I'd say I hope it burdens your soul but I think you surrendered yours a long time ago.
You're short, your bellybutton sticks out too far, and you're a terrible burden on your poor mother.
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I'd say I hope it burdens your soul but I think you surrendered yours a long time ago.
So many of you good liberal Democrats conspired to bring us to this point. Equating any criticism of Israel's ongoing genocide with terrorism. Tossed our country's bedrock principles about speech into the shitter so Israel could go on killing. Calling peaceful protests anti semitic.
making peace with the taco salad i ordered when another table's fajitas arrive
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Huh, weird
Of course Schumer had to horn in on the moment.
I'm not a programming guy but MSNBC and CNN should be airing this Cory Booker thing in the same way you take over programming if there's a no-hitter or a basketball player with 60 points in three quarters. It's a physical feat! Cut in for this kind of thing. Costs nothing, gooses ratings, good TV.
The thing about what Cory Booker is doing is that it SHOULD be “the least the Democrats can do” and spark a real change in strategy and messaging. But you just know there are party elders calling him a grandstanding jerk under their breath.
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This. There's a thin but important line between "Everything sucks and always will" and "Everything sucks and I don't know if I can do anything about it but I'm going to try anyway because otherwise that abyss sure is staring right back at me."
Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.
Absent from this list: Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries
Seriously. Don't post "AI images of me in the style of ____". AI is theft. AI is also trying to steal artist's jobs. It is a horrible look.
i miss when i could google things
Maryland-Florida is fun because either you can root for the coach who ghosted his team right before its biggest game in like two decades or you can root for the coach with credible swept-under-the-rug sexual harassment allegations.
(I stand corrected, WEEI apparently can broadcast the game on the web. I thought that was blocked/paywalled too.)
There are a lot of reasons why baseball is dying and this isn't the biggest one but it's indicative: It's 2025, it's Opening Day, and I can't watch or listen to my favorite team's game because I'm not in my home and haven't paid for an over-the-top service ON TOP OF the RSN I already pay for.
Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are. Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.
The most effective statement that Senate Democrats could make right now would be removing Chuck Schumer as the minority leader. Get real about fighting back or shut the fuck up.
This is the op-ed she's been disappeared for. These motherfuckers. All of you motherfuckers. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
None of this shit even has the pretense of “homeland security” or whatever other lies they would typically tell. It is specifically for protesting another country’s genocide. Not violently. Not even all that aggressively. Just saying please stop killing.
I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values
Due process is the notion that the state has an evidentiary burden to overcome if it intends to imprison or punish someone, and if it gets to ignore that sometimes, then it's all fake for everyone
They can and will do this to anyone they don't like simply by asserting that they do not have citizenship. Because at what point are you given the chance to prove anything or dispute their claims? They do it this way to prevent that from ever happening
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
"Why are you hiding your faces?"
Pretty cool how the bulk of the media ecosystem refused to utter words like "fascist" in order to maintain a sober appearance of impartiality and now we have the Stasi kidnapping people in broad daylight
You asking me and the boys to look into it? Who are you talking to man?
Congrats to Iowa on making the 2027 Final Four.
Cannot recommend highly enough having your bracket blown to smithereens by 4 on the first Saturday so you can just enjoy the games the rest of the way.
I can’t compete with this
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
I'm depressed at how many people, including people I know and love and admire...cheerfully use AI to do their thinking. To write the silly email that would take 30 seconds. To write the outline. To do the thinking. I get life sucks right now. But damn, there's FREEDOM in thinking.
The party that has never done anything but seek the center continues to insist that they need to stop catering to the extreme left—something they have never ever done—and continue doing what they have always done, which is continue to seek a center that will always track us further into a nightmare.
The thing about the center is, it isn’t anywhere in particular. It’s just the point between two other points. if your purpose is only to find the center, then you stand for nothing and you have no vision. It’s a total loser; not even a moral victory, because it’s a fundamentally amoral perspective.
