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no, no youve got it all wrong, its nothing weird like sex shes just worshipping him and sees herself as his ethereal caretaker and celestial concubine but theres no sex or anything crazy like that

its just funny because during obama the debt and “certainty” were the most important things to ever exist for businesses and corporations and the media

With Trump, “she’s like a daughter to him” isn’t as exculpatory as it would ordinarily be.

Natalie’s outside the White House gates holding up a boombox.

the bastards www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...

very glad jon ossoff isn't listening to centrist wet blankets like david axelrod. very good sign.

In this THREAD, I say Trump's "binky" should be the scandal that forces the press corps to give him the Joe Biden treatment. They won't, but they should, and here's an scandalous update: "She is a channel by which foreign leaders try to reach him.”

I feel like we’re a day out from discovering Harp holds seances where she says she’s talking to Fred Trump and “he’s so proud.”

Decades ago, the wealthiest Americans financed the government by paying higher taxes. Now, the government pays wealthy Americans interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on wealthy Americans. — @rbreich.bsky.social

love to be a broadcast news anchor whose sole prep work for an interview consists of reading republican talking points

IMO this is not actually about the Trump administration's credibility, it is about the news media's credibility.

1. The Washington press corps is Donald Trump's true constituency. He speaks for them, brings attention to them, enlarges their standing, enriches their bosses, even when, or especially when, he attacks them.

I wonder how Natalie Harp is filtering the news about Natalie Harp. Human Printer jam?

I think the thing that's worth analyzing a bit is why the media needed the excuse Jon Ossoff gave them to dive into a story that's been in plain sight for months.

Any Democrat running against an incumbent Republican should find their old quotes about how great DOGE will be to hang around their neck. It’s a treasure just waiting to be dug up.

RFK Jr seen speeding to Rhode Island with a fork and a bib

*sighs* *reluctantly grabs blonde wig and sets up tripod* (video coming tomorrow)

If Reuters can tell when insiders are making bets on Polymarket that telegraph US military actions, it seems fair to assume that America's foreign adversaries can too www.reuters.com/business/fin...

what will be the funniest vehicle this guy is going to get hit by? first thought is cybertruck but I think it's a school bus.

i dont understand anyone who has been sentient for the last 20-30 years of american politics and thinks democrats should avoid tawdry topics and instead should be speaking about dry topics that nobody will cover.

Kind of curious if anybody other than Ossoff has the nerve to come out and say the obvious about the President of the United States being shadowed and influenced by a person who is clearly in need of a robust mental health evaluation.

Every day, a half dozen stories that would be major scandals in any other administration.

I was raised in evangelical spaces and I also am baffled. That “higher purpose wife” is weird shit beyond my reckoning or recollection. But evangelicals are expert in creating creepy justifications and yes this seems like how at least some of them justify emotional affairs?

As if it wasn't already so blatantly obvious that Scott Jennings was using this Natalie Harp situation to audition for Trump's new press secretary, Politico reports that he literally sent the White House clips of himself going after Jon Ossoff and personally scheduled a meeting with Susie Wiles.

I wrote about the importance of literary friction and how the acts of thinking and learning and growing are anathema in our increasingly fascistic world. Which is all the more reason to double down on them. lithub.com/in-praise-of...

Speed is essential for containing foodborne illness outbreaks. But after intense lobbying from the food industry — which spends millions on political donations — Congress delayed safeguards that might have helped contain cyclospora more quickly.

the thing is that, as a consumer protection reporter, I think this is just the orchestra warming up the concussive impact of lobotomized regulators is a real slow burn downstream affair that's going to take years to fully materialize across numerous sectors

😶 Call it out. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...

oh weird its almost like the tech overlords and the fascist politicians are in a symbiotic relationship where a percentage of tax cuts and government subsidies will be used to fund republican campaigns www.axios.com/2026/08/19/g...

It's almost like the guy who first appeared in the New York Times for racist reasons hasn't changed over his entire life.

It’s like he’s micro targeting different outrages for different interest groups.

NEW in Porch Party: What is the opposite of enshittification? It's this exhibit of constantly renewed, individually labeled fresh wildflowers, meticulously run by volunteers at a small museum for more than a century www.porchpartynews.com/p/the-wildfl...

I missed this yesterday. It’s hard to imagine any other president having the audacity to put a signed monument to himself in front of the people’s house.

The thing that's weirdest about the Michael Cohen thing isn't that his resistance schtick was absolute bullshit, it's that he thinks getting back on the Trump train NOW is a good idea? I could see right after the election when all media lost their minds, but now, in the mouth of madness era?

The first half of the titanic sinking was the better half also.

Perhaps the naysayers are not familiar with Trump's heroic efforts in "his Vietnam" at Studio 54.

The spacecraft that was hoped to boost Swift to a higher orbit has failed, and now the gamma-ray hunting space observatory is doomed to burn up in Earth's atmosphere later this year. Swift's an AMAZING mission, and I'm really sad to see it go. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-swift-... 🔭🧪

Randall understands astronomy and sky gazing *really* well. xkcd.com/3287/

excellent example of "CEO said a thing" journalism where two ostensible journalists offer zero context or objective expert correction to a patently false claim because I guess that would have involved research and talking to an academic on the phone for ten minutes?

I feel like every Trump figure is now just charged with keeping the grift rolling until they can all make their getaway with the loot.

This is it. Data centers have become a target not because of the specifics of their water usage or whatever but because they're the one visible, local leverage point for ordinary people to push back on the "turd mountain" of AI that's being foisted on them with little tangible benefit and no consent

this is kinda gross. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

On the bright side, Trump is handing the Democrats running in 2028 the easiest applause line ever when they promise to take his name off everything he personally and gratuitously put it on.

Is this a winning message?

