Bill Clinton used to have to walk across the street to use a private telephone to make fundraising calls so as not to violate the Hatch Act by using public resources for partisan purposes. Trump makes campaign commercials from behind the Resolute desk.

Real

The fact that the Harris campaign made their direct pitch of "these fuckers want to destroy our democracy, don't let them," Trump barely denied it, and it still flat out did not work has done a lot of hidden damage to the Democratic party and, more broadly, the American psyche

a lot of "feckless dems" talk is failing to understand the degree to which a) they thought they made 2024 a referendum on this and b) they think losing means voters only care about unenlighted self-interest

I have no opinions on Carvana as a business, but if they somehow manage to destroy car dealerships, they will have done more good for this country than most institutions could ever dream of.

The US would in many cases be better off if many of the highest-paying blue-collar jobs were automated. Certainly not all of them, but there are grotesque inefficiencies in transport infrastructure that stem from protectionism that doesn't need to exist.

the federal reserve has been so successful as an institution that I really think guys with crank opinions about the money supply should be treated like flat-earthers and antivaxxers

I think the central error here is the assumption that if things get bad enough, the bad guys will lose forever. They won't! Thermostatic public opinion will keep being a thing! Republicans will win again, eventually, even if they lose by 20% in 2028!

Folks

Ken’s not kidding

They want to be lied to. All that matters are their needs and beliefs so they will ignore objective reality.

We have to smash the suffocating instinct to pretend that this is all normal. Nothing here is normal. You are living through the most open, shameless corruption of government in American history.

interesting to contrast this with mamdani who has done a lot of great comms work but who enjoys outsize approval here compared to his accomplishments and public approval among NYers. social media is about vibes. it’s a meta-medium. policy is almost immaterial.

‘Union’ means ‘group of workers collectively bargaining’, not ‘ontologically good thing’. There are more workers than firms so thinking unions are in the right is a good strategy for being right most of the time, but not all the time.

I will just add to this that, during the Biden presidency, I made a point of regularly calling out the good things the administration was doing -- which were continuous &, in aggregate, enormously consequential -- and ... none of that went viral. Very, very little engagement or amplification.

“Once a guy sent me a video with Emily’s nude on a tablet on a pillow, and he was basically recording himself fucking the pillow,” he says. “It was incredibly weird, but he sent me a $50 tip, so I was like, OK, do what you want.”

the federal reserve has been so successful as an institution that I really think guys with crank opinions about the money supply should be treated like flat-earthers and antivaxxers

“It doesn’t matter who’s in charge, blah blah uniparty, blah blah controlled opposition. Now, please donate to my gofundme, I’m trans and I need to get the fuck out of Florida and move to Seattle, where things are better for trans people for reasons I would rather die than acknowledge.”

Remember that viral post asking about load bearing opinions that loads of people believe but no one ever says out loud? One of them definitely “drink driving isn’t that bad”

Still, the most important post that has ever been made on this website.

I’ve never really been an Our Tax Dollars guy but all the blatant corruption, ballroom, slush fund for rioting pedophiles etc is really throwing me into a permanent state of rage and bloodlust. Something’s gotta give

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, a Black lawmaker whose district could be under threat in Selma, Alabama, said an immediate priority is to “reform and reintroduce” Democrats' flagship voting bill. She said Democrats want to "completely eliminate" partisan gerrymandering.

1. you don't need a canary when you have me on your team! 2. wild that I was reading this while the all-hands meeting with the leadership team was/is actively still happening, like this article has more info than the people being impacted right now

This is just going to rinse repeat until tanks are empty and spot markets go vertical, then the jawboning won't matter.

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion To Have https://bit.ly/3RjdlH1

Mississippi would be a blue state if white Mississippians hit that D button at the same rate as people from Utah.

Lying ICE goon charged. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-ch...

Finally some good news

the essense of Colby's ideology was supposed to be "what if we abandoned our democratic allies in Europe to concentrate on China", in practice it is "what if we abandoned all our democratic allies to become even more invested in stupid wars in the Middle East"

White Rural Southerners would never vote for her anyways because she's a Progressive Latina from the Northeast. As for urban White Southerners they'd probably either agree with her or have the need to toughen the fuck up.

Property crime on trains is down about 95% since BART installed tall fare gates that make it significantly harder to ride without paying.

3. Trump purchased between purchased between $1 million and $5 million worth of Dell Technologies stock on February 10. During an economic speech in Georgia nine days later, Trump told the audience to “go out and buy a Dell computer,” saying the company made “phenomenal products.”

If you have a spare moment, why not derive all mathematics from pure logic in their honour?

"and the representative character of the tech guys trying to turn the federal government into their personal empire will be named Augustus Dorko"

A lot of these people would flip out so hard if they actually joined a union and encountered internal union politics one single time

"you read their words, felt like you had read something else, and responded to the latter" should be embossed on the Bluesky coat-of-arms.

“Give me D+15 and 65% disproval…I’ll get you Blansas and Blississippi”

This website will be insufferable for weeks when this incel gets off because the federal government and police are idiots.

I look forward to the post-scarcity fully-automated economy, wherein we will all fight tooth and nail for handmade prestige goods that confer social status

I don't think this is negotiable and people need to come out and say it this is maybe most corrupt action ever taken by a united states president, it is an egregious crime against this country, and nobody involved should walk away unscathed

Canada has, in the span of a year, nearly doubled its defence spending to hit 2%/GDP; stood up a project to build America's much-needed icebreakers; and is (finally) creating its own defence industrial base. So, naturally, the U.S. is suspending a shared defence panel that's been around since 1940.

Oh hey it's the thing that Jews said was happening and everyone insisted could not be happening

To be clear, the fight you aren't going to be able to fight isn't insurance jobs at all, it's that doctors get paid less. Insurance is kind of a sideshow here. Doctors will not accept going down to 300k/yr from 450k/yr

The sheer resistance in certain circles to the idea that most big-name D&D podcasts are at least partially scripted is perplexing to me because, like, look at the fucking production values.

it's fascinating that in the midst of a historically unpopular presidency driven almost entirely by voluntary choices made by a rapidly declining president with an adversarial relationship with the press, we see a complete dearth of "gop needs to change course" thinkpieces and coverage

Land may not vote, but it does get interviews

Don’t siege Tehran, take it immediately