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There's that number again.

The sole criteria I will be voting on in the 2028 primary is which candidate credibly promises to put the largest number of Trump officials in prison. I do not care about any of their other policies.

This recent one from The Onion is going to be really handy in the weeks and months ahead.

LBJ's words here aren't especially radical, but that he delivered them in front of the Georgia state legislature in 1964 is fairly badass

Those were the days!

"Every day, more and more of the national income produced by legitimate work and businesses disappears into the maw of innumerable scams and grifts, from phishing emails to scam texts and calls to phone hacks to crypto rug pulls to MLMs." prospect.org/culture/book...

It's interesting that Paradise, Severance, and Silo are hit shows about a group of people trapped in a controlled environment by a group of rich people who are lying to them about the basic structure of their reality. Probably says a lot about where we're at as a people!

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

periodic reminder that this White House has never put out any analysis of their trade policy. Literally not even a single chart. They barely understand what they’re destroying.

Gilroy's last gut punch of a line, "... it’s very sad, the amount of times that this has happened in history that people could choose to say 'This belongs to me.'"