Cuyahoga, though Pilgrimage comes close.
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Cuyahoga, though Pilgrimage comes close.
I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.
Heard from a colleague spending a few months in the Netherlands. "Went on a 35-mile bike ride today, entirely on bike paths, through all kinds of landscapes. Turns out I love biking, I'm just scared of biking with cars." đ˘
Okay, but what was so hard about voting to defund Iron Dome? Itâs likely one of the best pieces of leverage the US could hold over Israel to force them to change course away from g*n*cide and get back to the negotiating table. Omar and Tlaib voted for it. And AOC hems and haws about proceduralism.
Why did Tlaib and Omar vote the opposite then? Until funding for the Iron Dome is cut, what incentive does the Israeli state have to change course? Funding their defense is funding their genocide of Palestinians.
Yep. Love watching them gracefully swish like giant pinwheels.
Look, itâs not an earth-shattering revelation, but pretty much any problem in this country can be traced to a single ur-cause: Private capital has too much power.
Establishment Democrats are probably secretly rooting for Team Trump on this one. Anyone seen "Vote Blue No Matter Who" lately?
Trump and Stephen Miller want a vast secret police apparatus and they are building it right out in the open.
The latest version of the Senate's BBB is a death sentence for US energy leadership and a giant gift to China. It eliminates tax cuts for solar that have been around since 2005, adds a new tax on solar after 2027, and creates a new direct subsidy for coal.
Tax them on the way out.
So now the Vote-Blue-Crowd-No-Matter-Who crowd gets to show us how seriously they take that principle. âWait, we didnât mean *that* shade of blue.â - a nonzero number of Democratic voters in NYC right now, unfortunately #ZohranMamdani
Lots of folks are emphasizing that Tr**p ordered strikes on Iran without Congressional approval. I donât care if Congress were to approve war with Iran. It would just mean that Congress is full of psychopaths, too. And this also goes for every Democratic lawmaker not vigorously opposing this lunacy.
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Good thing we have very competent people in the US protecting us from things like this.
This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social
Itâs wild to see how many liberals over on Threads think the centrist, GOP Lite approach that lost *twice* to Trump is the way forward. Wild to see them once again stupidly punching left with abandon. Havenât seen it as much here.
@tracyalloway.bsky.social on the bird site:
that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
BREAKING â The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:
A quick đ§ľof the incredible sights in cities across the USA right now. Millions are on the street speaking out against Trump & Musk trampling the Constitution. Letâs start here with Salt Lake City đłđ #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #FiftyFiftyOne (đ¸Nate Blouin)
Wild to see the economy crater and peopleâs retirement evaporate while a bunch of folks in red hats applaud it because theyâre convinced Dear Leader is some sort of 5D Chess Master and not a tinpot dictator whose brains have turned to oatmeal.
I wrote about leaders who don't (or won't) lead, the death of a political order unsuited for these dark times, what the new one should look like, and the importance of playing to win. New visions for a new and better America: Solidarity, leadership, reframing. www.the-reframe.com/the-beached-...
The single exact time to act is not clear, so it's probably best to wait until long after it was time to act, so we can be real sure of when the best moment would have been, and then we will be able to tell you with exact precision what we should have done and when we should have done it.
If I had to name one real cause to explain why we are in this position, it's the determination of centrists to wait until a tyrannical executive has already demolished the government and the Constitution before moving to defending it.
Heâd probably like the alternative that some on the left propose even less.
Fergus wanted a golden hour photoshoot.
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. âWhat can we do to make the least number of people mad?â is just a bankrupt way to operate.
i find this notion that public spending is illegitimate bizarre as a matter of economics but totally legible as a statement of moral economy. and as per any strict system of morality, the punishment is part of the appeal. they are punishing the american people for believing in the public good.
Chode the Wet Sprocket
Corporations are famously solicitous of peopleâs health and well-being!
