The country is being informally ruled by a woman who once handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter HQ in a way that allowed everyone to walk right past her through the other door.
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The country is being informally ruled by a woman who once handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter HQ in a way that allowed everyone to walk right past her through the other door.
"COVID" as a distinct event is over, it is now an endemic disease. Using it in the past tense is reasonable and largely correct
As I said earlier today, who gives a crap about Daily Mail readers when 50% of them will be dead by the next election
This is legitimately insane in the like āTsar taking advice from Siberian mysticā sense
But also just increasingly weird that a huge part of their recent electoral success relies on a bunch of influencers/scam artists who have no interest in this white nationalist project. Not to mention growth with Hispanic/Black/Asian voters.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
jeffries' approval is about 20 points underneath trump's
it's a shame that Biden's enabling of Israel's genocide made any possible salience of this go up in smoke
mamdani had his fourth meeting with jeffries, and jeffries continues to withhold an endorsement in a race against a corrupt cop, a fascist, and a sex criminal who intentionally handed the state senate to republicans and gerrymandered against the democrats.
In the aftermath of Emmett Till's lynching, white supremacists called for federal troops to invade and occupy Chicago. "If the federal government intervenes in the interests of law enforcement anywhere, it should start in Chicago, crime capital extraordinary." h/t @larryglickman.bsky.social
My mom, who was a swing voter through the ā80s and ā90s, felt no compulsion to interact with her far right cousin, who had at one point collected Nazi paraphernalia. The fact that people like that now have political power doesnāt change the basic principle!
My mom, who was a swing voter through the ā80s and ā90s, felt no compunction to interact with her far right cousin who had collected Nazi paraphernalia. The fact that people like that now have political power makes the basic principle immaterial.
This is criminal. Arrest and prosecute. Extra-judicial killings are abhorrent to the rule of law.
really remarkable how clear eyed Pritzker is about all this
the American public are children, and they deserve to be talked to like children.
jesus, man
If itās under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And thatād clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.
If you ever find someone asking āhas there ever been any situation in history where the student protesters were the bad guys and the armed government soldiers were the good guys?ā The answer is yes
i live in a big country with my friends
starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:
I think it would have a similar meaning, with āmustā just emphasizing that the present obligation is the result of some past event. Like ābe obligatedā vs. āhave become obligatedā
Look guys, the martial law is temporary. Itās just a brief vacation from having any rights.
What are they pumping into Donald Trump right now to give him energy to do this press conference that was scheduled for 2 pm but still hasn't started at 2:36 pm? Any guesses? This is what corporate media and MAGA did 24-7 with Biden. Perfectly fair to ask.
One of the definitive days of this admin imo was the WSJ identifying racist posts from a DOGE staffer - the kind of stuff that would be read out loud to you as HR explains why you're not getting severance - and Vance saying no, we won't let the media cancel people anymore.
Vance follows a coterie of online Nazis on X, has described Curtis Yarvin as a major intellectual influence, and openly attacks immigrants in blood and soil terms. The response of most of the political press? "Doesn't look like anything to me."
I donāt think the stock market is going to go up 50 percent in 2026
Natalie Wynn has actual principles that lead her to offer good faith criticisms of āher sideā which makes her very unpopular with people on āher sideā that donāt have any principles at all besides a base instinct of āme good, everyone else bad.ā
Armand went through a really āunstable posting periodā and the clear insight I drew was that he lives with extreme amounts of shame (I mean, relatable but also relevant here)
But like ā¦. Natalie Wynn also seems more committed to actual leftism than TL? Just seems like social media brainrot.
Just a moment to consider that Natalie Wynn is in fact legitimately to the left of Taylor Lorenz; she just hadnāt had her brain cooked by TikTok antisemitism because sheās perhaps not on her phone the full 95% of waking hours
Youāre right, no one at the Nazi bar yells at you for being at the Nazi bar. Profound observation.
Armand and Shor were two of my biggest account Twitter moots and I am just in awe of their insane rationalizations for staying on there.
These people are insane lmao
Like, stochastic red-brownism or something.
One thing I will say in his ādefenseā is that his own writing has relatively few of the horseshoe characteristics that you see in the replies to his arguments, but Iām starting to think he chooses weird hills to die on precisely because they elicit the horseshoe comments.
Freddie deBoer cycle (make a technically correct but somewhat pedantic point, attract legitimately out there comments) has come for housing. And of course the comments are calling YIMBYism āabundanceā because if you centrism-jacket our housing crisis you donāt have to solve it!
Apologies! You have reached the end of your free trial period of America
Heās gotten overruled before but letās hope not this time. Either way, some judicial obstacles to this stuff are always good.
Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
Itās good though
āmy face is normal, my tits are hanging down at a normal length for a man of my ageā
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
I remember his support for Mamdani.
Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"
I assume heās just tired and doing the thing we want our gerontocrats to do
To gauge how itās āworking,ā one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.
I dated somebody years ago whose brother was Nadlerās spokesman; it seemed like fervent defense of Israel was just baked into the job
Itās hard to explain how much respect I have for Nadler here. He is not only putting his own interests behind those of the country and his constituents, but heās accepting that a thing he believed was wrongā¦and doing something about it.
Interestingly enough Pelosi actually called for a suspension of offensive military assistance to Israel back in the spring of 2024 and it didn't matter whatsoever. Biden, Schumer, Lew, McGurk and Blinken all ignored her.
Also, āenlightenedā opinion being that we need less procedure and more vibes when the opposite is true. The problem isnāt that rules exist, itās that an internal affairs guy who follows the rules is treated like Judas way too often.
