john whitehouse

The upside of this is that D’s can call it just following the Baseballcrank Rule, not breaking precedent, when they expand the court. It’s precedent that they are just following precedent. Namely, the R precedent that to talk about doing X is to do it. D’s already talked about expanding the court.

imo, this sentiment is probably better directed at the people who are trying to export american-style anti-democratic politics rather than the people who hope this effort fails

relatedly, it's crazy how little attention bannon's own ties get

checking in on right-wing media this morning

It really needs to be emphasized that the woman Vivek is featuring in these videos fled with an accused & indicted child rapist and successfully helped him avoid trial for 20+ years.

Zacharia was the most competent person they could find who is willing to be the public face of the administration at this point. Think about that for a minute.

pope leo has nothing on the baseball god, jose ramirez

“Shoot ‘em, stick ‘em, or fry ‘em” www.mediamatters.org/pete-hegseth...

as someone who followed and wrote about him for a decade before all this, i'm not surprised by any of what he's doing or saying. it's what he's talked about doing, and fox paid him well for that. but it is shocking.

kelly's crusade seems to be going poorly even with some of her own listeners: "I had to turn her show off today, I couldn't even listen to another word of it. And that's how I feel, and I think she's going to lose viewers over this.” www.mediamatters.org/sexual-haras...

fox news getting ready to ignore every single one of those stories from its corporate cousins

“For example, you can see echoes of the Sicilian campaign in our Iran strategy”

The irony of course is that Originalism’s big selling point was supposed to be constraining the discretion or judges to impose their own political preferences as law. In practice the effect has been very much the reverse: Liberating justices from the constraints of stare decisis.

It’s definitely not the film you’d expect from its trailers but it is bold, well-acted, and has something interesting to say, and I think the negative reviews are badly misreading it. bsky.app/profile/obje...

Digger… good movie, worth seeing.

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...

The underlying theory Senate Republicans are going with is that Joe Biden secretly ordered DOJ to investigate Trump, something they have produced no evidence to support and also they're all fine with Trump publicly ordering DOJ to investigate his enemies.

Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi.

Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...

It’s not that this story has not gotten attention, but this is the sort of story that Fox and NewsMax would have turned into a cultural touchstone under a Dem by running for weeks, darkly hinting at a conspiracy

they're catching on

He's helping to raise huge sums of money to back Senate candidates who will vote for Trump's judicial nominees, not much of a "rebuke."

lol ok

John Cornyn and George W. Bush are teaming up to make sure that Donald Trump gets the cronies, mediocrities and ideologues he wants in lifetime appointments to the courts.

DIE HARD 2 (1990) Renny Harlin

sobering and worrying but at least we have [checks notes] the former weekend host of fox & friends at the helm

i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

Fox News is the only major cable news network not to cover its own contributor Karl Rove's warning about a rising tide of racism and antisemitism within the Republican Party. www.mediamatters.org/karl-rove/fo...

Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.

reality of the midterms seems to be sinking in www.mediamatters.org/election-den...

For these guys, it was never about illegal immigration, it was never about cultural assimilation. You can be born in America, drinking beer as you cheer on the Longhorns, but its not enough if you are not white.

Benny Johnson and Jack Posobiec defended Bo French’s racist post, saying that “there’s nothing wrong with wanting Texas to stay Texas” and “I don't see anything hateful about it” www.mediamatters.org/benny-johnso...

Stop being so cynical about the six-figure gift to the president's son, people give him gifts like that all the time!!

Compare to Fox News ratings for last month -- there was basically no bump from regular programming. www.adweek.com/tvnewser/her...

Too many people online seem to conflate left politics with being obnoxious and scathing and Mamdani is such a model for combining a principled ideological vision with civility and grace. You shake hands, you act like a grown up even whether others aren’t. You show up.

Looking at his life there were basically three things that he did right and that you can try to do leftishly

lot of times discussion (esp here) gravitates towards ideology of this or that, but sometimes things are less ideological and more just that a lot of cynicism curdles the brain

I think that’s true, and it’s a real asymmetry with consequences. The right never gets bored like that. The WSJ published a six-volume set of its Whitewater editorial. Sean Hannity will talk about Hillary’s emails or Benghazi or Hunter Biden endlessly, shamelessly, and until it has an impact.

This is a very strong piece about the media double standard. I'll add, though, that there seems to be very little interest on the left lately in the object-level coverage and criticism of the GOP's ties to extremists that would signal to reporters that it should be a major story.

You can just do things (write articles about the GOP's connections to far-right antisemites then post about them here). www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/jd-...

My latest: Turning Point USA’s upcoming campus tour features influencer Joshua Haymes, a Christian nationalist who believes women shouldn’t have the right to vote and Hitler was “misunderstood” numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/turning-po...

Speaking of grotesque MAGA associations, JD Vance was asked yesterday about Tucker Carlson's antisemitism promotion and dodged the question because he owes his political success to the former Fox host. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...

You know who else has compared COVID to 9/11? Greg Gutfeld. Neil Cavuto. Donald Trump. (And thanks to @johnknefel.bsky.social who put this list together via www.mediamatters.org/cbs/embracin...)