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Y’all they are going to lose. The next 12-16 months will be shit but they are gonna lose.
I’m not a tiktok person but everyone I know who is loves it because it knows how to bring them their own personally tailored nonsense whenever they open the app if it starts shoving right wing bullshit in everyone’s face every time it will be very bad but a lot of people will quit
“Democrats writing letters to form the base of investigations so that when they regain power there’s a chance to fix things and/or charge these criminals is USELESS!” “But my posts telling everyone how much Dems suck and making sure to blame them for everything Republicans are doing are so USEFUL!”
this is the second impeachable offense worse than watergate that we have read about *today*
so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?
Do it at the state level even.
When you can’t hide that Charlie Kirk was a Nazi scumbag for 90 minutes of his own words.
woke 2 is happening
he does not know what the fuck he is talking about. ten thousand H1-B workers is one billion -- with a B -- every year.
Remember when I said Trump’s H-1B policy sounded like a distillation of viral tweets?
I think every criminal on the bench, starting with bribery king Clarence Thomas, need prosecution.
Emil Bove should be prosecuted for this btw. Doesn't matter that he's on the bench.
I still can’t believe this guy said this. What more proof do people need that this is a bubble? What exactly do you think “overbuild” means other than “the demand isn’t there”? When will everybody stop running the stupid asshole Olympics?
We don't talk eough about how car dealers are one of the biggest bastions of conservatism in the United States.
you don’t need to run candidates who have bad culture war positions. you maybe do need to run candidates who code as moderate independent of their culture war positions.
Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
If you take FIRE seriously after this week, you’re dumb
This policy by the Trump admin was put into effect with the sole purpose of terrorizing the immigrant community in the US. Disgusting.
Short form video is ideal for jokes but terrible for conveying nuanced information. If you learned something from tiktok there’s an equal or larger chance that it was misinformation. Bring back vine, basically.
just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg
It’s hilarious how much they fucked up
help us @dieworkwear.bsky.social, we mean well but jfc we can’t even save ourselves
It’s exactly that. I have seen it in my PMC job. Something about discovering people did better without the upper middle managers and their forced social bullshit and endless meetings broke them
It's such a dork-ass, internet Marxist thing to say, but I think the bosses really do fear professional-managerial class consciousness. Combining the latent economic power shown in 2020-2021 with bloc voting.
again, again, again, again: autocrats like to declare themselves untouchable and all-powerful. sometimes they even write it into law. and yet that does not make it so
That’s why I said other side cuz they aren’t even cousin factions they are same guy sides
Basically they’d all become Bill Kristol and they know it and would have to admit the shitty thing holding them back, be it money or their need to be a special boy who loves sexual harassment or racism
Pedocons and their other side, brazenly criminal cons
You all. Bikesky is the epitome of dudes rock. I haven’t felt this supported in a sport move since 2017 when I met the best CrossFit/lifting dudes ever.
I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...
His whole Charlie Kirk thing is the most rage-baiting piece of bullshit ever, we need to persuade Dem electeds Ezra Klein is as useless as James Carville in 2025.
American men who aren't fash are gonna be like, "Mahershala Ali/Chris Pratt/Bowen Yang plays a generic middle-aged man kicking ass against random bad guys with tech? THAT IS MY BRIDGERTON!"
Shonda Rimes is the median American's media taste, like it or not. This means the median American may have incoherent political thoughts or bad taste BUT they don't care if POC are on their screen or women are leads!
I dunno, guys, I think we should just cancel Ezra Klein as a year away from his full MAGA moment just in time for MAGA to be nuclear unpopular so we don't have to see him or Matt Y anymore.
But we're getting a S3 of Daredevil: Born Again before S2 comes out and ??? on the much higher-rated Agatha All Along b/c "go woke, go broke" hates women over 40 and gays.
What's funny is that "understanding their audience" should be easy. Americans are the nation of Bridgerton and Gray's Anatomy and the "go woke, go broke" brigade is a bunch of bitter losers you shouldn't cater to.