This post getting 14k likes explains a lot about our politics
Any tankie dipshits out there still cheering on Putin because only U.S.-led imperialism is bad? Let me know so I can block you!
Today the @nytimes.com sought to whitewash its central role in laundering anti-trans falsehoods and turbocharging anti-trans attacks nationwide. My reporting showed that editorial leadership was aware of this depravity which is why this disingenuous piece canât erase the scale of what theyâve done.
They are going to ignore court orders. If they ignore court orders, the social contract is dead and buried, the constitution is no longer in effect. It's a rubicon that cannot be uncrossed.
A message from the 43rd president about transgenic mice.
Any idea when it will subside?
The Tr*mp campaign was able to sell voters on this M*sk-led D.O.G.E. bullshit because for years a large segment of the U.S. public has been scammed into believing that A) government spending is intrinsically wasteful and B) budget deficits are self-evidently bad. A: Itâs not and B: theyâre not.
A pretty good heuristic for deciding whether or not to take someone seriously is if they say things like âthe government should be run like a business.â
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
Yes.
Bot-style tennis is driving me away from menâs tennis. #AustralianOpen
Welp, there you have it. The "sin of empathy."
The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring. NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.
i said a few times here and there before the election that weâll see what the mass deportation plan looks like when itâs ICE agents dragging grandmothers out of churches and, well, here we are
âCall it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all Godâs children.â - MLK, 1961
"every fraction of a degree matters" is true as hell. In the same way that releasing CO2 hurts people and planet, avoiding its release saves us from potential harm This isn't some saccharine 'hopeful' message: it's the hard, inarguable physical reality. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
Bernie Sanders is one of the two senators reportedly mulling a Yes vote on RFK Jr for Health and Human Services Secretary. Iâve agreed with Bernie a lot in the past, but if he votes yes, fuck him.
I will go to my grave maintaining that God stole the 2019 Wimbledon title from Roger rather than Djokovic winning it. That was an error in the universe.
Iâm gonna need Democrats/liberals/progressives to stop making âsuggestionsâ for Elon Musk and DOGE about where to really cut government waste. DOGE isnât about government waste at all. Itâs about gutting the regulatory and welfare state. Donât be cute. Call it what it is: oligarchy in action.
Yes, as through this world Iâve wandered Iâve seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, And some with a fountain pen. And as through your life you travel, Yes, as through your life you roam, You won't never see an outlaw Drive a family from their home. - Woody Guthrie
Apropos of something, for-profit healthcare is violence.
Bhattacharya is a threat to public health and national security. A dangerous, ideological crank.
Same.
Kamala Harris treated climate change as an issue to be avoided. But climate is one of Dems' best opportunities to tell stories that, like Trump's, have clear villains and center the way elites (like Big Oil CEOs) are hurting working class people. That's why it's time for climate populism.
Love to "drain the swamp" by making... - A tobacco and mining lobbyist Chief of Staff - An Iraq War hawk Secretary of State - A Qatar and Amazon lobbyist Attorney General - A billionaire Wall St CEO Commerce Secretary - A billionaire hedge fund manager Treasury Secretary
I love it and Iâm at best a casual fan. Itâs perfect.
Matty Y is Exemplar 1 of how neutrality theater centrism turns the brain into clam chowder. Profoundly stupid man.
It is worth regularly revisiting this exchange between @aoc.bsky.social and scientists working for Exxon, who in 1982 accurately predicted global warming between 1977 and 2003, contradicting the fossil fuel company's decades-long climate denial.
Trump is the most overtly corrupt politician probably ever in American history and he's treated like a populist. It's just so so depressing. He gets paid by domestic and foreign entities through his businesses and it just doesn't even register as a scandal
This situation is awful. Next semester, I start my M.A. thesis. Last year, I decided to do it over a Deleuzian reading of Blood Meridian. Iâve done over a yearâs worth of research. Now, I feel stuck with the topic. I canât just start over with a brand new idea and a new author. Iâm sick over it.
