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Ex-journalist/film critic. Biden/Harris Democrat. Pragmatic progressive. Taylor Swift/NIN.
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I don’t think we’re ready for just how dumb things will get.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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i genuinely think the media is the problem. if we had a functional. rational media landscape. fewer people would’ve invented a trump in their heads that they liked
Walking around like 'oh wow but who would have told us' and its like 'literally Kamala Harris told you everything htat has happened under Trump in her debates. If you watched the debates, you were explicitly told.'
December 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
i genuinely think the media is the problem. if we had a functional. rational media landscape. fewer people would’ve invented a trump in their heads that they liked
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Something people seldom talk about: How much worse would things be if states that had Repub governors at this point in Trump’s first term were still Repub?
Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona; all flipped R=>D since 2017…
Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona; all flipped R=>D since 2017…
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Something people seldom talk about: How much worse would things be if states that had Repub governors at this point in Trump’s first term were still Repub?
Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona; all flipped R=>D since 2017…
Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona; all flipped R=>D since 2017…
Folks, it looks like the endorsement of the Knoxville Democratic Socialists of America was not enough to overcome the odds in a +22 Trump district in Tennessee.
Looks like another dumb night on this site. Let’s blame Democrats, somehow. Why not?
Looks like another dumb night on this site. Let’s blame Democrats, somehow. Why not?
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Folks, it looks like the endorsement of the Knoxville Democratic Socialists of America was not enough to overcome the odds in a +22 Trump district in Tennessee.
Looks like another dumb night on this site. Let’s blame Democrats, somehow. Why not?
Looks like another dumb night on this site. Let’s blame Democrats, somehow. Why not?
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this is without a doubt a worse and dumber take than MattY’s
Kamala will take some blame if Behn loses - which is what everyone would have expected three weeks ago.
But to be fair, the day she got there, the Club for Growth was already spending panic money on ads for Republican voters.
But to be fair, the day she got there, the Club for Growth was already spending panic money on ads for Republican voters.
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
this is without a doubt a worse and dumber take than MattY’s
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For the record, this comes from the same online wellness culture moral panic that all of RFKJr’s policies come from too. It’ll be seed oils next.
I’m not saying ultra processed foods are healthy. I’m just saying when I see language like “addictive” tossed around, I know where they get their info.
I’m not saying ultra processed foods are healthy. I’m just saying when I see language like “addictive” tossed around, I know where they get their info.
San Francisco is suing ultraprocessed food companies.
The city attorney is filing the first government lawsuit in the US against manufacturers of ultraprocessed food.
He argues that cities are burdened with the cost of treating diseases that ultraprocessed food brings on.
The city attorney is filing the first government lawsuit in the US against manufacturers of ultraprocessed food.
He argues that cities are burdened with the cost of treating diseases that ultraprocessed food brings on.
San Francisco Will Sue Ultraprocessed Food Companies
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
For the record, this comes from the same online wellness culture moral panic that all of RFKJr’s policies come from too. It’ll be seed oils next.
I’m not saying ultra processed foods are healthy. I’m just saying when I see language like “addictive” tossed around, I know where they get their info.
I’m not saying ultra processed foods are healthy. I’m just saying when I see language like “addictive” tossed around, I know where they get their info.
I think people are starting to realize that Congress isn’t doing its job at all and Mike Johnson is ceding virtually all power to Trump and the fools he’s placed around him.
Look at this incredible data. Republicans have bailed on Mike Johnson. His Speakership is in trouble, and there is a reason why @aftynbehn.bsky.social has made a +22 Trump district competitive. 3/
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I think people are starting to realize that Congress isn’t doing its job at all and Mike Johnson is ceding virtually all power to Trump and the fools he’s placed around him.
I want to note that numerous very large subreddits have made any statements of support for Democrats or “liberalism” a bannable offense. They are, at best, useful idiots for the far-right.