Any red accent >>> most things.
Thank you! I have access to some great paved trails and I can tell this will make a difference to my enjoyment.
Ezra Klein thought Paul Ryan was being sincere in a way that was worth engaging with intellectually with Paul Ryan's anti-poverty policy work, the main thrust of which was to give less money to poor people
Normal voters when shown Paul Ryan’s actual beliefs: you’re lying to me, nobody has those beliefs, they’re too insanely cruel Ezra Klein: Paul Ryan is a nerdy policy wonk and I’d love to have a debate about his ideas
I'm SO excited, my hybrid has been useful but very heavy and I already have a screwdriver that will let me replace the pedals they included with clip-ins.
This is my new used road bike I got at a sale. I love her already.
This shit makes me so mad because people don't understand how much power we have over these companies and the only thing we need to do is not give them money. The only thing we need to do is to not do anything. It's the easiest shit! *wearily* collective action does work, it really does
this thread is a nice reminder that hanania is an extremely poor thinker who benefits from the fact that many commentators are innumerate and can be easily misled with simple data manipulation
I get that. This is a “why do you hate waffles” ass website
His dementia is so bad
Also, there's a John Oliver segment on Sinclair, explaining why they are dangerous outside of blackmailing networks.
This is a good point. Sinclair deserves more approbation than Disney tho I don’t think it’s bad to cancel if you’re so moved.
Thread, up and down
If you found that Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled due to FCC coercion was a heinous attack on free speech (& it sure as hell is!) wait till you hear about the 10,000 books that have been banned in schools & libraries! If you're an author, join the fight @authorsabb.bsky.social We're stronger together!
I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.
Me, someone who cares a bit about ratings: their bullshit isn't even wrong, it's so out of context!
He just lies 24/7 and it's so tedious that anyone believes the GOP is being honest like 85% of the time.
The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
Meanwhile, people are STILL litigating "Biden old" among the Democratic consultant class because clearly, that is what they should focus on.
watching this trump news conference and it is just a nonstop stream of absolute nonsense and actual lies although, it is not clear whatsoever whether or not trump can distinguish between the truth and his own fantasies
The VIS does not have to be discussed. It must be available and provided to patients but they almost always leave them on the table or decline them. In 18 years I have never once been asked to go over one. This is the most recent VIS for COVID (1/31/25)
Also that he thinks of speech only in terms of being able to sue people and hoping the expense bankrupts them before it's proven they didn't do that.
Trump doesn't understand that it's not libel or slander if it's true?
No, when Michael Eisner is dunking on your shit on Twitter and Ted Cruz is trying to backpedal, something is changing.
The weaponization of the FCC is one of the greatest threats to our democracy. Who better to showcase that than… Chairman Brendan Carr? Let’s take a stroll down memory lane through some of Carr’s greatest hits on free speech while he was auditioning for the job of FCC Chair from 2019 to 2024. 1/
It is the least satisfying answer of all time FOR SURE and all of us have the villains we hate the most (stay-at-home Biden voters in PA, MI, WI are my guys) in that pile but it's likely.
And not by that much! In any other year Harris would have won, but anti-incumbency, misogyny/racism, the inflation idiots, the "don't vote for genocide" idiots and post-COVID madness just closed the path.
Kimmel was suspended for offending the president, after coordination between the FCC commissioner and a huge media company. This thread underscores an important, overlooked part of all this: To get his job back, he's been told he must make a contribution to a Christian nationalist organization.
The actual report—which is bad enough without inflating it—says that trans SUSPECTS may be categorized under a category like the Nihilistic Extremist category. That’s a crucial difference. It’s also something that falls within patterns of how the DOJ has struggled with domestic extremism.
another case of people reading a headline and either not reading or misreading an article. the actual reporting does not say anything like "all trans people are being classified as terrorists" i understand why people are scared. i also feel like reading comprehension is at an all time low
The inexperienced, questionably qualified group started its second day of deliberations by reversing a vote taken the previous day on federal coverage for the measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) vaccine.
