They like Trump and are trying to help him
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They like Trump and are trying to help him
Fear of crime: an unholy alliance between politicians that need a cudgel, local news that needs clicks, social media's ability to share viral anecdotal crime stories, police that need justification to exist, and the fact that police/surveillance tech is a multi-billion dollar industry, and racism.
It's like everything I'm seeing today is an example of the RW media capture. On multiple and varied topics.
Yup
Just over and over in multiple ways this is proven true.
It's also very frustrating that there is zero penalty for blatantly lying to millions of people you supposedly work for.
Last summer, even after Biden dropped out, speculation about his health was on every broadcast, once an hour on 24 hr networks, in every paper. Now, trump's dead and there's nothing. These networks been and still working for the right.
What would great is if everyone just acted like he was dead anyway. Publish obituaries. Just act like he isn’t there anymore. Front it out like they did with the whole “We won the election” thing. Think how furious that would make him.
If we have to become an authoritarian state, can we at least get eco-cities, bullet trains, and renewable energy?
Borofsky’s moving sculpture “The Hammering Man” is part of the City of Seattle’s public art, honoring the working class. He never stops hammering. #LaborDay m.youtube.com/shorts/mCnH6...
and they're saying, they're saying landlords extract value parasitically. parasitically. para-sit-ic-ly. we're going to be looking into the landlords very strongly and we're going to be redistributing the ownership. redistribution, such an interesting word
We share this graph as often as we can. #UnionStrong
There's an interesting thing you see Americans do, it's like labor rights illiteracy. A union declares a strike, and suddenly everyone hallucinates that the strike is a different labor-related action.
happy labor day
NYTimes ten months later: using questionably constitutional tactics, Trump is offering a fresh, bold reimagining of the power of the American presidency
Ha. How is that something someone actually believes. Amazing.
RFK Jr might be right that there’s a difference in vaxed and unvaxed kids, and that difference is all unvaxxed kids have rabies.
Hero.
I know super-rich CEOs have always had an asshole streak, but I really do believe we're dealing with the new genetic strain here, one that doesn't even pretend to be a normal human
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
I've figured out why Trump likes Les Miserables so much. It's the story of a hotel owner who really knows the business: how to set prices, how to limit food expenses, how to keep the books...
They try to guilt the average consumer, to distract from the fact that the top ten percent are responsible for half of all the greenhouse gas emissions. The takers that are destroying everything are not immigrants or people on welfare or food stamps... it's the WEALTHY.
Nothing he's doing from deploying troops in our cities, arbitrarily changing voter districts, and "jokes" about running for a third office would imply that he thinks he's going anywhere. But the topper is his statement yesterday that he can do anything he wants. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
Trumps executive order looks to be establishing not just fascist shock troop corps. But a way for white power and fascist groups to apply to work with the government as ground troops in his war against America.
IDK who Aaron Lewis is but he's obviously an idiot, however instead of looking at this negatively i will lean into the plus of knowing anything positively associated with Aaron Lewis or Staind is "absolutely ignore"
Modern life is basically dependent on nerds you will never meet building software & spreadsheets you will never see What the Trump admin dares to ask is: what if we just shoved as many of those folks as we could find into a locker.
Meanwhile, the Chief Money Launderer
I find it exhausting how SO MANY pundits seemed to take the right-wing "free speech" arguments at face value despite how NAKEDLY insincere they were. But what I find truly exhausting is that none of the pundits will face any consequences for their disingenuity or foolishness. Like, none at all.
this guy on twitter with a beef tallow fried food restaurant started melting down about his business failing and when you look at the details, like being in a shoprite with horrible hours, a website with completely different branding with no menu other than beef tallow, you start to understand why
Afraid of big cities? Then don’t come. ❤️ this video.
Honestly, "You just like hurting people and have concocted a worldview to justify it" is the kind of thing that needs to be said straight to conservatives' faces more often, especially on panels like this.
Pop culture as high art as capitalism
Didn't he JUST FUCKING BRAG about his common sense? Dude has always had the smarts of a tomato can, but man is he dim.