This is why I can't take online leftists very seriously at all. If your idea of leftism is trashing on Mamdani for not meeting your purity tests, then what is the point of your politics other than to whine and virtue signal? Seriously, they are very allergic to the idea of winning.
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I want to note that numerous very large subreddits have made any statements of support for Democrats or “liberalism” a bannable offense. They are, at best, useful idiots for the far-right.
This is something I think about almost every day, and you should too.
Like The Mueller Report was a real and damning thing and the entire press allowed Trump to just say “Russia Russia Russia” like Beetlejuice and make it go away.
The foreign interference in the election was clearly laid out whether or not it met the bar of outright collusion.
The foreign interference in the election was clearly laid out whether or not it met the bar of outright collusion.
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 AM
This is something I think about almost every day, and you should too.
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I took a college course on the history of espionage and the professor was a cold war liberal who had an oddly consistent worldview where he regarded Reality Winner and Chelsea Manning as patriotic whistleblowers but despised Snowden as a traitor and told the entire class he should be hanged
this is getting some traction on the other place, but might as well bring it over here
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I took a college course on the history of espionage and the professor was a cold war liberal who had an oddly consistent worldview where he regarded Reality Winner and Chelsea Manning as patriotic whistleblowers but despised Snowden as a traitor and told the entire class he should be hanged
A lot of things have gone really wrong with white men of my generation, and Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz really give me hope that there are better angels among us.
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
A lot of things have gone really wrong with white men of my generation, and Doug Emhoff and Tim Walz really give me hope that there are better angels among us.
One of the weirder things in this weird timeline is that the former host of The Man Show has been far more consistently up for this moment than Jon Stewart.
The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
But I won't back down — and neither should you.
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
One of the weirder things in this weird timeline is that the former host of The Man Show has been far more consistently up for this moment than Jon Stewart.
I’m just going say once again that all of social media is an absolute trash fire during any breaking news event.
Log off. Read the AP story tomorrow.
Log off. Read the AP story tomorrow.
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I’m just going say once again that all of social media is an absolute trash fire during any breaking news event.
Log off. Read the AP story tomorrow.
Log off. Read the AP story tomorrow.
So much cope in the replies but Mamdani would likely have barely won if the general was ranked-choice. In one of the most liberal cities in America.
Also, when you say people saying "Dems would win everywhere with a Mamdani-style platform," I think it's important to remember that that platform delivered the most charismatic candidate in recent history a whopping 50.4% of the vote against a street vigilante and actual vampire, in New York City
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
So much cope in the replies but Mamdani would likely have barely won if the general was ranked-choice. In one of the most liberal cities in America.
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Emerson finds TN-7 basically ~tied ahead of Tuesday election, with Trump underwater in a district he won by 22.
A winnable race for Dems.
If R’s lose this race their ability to control the House *this year* is a real issue.
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A winnable race for Dems.
If R’s lose this race their ability to control the House *this year* is a real issue.
Link to donate to Dem Aftyn Behn here: secure.actblue.com/donate/aftyn...
November 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Emerson finds TN-7 basically ~tied ahead of Tuesday election, with Trump underwater in a district he won by 22.
A winnable race for Dems.
If R’s lose this race their ability to control the House *this year* is a real issue.
Link to donate to Dem Aftyn Behn here: secure.actblue.com/donate/aftyn...
A winnable race for Dems.
If R’s lose this race their ability to control the House *this year* is a real issue.
Link to donate to Dem Aftyn Behn here: secure.actblue.com/donate/aftyn...
Also in this whole debate I realize that I am increasingly less self-confident in my own abilities and can admit I was always dumber the less old I was. The age-wisdom curve is real.
I'd rather have good people who are old than bad people who are young
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Also in this whole debate I realize that I am increasingly less self-confident in my own abilities and can admit I was always dumber the less old I was. The age-wisdom curve is real.
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Substack has an antiscience health disinformation problem.
