ROFL. It was a Nazi speech. Apparently a mashup of a few different ones but the main flow, theme and name seems to come from Goebbels’ speech «The storm» which was Millers main metaphor.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Douglas Adams: describing the Babelfish in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I said it had caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in creation, to note that improved communication tools can do more to create conflict than to defuse it. Apple: At long last, we have created the Babelfish...

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

‪ Oh, joy. We have a crowd of immature young guys living entirely in the textual world of their internet forums, whose beliefs are as ungrounded in the world beyond the text that formed them as those of, say, GPT-2. And these people have guns.

Dementia will do that to a person.

I'd like these Democratic consultants to be exposed to a few hours of FDR and Truman campaign speeches. Not because they'd learn anything, but because the Little Dog Fala speech, or "I welcome their hatred" from Madison Square Garden, would traumatize them enough to leave the field for someone else.

Incidentally, it's now clear that Ghislaine lied under oath to help Trump out with the letter allegations. She was the one who solicited and compiled the book. This is a false declaration under 18 USC § 1623 under aggregated circumstances.

Here's gov't shutdown in a nutshell: GOP needs two things (a) pass budget bill (b) fix ACA cut that will go into effect before midterms. The Dem strategy is to give the GOP both in exchange for nothing then blame the Dem base for not understanding how good that is.

Our problem is less that we have a Republican Congress, it's that for all intents and purposes we don't have a Congress at all. All of its powers have been eviscerated. Power of the purse, to make laws, oversight, impeachment. An impotent GOP Congress and an impotent Dem Congress are both impotent.

Tuned into the middle of the NFL pregame, and have seen two separate airings (so far!) of an ICE recruitment ad targeting local cops, and promising attacks on "the worst of the worst", followed by a long list of targets that somehow excludes ice cream vendors and gardeners.

Some people are saying that the success of Bari Weiss is a refutation of the Peter Principle -- that she rose to her level of incompetence, and just kept rising. These people are wrong. She's very good at her job, and her benefactors know it. They also know her job isn't what she says it is...

And here I was trying to work up a script for "weekend at Bernie's 2: Bernie plays golf".

Now, why would someone from the Trump administration be so familiar with how crooks think?

If anyone's really worried about Democratic politicians spewing off-putting, weird-sounding rhetoric, the problem is mush like this. Not a bunch of terms used, if at all, then by activists that Democratic leadership is already desperately trying to quash.

Living dangerously, chez Mastodon...

Every businessman who wanted a business-friendly style of governance... I hope this is what you wanted, because it's what you got.

US-based cloud services provider says *all* of what they host is an open book to the US government, even if the data centers are physically overseas. Clients, take note.

If Bill f--ing Kristol is more in tune with the Democratic Party base than Democratic Party leadership, then the party leadership has blown it badly.

Proud to be known as the party that responds to lawless fascism with strongly worded letters.

This is the most disheartening article I've read today. It makes me think the Democratic Party isn't salvageable, or at least that Schumer and Gillibrand are the Manchin and Sinema of our time and must be hounded into retirement. (Read free: archive.is/ZB3G8). newrepublic.com/article/1987...

Dude, have you considered the Metro?

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Checked over on X. Not only is this 1915-era "motor vehicle" fearmongering still up, it's the guy's current pinned tweet.

Among Mamdani's campaign promises: rent freeze on stabilized apts -- DeBlasio actually did this expanding childcare -- DeBlasio actually did this free buses -- Mamdani himself started a pilot (5 free routes now). These things are impossible?!

"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."

And if he personally does research leading to cures for cancer, AIDS, and Alzheimer's, that'll put him in line for a Nobel in medicine.

Submitted for your consideration: an FBI leader who was happy his team reached a "battle rhythm" helping ICE raids, but resigned rather than disavow personal friendship with Peter Strzok, who's on the outs. As with Imperial cops in Andor mistreated by their organization, my sympathy has limits.

In case anyone's wondering, why yes, this apparently *is* the same Roko who came up with Roko's Basilisk (a scenario involving a hypothetical AI that would concoct sapient simulacra of current-day AI opponents for the specific purpose of torturing them eternally). No longer his worst idea.

Is it too much to expect Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to be to the left of Bill Kristol?

Kind of striking how Democratic leadership is going a lot harder at Zohran Mamdani for things he never even said than they are at Senator Tuberville for saying stuff like this...

i’m at the taco bell i’m at the urgent care i’m at the combination taco bell and urgent care

If SCOTUS wanted to cut back on nationwide injunctions, Matthew Kacsmaryk from the northern district of Texas gave them years of opportunities with unhinged rulings against Biden. They passed on those, then killed one that went against Trump. Some victory for even-handed jurisprudence.

Most moral army in the world. (Source is Israel's oldest newspaper, Ha'aretz: www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...)

There have been no such comments. They're making it up.

The chair of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee should care more about what Democratic voters think of her than what Republican anythings do. Yet she keeps sucking up to donors instead, as if planning to win with a last-minute flood of cash. Cuomo just showed her how well that works...

Zohran the Destroyer! He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the destroyer came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor!

Conventional wisdom among the DC/NY press corps is that Trump is strong on immigration enforcement. But that isn't reflected in polling. People hate it. So tell me: Who's in the bubble? Bluesky users or mainstream media editorial writers?

Actually Jewish: Evan Rachel Wood. "Sounds Jewish": Nazi war criminal Alfred Rosenberg

Uhhh... positions of candidates that "genuinely excite voters" are "politically toxic"? You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...

Doing a little math here, it looks like Cuomo supporters literally spent more than every other candidates' put together (most of it from PACs). Well, that's what running a party for the donors and not the voters gets you. It would be nice if Democratic leadership took note.

Jewish New Yorkers for an un-crowded Zabar's.

If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

"Democratic leaders have a consistent message for vulnerable constituents: Trump is trying to bait us into helping you, and we won’t be taking the bait. This “distraction” trope had steered Schumer into describing a setback to equality as unworthy of attention." www.offmessage.net/p/democrats-...

Greenpeace with wedding wishes for Jeff Bezos... (Exactly what in Venice he actually did rent is a pretty closely held secret, though planners claim they're trying to "minimize disruption". It is known to include several dozen water taxis and a lot of the gondolas...)

brilliant

Give him credit. He's half right. W was a dumb President.