Cars in road testing now with solid state batteries have that range. Production cars 2030 at the latest, probably a few years sooner.
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Cars in road testing now with solid state batteries have that range. Production cars 2030 at the latest, probably a few years sooner.
This does not sound like Trump. Pale imitation. Someone else manning the Truth Social feed during Trump's health crisis. Probably Bessent or Miller. Maybe Lutnick.
How much you wanna bet the 380 tons of mulch is being supplied by a GOP connected business and is being purchased at a price massively over market value?
So now he has to rely on Congress to implement his harebrained tariff policies. Will they do it?
How many pushups and pullups can he do? Doesn't look like very many, could be a problem. He needs to start hitting the roids hard and tanning those balls if he wants to stay on Bobby's good side.
I'm a liberal and Tom and Mark are two conservatives I follow here. Agree sometimes, disagree sometimes. But always appreciate the points of view. Conservatives have a higher troll rate, if lower overall counts, than libs. Those who engage honestly do well. Plenty of lib trolls too, just block em.
"Liked" even though I won't be counted. 😜
When the Dems are back in charge, every GOP politician who has ever taken out a mortgage can expect an investigation. And I'd bet the rate of "irregularities" of some sort, from any random sampling of mortgage applications, is probably around 20-30%. Might have to go on a prosecutor hiring spree.
Nah, they proposed a study to assess the prudence of a strongly worded letter, and how strong the words should be. The letter itself is weeks away.
A "diversion" from what exactly? Are Dems trying to say Trump is deliberately shifting our gaze *towards* his authoritarian crackdown to hide something more nefarious? What, pray tell, is more nefarious than the ongoing destruction of our Democracy? It makes no sense. Just incoherent messaging.
But what about the pilots and crews who think it's *so cool* to fly around and terrorize the populace?! Is nobody thinking about their feelings?
The chatbot's behavior was downright psychopathic. I agree with his parents that teen would be alive if not for ChatGPT. Scary and sick.
"Palestinian" is now a slur to Trump. Could he be more plainly racist?
It gives the vibe of praising a child to raise their self esteem.
Does Trump write these and hand them out before the meeting? Somehow that would be less gross than these clowns churning out this word vomit themselves.
NYT Pitchbot is obsolete.
An announcement causing people to drop their awe does not seem like a good thing. All I see is a failed tryhard at coining a new phrase.
"Sufficient Cause" to Donald Trump = female, black, didn't do what he wanted her to.
Narrator: no apologies were offered.
Wait, did I read that right? Is the Trump DOJ actually doing the right thing, coming out against the Proud Boys? Broken clock, blind squirrel metaphors aside, finally some reasonable action from the Trump DOJ.
Atari 400 in 1981. I learned to program in Basic as a teen. In 1985, an IBM PC Portable. (I was a member of the 1st freshman university class anywhere in the country that was required to purchase a computer.) 9" amber monochrome display, 2 5.25" 360kb floppy drives. Intel 8088 CPU. Weighed 30 lbs!
Excellent point re: the cost of crime reduction being our freedom. Another great example is traffic fatalities. We accept a traffic fatality rate more than 2x the homicide rate. We could bring it to ~0 with a national 25mph speed limit. We don't. We accept that loss of life as the cost of freedom.
"We never target civilians, it's just that the poor accuracy of our weapons leaves a high probability that we will hit civilians" is actually exactly the same as targeting civilians.
The White House Press Corp is now a transcription service and Trump fluffing service, nothing more. No journalists remain. Just insiders there for the travel and the perks, and they will do nothing that threatens that access. They've decided autocracy is not so bad if you are on the inside.
It is sick. "Wife Beater" and "Child Predator" are not even actual crimes, they are pejoratives to describe people guilty of certain crimes. For a cabinet member to use terms like these against a member of the public is just deranged. God help us.
Wired is killing it. One of the few sources of true journalism right now.