"I vaccinated my dog and now he's obsessed with editing the Wikipedia page for the Battle of the Milvian Bridge"
Julia Roberts may have received a Best Actress nomination for PRETTY WOMAN at the 1991 Academy Awards but the real accolade we need to talk about is how the same performance won her the award for Favorite Movie Actress that same year at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.
Sounds like somebody with a conscience
Heās not even Nate Bronze, heās like Nate Cardboard at this point
The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a bossš" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.
There probably is a lesson in the fact that Obama shepherded the most left-wing piece of federal legislation since the Great Society, over opposition in and outside his own party, and is chiefly remembered by the left now as a do-nothing moderate.
Blueskyism gave me an outlet for my anger at politics and earned me a decent amount of money in the process
the virgin common sense rationalist: erm, everyone knows that the universe is a cold and uncaring structure of blind chaos the chad aperture of the universe witnessing itself: wow, i live here? splendid
Yeah no the American education system is going to die because conservatives want to destroy it and nobody wants to tell them they're wrong
love it
This is the cop who was watching an anti-trans video when he hit a cyclist. According to this reporting he won't face any jail time.
āboo hoo i wish i went to Gay Fascist Hogwartsā thats the whole movement
No more Braedynns. If you're Jewish, you get named for a dead relative, if you're Catholic you get named based on the nearest saints day and if you're Protestant you open a Bible to a random page and choose the first name on that page. Return to tradition
they do realize this is *literally* the talking point JD Vance uses and is quasi-eugenic in its treatment of people who need constant access to healthcare, right
any mention of religion specifically gets immediately overrun by people who are posting internet atheism talking points straight out of 2004
Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2
Glad to see a protest, I donāt think a city of 250K in a metro of like one and a half million is a small town.
Itās only really bad if you have a high salary and want to start investing
Look we have a little fun at these rallies dont we folks - but I just want to acknowledge first that this is stolen land
Whether itās Michelle Obama suggesting kids exercise instead of watching tv or RFK Jr. telling kids to drink raw milk instead of taking vaccines, both figures took a controversial approach to childrenās health.
We needed to shut down schools, but the Stancilite āThereās no evidence that remote learning caused learning lossā thing remains really weird. People with no skin in the pedagogical game have made it hard to have an actual conversation about necessary trade offs.
āThe crooked sheriff will accuse you of speeding even if you arenāt, so really heās the number one person make everyone less safe,ā I say as I drive 80 mph in front of the local elementary school
Wow, a 50 year old divorced man is into a podcast where two women talk about how it's cool and sexy to be a conservative?
if the reception to imperfect but good-intentioned representation is "FUCK OFF AND DIE", the outcome is just... less authors trying to do that representation at all
Multiculturalism was so successful we wound up with the worldās most ethnically diverse group of pro-English racists.
I read it pretty early; my memory is that it was such a sensation in the UK that there was a furious bidding war for what was already gonna be a hit.
āGoing crazy from the internet or the televisionā is an incredibly widespread condition but many people still insist that our new fascist politics either reflects āhow they always wereā or must have deep roots in the political economy. Buddy itās just YouTube poisoning
This is how Ken replied to a story about a Venezuelan family who entered the country legally last year claiming asylum and have now been torn apart by the regime. Thereās no finding common ground with folks/idiots/racists like this Also, read the story in the next post. Heartbreaking and enraging
@thelouvreof.bsky.social please consider this extracurricular submission from another platform
"The French don't have a record of colonizing and conquering countries" is an unbelievable PR victory
These people are unrepentant racists but also too cowardly to use the slur they so desperately want to.
Promises made. Promises kept.
Oh this guyās STUPID stupid āRespectivelyā
The International Association of Genocide Scholars has made a decision according to which Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip meet the legal criteria for genocide. 86% of the body voted for it
The whole weed retail business is extremely chud-coded, and I have no reason to doubt they will keep turning rightward.
Chris Van Hollen is interesting because he makes a center-left case for Palestine. He argues for Palestinian rights not on leftist but on liberal grounds. It is highly philosophically coherent to do that, and yet few politicians do.
I think, as Layla said, the failure of liberals over the last ten years has largely been failing to actually believe in liberalism. But I *also* believe the failure of the left has been in rejecting the principles of liberalism.
Had a dream where my high school speech teacher had a serial killer ex. Part of his thing was that he had lots of issues of Mad Magazine? I ran to a neighboring home, but he followed me with a group of people who I thought he was also going to kill, but heād convinced them to lynch me.
No they've done this really cool thing in academics where they've defined police as specifically only cops as we know them today, & the thing that makes them cops are the bad parts like the thuggery & the fealty to propertied interest, so to get rid of the bad parts you have to abolish the cops
I mean the way in which French, among the fastest growing languages in the Global South, is coded as ācolonizer languageā whereas Spanish is ālanguage of the colonizedā has been breaking my brain for decades
This āblue states closed schools too longā narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but itās arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
Is she gonna end right to work and allow all public employees to collectively bargain tho
Black people have only been saying this forever. You can tell who has been paying attention to us and who hasnāt.
it's very funny that US Dem senators have their brains cooked by various online rightie media accounts. like why does chris murphy listen to the nazbol red scare podcast
Decoupling traffic enforcement from ānormalā police duties would be a strong first start.
Anglosphere institutions are in their Windows ME era
My own blanket policy is not to share things that are, in my evaluation, clearly AI generated. This leaves a lot of things still available to share!
Mira of Kyiv šŗš¦ 