Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.
Bluesky: Catch the vapors
I keep saying this but the most evil people on earth are not, in fact, the people who currently run the DNC.
the thing I think people don’t want to deal with is that it’s not Bluesky v Twitter, it’s Bluesky v Substack
Ridiculous
What’s hilarious/infuriating too is conservatives are always the ones that are like “People should have to pass a civics test to vote!”
LORE KING
I realize I’m fully an adult having just said “Oh damn” out loud at that
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Some perspective…
THREAD 🧵 Rep. Adam Smith, Democrat Ranking Member of House Armed Services Committee, tells PSA today that he: -Would have voted for latest Sanders resos to block weapons to Israel -Doesn't support recognition of Palestinian statehood, claims he supports "autonomy". -Refuses to disavow AIPAC.
Kick his ass Seabass!
IT’S HAPPENING 👀
just a historical note: grover cleveland quite infamously had secret surgery to remove a chunk of the roof of his mouth on a rich dude's yacht in July of the firsrt year of his second term
The thing about conservatives who say they’d never end a family relationship over politics is that, like every other thing they say, they’re lying.
This is a poorly framed question. Lots of conservatives would cut off a family member for being LGBT, for example, but that doesn’t clock as a ‘political view’ to them. Also, the narrative that leftists cut off their conservative family members too easily is extremely widespread on the right.
i don't know that the U.S. ever produced a finer general than U.S. Grant
this site is bad! it's going to fail! its user base has plateaued! it's not making any money! nobody here is smart except for me! everybody here is stupid! nobody is having any good discussions! i don't like being here! ok that's it for now. be back in 90 minutes
There are people who are like "Should we use the energy from the wind and sun? Nah." And they vote.
Oh man now our pundit class is really going to start cooking their brains
Fucking hell we had an actual Son Of Sam Altman situation. Horrifying. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
U.S. companies have an unwelcome message for inflation-weary consumers: Prices are going up
i would point to this interview if i was trying to explain how sometimes people who don’t think of themselves as journalists or reject the notion altogether can be the most effective interviewers newrepublic.com/post/199737/...
Frankly, we have invested too much in rural healthcare. The cost benefit isn't there. They refuse to stop eating fried Oreos at State Fairs. It's time we ran the government like a business and preserve insulin for those with higher earning potential in cities.
Gotta say I'm pretty frustrated with the state of insurance discourse on the left. I don't see much reckoning with the fact that even if you "abolish the insurance companies," you need to somehow manage the radically shifting risk profile of many communities. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emil...
lol I have no sympathy for them and they don’t care about you either dingus. Grow up
So glad America is now a post-woke utopia
Drone strike LinkedIn HQ
My friend @aaronrosspowell.com put it well. Some people become libertarians because they saw the state as the biggest barrier to equality by enforcing artificial hierarchies. Other people became "libertarians" because they thought the state was clamping down on "natural" hierarchies.
Yes because the Republican Party from the very top enjoys tormenting and mocking Harris voters. Harris voters are as human as Trump supporters and its it’s be expected yo be the result. Cutting off people is a mature and ethical way to signify to Trump supporting friends that things are not ok
Yeah. It’s happening here.
Seems to be the feeling with climate change too
God forbid a man tries to be a fun grandpa
Logic didn’t work on them. Only real consequences will at this point
this is correct, but also, there are far-right occultic groups that have *explicitly* made this into a formal thing
This isn’t bad luck or coincidence or predestination. This is our choice. To live in a nation where our leaders teach hate, and military style guns are everywhere.
I like both ideas with G.’s probably a bit more. Lack of name recognition is a big problem for Dems
There is something deeply wrong with a country that chooses to make running for their lives part of kids’ back to school ritual. When we finally passed a gun safety bill in 2022, mass shooting began to drop. But it was an unacceptably small start. We must do more.
2028. White House lawn. Be there!
Breakfast Club host Charlamagne says of Hakeem Jeffries: "I call him AIPAC Shakur." "I just don't think he stands for anything."
children in minneapolis shot while praying, children in DC passing armed military when they take the metro to school, this country is so sick
becoming increasingly fascinated by my own asshole
This is why the "must release taxes" norm was so important that we all assumed it was written in the law somewhere.
Had that same feeling after Sandy Hook too. If massacred children don’t do it nothing will
The number of moderate conservatives that refused to believe he’s as bad as he is is why we’re here
I think this, from an influential 2011 book on executive power, explains why the American political establishment was so comfortable with the growth of the imperial presidency. They couldn't imagine someone of Trump's character gaining power.
This is preferable to terrorizing black neighborhoods. But it also just confirms what we all knew: the whole operation is about projecting the image of safety for tourists, politicians, and white residents, not reducing crime. (Which terrorizing black neighborhoods also would not accomplish.)
I can’t tell if it’s funny or sad that he would very likely take that deal lol
“I’m not getting my bonus now am I?”
