Tesla still struggling
Tesla still struggling
He’s been hiding. He LOVES attention, so something is up
I hope Susan Collins is very concerned.
I complain about media outlets all the time, so credit where it's due to @wsj.com for this chart which says more than a thousand words could. There's no dancing around it, no explaining it away, there's just the ugly truth. www.wsj.com/wsjplus/dash...
Opening the door to backtracking RFK’s terrible policies is good.
I think the plane gps stuff might not have been fully truthfully reported, bc that’s why I think France made that announcement to hospitals. Pure speculation tho. If so, timing of summit in China might be intended to force India to take their side
They can't cover things that are antagonistic to the interests of their owners... & also they support what Trump is doing.
Because he thinks our ideas are a virus? Very welcoming
I have no plans to go back. There is literally no point when the algorithm is controlled by Musk, and he’s also on a revenge tour, just trying to silence Dems on social media by limiting their reach.
Just occurred to me that X already has “the left” but not “progressives on Bluesky,” so if Nate Silver were serious, he would realize that X is currently his “ideal” for Dems, and guess what? Dems are losing BIGLY on Twitter😉 if they were doing great, he would tell Bluesky ppl to stay here
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Famously times where things went just fine.
Here's a better response to RFK's destruction of our public health system than what Senator Schatz is offering here, from JB Pritzker (with some additional ideas thrown in from me and public health experts): newrepublic.com/article/1998...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Everyone laughing that he’s an idiot is not a successful troll. But maybe that’s successful to him? I dunno.
Or is it only poor people that aren’t allowed to change their residence and intermingle or intermarry?
Does this mean all the wealthy people have to give back their golden passports to 20 different countries? I’m pretty sure those passports aren’t consistent with the predominant race, ethnicity, and nationality of all of those countries.
Some people can’t conceive that race, nationality, and ethnicity are not the same thing. The world is very complex! Forcing race, nationality, and ethnicity to be the same across an entire population is a really stupid goal that you will never achieve.
Needed a break. Everything is good.
The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.
In an ethnographic study of youth political organizations, one of my PhD students found that the primary driver of engagement wasn't concern about particular issues but rather the chance to do something fun together with friends (eg, make posters for rallies, or go to meetings with free food).
F off
What if punched someone bc you thought they were a Nazi and then refused to apologize bc if they had called you mister you wouldn’t have thought they were a Nazi, so really it’s my own fault I got punched.
I realize you are committed to punching Nazis but I am not a Nazi and you definitely still owe me an apology. I’m not impressed
If other people started punching them bc you got other ppl to think they’re a Nazi when they’re not, would it be okay to refuse to apologize?
If you punch someone bc you think they’re a Nazi but then you learn they’re not a Nazi and you just punched someone totally random and innocent, do you owe them an apology? Would it be okay to refuse to apologize?
I can’t believe I even have to say these things
If your answer to that is yes, then *the same goes for you when you do it*
Would you be off the wall offended if I demanded that you call me doctor bc I deserve that formality while I broke into your shit behind the scenes?
Would it have been rude for me to break into your shit? If your answer to that is yes, then *the same goes for you when you do it*
Are you really trying to tell me in the public sphere that I was rude and need to call you mister *at the same time* that you were breaking into my shit, and you seem to think that’s not rude or inappropriate? Excuse me if I don’t think your scolding about the word mister is in good faith
YES
Free idea for Team @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, make the card template available for free downloading. The people who came out but didn't receive one can then just print out their own copies as a souvenir of having participated. I think that this would be a nice momento especially for kids.
It's an embodied argument for pluralism, safe streets, clean air, public trust and engagement, being open and social with strangers, uniting in service of common goals, friendship! I wonder what Jane Jacobs would say were she alive to see this.
Do we see how much more effective this is at making the argument for what is good about cities by *showing it* rather than simply standing on an apple crate and proclaiming it?
Charlie Kirk’s hypocrisy on free speech exposed in under 1 minute
I just cannot imagine Cuomo or Adams getting this many people, especially people 40 and under, on a beautiful summer Sunday afternoon to do a scavenger hunts accessible by public transit
Districting
And again, I’m curious as to the details of redistributing to see how much confidence they put into areas that shifted red or whether they planned/knew they were going to lose support
Still a good sign if an area that moved significantly toward Trump less than a year ago is now changing their minds.
I just looked it up, you’re right. It’s one of the lean Dem areas, altho moved strikingly towards Trump in 2024. Seems to be short lived
El Paso is pretty conservative but also with a large Latino population, no? Wonder whether this is a bell wether
Reupping re: Chicago
Trump and Vance are the only people in the world who trust Putin unquestionably, it’s so sad. The last marks?
Again:Journalists are not stenographers. We are to get information, report and verify the facts, and then report the reality not the talking point. What Trump is doing in DC and threatening in cities is NOT a crime crack down because he says it is. Don’t regurgitate. Report the truth not propaganda.