Well, NBC deciding that they no longer wanted to be tainted by the stink of their progressive sister news outlet, removing those three letters from the name of the former MSNBC, might have been a clue that they intend to go Full Fascist Sycophancy. And so here we are.
I wonder how many supposed "experts" on the Dem payroll are really just well-connected insiders who recommend each other and reap millions. I've had run-ins with incestual consultant ecosytems where results don't matter and pre-existing relationships are the inertia that keeps the money rolling in.
Amen. They are not suited to this moment. Focus group tested weasel words when we need the 1775 Continental Congress. These are serious times requiring decisive actions, but we do not have serious, capable people in charge.
Dems are SO BAD at this. Engage with people. Talk to them. Convince them. Tell a story. "Do you know where DC ranks in violent crime among cities? Not even in the top 20. And most cities ranked higher were in red states. So does it sound like this is about crime? That's an obvious lie." And so on.
So the authoritarian takeover is just a "stunt" and a "distraction". Phew! I was almost starting to get worried about it. Now I know I can just ignore the distraction and everything will be ok!
Horrific story. Inhumane. F#ck ICE.
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I agree with him. It's also the chastising vibe it gives - "How dare you leave out the IA+ folks, you cruel heartless worm!" For many, it just becomes exhausting trying to keep up with the terminology and feeling the disapproval when you fail to. Keep it simple, win more hearts and minds.
Yes, patriarchy is a thing. And Bluesky is a place to discuss it. But this is about words used by politicians in the public sphere. I can't imagine a context where the word "patriarchy" is effective. I prefer "Hegseth promotes a pastor who thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote. That's crazy!".
This *should be* front page news. In the past it would have been, across all media outlets. Now with a few exceptions the media is asleep at the wheel or actively working to undermine Democracy and excuse corruption. It's a national disgrace.
And poorly done, apparently! The point being how insane it sounds when this lingo is used densely, to support the subtler point that even in isolation many of these terms are off-putting outside of Bluesky-like bubbles. Which is where most of our potential voters are, and we need to speak to them.
Tom is a privileged cisgender element of the heteronormative patriarchy who's policing of language is a microaggression triggering the unhoused, food insecure, and LGTBQIA+ communities into safe spaces in a manner tantamount to involuntary confinement. At least that's what my 80 yr old aunt says.
That's a different argument, and one I agree with- "Dem politicians are not saying most of these these words anyway". The OP went too far saying that it is "totalitarian" to merely *suggest* that Dems are careful about language, and people who don't know these terms are "apes". Big tent, please!
Sorry, but a 70 year old Democratic midwestern voter who doesn't know what "cisgender" means is not an "ape". And c'mon, there was no "demand", merely a suggestion for Dem politicians to speak plainly in a way that most Americans understand. Good advice for some of the words on the list, not others.
It's the words that sound weird to a large slice of America. Not the concepts, the words, the jargon of academia. My late dad was diehard liberal, but hated language like this. It's a turnoff to those not immersed in the lingo. Unnecessarily alienating. Speak plainly, he'd say. I say good advice.
This. Simple language gets the messages across. It sounds pretentious and out of touch to some voters when they hear terms like "food insecurity" to describe what they've known as "hunger" or "poverty". Speak to your audience. Academic-coined jargon isn't "bad", just not right for all occasions.
Words matter. Picking the right words to describe a policy, matters. Defund the police suggests, by the accepted meaning of defund, eliminating police. Which is obviously stupid to 99% of Americans. Reform police procedures, enhance police training - ok. Defund the police - will lose every time.
I already had that person blocked, disappointed I was unable to see their latest salvo of stupidity.
"Every nation on earth is fascist for controlling their borders" kinda renders the word "fascist" meaningless. Absurd to use the same term to describe, say, Canada today, a country which controls its borders, and Germany under Hitler or Italy under Mussolini. Words have meaning.