Charlie Kirk: "This is something I hope will make Taylor Swift more conservative… Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge." 🤡
Netanyahu himself is now pushing the argument that Israel is being unfairly blamed for a starvation death because the boy also had a piece of his skull blown out by an Israeli shelling
This. I think a lot of dudes like him are praying a Mitt Romney comes back after Trump
“We should be silent on abuses on power” will age really well in history books for Lakshya
Americans broadly hate all of this, and we all gotta remember that when it feels like things are spinning out of control
Snoop Dogg after watching an episode of "Will and Grace"
Once you realize most conservative arguments are in bad faith and their philosophy is actual the the 5 principles below, you will know peace • men > women • white people > other races • straight people > LGBTQ • Christians > other religions • rich people > poor people Everything else is flexible
This is something you find out when you’re 14
Having to hang with the awkward assistant coach after practice while your parents run late
I discovered it when she was defending US Aid cuts by saying she had an adopted child from Haiti and it’s like “Yes Jillian, the kids on another continent will feel better about dying since you have a black child”
My favorite is how she adopted a black child and uses it as an excuse to be like “Excuse me! Obviously my opinion of slavery can’t possibly be racist”
Innovative! This Aging Famous Person Figured Out A Way To Profit From Being A Huge Asshole
Oh good. So we're talking nationwide CRASH, Scorpion or GTTF type units, only with soldiers specially picked by a DefSec who thinks he's on a mission from God and defends war criminals, and no one involved has any law enforcement training whatsoever. Sounds like a foolproof plan.
voting for trump got you... - higher prices on many/most goods - big manufacturing job losses - feds deploying military into the streets - the state "taking stakes in" the means of production - natl policy carveouts for gov's allies what would the 2010 tea party say?
Just wild considering how perverted his early stuff was
This is so on the money. The number of right wingers who claim Trump couldn’t be guilty with Epstein because Biden and the Dems would’ve exposed him (and only him) is astonishing.
That's exactly what it is. Between this and Brazil, it seems that Trump is practicing a kind of authoritarian identity politics — going after any democracy brave enough to punish its would-be authoritarians the way the US tried (and failed) to punish him
Yup! Lol
Snoop Dogg if he joins Bluesky:
Bro, you just don’t understand the confused median voter who cares deeply that some Berkeley professor said Latinx in a paper but also doesn’t care at all when Trump kept saying Harris slept her way into office. That voter is a millimeter away from voting Democrat, bro. Trust me bro.
How does 2025 Snoop explain 2001 Snoop to his grandkids?
I loved the movie OPPENHEIMER about the race to build that world-changing negotiation.
Over a third of people say they’re going days without eating in Gaza. For now, the confirmed famine is centered in the governorate of Gaza, one of five in the strip. Our maps show where it’s expected to spread by the end of September
There’s an essay to be written about how the “conservative” movement that’s spent the past 90 years trying to undo the New Deal has embraced the New Deal’a aesthetic as its propaganda genre of choice for promoting its regressive, anti-worker policies.
This man said Diddy was the coolest rapper of the 90s
Brilliant Adams troll
starting the season with the two most recent Poptarts Bowl Champs playing each other should be the tradition every college football season.
this guy being america at full potential makes so much sense
it's so funny that ana goes full anti-semite the day demsas argues that "Actually, progs don't have to worry about informational hygiene"
Holy shit
They're going to spike everyone's energy prices. Your energy prices are going up and it's Trump's fault. Plain as day.
New in PN: @pkrugman.bsky.social on Trump's teetering economy "The thing that’s extra damaging now is the craziness. Nobody knows what the tariff rates will be in six months. That means a lot of cash sits on the sidelines."
I like this graphic because it implies that the opposite of violence is Irishness
![How Boston became the safest big city in America Murder is declining across the country, but Boston has led the way [Graphic of a handgun with a shamrock protruding from the barrel]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3h6xtls7ue7q7hlmwb77ukjw/bafkreih27a6p73z6xhkujytlrou7o4dony5yqaio3bjl2jfaze3q2afa6a@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.
It's a fun type of socialism. You know. The nationalist kind
Her movie Christy is going to get absolutely torched next month
I'm probably much more of a free markets guy than the rest of this website but "free market of ideas to find the best" is such a funny concept to me because this frameworks implies that McDonald's makes the best burger.
i shit you not the actual craziest part is Demsas is in the comments posting "source for this claim?" when people argue that twitter is promoting right wing content
It genuinely amazes me that Rod Dreher—who is of the people who helped mainstream "Camp of the Saints" in the United States, taking it out of the domain of niche white nationalist blogs and to major pubs—doesn't see any connection to between it and what we're dealing with today.
Her piece was fine but coming on here going “Hurr durr bet you leftists will be big mad” is her wanting the rage bait so she can sell clout to the right
Hegseth seems to have fired the guy in charge of the SEALs
I don’t even disagree with her on the pros of communicators staying on Twitter but nothing is more annoying than “Hur durr bet you arrogant leftists will be mad!!” You’re doing this so you can sell clout to the other side and you know kt
Lol. So, of course, one of the first big stories on the new faux "left of center" news sources that sucked up a ridiculous amount of funding is this fucking nonsense:
You really can see how she feels about leftists in some of the comments she decided to like on that article bsky.app/profile/bmce...