The absolute devastation that @chuckschumer.com is about to inflict on D.C. by supporting the GOP’s continuing resolution is hard to overstate. Massive cuts to schools and law enforcement. Teachers laid off en masse. Basic city services may grind to a halt because we *cannot spend our own money.*
Lot of people making fun of the Big XII tournament court, but I think they’re just salty because they can’t see the sailboat.
Gavin Newsom: The tragedy of this year’s wildfires cannot be overstated. The Palisades Fire alone burned 36.5 square miles of the Santa Monica Mountains, destroying large areas of Malibu, Topanga, and Pacific Palisades. Today on the pod, we’ll— Palisades Fire: Is this my water or yours?
How have the Oklahoma City Thunder existed for nearly 20 years and never had a single good uniform
If you share a single Aaron Parnas TikTok with me I will rain hellfire on you
We should have evolved past the need for the Lincoln projects and meidas touches of the world. Please log off and read any book about Weimar era Germany instead
UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.
You can’t even be a red blooded American sonumabich and sit down with the fellas and watch Emilia Pérez anymore
You don’t have to share screenshots of every moron still posting on the other site.
These details (including the missing ones) matter, and these two media outlets need to do better, especially since the worst people imaginable are going to town about it on Twitter.
She very well may have been laid up in bed for days after those videos and emails before passing, and Hackman, who had Alzheimer's, may not have understood what was going on at all.
There has been no official word that Gene Hackman's wife was actually dead for a week before he passed, yet the NYT and AP are reporting it as fact, with only the flimsy evidence of "she hadn't sent any emails or appeared on surveillance cameras" to back it up.
remember when the us government made tiktok illegal and then literally nothing happened that was weird
All I'm saying is, if you ran a campaign on democracy being at stake and democracy lost, isn't it time to be massively freaking out instead of doing this
"Dems can win everything with this one cool trick: Become Republicans." - A genius opinion-haver.
"Just go back to not being racist." JFC.
Holy fuck stop screenshotting Matty Yglesias. We all know where to find his unwashed posts if we want to see them
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
It’s pretty interesting that both Tim Walz and Gavin Newsom are clearly positioning themselves to run for President and one thought he should publicize that he’s having diplomatic conversations with Canadian provinces close to Minnesota and the other thought he should publicize that he sucks
if one of thems your rep, call and tell them they’re a fucking coward
I cannot overemphasize what an opportunistic shithead Newsom is.
felt like we could all use a pick-me-up
This is your ongoing reminder that the fascism we are dealing with is not a Republican problem. It’s a bipartisan one.
i saw a lot of democrats got on tv tonight! hope they got someone to tape it for them. very cool
One of the advantages about being kind of into sports but not having it be your main thing is someone can yell at you about your favorite player being overrated and your team being paper champs and not being tough and you can just be like ok
I've always been a huge fan of personal liberties and free markets but didn't know why they were good. So for me the editorial direction of the Washington Post is very welcome.
A friend of mine has a daughter with Down syndrome, and thanks to these programs she recently made the transition from high school and living at home to an internship at a major pharmaceutical company and an apartment of her own. But the techbros think that's all "waste"
“Who's Showing Up to Vote in the Senate? Not John Fetterman” Reporting by Pablo Manriquez for Zeteo: zeteo.com/p/whos-showi...
I love leaving voice mails for my senators where I say things like "the USPS is very important to our country" as if I'm helping a small child with a book report or describing our civilization to an alien
Having served as a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign, this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists were given access.
What a good time for your opinion section to be running transphobic and anti-DEI op-eds.
Getting rid of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion does Not "restore qualification based hiring.” It only restores people's ability to Deny an Equally or even a more qualified candidate based on background, race, ethnicity, gender, identity, religion etc.. But they know this. That's the point.