Just like a Trump I mindlessly stacked all my groceries on top of my eggs at the store
How can anybody have you How can anybody have you and lose you How can anybody have you and lose you and not lose their mind too.
hearing this for the first time in like 10 years... brilliant then and brilliant the first time i heard it.
Freud was right about one thing though…
Ha. Of course
Agreed. It's constant and continuing work/learning which includes making mistakes and being taught how it was a mistake/how to avoid replicating it. To often us white ppl focus on negative and miss the positives of growth. It's okay to feel shame about something and then pride of learning from it
The entitlement battle royale for the "top spot" will be amazing to watch. Actually, if we gonna have UFC at the white house anyway, let's make it Don Jr v Eric v Vance v Noem v Johnson v MTG v Meatball v Musk v (etc etc etc) steel cage death match.
Terence Stamp in The Limey (probably in my head bc of his recent passing)
I hate to use this word. But they also sound authentic? Even walz and pritzker. They sound like what we expect people from those parts of the country should sound like. The Maine oysterman sounds like a maine oysterman who spent 20 years in the military
Very much really good. Thank you
Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward. Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
Yeah I’m worried about that too. My post was about how confidently we all talk about and believe what we think will happen, and how that’s a danger TBC i fully agree with you. I live in MI, and was disappointed with Pete. But, I try to keep open the possibility of people growing. Trying to at least
Get Bent @mcuban.bsky.social
allow me to introduce you to Kent from Houston, who has a TikTok account dedicated to trying restaurants from cultures he hasn’t experienced before, anywhere his commenters tell him to go:
Winner
PREACH
Honestly, this may be one of the most important media graphs I've ever seen. The claim: Democrats keep using annoying words. The data: Republicans CLAIMS Democrats use them, which then becomes the narratives. Then centrists attack DEMS for things GOPer CLAIM they say, not GOP for making stuff up.
Let’s be clear about what’s really going on over at Target. They’re playing us. The current CEO, will “step down,” but he’s moving up to exec chair of the Board of Directors. That’s rewarding his failure. The new CEO, is the current COO & has been w/Target for 20 years. Nothing’s really changing.
Love how Nichols "joins" the Dems for 2016 and Dems proceed lose 2 of 3 POTUS elections. Maybe it's you, Tom.
I despise trump yet already go out of my way to compliment him for project warp speed. Not bc it's a source of tension w/ his base. Or an area to exploit or a weakness. It saved lives, advanced science, and put humanity first. Life is not about paying tribute, or a transaction. I feel sad for you
Peak childish hypothetical trying to be deep @mcuban.bsky.social not that you care - I generally had no opinion in any way prior '23, then learned of CostPlus and found your posts in '24 very encouraging. Like, maybe someone in that % gets it Total bummer to realize, nah, I just fell for the gag
Oh is he convening city council meetings? Managing the city budget? Working on housing and education policies? Forging ties with businesses to bring their headquarters into the city? What mayoral role is he playing?
Yours is better than mine, but it's really sad how big media (and people generally) have accepted this as legitimate news. And don't get me started on the "experts/pundits" on TV.... I've heard 5 year olds tell imaginary stories more clearly than their commentary.
Cuban explains why companies like Intel are happy to give fascists a cut. The wealthiest people in the country see it as a smaller sacrifice than what progressives are proposing in higher taxes.
I worry this is a factor of so many being "right" about trump 2. It's been horrific and many, many said it would be. Everyone (incl. myself) says "I would rather have been wrong", and I believe that. However it's also used (and felt) as proof that they'll be "right" about others, and it's not.
the irony of calling people NPCs when your response to the bipartisan pan of your book was to write the most mindless sentence imaginable.
I had a similar reaction to a liberal ish pod earlier. After thinking though, it's not the guest its the hosts. They just got done saying the left is losing for lack of clarity and directness, and then instantly say this. No host pushback or call out or anything.. just an agreeing giggle/pile on
Referring to a mediocre breakfast restaurant as your culture and heritage is one of the whitest things I've ever read.
Ha! Calling bsky users unpleasant, mean, and simple whiners by.. Complaining, generalizing, and spitefully criticizing those users... only for a personal satisfaction of disapproval. It's art! "You all think to much of yourselves... so here's my smug, unsolicited opinion." Put it in the Louvre!