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
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MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
Substack has a Nazi problem AND a health disinformation problem
Substack creators and Substack audiences are supporting a platform that profits off of promoting dangerous antiscience content – at the expense of public health.
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Substack has an antiscience health disinformation problem.
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
MAD recognizes the importance (& influence) of media ownership – which is why we are sounding warnings about Substack.
Our latest w/ @lavidagata.bsky.social
mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/substack-h...
I get that we love to hate on the “consultant class” but nobody, and I mean nobody, has dumber “Democrats should do this if they want to win” advice than any big social media account, especially if they have a Substack or podcast they’re selling.
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I get that we love to hate on the “consultant class” but nobody, and I mean nobody, has dumber “Democrats should do this if they want to win” advice than any big social media account, especially if they have a Substack or podcast they’re selling.
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This probably makes a lot of sense if your brain dissolved itself in 2016
The big, glaring, obvious difference this meme ignores is that Mamdani stood his ground and offered no concessions, and Trump praised him.
Schumer sold-out the Democrats and their supporters on key issues, while Trump turned him into a punchline.
But, sure...🙄
Schumer sold-out the Democrats and their supporters on key issues, while Trump turned him into a punchline.
But, sure...🙄
Blueskyism
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This probably makes a lot of sense if your brain dissolved itself in 2016
All of these are bad but one thing that’s even less comforting is how many journalists are on X. What happens there always ends up downstream even for adults who are never on it.
US adults who use sites daily
Facebook 52%
YouTube 48%
TikTok 24%
X (Twitter) 10%
Facebook 52%
YouTube 48%
TikTok 24%
X (Twitter) 10%
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
All of these are bad but one thing that’s even less comforting is how many journalists are on X. What happens there always ends up downstream even for adults who are never on it.
One thing that’s interesting to me tonight is that X and Meta sites are pretty explicitly algorithmically manipulated, but Bluesky seems more just a case of users who learned what performs and is rewarded in those.
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
One thing that’s interesting to me tonight is that X and Meta sites are pretty explicitly algorithmically manipulated, but Bluesky seems more just a case of users who learned what performs and is rewarded in those.
I recently rewatched The Social Network and honestly it feels a lot more like Oppenheimer now.
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
cnb.cx
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I recently rewatched The Social Network and honestly it feels a lot more like Oppenheimer now.
Put aside what the reaction would be if Schumer or Jeffries said this, how is this not seen as boosting Trump at a point when his unpopularity was at its highest point?
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Put aside what the reaction would be if Schumer or Jeffries said this, how is this not seen as boosting Trump at a point when his unpopularity was at its highest point?
It would be great if a lot of people reflected on their own actions in 2024. I get that won’t happen.
But honestly if you can spend all of 2025 and 2026 just loudly complaining about the opposition party and then look yourself in the mirror, you should probably ask yourself what’s wrong with you.
But honestly if you can spend all of 2025 and 2026 just loudly complaining about the opposition party and then look yourself in the mirror, you should probably ask yourself what’s wrong with you.
November 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
It would be great if a lot of people reflected on their own actions in 2024. I get that won’t happen.
But honestly if you can spend all of 2025 and 2026 just loudly complaining about the opposition party and then look yourself in the mirror, you should probably ask yourself what’s wrong with you.
But honestly if you can spend all of 2025 and 2026 just loudly complaining about the opposition party and then look yourself in the mirror, you should probably ask yourself what’s wrong with you.
I’m sure he couldn’t give a shit, but this is the post that made me cancel my subscription to Public Notice. Internet brain seems to come for any journalist in the poster environment, but this is not journalism. This is engagement farming. This kind of broke my heart. I loved Aaron.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I’m sure he couldn’t give a shit, but this is the post that made me cancel my subscription to Public Notice. Internet brain seems to come for any journalist in the poster environment, but this is not journalism. This is engagement farming. This kind of broke my heart. I loved Aaron.