The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1hGift. wapo.st/3VUtxkgwapo.stTrump officials block Microsoft’s access to program for employee green cardsVice President JD Vance announced the suspension, saying it would affect H-1B visas and aims to protect U.S. workers. 031
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1hSorry. Not buying it. If rightwing media is powerful enough to push people into voting for Trump, who isn't it working now? The reason is people know what's right, but rationalize their way out of acting on that knowledge when they think doing so is to their advantage. In other words, greed. 110
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1hI guess Microsoft's bribe wasn't big enough? 3203
Reposted by The Editorial BoardDavid Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 1hOnly 30% of Trump 2024 voters are enthusiastic about casting a ballot this year vs. 48% of @kamalaharris.com 2024 voters.thehill.com30 percent of Trump voters enthusiastic about casting ballots: SurveyFewer voters who backed President Trump in 2024 than those who voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris say they are “very enthusiastic” to cast ballots in November, according to n… 283
Reposted by The Editorial BoardAlan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2hEnjoyed doing this with @editorialboard.bsky.social! 101
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3hOh, that's rich. Torture, huh? AP: Nicolás Maduro has been charged by U.S. authorities with torture and other crimes in a new indictment unsealed Thursday that adds pressure on the ousted authoritarian leader already fighting drug trafficking offenses. apnews.com/article/madu...apnews.comNew US indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with tortureA new U.S. indictment charges former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with torture and other crimes. The indictment was unsealed Thursday in New York. 1201
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3hSuffering and death for a lot of people made worse by terrible choices made later. 121
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3hOct 7 was bad all the way around, and the choices made in the aftermath, including here in the US, made it a lot worse. 1220
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3hI think Mamdani's Oct 7 message was good, and anyone who expects him to speak *exclusively* for their views and their interests alone should take a hard look in the mirror. 5433
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3hThis is good. Keep up the pressure. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...politico.comDemocrats call on Chuck Grassley to apologize to Jack Smith for basketball gaffeThe top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Republicans violated Senate rules. 26813
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3hThere are some crazies on here telling me this is good for the environment, so ... yeah? 010
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3hThere's no way to seem reasonable to Americans who desire freedom from consequences. Trump voters *wanted* to touch the stove. What they didn't want was first-degree burns. Appeals to their self-interest will have limited effect without an ethical reaction. www.editorialboard.com/the-democr/editorialboard.comDo Democratic Party leaders benefit from doomerism?They should get evangelical on voters. 0155
Reposted by The Editorial BoardThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Whiteness has led the American economy to ruin every four to eight years for the last 50 years. If there's a Republican president, expect a crisis. 06017
Reposted by The Editorial BoardScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h"Trump moved the ethical line" perfectly reflects the collaborationist thought processes of NYT. No he didn't. The ethical lines were the same before as they are now. It's the collaborators who have moved the lines—but to be clear, they never had any in the first place.nytimes.comAn Outrage in 2019. No Problem in 2026. Trump Has Moved the Ethical Line.The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms. 513451
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3hYou have made this point often and just as often I believe it is too charitable. You can’t cheat an honest man. 240
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 3hYes they are trying to buy victory but it’s because they took victory for granted. 2110
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 4hHow to de-shittify America. A THREAD and interview with @aselrod.bsky.social. 0259
Reposted by The Editorial BoardAmy @flath2o.bsky.social · 5h"A republic cannot be brought to ruin if the people have integrity." 3214
Reposted by The Editorial BoardJeb Boyt @jeboyt.bsky.social · 4hWinthrop, writing onboard a ship in the Mid-Atlantic, warned that we need to practice love, mercy, and charity if we wanted to avoid a shipwreck. We are now upon the rocks. /8 051
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h21. "Maybe we could use a little scolding," Alan Elrod told me. "People who hold some of the best paid and most revered positions in our culture [are] shilling for DraftKings, Kalshi and Bitcoin. "I think that’s a moral travesty." www.editorialboard.com/how-to-de-sh...editorialboard.comHow to de-shittify AmericaFirst, bring back "moral sense." 1247
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h20. In the following interview with me, Alan talks about his own experience with social media. It has unsettled him enough to want to bring broader attention to its ill effects. He explains how de-shittifying online spaces through regulation will require restoring a moral sense. 1130
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h19. "From college-aged sports betting addicts to journalists and political operatives to our richest and most powerful businessmen and politicians," they "have been deranged by these habits and enslaved to the distortive effects of trying to get our next hit," Alan wrote. 1171
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h18. Unlike Tuchman's time, it isn't just "the lowest common denominator" that's affected. Signs of addiction to phones and social media are being exhibited up and down the social hierarchy. 2160
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h17. In Liberal Currents, the Pulaski Institution's CEO said America is "the prisoner of the smartphone & the infinite mirror world beneath its glass screen" and "our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking & celebrity culture." www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...liberalcurrents.comPortraits of an American Dopamine EaterOur attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture. 1192
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h16. Perhaps Tuchman would have said what @aselrod.bsky.social said recently. 1130
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h15. She died the following year, in 1989, but I wonder what she would have said about today's information environment. Media and tech corporations are monopolies. Rightwing propaganda is ubiquitous. Everyone is addicted to their phones. All of it is so normal as to be invisible. 1151
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h14. Bill Moyers interviewed Barbara Tuchman in 1988, before the internet was mainstream, before the invention of mobile technology, and before the advent of social media. 2141
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h13. With the bar so low, corrupt elites have no fear of being held to any standard. "This is not the way to increase the thinking of the public on truth or serious matters, or to help it recognize the values in life that are creative," Tuchman said. 1141
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h12. Tuchman said civil institutions, especially the media, tend to accept "any damned thing that ... appeals to the mass public, even if it is basically trashy." Television, she said, is the primary means by which social virtue is undermined. 1182
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h11. Ditto for the Ottoman Empire, she said. "The disappearance of a moral sense, of moral rule, led to fierce oppression and massacres and to the decline of power in the end." 1182
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h10. We lost our "moral sense," the historian said, "of knowing the difference between right and wrong, and of being governed by it." She pointed to Germany as an example of a nation that "declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians." 2294
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h9. Bill Moyers once asked Barbara Tuchman what happened to the America of Washington, Adams and Jefferson. It was four decades ago, but her answer is shockingly relevant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNO2...youtube.comBarbara Tuchman - A WORLD OF IDEAS - September 30, 1988YouTube video by 人在美国刚下飞机 2234
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h8. Greed is how a wealthy and powerful nation twice traded everything good about itself for the empty promises of a life-long con man. 1376
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h7. But America's prime directive is me me *me*. That's the reason we commited "superpower suicide," as Timothy Snyder put it. x.com/MeidasTouch/... 1231
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h6. It's too easy to blame Donald Trump. A con man can't fool anyone who isn't greedy and looking to get something for nothing. A republic cannot be brought to ruin if the people have integrity. 2375
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h5. The consequences are all around us. Commerce is now largely a scam. Leaders are liars. Courts are rogue. Corporations are lawless. Political insanity is normal. The work ethic is meaningless. Merit is a joke. Equality and justice are upside down, backwards and prolapsed. 1304
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h4. Allow me to pause for a moment to ask you to support the work I do at the Editorial Board, a newsletter about politics in plain English for normal people & the common good. Subscribe today for just 30 cents a day! www.editorialboard.com/subscribe-fo...editorialboard.comSubscribe for just 30¢ a day!I started the Editorial Board eight years ago. It was the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, and I had a lot to say that I could not say through regular means. Things began slowly, but by the sprin... 1181
The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5h3. It took a decade, but we finally did it. The enshittification of America. 2392
