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i am at the point where i think the next D who wants to be president needs to kick the shit out of these people, rhetorically; because they simply will not shut up and go away, for one thing, and because Biden is an incredibly unpopular figure and separating from him will pay dividends, for another

submitted 42 minutes ago • 5 comments

Many of us said for years that the Biden administration should've nationalized SpaceX because Elon Musk was a legitimate national security threat. Those suggestions were ignored and considered quite unserious. 🧵

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

Don't be modest, @nytimes.com, @theatlantic.com, @theguardian.com. Take a bow. What a beautiful atrocity you've built.

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

It's not like the rationale even works either. You compromise with fascists, they just see you as weak and push you even further. You gain nothing - nothing at all - from yielding at the early stages. This has happened throughout history.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Super interesting how no former presidents have said a damn thing about the coup Speaks heavily to how we got here that Obama hasn’t said a word.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

Did the @nytimes.com really quote the mf-ing communications director of the Houston YOUNG REPUBLICANS as if he were just some random young Black person who likes Trump? Cause it sure looks like it.

submitted 1 day ago • 197 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 2 days ago • 1573 comments

TRUMP: We're also have the head of Pfizer here. One of the great businessmen. CROWD: Booooooooo

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

Here in Illinois, ten years ago we saw the consequences of a rampant ideological gutting of government. It genuinely harmed people. Our citizens hated it. Trust me – I was elected based in part on just how much they hated it.

submitted 2 days ago • 531 comments

I don’t mean to sound like a prick, but your modal voter cannot discern an informed figure from an uninformed one simply by hearing them speak about politics. If they could, we wouldn’t be in this mess. We have to actively, aggressively message against him.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Sinead O’Connor did the coolest live TV thing that anyone has ever done, was proven more right about it than anyone has ever been about anything, and her reward was instantly losing her career thanks largely to the efforts of Saturday Night Live which never acknowledged her again while she was alive

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Folks were asking which MoCs did make the commitment on the spot. Celebrate these leaders! Sen. Warren Sen. Van Hollen Rep. Waters Rep. Pallone Rep. Pressley Rep. Cleaver Rep. Beatty Rep. Velázquez Rep. Ansari Rep. Foster Rep. Simon Rep. Amo Rep. Meeks Rep. Balint Rep. Magaziner Rep. Raskin

submitted 11 days ago • 63 comments

I hope YELLOWJACKETS ends with the team being rescued by a film crew scouting locations for STARGATE: SG-1.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

@mtsw.bsky.social You have the sort of following which might get better visibility on this. The dem-controlled legislature in Delaware out of nowhere just dropped a Musk Bailout Bill which would eviscerate investor protections at Delaware corporations ie most of everyone’s 401(k)s

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

submitted 4 days ago • 818 comments

wonder why @theatlantic.com didn’t crosspost this one here

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

that one neighbor who put a chicken coop in their back yard in 2017 and was always trying to foist eggs on everyone probably feels like littlefinger right now

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

any parent who has ever played a game with their child and let them win should be able to easily recognize what elected democrats are doing

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

submitted 4 days ago • 452 comments

LLMs are the great dunce mask-off moment. If you think these things are magical you are credulous beyond redemption. How would a person who doesn't have the knowledge have the ability to tell between correct and incorrect answers? How would they know what to ask?

submitted 4 days ago • 58 comments

Favorite paragraph from this:

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Many people distinguish between the Rust Belt Midwest and the rest of the Midwest, and there are good historical, geographical, racial, linguistic, and even agricultural reasons to do so. But the real distinction, experientially, is the prevalence and ideology of Chit-Chat.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I enjoy Severance, it's a phenomenal show. I can't get over its network being Apple TV. Apple is Lumon Industries. An oppressive, highly secretive company with a cheerful, hollow facade, employees who have no idea what they're making, cult worship of Steve Jobs, the Foxconn suicides

submitted 6 days ago • 136 comments

If you claim to be a leader but are too scared to lead, fine -- sit down and let someone else take your place. It is easy to be bold when there is no threat. Now is a time for courage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

submitted 6 days ago • 1417 comments