You wonât hear crickets. Youâll hear a bunch of noise from Trumpâs corrupt DOJ as they fabricate âevidenceâ that the 2020 election was fraudulent and validate the Dear Leaderâs obsession.
Cormac McCarthy
Trans people are less than one percent of the population, which is why they are under attack in the first place. They are the tip of the spear. If we allow the attacks to go unchallenged, other groups will soon follow. Defending trans people is not a choice. Itâs right and necessary self-defense.
*sigh* Here we go again with the separate-art-from-the-artist convo . . .
Itâs important for the Democratic Party to continue to be run by former Obama, Clinton, and Harry Reid aides, who presided over the partyâs collapse and the ascent of Donald Trump. This is a clear priority above all else.
What the actual fuck?
The old model of journalismâwhere reporters treat everything, including factual errors, as âhe said/she saidâ conundrums in exchange for accessâhas failed miserably and brought us to this point. Itâs time a new, simpler model: Kick the bastards in the teeth.
Polio after hearing RFK was selected as HHS secretary.
A large chunk of the electorate believes Democrats have moved âfar to the leftâ on âthe border.â Itâs complete nonsense that points to two crucial issues: - The information environment is a disaster. - The idea that Democrats just need to be a little more cruel to âconvinceâ people is bizarre.
Okay, so the new Cure album is growing on me.
Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.
âSeth, did you see what Republicans just did?! Iâm so mad I nearly popped my carotid artery! Thatâs why itâs NEVER been more important for you to rush a donation to this corporate-cash lathered candidate!â - my texting buddy James âSkeletorâ Carville
your school boards and community boards need you. theyâve been getting pummeled by qanon/antivax/transphobic conspiracy theorists.
The right has an organized group of young men because they bother to reach out to them. The Dems have lost their young voters by offering them condescension and police brutality in response to their concerns.
Project2025 also calls for the abolition of the EPA and NOAA, two critical federal agencies for addressing the climate crisis.
As a high school teacher, I can confirm that this starts early.
questions an enterprising political reporter in an influential newsroom could ask a trump spokesperson: âwhat percentage of americans does trump think are scum?â âwhat does trump propose to do with the americans he says are scum?â âare these the same americans trump describes as vermin?â
Don't like touching this particular stove, but if anybody thinks a Harris loss would be interpreted as "time for a Palestinian state," and not "Trump has a mandate to boot out the migrants" ... hm I think that's incorrect
My wife is flying into Charlotte this morning and sent this from the plane. Western NC is in bad shape.
I want her to defeat Trump. That's literally all I care about until the election. Sort the rest out later.
(All that said, the DNC absolutely should have featured a Palestinian speaker. For fuckâs sake, that was the lowest bar to clear.)
. . . including one that asks the question of whether or not human civilization will have a livable planet in the future? Preemptively, RIP my comment section if it comes to that. 2/x
How big of a monster would I seem to be to my fellow leftists if I gently suggested that there are *other* issues on the ballot in November besides the one? And that most of those other issues also have tens of millions of lives at stake . . . 1/
When people say that Harris has a good chance to win I think one of the things theyâre factoring in is the idea that if she wanted to fly around on Jeffery Epsteinâs plane someone on the campaign has the ability to go âhey hereâs this other one not owned by the worlds most famous sex monsterâ
Call these ghouls what they are. They are white supremacists. 2/x
The term âwhite nationalistâ bugs me. âWhite supremacistâ better describes both their metaphysics and their ethics, i.e. they think white people are superior & thus should rule over all others. âWhite supremacyâ entails white nationalism, but also expresses the animating belief behind it. 1/
I wrote about the increasingly ineffective politics of Constantly Losing Your Shit About Everything. defector.com/men-on-the-v...
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Jonathan Chait is an outrageously stupid man. He almost reads like self-parody at this point.