And true, dividends would be diluted. But Intel hasn't payed a dividend in a year and has no plans to start again. So irrelevant for current investors.
Would be true if there were a science to stock valuations. Instead, "vibes" carry as much weight as earnings. Market reaction when INTC ownership was diluted - it went up 5.5%. Vibes. Can't know, but future valuations may be higher than if partial nationalization never happened. Because, vibes.
Today's journalists might muster "Trump claims he has ended 10 wars. Democrats question this". Which merely amplifies the claim that he has ended 10 wars! I imagine Tom Brokaw reporting "the President is making the absurd claim that he has ended 10 wars. This is a lie. He has ended none."
Do scavenger hunts like this work in the age of social media? Seems the answers will be posted and unmanageable numbers will show up at each location. They will need to account for this, I have no doubt they can do something fun with it if prepared.
We failed our youth. Not prepared to live in the real world.
Seems ironic that you posted this on social media?
Normal amount of skin but on unusually tiny hands? Or maybe swelling.
Oh FFS. If honesty inevitably leads to getting fired, I wonder what effect that might have?
23 thousand bots. Or Elon is lying about views.
Maxwell's past behavior indicates that she has a different idea of "inappropriate" than most of us. "even when humping the 15 year old girls I brought him, he was always very cordial, never inappropriate"
Holy shit, a person exists who thinks Trump is "cool".
Turley gaslighting. Literally *no one* was interested in what Maxwell was going to reveal. It was long assumed she would clear Trump in exchange for a pardon. But that has nothing to do with the Truth. Release the Epstein files.
Where exactly can you go eat and engage in mob fights? I haven't found that yet in 50+ years of eating out.
Because they *changed their logo*. In a completely bland and noncontroversial way. These people are insane.
Staying on Twitter benefits the entire right wing propaganda machine. Under Musk the purpose of the site is to elevate right wing discourse and bury left of center voices. The algorithm is carefully tuned so that it is not obvious, to fool the credulous. But Elon is in control.
I've never heard the phrase *at all* before reading it here, much less uttered by someone in elected office. Complaining about use of this fringe phrase is a clear sign of Woke Derangement Syndrome.
Completely unqualified college dropout white nationalist piece of shit running a global diplomacy organization. His only qualification, the reason he got the job, was being a white nationalist piece of shit. DEI for Nazi idiots. Fuck all of them.
Sure they could prosecute him for having classified materials after he left government, but could they do it with a straight face?
And written using words, frequently punctuated with punctuation.
The word "bribe" is so much more accurate and concise than that Orwellian pablum. This behavior is so pervasive that I wonder if the NYT has a blacklist of words reporters cannot use so as to not upset Trump, and "bribe" is on it. As are "lie", "rape", "fascist", and "corrupt".
Surely this "analysis" is not supported by polling or really anything but wishes and vibes. The old guard media is addicted to the conventional wisdom that Dems have to be right of center to win. They say it, Dem leadership believes it, and it becomes self fulfilling. That is all turning around.
Damn that's really insightful.
Trump takes phone calls from ordinary DC citizens? Wish he'd give me his number.
Highlights the dangers of corporate leadership having no actual steadfast principles, and instead just heading whichever direction the winds are currently blowing. Especially when the winds are from a toxic orange fascist racist blowhard. Costco did it right, stuck to their principles.
JD wants to get rid of crazy people yelling. Who decides they are crazy? How does freedom of speech factor into this? The guy calling JD a couch f#cker yesterday, is he a yelling crazy person who should be put away? Yes we need better mental health support, but fascists cannot be trusted with it.
The message could not be clearer - commit crimes in support of Trump, and he will see to it that you are not punished. Federal pardons are easy, now he is threatening states. This will lead to very very ugly consequences.
Authentic idiocy is better than feigned, mocking idiocy? That's a bold take.
They hate poor, brown, and/or non English-speaking kids. White kids from wealthy families are a-ok with them and will be given every possible advantage in life.