Not surprising. But still unbelievable.

Party of fiscal responsibility gettin’ it done.

I was just poking around the free streamer Tubi and by coincidence I saw they have a show called Secrets of the Universe. The first episode is about Swift! This was a planetarium show my team developed and I guess it was used for a TV show. I consulted on it and it's not bad.

It's telling that in the 2028 horserace coverage, no pundit is suggesting that anybody who served in this administration will be completely toxic in two years. Probably overly optimistic to think so, but on the current administration crash and burn trajectory, I'd certainly consider it possible.

and don't forget the higher consumer prices and the shittier overall product output (see: AT&T cancelling all sorts of popular creative efforts from Mad Magazine to Sesame Street)

I also think Democrats really need to hammer the message that none of this was normal ten years ago. I think it’s all been so relentless, people start to forget.

I've never seen a Democratic candidate I like half as much as I like the version of Democratic candidates Fox News tries to scare their viewers with

This is quite an achievement. I have to wonder, without a madman at the wheel, how far and how rapidly they'll advance?

I cannot believe elon musk has once again engaged in some lazy-ass bullshit

Wondering now what the odds are that this was dictated to Harp as a DM and she had the little posting oopsie?

CAN YOU JUST PLAY ALONG WITH THE NARRATIVE?

Is it strange that the NYT actually had a piece that moved the Natalie Harp saga quite a bit forward and it appeared on A15. And as far as I can tell that's the only big story written about the topic this week. A real choice, especially given the photo that accompanied it.

Ukraine's drone operators easily spotted and defeated U.S. troops and armored vehicles so quickly that they had to be “re-spawned” and sent back into the field to keep the exercise going, The Wall Street Journal said, citing an unidentified U.S. official who was briefed on the matter.

Democrats can make Natalie Harp ‘scandal’ a bigger headache for GOP www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

It does feel like for every point Trump loses in approval, another staffer springs a leak.

Not to be too gossipy, but is Trump's hardworking and critically important not at all weird assistant ever seen near him on the rare occasions that his wife is?

Kind of love that they have a national debt ticker above this old piece.

In essence, they are asking the world about their loyalty to DJT. Unhinged. And totally in character. Is there such a thing as narcissistic foreign policy?

Libraries and small schools are having to beg the FCC to not destroy a program (E-Rate) that helps fund affordable internet access to poor and rural school kids. Brendan Carr says he's "reforming" the program, which is code for either destroying it, or making it easier for AT&T to rip people off.

Note to Democrats: Now is not the time to be playing party politics. From: A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can't Sleep -- August 19 Edition You can find the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcV... www.youtube.com/shorts/Jtipg...

i think a winning political issue would be requiring gaming consoles to be ready to go out of the box without any updates required as well as requiring a full catalog of games available as a hard copy that you can play without an internet connection

A lot of effort is being put into making Hasan Piker famous and then making people afraid of him. I feel like Democrats have a big head start making everyone hate Elon Musk.

this guy is dumb as a sack of hammers and sure seems to want to get a whole bunch of kids killed but at least he sounds like a 4,000 year old with throat cancer who has been cursed by a witch to live forever while continuing to age

Our only hope of the media covering these stories with the obsessiveness they conjure for democrats is if jon ossoff mentions it now

*walks in slow motion TOWARD giant explosion*

ossoff 3:16 Ossoff mocks ‘White House meltdown’ over Natalie Harp comments dailykos.com/stories/2026...

fox news LOVES david axelrod's bedwetting over the natalie harp story

Democrats can do this if they liberate themselves from the habit of asking the media for permission to be Democrats.

We've covered that Trump embodies all of the negative qualities of the rejected kids in Willie Wonka, but let me propose a different model...

Tomorrow on my live-cast: "History Matters:" Women Are The Key. They're Always The Key. And not because of Natalie Harp. (Though she's part of the mix...) Friday at 10 AM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqOX...

This shit’s so freakin’ weird.

This is AI.* *Absolute Insanity

As if Trump would read all that.

Me when I learn the McDonald's soft serve machine isn't working.

Would you re-enlist if you got to play GTA 6?

Paramount will either completely collapse under incompetence and debt or turn into another really large and shitty tech company sympathetic to authoritarianism or both!

Ideally, if you’re denying a weird relationship every photo of you two together isn’t hella weird.

Media Research Center was founded in 1987. It had a 17 year head start on Media Matters, who surpassed its reach and equivalent influence in less than 2 years. The left can do this stuff if they try.

I like the way this photo looks like a publicity still from some chilly nordic awards bait movie. Too bad "The Worst Person in the World" is taken.

At this point, nobody's gonna notice anyway.

ridiculous interviewer asks: are you now, or have you ever been a capitalist?

scher blocked me for mocking him for publishing bullshit like this

That Natalie shit made them trot out Melania instantaneously.

"I'm not gonna be ignored, Donald!"

I won't defend Swalwell, but at the same time, I don't trust Kash Patel to run a fair and lawful investigation.

Ghost hunters are not routinely invited on meet the press to talk about anything they want

They have really taken everything from us

urgently paging @bencollins.bsky.social and @theonion.com

Who could have predicted that AI would increase inequality? wapo.st/4gqu980

musk is an unfunny guy thirsty for public approval and the fact everyone but his cultists hates him makes him cry into his pillow every night

Jennifer Hegseth heartened to know NYT will write a puff piece about her when she dies.

Politics is ultimately about the art of compromise. The folks in power don’t believe in compromise.

Anyone who knows me at all knows that I am, to put it mildly, *extremely* bearish on LLMs. But I'm not going to reject the evidence of their utility that I've seen, either -- and while that utility is limited, it's extremely real and the evidence I've seen is very good.

“Almost vindictive” reduction of troops, says one senior European official. In. Character.

"with their children"