I mean surely letting people complain and make conspiracies is a better outcome for trump than giving every liberal a signed letter from epatein calling Trump a pedophile they can wave in front of their conservative family at xmas.

Genuinely shocked to learn the epstein files were actually this damning. Makes you wonder why the fuck trump was playing with fire suggesting this or even signed the bill

Turns out when you remove the 'woke nonsense' from the FBI they get really fucking bad at their jobs

There are two ways to get an A in Oklahoma: (1) work hard to write a good essay that follows the rubric. (2) tell chatgpt to write about the culture war from Trump's side

INBOX: New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was heckled by State Rep. @heathhowardnh.com at the NH Dems dinner last night after she pushed to reopen the government without securing Obamacare protections. Howard, who is running against Shaheen's daughter in the open #NH01 seat, later posted this on X:

Critical to remember metoo was powerful and huge until it became a democratic party nonprofit (MeTooMovement) which, immediately after formation, became a catch and kill operation for Biden's primary campaign.

Air traffic controllers are resigning due to the stress inflicted by the government shutdown, a union president warned

The Farmer's life is objectively worse in most ways -- less free time, hard labor, high stakes, little room for error -- but it's also the opposite of the labor and social alienation most of us feel. To have your labor produce literal fruit, and to have a mutually dependent community.

I would love one theorist of "why the democratic party should go right on immigration" to 1) look at what Clinton and Obama and Biden actually did, and 2) to reckon with the fact that despite those overtures, Stephen Miller now has a goon army doing forcible deportations without due process

I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.

Devastating: my commute audiobook uses dramatic irony at the core plot device.

The problem today isn't people questioning science, but that they don't want the answers. They assume gaps in their knowledge are universal. But scientists aren't idiots, and if you think you've found an obvious flaw in their arguments, it's usually you who have missed something.

Putting 'teacher union during covid' next to 'police unions' as examples of bad unions is bonkers. These people apparently wanted more kids and teachers to die and think opposing that was as evil as police brutality.

I think a pseudo-niche political opinion that I’m developing is judge-maxing. Both the United States and the world generally need far greater number of judges. I think we need legal-abundance: an oversupplied court system able to both clear simple cases quickly and devote more time to complex ones.

Ik it's annoying and banal to point out but at some point you just gotta say that, if a Democrat dog-catcher in Vermont did even one of Trump's daily corruption scandals it would be a month-long national news story. Media likes Trump and wants to help him win.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

This is not true, at least not unless everyone gives up. If such a thing were tried, the richest and wealthiest states in the country would secede. It's easier to imagine America ending than America having a guy with 39% approvals as dictator for life.

Republicans oppose social programs because they make women and children harder to abuse.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

This would have been the first ever assassins creed game I bought lol, oh well.

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

Deploy the Illinois National Guard Guard.

Brazil built *4.5 million homes* with just their public housing program in just 9 years - Brazil has an economy slightly larger than the size of Northern California's. The entire housing economy, including private home construction, built probably 750k homes in Northern California during this time.

The MBTA. Unless you're from NYC or maybe Chicago you have no right to mock a functioning transit system.

France has been governed by austerity politicians for a decade now. Their policy has been exactly in line with this argument from wapo. That policy has manifestly failed, and so they are simply pretending it hasn't been tried

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

A Texas minister has been charged with distributing child pornography after an investigation turned up nude photos of young girls on his computer. Jon Sheptock, 49, was the worship minister at First Montgomery Baptist Church. The church has acted wegotthiscovered.com/true-crime/c...

Like gravity is a theory

I hope people understand that when I say "pedocon theory needs to be pushed constantly", I do not mean as a joke. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Your wife should also know that research shows traditional gifted programs further inequality and routinely leave out BIPOC and low income kids. Rethinking how to give ALL students in early elementary access to high quality education that meets their needs is best for all.

What the fuck is the point of naval escorts if they immediately abandon the escort when faced with conflict

It is fascinating how little of the centrist wonk mind is underpinned by any sort of actual data despite that being the main pitch to buy into their bullshit. Their actual belief is so often “do this thing you think is bad because it’s unpopular”

Deep incompetence and delusional ideas about the economy explains it.

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

I wrote about Trump's new executive orders targeting "antifa" and how they are paper tigers that rely on preemptive compliance in order to achieve their goals. www.thedissident.news/trumps-paper...

this needs to be hammered into the skulls of every elite individual and institution on every measure - reputationally, financially, morally - you come out better if you fight the guy stand up! it’s the right thing to do and better for you in every way! how often does that happen?

Trying to solve male loneliness by targeting men as men and not men as people will necessarily rely on a bunch of ugly stereotypes. These are great examples of Things that Actually Work instead.

Perfect midterm strategy when I'm 30 points underwater on inflation: announce more inflation

I'm going to leave this here because I even see a lot of leftists regularly speaking about 'what the country wants' when in fact NO. MOST PEOPLE DID NOT VOTE FOR THIS MAN and LESS THAN 50% of people who voted actually voted for him.

This is gamergate quality writing. Things I don't like are politics. It's politics if you disagree with me. Don't you hate politics?

I literally can't imagine anyone left of Reagan getting such a glowing writeup for this. The bar is so fucking low for conservatives.

Me, when I can name two successful center left parties in the entire world in 15 years: "fucking socialists don't know success when they see it"

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Map updated today with the inclusion of Vermont.

becoming fully beaudrillard pilled. realizing the entire project of 5-4 has been in many ways detailing how conservatives have built a simulation of academic and legal scholarship, in order to live in a hyperreal world in which the constitution demands white supremacy

This guy is obviously just a racist