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Sorry but if you’re reaching out to people at the freaking Quincy institute for comment, you’re not a serious person

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

The American companies would get paid back. The American consumers would not be paid back. Most American companies passed at least SOME of the tariffs onto the customers. Businesses would win in a rebate scenario. Consumers, not so much. Although there's speculation it would juice the economy.

This great section from the Three Potatoes really has me convinced that the magic of Candace Owens is willing to frame totally anodyne info as proof of guilt (for an unspecified action). You know, like someone with paranoid tendencies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwYT...

they took the deal in the end because it’s a huge overpay and the existing shareholders will make bank, there’s a reason Netflix walked away and there’s a good chance some of the same folks will pick the pieces back up in a fire sale in a couple years as the new conglomerate hemorrhages money

so we’re doing it this weekend.

And to be clear, everyone was very aware that this was illegal, but Trump officials and DOGE didi it anyway. Multiple IRS acting commissioners were removed when they raised concerns. Pretty much the entire C-suite resigned. From last year: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/this-tax-d...

I mean, I was a grown-ass working adult when Enron and other accounting scandals hit. It was all about casting losses as gains on balances sheets in order to please/scam investors. That desire, which always exists among ethically challenged C-suite folks, can be carried out in any number of ways.

Settler pogroms in the West Bank. Every night, every day. Trespassing, threatening. Beating people up, shooting at them. Killing livestock. Torching houses and mosques. Every day. Every night.

TV shows need to take less time. If Rod Serling and Richard Matheson didn’t complain about having to do characters and world building in a half hour no one should. I hate watching a show called Detective Frankenstein and having Frankenstein take 3 years to climb the ranks of the force

Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home. 14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.

(President Trump: I love the guy. He's a communist, but he's like my Indian son. JD Vance: [closing a 4chan draft calling Zohran Mamdani a "filthy pajeet terrorist"] I mean look: absolutely, sir. Tell me how to feel and I will try.

im tellin ya all this guy wants, all this guy ever wants, is to shoot the shit with a handsome man who has a nice smile

They literally thought people would just come here for a few months at a time and other than that it would be ghost town, or people would simply live in VA and MD. It was an insane thought in hindsight.

I want this tech to die more than anyone. But as someone deep in the trenches at ground zero in digital marketing/startup land, I can tell you that the wave is coming, and as horrifying as the last two years have been for me personally, the next five are going to be really hard to get through.

BREAKING: US Vice President JD Vance says he has evidence that Iran is developing a nuclear weapon and I am confident he is telling the truth. History shows us that when the US wants to go to war, it never lies about something as serious as weapons of mass destruction 👀

As a positive statement, the US is currently unable to conduct international affairs. No official is responsible, any action the US takes is likely illegal under domestic and international law, and any agreement will not be honored. It is as if the country is legally incapacitated.

we have to build more housing to get these people out of red states

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Eat Pray Love 2 being based on this turn of events would probably win "most Mood Whiplash-causing sequel ever" awards

I am not a Newsom stan but it is actually unfair to say that giving marriage licenses to gay folks in 2004 was "the least you could do" since it was a) a major ask of activists, b) quickly ruled illegal, and c) wildly controversial at the time en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fra...

any of those snowballs could have contained a rock, resulting in innocent police officers transforming into fool-saint figures in a backwoods Canadian town

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

I appreciate this perspective, particularly from someone in the community affected. I really just wish that my feelings about current events did not run between "pulsing fear linking every chakra" and "absolute disgust with the state of the country."

No better metaphor for what association with Trump gets you than the guys who won Team USA's first gold medal since 1980 being forever remembered as the sad losers who were served cold McDonald's and bottled water at a lunch Trump didn't even bother showing up to.

And Minnesota is a huge hub for the medical device industry so this is meant to punish 3M, Medtronic, etc. as well as Medicare/Medicaid recipients.

The people of Minnesota vote for representatives to Congress. Minnesota Reps. and Sens. were in DC, representing their constituents, when Congress passed laws using proper procedure that allocated Medicaid funding. The president breaking those laws violates the fundamental compact of the republic.

She is live. So far what I’m getting from this is that Erika Kirk was brainwashed by “mystical” Jews, possibly with help from the USMC (the extent to which is unclear but involves Good Samaritan Hospitals). Candace Owens is so awesome

Just know I should be having a terse conversation with my handler at the far end as the shadows play around us like swirling phantoms and I realize there's no good end in this grand game for me

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

Gotta watch out for pirates in Minnesota. I’m always saying that

Brigitte Macron's girldick. Is this anything?

The Trump administration last year lifted sanctions on Israeli settlers involved in violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Abu Siam was born in Philadelphia. He is at least the 11th U.S. citizen killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers since 2022.

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

I read this article and it was such ass just a bunch of people complaining about their situation without acknowledging what got them into the situation in the first place the entire Democratic Party didn’t turn against Israel on accident!

happy twin peaks day!!! hope you celebrate with a damn fine cup of coffee and a slice of cherry pie. #twinpeaksday #twinpeaks

Blackstone / Blackrock / Bridgewater / Blackwater / Waterbridge / Rockwater owns very little housing stock! Want them out? Fine, do it. Build more housing so it’s no longer commercially viable to buy single family homes as an investment!

Why hasn’t Bill Gates et al felt the pressure on this level? I thought Americans were an exceptional people but our elites are getting lapped by fucking Norwegians on doing the right thing in this context? Very sad. Let’s catch up! Let’s get past them! Hop to it, Bill!

A tiny town in Southside, Virginia with a population of ~6000 people has contracted with Flock to install 400 always-on cameras to surveil its six-square-mile footprint. That's one camera per 15 residents, or nearly 67 per square mile.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

i really don't think the average American centrist gets how absurd this sounds. none of this (bar immigration) is really any major issue here

Circlejerking is the weaponization of Jordan Peterson's formulation of Judeo-Bolshevism

it's molting season for RFK Jr

cant.stop.laughing

i dont think "twitter is the largest producer and distrubtor of csam thats ever existed" has really sunk in

rewatching Game of Thrones for the first time since it came out, and the show really nails how stupid political crises are, as well as how ineptly the Starks operate.