9 days is absurdly too short a time to measure events that occur on random timescales separated by days. And even if some crimes do go down in DC on large timescales, the crimes may just be moving elsewhere. Then there's Trump's devastating effect on tourism - fewer people = less crime.
That would mean we start working on being a Type II Kardashev civilization a few thousand years ahead of the current most optimistic projections. And those projections have very shaky foundations. It a baseless bunch of nonsense to predict we start building a Dyson sphere within decades.
Every sadistic nazi loser who wants a badge as a license to beat up liberals and brown people can now get one. And a paycheck to go with it. Sue their asses off.
I read his appeals to "this is not a red or blue thing" as tailoring his message to his audience. We are not his audience. A Dem preaching condescendingly to his rural town may not be the best way to engage? I could see this guy as a thoughtful Dem, trying to be persuasive but not overbearing.
A rural American in a deep red county cannot even get a smidgen of credit for eloquently criticizing Trump's policies (BBB), because he didn't go *far enough* for your liking? C'mon! We have to stop the purity tests and welcome folks who want change! That is how we expand the tent and win.
He blamed Trump's BBB. The GOP bill.
Maybe in this small town newspaper he felt a need to call for change without explicitly cheering for Dems, because that would immediately turn off 80% of readers? He directly criticized the Big Ugly Bill, and that is powerful. Gotta let people turn away from Trump on their own terms, not ours!
Why do we need to invent a backstory for someone we don't know, instead of cheering his powerful and truthful message?
And had the case ever gone to trial, he would have almost certainly been found guilty by a jury. Such a shame that corrupt elements of the judiciary never let it get that far.
When the "joke" is pretty much just a straight imitation, it shows how stupid the source material is.
I guess they are unaware of clouds, night, or winter.
Thesw folks lie brazenly to paint the picture of a genius when anyone with any sense can see that Trump is objectively a moron. Unfortunately a lot of people with no sense believe the lies. They have a fantastical vision of Trump utterly disconnected from the actual person.
That is some obscenely imbalanced bothsideism. Disgusting.
Played by the White House. The most gullible press operation on the planet.
But the Trump tax cuts is not buying votes? Thing is, any policy that helps some constituency could be interpreted as buying votes in this manner. Which is pretty much every policy supported by any politician, ever. The stupid, it hurts.
Their ranking will no longer exist, because the department of education will not be collecting the data that feeds into state rankings. Stop measuring things, and nobody knows how bad they are.
He says manual tabulation leaves "no doubt, at the end of the evening, as to who won". Nope. Takes days to count, and eliminating mail-in ballots will extend the time for early counting states. Rural areas count faster, so this hints at a ploy to claim victory based on early GOP-leaning results.
I thought Trump's police takeover was supposed to make people feel safer? Clearly not what actual real people think. Because it was obviously bullshit the entire time, and putting military personnel on the street untrained in basic law enforcement is obviously a dangerous idea.
I'd like to know *who* in the Trump admin put European leaders on high alert to prompt this show of unity. Been pretty tight lipped publicly about what went down.
Unless she had a Ukrainian-provided lead-lined prosthetic hand to poison Putin with polonium-210, she is an evil piece of shit.
Damn wish I was sitting behind. Would have accidentally spilled my beer on him. Then another.
Math and geography are individually much too difficult for MAGA minds to comprehend, so join the two together in a map and it's no surprise that MAGAs get very confused. 🤯
They look so small and pathetic, in thrall to the stupidest and weakest world leader in modern history.
It's like once they cross that line and decide to pretend that a man who is objectively an intellectual midget and a depraved playboy is actually a genius chosen by God himself to lead, something utterly breaks in their minds. I'm sure there is a concept in psychiatry that explains it.
Might want to consider scanning for listening devices Putin accidentally left behind.
Thought Mike Allen is a journalist? My bad I guess.