No, no, no. In my youth I was a NY Times copy editor. I would not have permitted this—no one would. We’re not inside the heads of Trump’s lawyers. They SAY they believe the judge is biased, but that doesn’t mean they really do.
“What Haley is now accomplishing is being on the verge of surpassing the crumpled carcass of Gov. Ron DeSantis. Enough to win the small trinket, not the full stuffed animal at the fair.”
“He’s Mr. Free Speech until annoying (to him) people (Media Matters) tell other people (advertisers) what he’s doing. He’s a joke, socially-maladjusted likely always reactionary, racist and anti-semitic freak who is also fabulously rich and mostly able to do anything his whim suggests.”
Here is the first act of the new right-wing Republican leadership of the House: As a condition of aiding Israel, they insist on defunding the IRS’s ability to go after rich tax cheats.
Not sure why that isn’t getting bigger play in the mainstream press.
“Amazon has become a vestigial place, a retail colossus barely hindered by either competition or regulation, where prices go up as quality goes down, and the undifferentiated slurry of products from obscure brands is wreathed in inauthentic reviews.”
Time for a reckoning with #Amazon. @pluralistic in the NY Times is thorough and correct.
This is Handmaid’s Tale stuff. We are the dystopia now.
I remember when even anti-abortion politicians were careful to say they would never criminalize the pregnant women. Now Nebraska is imprisoning a mother who helped her teenage daughter with an abortion pill.
By prioritizing workers and the middle class, Biden has created the best economy in decades—for everyone. “Inflation is low, unemployment is low and there’s virtually no hint of a recession. But many Americans, according to surveys, are convinced the economy is terrible.”
How do journalists explain this paradox? Either it’s an unfathomable mystery, or it’s Biden’s poor messaging.
Does no one in the U.S. government have anything to say about one rogue private citizen knee-capping a war effort on which we have so far spent $75 billion?
@cshlan@Br3nda By the government of the United States. Oh, I know it’s not going to happen. Nationalizing private enterprises in behalf of the public interest has gone out of fashion. But, in a better world, it could be done, and it should be done.
Starlink must be nationalized. It’s no longer just a hypothetical possibility that leaving it in private control might damage U.S. national security. That is happening now. https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/111025127137415613
Elon Musk secretly used control of his Starlink network to cripple a Ukrainian military operation while it was under way, in defiance of American foreign policy.
He is an oligarch working against U.S. interests, benefitting his fellow oligarchs in Russia. His biographer seems to think this is just Musk being Musk, quirky and idiosyncratic.
The reporters know, but can’t say directly: Trump is paying a lawyer (through his PAC) to ostensibly represent his employee co-conspirators. The lawyer’s actual job is to ensure that they don’t rat him out. With a different lawyer, they might tell the truth and avoid going to prison—and sure enough, one of them has just done exactly that.
Look how many words it takes to avoid explaining what’s really going on.