This happens constantly. An independent investigative reporter gets a scoop & a media outlet, alerted by social media, follows up with their own coverage which gets wider circulation but never credits the original source. It’s a breach of ethics and professional integrity that should be called out.
I literally reported this Wednesday.
I genuinely would have alot of empathy and compassion for regretful Trump voters if instead of “I thought he’d hurt other people, not me” they said “I thought he’d hurt other people, and now having experienced it firsthand I realize the pain that attitude causes”
More of this. The fuck are you doing promoting a book when the country is falling apart?
The way history works *grabs calipers* is that certain people *grabs your skull* are SPECIAL and GOOD and IMPORTANT *measures the shit out of your cranial folds or whatever* and then there's people like you.
God dammit. Fine.
Like hey, it’s great that the rich guys got their jewelry back. But…
Nothing to see here. Just a low-impact story about crime against athletes. Sorry, what’s that? The FBI accessed a protected iCloud account with a search warrant? Huh. www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
That is the choice the Globe is making. And it's empowering people like Seth Moulton to distinguish between vote-blue-no-matter-who Dems who want to win without doing any work to create change, and those of us who actually want the lives of vulnerable people to be made better.
At this time, in this climate, with daily mental, emotional, and sometimes physical assaults on anyone who does not fit a white, heteronormative mold, the most important media outlet in New England thinks its audience should hear from people who want to cheer those assaults on.
On back-to-back days, the Boston Globe has published transphobia-soaked opinion pieces, first by its new token neocon and today by a former Harvard professor who left to join the American Enterprise Institute because of how, in her own words, "growing campus DEI bureaucracies strangle free speech."
Lemme fix this for you, Congressman. “It’s intended to be a distraction from all of the damaging actions he’s taking [that we are also going to do absolutely nothing about, other than send lots of fundraising emails about them].”
I don’t want to be right!!!!!
a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.
Just absolutely clueless www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
This is why there’s been so much silence as Black history and Black books are being purged, and integration efforts dismantled. Many Democrats think the purges are valid and necessary. “Candidly, the attack on over-the-top wokeism was a valid attack."
They’re marinating in right-wing paranoia there. No matter how savvy or smart they imagine themselves to be, prolonged contact with that kind of crazy will absolutely warp their understanding of what “normal people” think
Also, @democrats.org: The next time you ask me for money I'm going to end the call so quickly and forcefully, my thumb will shatter the screen of my phone. Apple thanks you.
Lot of people seeing this as a homophobic joke, which I genuinely don't think it's supposed to be. But it's also kind of telling that this organization has fucked up so irreparably that it has earned almost no benefit of the doubt from people who would ostensibly be on the same side of the spectrum.
You're nuts if you're questioning the wisdom and leadership of the Democratic Party right now. They're not the problem. The problem is the voters. What we need to do is replace 300 million voters
“Packages *your* book.” 🤔
The Democrats took billions of dollars from the public and said they could fight a war. The minute the war went hot (we’ve been at war for decades), they began surrendering. They’ve failed us all.
Best I can tell the calculus from the Democratic leadership is: Lean back, let Trump fail, then inherit the windfall. Again. Problem is people are going to fucking die while they do short weeks and go off on fancy congressional trips.
Excuse me while I vent for a moment SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.
Fox ran a superbowl ad from Kanye for a website that, then and now, is selling only one thing: a white tshirt with a black swastika printed in the middle of the chest. It hasn’t attracted much coverage or comment at all outside of progressive spaces like this. But it’s nuts.
Kanye West has gone full Nazi. Full full Nazi. But I don't see any of the top House Democrats who obsessed over alleged antisemitic student protesters on campus - Torres, Gottheimer, Moskowitz, Goldman, Fetterman, etc - calling out Trump and the GOP for their one-time alliance with Kanye. WHY?
I think an American flag created entirely by black men at the Superbowl is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my lifetime. I hope it actually killed some folks. And I hope it finally closes the fucking book on the argument that we shouldn't use the flag to fight the God damned fascists.