In which we post yet another ten thousand plus interesting or amusing - or neither - tweets

In the Bronx Trump invites a Puerto Rican former city councilman to the stage so he can apologize to white Trump, “as a Hispanic,” for Judge Merchan. That’s diversity Trump style: BIPOC welcome if they apologize to whiteness for other BIPOC.

— Jeff Sharlet (@JeffSharlet) May 23, 2024

 

Pat Byrnes @thePatByrnes #TrumpTrials pic.twitter.com/2qw60H4PZi

— Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) May 23, 2024

 

This is brilliant

One of the media's primary failures is viewing EVERYTHING through a political lens. Approving a racially gerrymandered Congressional map is a loss for "little d" democracy, but the media looks at it as a "win" for one political party vs. the other, which misses the point entirely pic.twitter.com/xrdEOKJw7h

— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) May 23, 2024

 

The worst people in Silicon Valley are hating on Biden and the NYT reports this as a victory for Trump. It's a badge of honor for Biden. https://t.co/pCjT2oHwZ6

— Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) (@froomkin) May 23, 2024

 

Golf all day, then fly to DC to get booed and heckled by libertarians.

Another productive day for the well-oiled machine that is the Trump campaign.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 26, 2024

 

I just want to point out…this kind of journalism is kinda sorta a problem in normal times. But when the election is literally democracy vs. a real, live threat of fascism, journalism shouldn’t be neutral on that. It’s a huge problem. Journalism needs to choose a side, and that side has to be democracy.

And the Supreme Court is lurching more and more toward being a clear, indefatigable ally of fascism and opponent of democracy. For voters, polling shows fascism isn’t catching on. No, where its popularity is increasing is with the whole conservative infrastructure, from Aileen Cannon to Roberts to Alito to Haley.

 

Trump versus the Libertarian Party is the purest “let them fight” situation I’ve seen in some time. pic.twitter.com/p1Sy1f2xuR

— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) May 26, 2024

 

"Maybe you don't want to win ... keep getting your 3 percent every four years" -- Trump is going full heel on this Libertarian National Convention crowd pic.twitter.com/OkUmBR4Z1A

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 26, 2024

 

Silhouette of a man choking the chicken!

Trump speech ends to mostly boos pic.twitter.com/UpGwBp1jb5

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 26, 2024

 

Talk about projection at the end of the speech: "Don't allow the worst president in the history of our country to come back and do the final destruction of America."

I couldn't have put it better myself.

 

I actually think Rashida Tlaib should be expelled from the Democratic caucus. She’s going beyond just criticizing President Biden. She’s actively trying to defeat him. Finding her a primary challenger for 2026 begins post-November. https://t.co/N7eWk6Mg1I

— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) May 26, 2024

 

At Brandeis University, Ken Burns says the 2024 election "forces me to suspend my long standing attempt at neutrality" and warns of "the entropy that will engulf and destroy us." https://t.co/CQqH2GJRpd

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) May 26, 2024

 

Notice that they promote 2 people from each party. I’m not sure if that’s the right way to do it, but I’m not saying it’s the wrong way either. It’s like all the snark we see about Never Trump Republicans all having a show on MSNBC. That group tends to be fiscal conservatives and social moderates, which I long ago pegged as the pundit’s quadrant. It’s the quadrant with the smallest number of voters but by far the biggest presence in punditry.

SPECIAL EDITION OF “MEET THE PRESS WITH KRISTEN WELKER” TO EXAMINE THREATS TO DEMOCRACY IN 2024. https://t.co/YxbYkRhri4 "...an NBC News poll has identified 'threats to democracy' as a top issue at the voting booth this year."

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) May 24, 2024

 

TIL Ron Paul is still alive

Had the honor of having a short yet deeply meaningful conversation with @RonPaul this afternoon. Dr. Paul has been the carrying voice of our founding fathers, while the two parties have pummeled this country into the exact chaos and tyranny that he’s been warning about for… pic.twitter.com/FIx0mH6Pqc

— Nicole Shanahan (@NicoleShanahan) May 26, 2024

 

Rectenwald sort of responded to Ediblegate today, at the top of his speech.

"I have a confession to make. I'm high... on liberty!" https://t.co/N7kLsjexJU

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) May 26, 2024

 

Interesting news. Maybe it says something about the difference between your garden variety Trump supporter (And I intentionally didn’t say “voter”) and MAGA journalism/commentary. Or maybe it doesn’t mean anything.

This *Idaho jury* even asked the judge if they had the power to also make the far right blogger *apologize* to the drag performer.https://t.co/d1fRH4atUT

"Idaho drag performer awarded $1.1 million in defamation case against far-right blogger"

— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) May 26, 2024

Best part of the day?

This. I cried like a baby.

Thank you @KayeThornbrugh for capturing this moment into today’s news coverage. 😭😭😭 https://t.co/YnDWC9Z6KH pic.twitter.com/5xZ1auwlRS

— Alicia Abbott (@abbottalynn) May 25, 2024

 

Geez. It's not like he took the brown acid at Woodstock.

 

fuck me it's "thanks for yer service" weekend where I have to inform everyone "wrong holiday mate I am only dead on the inside"

— John Cole (@Johngcole) May 23, 2024

 

Since Reagan these people don't want to be political reporters, they want to be gossip columnists.

Easy to see why Biden doesn’t want to deal with people like this pic.twitter.com/35KNitqKx6

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 27, 2024

 

A good answer, he is saying yes, but leaving some wiggle room.

 

Allegedly representatives Omar and Bush made a similar error calling for better medical attention to veterans today, but deleted the tweets.

I say allegedly because you never know if the "screen shots" are real or right wing propaganda.

Even I get confused once in a while about veterans and memorial days.

 

He wasn’t like this before he was banned by twitter. I mean he was bad, but this is two other levels past that. And he posts stuff like this regularly.

I’ll just leave this here without comment. posted by Trump, TODAY.

But I will ask, is this who we want to be? pic.twitter.com/XRIIuPrfEI

— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@AdamKinzinger) May 27, 2024

 

Meanwhile in Russia: Vladimir Solovyov urged retaliation against America and state TV pundits surmised that even though Trump is Moscow's "useful idiot," he failed to fulfill his election promises.https://t.co/KLyBuu4GFx

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) May 25, 2024