Honestly, this is the world they built, they can live with the consequences.

Wow! Weird how this KEEPS HAPPENING with Jesse Singal! It's almost like he has some kind of agenda or bias. Isn't it interesting that a perception or assumption of a pro-trans bias disqualifies you from writing about trans health, but an anti-trans bias doesn't?

Yeah, this entirely.

You know, I've made several comments about how I can't believe I agree with Bill Kristol, but at this point, but at this point it's pretty clear I'm closer to his side than I am to the fucking national Democrats.

It's going to be hard for the Roberts Court to come up with a justification that allows the president to illegally withhold Medicaid from a state, but not the Legislature passing a law that expands the amount they have to pay if they wish to stay in it.

Remember, john roberts' logic for weakening the medicaid expansion was that it was "too coercive" to give the states money to pay for medicaid. bsky.app/profile/apne...

So there's a specific behavior of humans called anthropomorphism, where we ascribe human behaviors to non-human entities. Sometimes animals, where slightly makes sense, animals can have emotions, and sometimes inanimate objects. Pretty much every single problem we have with AI is because of this.

It's an interesting contrast between anti-abortion protesters at clinics and anti-concentration camp protesters. Anti-abortion protesters are extremely ineffective, 1 because they're usually not willing to get arrested, and 2 because they don't actually care about what they're doing.

As I probably said here before, I very much dislike arson or using fire in protest at almost all circumstances, because it is extremely unsafe. However, empty detention centers are about the safest place for that. There's no one there to endanger, and they always are clear of everything.

It's worth pointing out that Trump is doing tariffs because he's kind of stupid and likely linked it in his mind to how he thinks business works, in that every transaction is normally of equal value but he's such a good negotiator he can get an extra X% directed his way.

I keep saying that the only way to bring the Supreme Court into line is if the next Democratic president starts using all the powers that the court nonsensically has granted the president, directly against the Supreme Court itself. But I stand corrected, I guess nothing stops Trump from doing that

Luckily, as these tarriffs are unconstitutional, if Trump attempts to collect them still, we can hold him accountable under the law. *hold hand to earpiece* Sorry, what's that? He is? And who did that?

Like, seriously, we need Congress, the next Democratic Congress, to step forwards and say 'if Supreme justices lie about facts to come to conclusions in cases', not 'if they're lied to and believe it' that's whatever, but if they actually originate the lie, they get impeached.

It is worth explaining how hilarious and stupid this is. First of all, Thomas claims that Congress can delegate powers that do not deprive people of life, liberty, or property. But the Supreme Court has long held that taxes deprive people of property. Like, that's a fucking gimme.

If 'effective altruism' actually existed, it would be funding MRA vaccines at maximum level, period. We are a decade away from curing every contagious disease. Each individual disease has a few months of work we have to do, it's not instantaneous, but it is ALL of them, eventually.

Good. A reminder that the police do not have the right to settle legal disputes of real estate ownership, and there is absolutely no way that the police should have taken anyone's word that they fucking own a building. Police officers need to go to prison for this.

libs getting the chamber of commerce in the national divorce, sure, why not, welcome aboard www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

There's a word that the Masons had, a word that was alleged to have magical properties, a word that could strike fear into people's hearts if used irresponsibly. That word was lost, but recent scholarship has rediscovered it: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

It's extremely telling that Jake Tapper not only leapt to the defense of the concentration camps, but also is only able to articulate a problem with the _connotation_ of the term. I.e, his problem is that we associate that term with bad things, not that it isn't a concentration camp by definition.

This is literally the plot of a Captain America movie, and the people doing it in that are Nazis. www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...

I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

You know, it's interesting how people keep pointing out that Americans lie to themselves about what America is, but in reality, that lie is pretty much the thing that is saving us.

So here is how this is going to work: Every single human being on the planet who has any tattoos has exactly one week to look up the meaning of those tattoos. If any of them are Nazi tattoos, they're required to publish this fact, along with an abject apology

By the media normalizing, and the Democrats ignoring, everything Trump does... ... It makes things feel much worse when people realize what is going on. Politically astute people will justify each movement of the line, with fascism always in the future, not now. These guys didn't move the line.

Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats

I cannot believe that anyone is stupid enough to be NIMBY about this. Maybe they are, but it's insane. I don't want concentration camps anywhere, but honestly, if they build them, it's way WAY more convenient for me if they're in my neighborhood. At least for what I intend to do to them.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

"[I]mmediate release is appropriate for two reasons. First, this Court has no faith that the Government would comply with an order to hold a bond hearing. ... Second, a bond hearing would be futile." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yup. I have rented a few times about how CEOs, as a class, are incredibly stupid. But the NFL is a giant company that is actually run very competently. They are, of course, still evil.

Everyone is roasting this guy for not having backups, but I actually would like someone to explain to me how the fuck Claude could mess up like this.

True. Everyone must trans.

This is pretty serious, and causes me some small level of disappointment in Mamdani. They are at the breaking point. You have not succeeded yet, they are not broken. Keep bending them.

So I guess it's time for me to write the thread I've been meaning to: Being a billionaire straight up causes a personality disorder. And I'm using the term personality disorder in the literal clinic sense.

Hasn't the government literally argued in court that order given via Truth Social have the force of executive orders?

I have been pointing this out for years.

This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.

Past me from three months ago: I don't understand the whole hesitancy to release the Epstein files. There must be someone incredibly powerful in there, that is named, with some specific details that can be checked. I'm going to time travel to the future and see who that is!

What if there was another Thomas Midgley Jr., but all the bad stuff that the new one did was on purpose because he was a sociopath?

So this is one of the places we need self executing laws. If you deny a congress person to an ICE detention facility, that Congress person should have the authority to order someone to demolish your house. Seriously, they can just immediately hire someone to demolish your house.

this stuff has really broken me. it's simply astounding that so many people who have been allowed to amass unimaginable wealth are so droolingly stupid, so unmoored from and in fact hostile to any sense of community or social responsibility, and oh by the way they love to constantly rape children

There are some very basic things that the next Dem Congress needs to flatly outlaw for the government.

Making it make sense: Epstein wasn't a global mastermind. He did not orchestrate a vast conspiracy that led us to today. He was a very rich man with connections to other very rich men. The shared culture of these men is that they have a right to dominate and abuse others without consequence.

This is actually fucking stupid. I don't mean the question, the premise itself is fucking untrue.

we have got to start being meaner to people who are still fans of harry potter. i don't give a shit what you were going through when you read it. that is not your "comfort character" that is a wizard cop written by a mold-addled racist transphobe

reiterating that it is normalized in the world of billionaires for people to arrive at events with 18-24 year old girls in tow, and for access to those women to be a social gift. (since I have to spell this out each time, this is gross and was *social cover* for Epstein's abuse of younger girls)

The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it

This is actually incorrect, by the way. The test was over the past decade, the media completely and utterly failed it, and this is the RESULTS of failing the test. You guys sanewashed a fascist, I have no sympathy for any of you whatsoever.

"Don't think of them as human beings, think of them as Americans." Fallout is hitting hard.

It's been a while, but here's another reminder that it can be both. Secretary of War William Belknap was impeached after his resignation. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...