I feel like Trump getting caught on a hot mic being so incredibly naive should be a bigger story. It really relates to his competency
What is the bigger picture they are trying to get you to ignore by arguing semantics?
When they want to argue semantics, they’re trying to hide something and it’s a good indication you should look for a totally different frame.
It’s a pretext and they want you talking about a crime wave that doesn’t exist instead of how this is taking away freedoms.
I certainly don’t feel comfortable and safe precisely bc of you, not like you care in the least bit.
F off
Let’s talk about good faith. Let’s talk about “making sure ppl feel comfortable and safe.” The use of mister gives you greater sense of safety than my actual, real privacy deserves?
Let’s talk about respect
All I hear is some BS about using sir and ma’am. That’s semantic bullshit while you are literally sneaking in thru my back door
Even if it’s objectively true
I certainly don’t see anyone standing up and saying the way that *I* was treated was wrong.
I wrote down some notes on privatization and the transfer of wealth. Tell the MAGA in your lives that they’re subsidizing billionaires by voting for republicans.
See. The electorate can parse language very clearly to understand what this is without smug tone deaf consultants telling them some words are verboten.
Thank god I will never be as dumb as Trump who truly believes a KGB officer wants to do favors for him bc they are friends…but at the same time this is so so so bad for our country
It’s not a bunch of bored privileged people who need to be outraged over something, anything. It’s Dems provoking it
If they would just stop using woke words, the furor would die down
Yes
Yes
Twitter went algorithmic in early 2016. I hadn't appreciated that until researching for this piece. It made Trump the main character on media and political pros' social network, pushing him—and criticism/cheers/mockery of him—into tons more feeds. 2016 was so close, without that he might've lost.
Who will stand up for my right to privacy if not me? Certainly not ppl who don’t think I’m important enough to have that right
They are trying to convince us not to stand up for ourselves and accept what they are doing. But if we don’t stand up for ourselves, no one else will. That’s just a fact.
Maybe we can talk when you can get over yourself
This reeks of “you should apologize and never use the word privilege” when Donald Trump is extra judicially deporting legal immigrants to torture prisons. Shut the f up
You owe me an apology and not the other way around
Of note: I only reached out AFTER my privacy had been disregarded and disrespected. I will not be calling someone ma’am or mister who has hacked me. You don’t deserve that level of formality or extra respect when you’ve already hacked me
“As crazy as it sounds” dude, you sound like you’re from another *planet*
At least I will never be like Trump, who is so naive that he believes a KGB officer is his friend and wants to do favors for him.
Someone should ask them whether it’s naive to take Putin at his word
Didn’t they do that in 2014?
Excellent thread. I'll just add that there's a long history of blaming liberals for reactionary political dynamics that were cultivated by coordinated political campaigns by the far right. There is no law of nature that produces "backlash politics." It's politics (and propaganda) that produces it.
This is sarcasm, FYI
Traditional conservative Republicans famously beat Trump and that’s why Democrats should adopt and employ all the same strategies.
Let’s speak some truth
While trying to convince us to keep playing a losing strategy that they abandoned long ago
While trying to convince us to keep playing a losing strategy that they abandoned long ago
And that’s how and why they’re winning
YES. Republicans murdered bipartisanship
Goons in masks that feel impunity to smash windows and break into private businesses is the opposite of SAFE
Can anybody feel safe with these goons on the street? They are answerable to NO ONE. They keep telling that to citizens
They’ll beat the shit out of you and never have to even prove they work for the govt or they are after you for something real rather than deciding you need a “lesson?”
Does it make you feel safe that goons in masks claim to be law enforcement but refuse to provide ANY proof?????
Goons in masks that feel impunity to smash windows and break into private businesses is the opposite of SAFE
That makes him a problem
I stand by my belief that he is more interested in converting Dems than in stopping Trump
I’m just really sick of people who expect respect to flow to them, but refuse to give it to others on a most basic level
A good thread on the fall of UChicago. I'd add that they leaned harder into speech panic than perhaps any other major institution. It turns out, if you can believe it, that there were more pressing issues on campus.
When’s the last time you heard a Vice President talk about an investigation this way? You haven’t. Because the DOJ/FBI are supposed to be independent, and a VP using “we” to describe a particular investigation is not supposed to happen.
*capitulating
He’s part of the problem, not the solution
That’s just my read
MattY is a conservative Republican through and through and wants to convert Dems to Republicans even as Republicans are currently ruining the country.
It actually kind of pisses me off that Dems want to talk about lists of annoying words when Trump is doing….everything he is doing. This is not fighting, this is capulating and it’s what ppl like MattY (fake anti-Trump person) wants
We will stop using those words when Trump stops deporting ppl legally in the country to foreign gulags. How about that for a compromise? Until he stops, we wont