And THEN I turn my gaze upon the many, many scammers in the health care industry b/c children, medical device makers are bandits.
That. Also, scammers gonna scam, which is why I'm like, "and thus, MLMs, crypto, NFTs, and OpenAI must be destroyed."
*cracks up* I understand that so much. I'm just like, "can we have the social democratic program of a European country, free trade (now that I see what tariffs do), and also stop being so fucking racist and xenophobic so we can rebuild our innovative edge with immigrants? This seems like The Way."
I'm just sorry that it had to happen and the right decided to fuck y'all after they lost so hard on marriage equality.
So, NPR, let me help you honestly report this: This is going to be just like forcing women to look at images of late term, 1960s miscarriages mislabeled as early term abortions, and being forcibly told that abortion causes breast cancer, ovarian cancer, & depression. Same game plan, different lies.
The Pod bros are the worst part of Obama's tendencies towardly overly data-driven focus grouped everything AND elitism.
I am so fucking tired of the Obama ppl, esp when you consider the fact that the mere election of Trump demonstrates that obsession of Bidens age was way more of a media fixation than a voter fixation. They voted for the oldest person in the race who had—& has—obvious issues! They didnt give a fuck!
Ben, quick question about American history
Goddamn that's an American.
That's actually why I think Kristol is now "woke" is that he's data-driven and most Dem policy is much better for business, including the stuff the culture war hates.
I'm skeptical of business GOP largely b/c they threw out Biden's excellent economy that was winning for everyone b/c they were mad that tight labor markets didn't give them the margins they wanted and the data that DEI is actually good for business along with immigration.
This is honestly what I see in my white in-laws, this incoherent belief that there's a "good person exception" in all these horrible laws along with a "black people bonus clause".
They would need to at least reach Bill Kristol levels of getting it, or near that.
Block finger go brrrrrr in those menchies
This is good and he should say it and if you want him to say more of it don’t respond by telling him how much you hate him.
“woke right” comes from this incredibly stupid meta idea that “wokeness” is a discrete tendency in american politics whose style has been imbibed by the political right. note: believing this requires you to be almost totally ignorant of the shape of american politics going back to the 1930s.
This is why you don’t back a tedious moron even if you want to use slurs and sexually assault your young female employees. He will destroy your business
The Trump effect
Can I get a definition of who is and is not “we”, here
I have perhaps made a joke TOO esoteric for anyone save myself
Medieval Nun Chanting Demon Hunters girls to the world: praise God from whom all blessings flow, it’s a takedown!
I simply cannot overstate how singularly devastating this move would be for the entirety of the US economy. *Every* sector in this country relies on H1Bs, and the overwhelming majority of companies that hire them won't be able to pay this much for just an application!
Yes. Which is why it’s never popular enough to work
So of course Ezra Klein and Nate Silver will probably agree with Bedbug Bret.
They keep trying to make the Michael Bloomberg party with gay rights (but not trans ones) along with braceros and H1-Bs but coercion for undocumented immigrants a thing and guess what, only white men with money or in media centrist circles want that.
Candace DeMatteis (joining by phone for comment at ACIP meeting) is not pulling any punches about the absolute lack of qualifications by the current ACIP working group. Go girl!
Had to go pick up kiddo, but ACIP is now voting on whether to require prescription for COVID vaccine. Final vote: 6-6 tie but Kulldorf breaks it by voting no.
Fuck the FCC and all, but I feel like this photo presents a pretty convincing, non-Trump argument for why late night died out as an art form
Ted Cruz does not get a fist bump for this. He gets told, "you're still up for an FBI investigation for Jan 6 in the after times, Teddy."
Powerful image from @thewhiteline.bsky.social, especially when considering how many of these large SUVs are being driven around kids near schools and in neighborhoods
Imagine how much you suck as Bob Iger to let MICHAEL EISNER fucking body you on Twitter in 2025. Jesus Christ, dude.
