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Parallels between Trump and AI are endless. Both overpromise, underdeliver. They put people out of jobs. They lie and steal constantly. They think they know way more than they do. Both backed by techbro billionaires. Neither are any fucking good at their job. And everywhere you turn, there they are.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Finally found a good use for AI. Unmasking ICE. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
The Montana / Wyoming of Canada?
Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
“You cannot argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience” -Mark Twain This is why the medical experts are leaving the CDC.
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.
If you are upset about DC‘s crime rate while voting for a felon, you are a special kind of stupid.
The most important thing to know about Trump’s manufactured crisis in DC is that his administration is still covering up what’s in the Epstein files.
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.
As public-health matter, RFK Jr’s moves against mRNA vaccines is a disaster. As a political matter, don’t just blame Kennedy — also blame the 52 Senate Republicans who were supposed to protect us from RFK Jr, but who voted to confirm him anyway. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Plus, it's pretty obvious that if they are circulating talking points, whoever has been doing it for the last couple decades needs to be fired along with all their acolytes who also learned how to do it poorly and lose easily winnable elections.
As someone late to this news, congratulations! Just another reason to let the WaPo subscription lapse. Luckily, I still have many, many columns saved to read that I'll be able to catch up on. Looking forward to whatever is next for you as we'll be following.
Motherfucking wind farms…
This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover
Narratively speaking, the tightest ending to this screenplay is probably the freed J6 protestors storming the White House to demand the release of the Epstein files.
Yes, the grift is strong with 95% of elected officials. Some way more than others.
Very much this. Grace is what got us here with ineffective and scared people at DOJ and in Congress. Grace is what people gave Murkowski.
Incompetence, Texas, and officials always go together. It's the hat trick of stupidity.
ICE's show of force today in Los Angeles is grim but largely symbolic. They'll kidnap fewer people today than average. We knew they were planning something because their operational tempo slacked from Jul 4-6. Community members got to #MacArthurPark hours ahead of time to warn residents.
I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years. So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
Trump’s megabill will strip 14 million Americans of access to healthcare care. Here’s why our top story today is something a neo-Nazi sent us about a college application from 15 years ago.
A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.
I’ve been thinking a lot about Murkowski’s vote. It contains, in one action, so much that defines our pathetic political moment: Selfishness: I’m taking care of me and mine, the rest of you can pound sand; Lack of accountability: I know the bill is bad, hopefully someone else will fix it;
Voters who supported Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso in their most recent general elections = 440,734 NYC voters who ranked Zohran #1 in the *primary* = 432,305 Perfect distillation of how unrepresentative the Senate is
There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details
How about both. We're here because no one even close to the top was prosecuted in a timely manner.
Trump's out there yellin’ about immigrants and felons like he didn’t marry one and become the other.
Primary every Democrat who is not meeting this moment. Get rid of them all.
Why Mamdani-Cuomo in NYC is huge. A Dem gerontocracy is spending millions on consultants to find a "Joe Rogan of the left," but when a real-life candidate energizes Gen Z, party elites try to crush him The future is bleak for Dems if creepy Cuomo wins. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan
I tell my students: Budget math isn't about arithmetic. Budgets are statements of values, and behind every number is a choice about who and what we value. So as you evaluate the Republican budget bill, ask yourself: Does it give voice to your values?
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
I wrote about how the 2020 protests hurt Trump politically. I also wrote about how counternarratives about left-wing violence are just spin — and wildly at odds with the reality of extremist violence. Gift link: wapo.st/3SOEv6e
Magic The Gathering event vs. Trump's Birthday Party
This is the moment when he realizes what he's become.
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan at least the Marines coming to.L.A. know exactly what this fight is all about
🚨…WE ARE BEING TOLD THE FRONT LINE OF THE INSURRECTION HAS MOVED TO THE HOME DEPOT PAINT AISLE. MARINES SUBDUED ONE DIY HOMEOWNER WHO WAS BROWSING CEILING PRIMERS AND TWO SUSPECTED CRAFTERS CARRYING A SUSPICIOUSLY LARGE NUMBER OF BEHR PAINT SWATCHES…SUPPORT DRONES REMAIN STUCK IN THE GARDEN SECTION…
There’s an interesting meta pattern here that exemplifies how one of the largest economies in the world is basically an exotic foreign country to people who ostensibly speak for the whole country. It’s such a strange provincialism.
Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, Kristi Noem and a whole lot of ICE/DHS types is will discover a Strange New Respect for habeas corpus and the rule of law when the 2029 Truth and Reconciliation Commission arrests them for human trafficking, conspiracy, kidnapping, and child abuse.
They are kidnappings. There isn't a single thing legal about them. Nuremberg trials will be coming.
To be fair, I guess if my only qualification for president was being on TV, I’d assume everyone on TV can waltz into jobs they’re in no way qualified to do.
