Rich dudes have completely melted their brain in an effort to keep out any self criticism or critical thought

*taps sign* The government running party primary elections instead of letting parties pick their own nominees in the manner of their choosing is a weird American thing that eviscerates the fundamental purpose of political parties and it's bad, actually.

extremely glad that chevalier won so that moderates no longer have to direct friendly fire at good ideas and can in fact direct both barrels at an actual moron

The fact that libs of TikTok is posting this kind of shit about literal 7 year old girls genuinely terrifies me. The right has been aggressively accelerating the eliminationist rhetoric over even just the last few weeks.

Would be a shame if Michael Bennet lost the Gov’s race—he’s one of the highest quality Dem Senators and an extremely serious guy

Unfortunately Abbott cannot lose because the median voter associates him with the state’s effective policies on economic development rather than his culture warring (he has never *really* broken through as a public figure in the state).

not really a good sign that Paxton is already polling at 47%

this is a good example of the circlejerk nature of legal academia

this person has no business in public office and this is a very alarming sign about the future (and national competitiveness) of the Democratic Party

Why not “pull all US subsidies to Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, disengage from the Gulf, and focus our foreign policy on issues actually relevant to our national interests” Think bigger here folks. We don’t need to play a role in the I/P conflict anymore.

Bob Moses? The New York parks commissioner?

Idk I suspect it would be good to shield children from the most addictive products of large American tech companies

my experience is Western Europe is that living standards were quite high and that public infrastructure was far better, even in countries (e.g., Spain) with much lower GDPs on paper

the conspiracy theories don't have a kernel of truth but it is ludicrous that counting California's votes takes longer than anywhere else on Earth

This is moronic but it’s also unacceptable that California counts votes like this given the political climate.

I mean there clearly *some* tail-to-dog action here given that the Israeli PM brazenly exploited the obvious psychological and intellectual shortcomings of our idiot President to get the US to launch a war clearly against its interests.

Tbh I don’t think it’s the case that the court is “nakedly partisan” But they have embraced a radical vision of conservative legal reform that includes: judicial repeal of the VRA, rolling back abortion rights, empowering a personalist presidency, and crippling administrative governance

A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.

Finding Becerra’s utter lack of public policy knowledge baffling for someone with such a long career in politics.

just nuts to me that given how much the world has changed and the acute challenges posed by Russia and China, there are still so many figures in both parties invested in this quixotic project of containing Iran

The SpaceX IPO is the attention economy just devouring an actual market, a grim realization that the spectacle can overpower the real longer than you can stay solvent. Not even one of the deepest financial markets on earth can protect you from this dipshit and his army of retail followers.

It’s an extremely minor issue which makes it all the more puzzling that the left keeps insisting on allowing MTF athletes to compete in women’s categories given how how it’s become this symbol of social policy overreach.

[braving the discourse]: i grew up in a sushi and seatbelts are gay slash women shit town idk how it'll shakes out but like theres absolutely an audience for the absurd shit they're saying against talarico

real personal income is now falling behind in both absolute and relative terms it's not a mystery why consumer sentiment is falling off a cliff. this is literally worse than 2022/23

this campaign is shaping up to be the ultimate IQ test for TX voters and with a decade of experience in state politics I’m mildly pessimistic about the outcome

Cornyn could have stood up to Trump, gotten crushed in the primary, and rode off into the deeply principled sunset to the acclaim of plenty of people; I would’ve been one of them. Instead, he chose this.

The really unsexy truth about climate change is that we're doing Pretty GoodAll Things Considered and dooming about it is just sorta the Midwit Position now 4C was where we were heading prior to Paris. Worst case scenario on current policies is 2.7C. An unfathomable amount of harm has been averted

Yeah I’m pretty pro-panopticon for anything involving cars. Speed governors, automated license plate readers, ignition interlocks for people with more than one DUI. Sorry, your rights to privacy ended when you began operating a multi ton piece of heavy machinery around me!

Okay, so obviously this is very dumb, but for an explanation of why: The "rules being eased" is really "unwinding the phase-out of HFC refrigerants." HFCs are responsible for the extremely high global warming potential of refrigerants, and our previous saner government was working to fix this 1/x

It’s hilarious that billionaires have cooked their brains so much that they think Nashville is on par with Shanghai or Singapore. buddy, the only thing that Nashville is a “global powerhouse” in is hosting bachelorette parties

Holy shit lmao

Have sat out the Platner discourse but I thought he came off well in this interview

post a meme made by you

the market for this kind of right-coded agitslop is completely saturated, and the people who consume it are not going to seek it out from WaPo just completely inexplicable as a business strategy

The US currently has a budget deficit of 6% of GDP.

You say "operational minimum," I say "minimum viable scale," but the point is: 1) I hate being right 2) the point that a smooth, linear transition away from fossil fuels isn't possible is well known by the industry folks and analysts

“For the good of society, your son will work in the trades. Oh, my son? My son will be a titan of politics and industry. For the good of society, your daughter will be a tradwife. Oh, my daughter? My daughter will host a lucrative rightwing podcast.”

I’m so tired.

Poe's Law? The message of the game is a pretty benign Obama-era liberal internationalism.

so while I have some issues with the precis describing these groups the core point is right the broad center left is becoming unglued on questions of fact in ways that increasingly resemble the right hard to say how much it's our politics, how much it's short form video poisoning, but it's real

personally doubting the NYC corporate lawyer who made $225k their first year is envious of the roughneck making half that in a physically demanding job that can be lost at any time when the price of oil drops

You really could just pass legislation ending partisan gerrymandering under the Elections Clause. A clean and fair redistricting system would likely provide for sufficient minority representation in the South. There’s other reasons to fuck with the Court though (e.g., Citizens United)

This is suicidal for the nuclear industry. Tepid public support for the technology depends on nuclear operators maintaining 100% safety. The second one of these VC-backed SMR companies kills someone that social license will disappear.

I think what is interesting about Ukraine is that this is the first usage of military robotics that actually seems to flow from a reality that very few in military futurism community have discussed: population scarcity