Sacramento establishment, not because of her interpersonal skills but because she’s more populist than they’d like and more willing to challenge the corporate interests that rule California politics." prospect.org/politics/kat... 🎶Tale as old as time🎶
@prospect.org needs some love right now. John Oliver gave them a driveby dab bsky.app/profile/dday... and they've been doing excellent explanatory journalism throughout the Biden Admin until now.
I have much to say about @lastweektonight.com lumping us in with National Review & The Federalist & Pod Save & Jacobin as an "opinion-heavy outlet." We are a news outlet that (regardless of our perspective) provides fact-based reporting. Putting us on this list is, well, factually inaccurate.
If we write off all news media, we’re playing into Trump’s hands. Some outlets are doing well while others stink. In this installment of my free Stop the Presses newsletter, I give letter grades to major media outlets. See if you agree.
Modern conservatism exists to boil down real world complexities into ultra-processed simplicities. You try and introduce complexity and you get "Shut up! We don't care! All your bs about *fill-in-the-blank* doesn't matter! Shut up!" And you can visibly see the rage. bsky.app/profile/thim...
And in a world where that populism dominates, there can be no progress. The only people who will experience progress are the ones serving up the slop saying "everything is fine, except for those God awful *fill-in-the-blanks*. They need to be put in their place."
He also did a good one,back in his vox days, on false consciousness: youtu.be/RNineSEoxjQ I think we have to draw a contrast between a populism that seeks to improve the conditions of the population and a populism that seeks to make the population comfortable where they are and in what they believe.
...while the people in charge of serving our tv dinner world view point us towards caravans, Venezuelan gangs, Haitians eating dogs & cats, teachers making white people ashamed of history, trans-terrorism, and other made up shit.
The problem is their vision of the world is processed by people who benefit from controling the process. We will never solve problems caused by economic inequality, environmental violation, racial disparity, the exploitation of financial knowledge, the dispowerment of labor, etc...
They want a world in which there are white hats and, well, I guess the color of villainy is rainbow now? It's a world of stability in which every question has a simple answer from a preacher or a podcast. When you introduce uncertainty into that world, they riot.
Modern conservatism exists to boil down real world complexities into ultra-processed simplicities. You try and introduce complexity and you get "Shut up! We don't care! All your bs about *fill-in-the-blank* doesn't matter! Shut up!" And you can visibly see the rage. bsky.app/profile/thim...
(I'll post the Tomansky piece, but it's interesting to note that cbs's focus on that "free press" report - since when does 'free' cost a 150 million for a substack, anywho - featured Olivia Reingold who also was prominent in @lastweektonight.com's piece... bsky.app/profile/dday...
I have much to say about @lastweektonight.com lumping us in with National Review & The Federalist & Pod Save & Jacobin as an "opinion-heavy outlet." We are a news outlet that (regardless of our perspective) provides fact-based reporting. Putting us on this list is, well, factually inaccurate.
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.
"The psychology that twists coverage in Trump's favor is transparent..." @jayrosen.bsky.social has been describing this psychology for years as Refuge Seeking Behavior. pressthink.org/2020/11/the-... This one is a hell of a worthy read.
And I'm always a bit amused by how this term 'plutocrat', in Greek mythology, references not only the God of riches, but also the God of death; who lived in a sterile, colorless world of toil, a Hadean world of ash and gold.