This got quoted in The Bulwark's Morning Shots today... www.thebulwark.com/p/let-them-e...
There's going to be a lot less truck traffic and things on the shelves in just a few weeks. Ask your local, state, and national politicians who support this what they're going to do about it... www.apolloacademy.com/trade-betwee...
Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”
I feel the need to repeat that Slotkin got 23,847 fewer votes in Michigan than Kamala Harris did.
I said this a few months ago, and I'll say it again: Part of our job as citizens is to make ICE as uncomfortable and frustrated as possible. Not just non-cooperation but actively looking for any way to increase their anxiety. Make life as difficult as possible for them. (thread)
Legacy media pundits. Never did understand why Tester used him for email donation requests.
Which is odd since Montana relies on out of staters to hold these offices...
Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
We did show up to vote in 2020, but Garland via Biden, didn't deliver justice.
I did.
Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.
Boring as hell too other than a smattering of games.
So, they're all gathered in one place and easy to identify, you say?
They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.
Important note about this breakthrough: Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing. Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.
Not help pass the C.R. Ten democrats ended their careers, they and the DC bubble doesn't know it yet.
Could we borrow one of their impeachments? Could definitely use one in the U.S.
we have an utter fucking nimrod attempting to set himself up as dictator because for 50 years anyone who could have stopped him has dithered and procrastinated, hoping someone else would do it
ABSOLUTELY NOT. He voted with Schumer on the CR. His career is done, he just doesn't know it yet.
That yellow really pops. Great composition.
Well rolling over isn't going to get anything, but not consenting to the CR would have left Congress to start negotiating. Is their something in the water in DC that makes everyone unable to function - congress, press, apparently employees like Angry?
Nope, he's also a traitor to the country. He chose trying to appease leadership over his own oath. He trashed everything he supposedly said he believes in and ended his career today. He may not know it yet, but we do.
They had an opportunity today and fucked it up. Those 10 traitors should never have peace in their lives again.
Just resign, you spineless traitor. You didn't want to fight for America anyway. May you never have peace in your life again.
You're an idiot and a traitor to America. You just gave it all away. Resign and let someone with a spine who will fight for the country take your seat.
The opposite. The 'CR' is basically a new budget that gives Musk/F47 more power.
You are an idiot and need to resign. Fire your staff and pollsters who told you this was a good idea too.
So he doesn't even understand what is going on and this his staffers doing?
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.
Friday’s newsletter, on an embarrassing Thursday night. www.offmessage.net/p/a-betrayal
If they can't vote against approving the Musk/Trump DOGE budget, they won't replace Schumer either.
That's unfortunate, because that is the only vote that matters. The rest is performative BS since the GOP already has a majority plus Fetterman.
His statement should be he and the rest of leadership are resigning if any Senate Dem votes for cloture on the CR. A yes vote is a vote for Musk/Trump.
For both or just the bill? Not voting NO on cloture is a vote for Musk/Trump.
A NO on cloture is all that will save you and any future career you think you might have. Anything less and you probably should resign and hide.
Imagine how awful your fundraising will be if they don't vote NO on cloture. People will remember in the primaries too.
19-20 months from now, Trump will have pushed the economy off a cliff and left the civil service a smouldering husk. If you're a Democratic elected and you think a government shutdown from a CR fight is gonna be the thing voters remember, you need your fucking head examined.
CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.
Don't wait until tomorrow, contact them tonight.
Funny how this guy wants to be on TV now when he couldn't be found during the campaign after lying about shooting himself in the arm and the various grifting.
It would appear he's torching what small chance he had at higher office with a fascist lite podcast. Dude has more red flags than a Chinese Communist Party event starting with his first wife.
Screamin' A is completely unwatchable. Mute if it's only for a bit or change the channel. If it's an NBA game unfortunately on ESPN and the DVR, then fast forward.
Exactly, he probably figures if the Russians aren't after him (other than him doing everything they need) the people he supposedly represents will get him.
The hilarious part is he had to hide out in the Gallatin County Sheriff's office for his 'news conference' and TV hit. Looked a lot bulkier than normal too like he was wearing something protective under his brand new jacket.
having been in many rooms where protests are initially orchestrated, i can say sights like this are a highly desired outcome. protests are inherently theatrical & part of that is triggering state actors to unwittingly adopt the role they were born to play.
American Republicans are ideologically much more like people in Russia or Turkey than they are like members of European right-wing parties, and this only happened in the last 25 years. www.ft.com/content/3046...
“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡
You couldn't even do anything on Tuesday because of 'decorum.' Everyone knows you and your 'front liners' are weak. Prove us otherwise, but look forward to losing in the primaries.
Simple solution - those 50,000 people shouldn't show up for work for a few days. Grind air travel to a halt.