I've often thanked the stars that JD is so across the board, inherently unlikable.
I get that Maga believes in a philosophy of hypocrisy, but believing anyone could have a moral code of child rape fine but lying bad is fucking dumb.
Curtis Yarvin being into “Bardcore” is great bc playing modern pop music on unexpected instruments is exactly what a bore finds interesting, what one with minimal understanding/scope finds creative (*no shade to any musician playing Bardcore, at all… which Yarvin wouldn’t understand that either)
I cannot get past lines 1/2. Maxwell finds something to harm POTUS "deeply offensive". A child sex trafficker finds whatever the fuck - an attempt to harm POTUS - "deeply offensive" How fucking dare you. I'd call Maxwell (+Blanche, etc) garbage, but trash has a better moral compass than any of 'em
That's a really great way of putting it.
The trump admin will collapse from the weight of it's own incompetence and delusions of control.... but it's certainly worrying how much horror still awaits before the drop, and how much beyond the administration falls with it.
It’s an absolute miracle we got him out last time and it’s really only because somehow his literal coup team was slightly more lawful than this mafia clown show.
I hate that I struggle to tell when things are jokes now. Like, this is a joke right? I'm waiting for the sting....
Just bc most of the Right is too lazy to learn what words mean DOES NOT mean they should be avoided. JFC grow the fuck up. Better yet @thirdway.bsky.social - Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and do your own research... Facts don't care about your feelings. Stop being betas. It's common sense.
This is why I found them naming the successor of the F-22 the F-47 after Trump so upsetting. It was an explicit, deliberate choice to cement this era as a part of our identity worth celebrating. They named the newest fighter jet after the guy who did 1/6.
For GOP - "Common Sense", "Hard Worker", "Scam", "Woke", "Marxist", "Communist", "Deep State", "Freedom", "Efficient", "At the end of the day", "Entitled", "Post-Birth Abortion", "God-fearing", "Law and Order", etc. Yet the right can't define the words on either, so it all just ends up meaningless
Every time. Like, every single time UBI or something of like is tested.
ICE agents need to be arrested, tried, and convicted if we want any sense of path to a "just society". Since that won't happen, at the very least these monsters must be outed and shunned by their families and friends.
The Center Gets A New Publication Dedicated to Scolding Leftists
"Right wing personalities do not feel constrained by the traditional fact-checking norms....." LYING. "RW personalities are comfortable lying, at will" Was interested in book on the new right, but when an author says that about the right while directly and clearly scalding the left... nah
This is the type of petty sh*t every leader on the left should be saying.😂💀 Play their game and beat them. We’re WAY smarter.
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.
Restaurant reservations in Washington, DC are down as much as 31% since Donald Trump brought the National Guard into the city “‘The city is dead,’ Fraga-Rosenseld said. ‘If you walk on the street, there’s no feeling. People are scared … You don’t see any Latinos on the street’”
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I really like Alien: Earth but feel it's making the same mistake the other sequels make in that the Xenomorph is not a side character. Ripley (or Wendy/Marcy) is the main, and X is co-main. All the other characters/relationships are super cool to explore, but not at the expense of the Alien.
Maga's philosophy of hypocrisy is a tough nut to crack. On one hand they believe if something doesn't work 100% of the time it must be wrong. On the other, they follow a guy who changes his entire position if someone else tells him "You look handsome". Or maybe that isn't hypocritical and it's me
Baseball cards is what made nft/crypto/crypto-adjacent etc. understanding click (as much as it can click) for me and many i know. Your last line especially. Not saying any of it makes sense, or that I understand it, or even support it.. but the collectable analogy is v good, even if imperfect.
I wonder if anything has changed since 2024 that might have reversed the voter registration patterns from 2020 to 2024! Anyway, one problem here seems to be that the Times has assigned one of its hack political reporters to the “Dems in disarray” beat.
I can't get this paragraph unburned from my brain
So many of them are like, basically the same asshole.
The purveyors of AI want us to believe that AI is the perfect educator. Because they want us to believe that it's more effective to invest tax dollars in private companies than in public services.
Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin