at 86% with his 2024 vote is actually quite bad
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at 86% with his 2024 vote is actually quite bad
Thinking of code agents as a slot machine made a lot of things click personally for me
Putting up a monument to the glory of the confederacy: "unlike the left, we don't believe in erasing history" Taking down signs and pictures informing people of the horrors of slavery: "this is corrosive ideology"
The problems with LLMs is that they are very limited in actual, valuable use cases. What they do a lot is shift work bottlenecks to other sources without easing them; for example they can write great marketing copy but then the legal department has to double check every word for liabilities. 1/
kelce heard his fiancee is an eagles fan and decided to do her a solid that's true love
I hope I have given fidelity, and that everyone viscerally understands: You will have to come through me.
Yeah, didn't he do a lot of the GOTV for Republicans last year? As much as we memed on it here, it clearly worked for them. He wasn't a man to be underestimated, certainly.
You might say "they're just describing the Democrats," and they are, but that doesn't negate the concept. Being cautious and not wanting to run headlong into a potential mistake is a good thing. Desperately clinging to an imagined and kind of sucky past like a conservative ideology does isn't.
Unrelated but is that Leavitt in the background? She looks like 50. How evil ages you.
Few such cases!
The existence of a Bryce and a Bryson on the Phillies roster implies that we should get a Harry to go along with Harrison Bader
Yeah I feel like people are more opposed to the feeling of disorder that comes with illegal immigration, as opposed to the immigrants themselves. Make it a more regular process and it won't feel like "bad" things are happening at the border
Philly skyline lit up for Eagles football.
Hawaii announced they are joining California, Oregon, and Washington’s West Coast Health Alliance which will provide their own science-based vaccine guidelines and make vaccines accessible to everyone.
The imperial boomerang, so to speak
As an American I've found Australia's "Washminster" system a really interesting comparison. Mandatory voting + ranked choice voting are good to study/discuss, and their federal system means it's similar enough to the USA's to draw inferences about
What do you think we'll get if the US doesn't emerge on the other side?
This is the first example of a new political tool that we’re going to live with for the rest of our lives: public officials who deny the existence of video evidence on the grounds that it was AI generated. Impossible to know who is telling the truth unless actual evidence emerged. And even then…
The great Khan tramples the heathen interloper
Chat, are we back?
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.
Good thing nothing bad happened to the Roman Republic when the Senate became a rump institution
Printing press, Reformation. Papers and pamphlets, the age of revolutions. Radio and cinema, fascism and totalitarianism. TV, performative entertainment politics. Internet, radicalization. All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. It's always the comms tech disruption.
So many hot takes come down to, “I am a member of a group who would benefit from some social tradeoff. And as such, I believe that tradeoff is profoundly moral”
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
yo this guy is cooking
It's cool when it's like the 15th inning and a team is clean out of pitchers, but that doesn't even happen that often anymore thanks to ghost runners. Can't think of many legitimate reasons for it otherwise.
I’m willing to go a little bit further here: get rid of position player pitchers and force pitching staffs to simply eat shit. I have no tolerance for the modern bullpen that’s optimized itself to every situation except ‘having a guy that can go out and throw a lot of pitches’
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
The vital currency in all modern political disputes is the public's attention. The more you escalate a conflict, the more attention you get, and if you're in the superior, more defensible position - which may not be the most POPULAR position, at the outset - fighting it out wins people to your side.
Meeting on a tennis court would be quite the symbolic move. The media would go wild about it (laudatory) and it'd legitimize what they're doing. I'm sure Baltimore or Philly has a good one available...
Something like this is likely. It's not a power the lame duck House has. The members-elect, all of them, meet and the House must organize itself anew Jan 3. And if they are physically ejected from the Capitol, they should meet elsewhere and organize themselves as the real House with a real quorum.
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
I want the history books to erase 47's term and call 2025-?? an interregnum before the Republic was restored
I think with hindsight the story of 2024 is "no Democrat could have won" because any D would have been blamed for the inflation as incumbent party (see: every other election in 2024 in the developed world) but people don't like that story
I wonder if Harris should have promised him a role in the admin just to get his support. She could always have sidelined him later had she won, maybe give him an obscure blue ribbon commission on food dyes
It is remarkably frustrating to me to watch a system break down against a kind of threat its systems were *designed* - reasonably well designed! - to defeat because everyone whose job it is to actually *do* that is busy hiding under their desks hoping against hope someone else will bell the cat.
Game on.
How are the Democrats becoming the party of limited government, free markets, individual rights, and national security
Buckle Up is awesome
Who would've guessed that DEI is necessary to maintain high standards and attract the best talent? (Everyone with a brain)
I wrote an unusually strongly worded thing about the transit crisis in Pennsylvania, which is coming soon to Oregon and Illinois. humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...
Masterful. Love how he focuses on working for the people instead of tired old tropes about "reaching across the aisle"
pritzker is not perfect, but...I think progressives would be wise to start thinking seriously about getting behind him in a very thoroughgoing way. 1
Congress might wind up returning to Philly, for a time
Next election we need to run billboards that say "Trump smelly, Democrats cool" to get through to these people
a good bit for a congressional Dem next year would be to introduce the Declaration’s grievances as articles of impeachment for the 250 year 4th of July
The ladies waiting for their Ubers remind me of that Myanmar fitness instructor who had a coup going on in the background of her video
this is just straight-up dictatorship and it’s repulsive and pathetic our newspapers and TV stations still won’t say so. there is no emergency. there is no precedent for this in US history. Trump is establishing military and paramilitary control of the capital
Couple normal questions about multiculturalism and taxes and then wtf questions about nudity (?!) and bodily autonomy for minors (!?!!?). Bro just ask the question about age of consent, we all know you want to ask it
We pay more attention to SCOTUS but this decision, especially if they uphold it, and even though it's ostensibly on a mere abstruse statutory technicality, might be the most radically anti-constitutional ruling of the Trump era. Judicial sanction for dictatorship, for Charles I style personal rule.
Can you say more? That's really interesting
Divine right of kings-ass election
Society generally has recognized him as the embodiment of the will of the Volk in a way that transcends and supercedes the Constitution
We're so back
Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate. I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵
My proposal for the Second American Republic: - Multi-party proportional representation - Abolish or denude the Senate - Make the Supreme Court into a constitutional court with weak judicial review - Make the constitution easier to amend - Move from a presidential to parliamentary system
Can’t believe they gave Jhoan Duran and THIS entrance to Philly lol we’re gonna be so insufferable about this
Gift of prophecy www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
So what states would you like to see rise from the fallen ashes of the US empire? I, for one, am a Long Chile guy.
Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump is firing the head of the BLS, a longtime civil servant confirmed 86-8 by the Senate, simply because the job numbers came in below his expectations today
anyway, all that to say: if I have any advice for a younger version of me it's there totally is room for weird builds and off-strat meta. in fact, the whole new-game-plus is realizing that the world is so so so hungry for weird builds any game's meta is that you gotta do stuff different from main
the whole thing with the scam economy is that it supposes you are a sucker for participating in the regular economy and the less we regulate it the truer that becomes. at some point not punishing scammers makes not just the person getting scammed but the person not getting involved a sucker.
"Allan Winans" is quite possibly the worst major league pitcher I have ever seen
My "it's not stalking" shirt has people asking a lot of questions, etc...
How is this not considered an act of war against Canada? They literally invaded to kidnap a Canadian
It's telling that his most tinpot dictator moves (e.g. forcing the renaming of the Washington Commanders and Kennedy Center hall) are happening in DC. The states are the only bulwark left against direct dictatorial rule, and even then...
it’s neat how the US has these late stage autocratic features (the president can unilaterally spend/block spending, censor individual companies, take over universities, wage war, etc) but also there is no clear path to him staying in power past his term. basically an elected dictatorship
Tell Scalia that this is one flag he's actually encouraged to fly
Hooters takeout makes negative sense
Most Americans really have no clue how far the US is being left behind.
I posted on @boingboing.net about a professional baseball pitcher who went to a doctor's office only to find out there was another Him. boingboing.net/2025/07/21/h...
I never thought about the syllable stress thing. Interestingly, the only MLB teams whose names don't have initial stress are the Athletics and (sorta) the Orioles, and they both have similar nicknames in the A's and O's
DC statehood now
When we add the decisive authoritarian turn away from democracy post-January 6th in the Republican Party, something catastrophic happens. The argument that 'popular' autocrats are the most dangerous is transformed if what matters isn't popularity among *the whole public,* but merely *the party base*
This is insane
Local CEO caught CHEATING at Phillies game?!
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
This is just, like, the base of the Democratic party now.
Trump has the superpower of saying contradictory things in such a manner that idiots can always find something they like in it, but once he's in power and starts doing the shit it was obvious he'd always do those idiots start going "wait a minute, this isn't what I voted for."
I'd give him the Nobel Prizes in Physics, Math, and everything else if he agreed to go to Siberia and never come back
I feel like deportations destroying the agricultural and home building markets is more likely to cause a recession, but even that feels like a stretch. Seems like the US economy doesn't have to enter a recession unless it wants to (total vibes victory)
There’s a bit in the book “Privilege” that explains how this works 1/2
I'm missing Philly a bunch so I'm gonna post about some very Philly things and places and whatnot that might not be on the radar. Some of these places might not be open anymore, some of these people might be gone. But I miss them.
Yeah... and for some reason he listed the address as "TX, Texas"??
Hold up let him cook (and divide the Rs' voter base)
I keep thinking about that video that @jamellebouie.net made right after the election about how people, particularly on the right, engage with politics through so many levels of irony that they don’t view it as real - that the idea of real policy and the consequences do not exist to them
Pathetic
They pulled out all the stops to make the Nazi look legitimate. Called him "Academic", made him look like a cool anonymous source, even put that douchey faux French name
Yeah like if you believe Mamdani was in the wrong by checking that box, Bouie was right there as a writer! Or any number of Black reporters at NYT!
Philly Inquirer needs to become the new national paper of record after the second reconstruction
She's so horny for Trump lol, pathetic
Right, Congress and the courts are now advisory bodies. When they act in a way the executive agrees with, they are used to lend legitimacy to the appearance of democracy; when they don't, they're ignored
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
Wrote about vibes, a post-materialist politics, and the time Kamala Harris called for the end of organized football in America. badfaithtimes.com/vibes-are-al...
I think Americans have just gotten used to the idea of the president being an elected king (ironically, most actual kings have had way less power than this for centuries)
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