This just proves that we need to eliminate party primaries in this country altogether. I'm tired of politicians only caring about what ~10% of the population thinks and not the other 90%.

It’s pretty funny that a ballroom that has not started development and will never start development already has massive scope creep problems.

i think, looking back, we will discover (god willing) that the second-most-afraid donald trump has ever been was when BLM came knocking at the front gates

They were literally praying about how it had taken God 200 years to send someone to build the ballroom. It has totemic power to MAGA as a bulwark to hide from society is my only explanation

Mainstream media really has a hard time calling a nazi a nazi. These two kids are very typical modern day Nazis. Risking over simplifying this, but what used to be boots and braces, getting drunk, and jumping people on the sidewalk is now seige aesthetic, internet brain rot, and shooting.

Strong evidence that the shooters at the mosque in San Diego yesterday held both Islamophobic and antisemitic beliefs. Our safety is bound up together, no matter how much politicians may try to divide us.

He's right! They called it "No Tyrants" outside of the US! Pussy-ass fake liberals should have called it "No Kings, Priests, or Gentry"!

It really is amazing that his oatmeal brain has settled on "you think $5/gallon is bad? It could be way worse!" as a good response to ppls complaints going into the midterms.

Trump gutted USAID. Hunger and violence followed.

It isn't "racial pride." The manifesto, which I'm reading right now, is a total slop-bucket of neo-Nazi accelerationism with misogynistic rants and multiple sections that are completely unfinished. It lionizes Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in a NZ mosque in 2019. nymag.com/intelligence...

ICYMI: "For a genre and series steeped in imagination, it’s vexing that Final Fantasy can rarely picture something beyond kingdoms." @rubeck.bsky.social zooms in on FFIV to speak to the greater series' obsession with monarchy:

again, in terms of "people outside Iran", Trump is the single individual most responsible for the Iranian nuclear program

The everyone-is-12 theory is intersecting with the plans-to-never-leave-office theory

People on Bluesky insist everyone hates ai meanwhile in the real world an ai song about Puerto Rico has gone mega viral with tons of views and remixes. I’m not saying ai doesn’t suck but we need to be real about how normies are using it.

The structural incentives of the discursive space end up largely determining the shape of public opinion of the group that occupies that space.

My working theory for why this is is that a certain generation of internet leftists grew up in households that mainlined Rush Limbaugh and it's practically instinct for them to blame Dems for everything. Lots of nominally left-wing people have conservative dispositions and outrage is catnip to them.

The insurrectionist pedophile in question is Andrew Paul Johnson and it is public record that he tried to silence his victim(s) with promises of Trump millions for J6.

Everyone knew the Appalachians were going to be fucked by Helene except, apparently, the people who live there, which is really a sign a lot of heads should have rolled because people weren't warned about the NHC forecast discussions

So to be clear: the trans/genderqueer experience can rapidly change the further north you get from the perimeter. ITP? Fine, just don't get mugged. immediately OTP? pretty good. PTC/south Roswell: fine. Alpharetta/Milton: you are running into the white flighters. don't go past exit 11.

Scores of law enforcement officers responded to a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, the region's largest mosque, where police say at least three victims were killed.

Cackling at how much online "Christianity" right now is focused on physical fitness and appearance despite being the rare subject that is condemned 100% of the time in the Bible.

There has to be a better place to move en masse than expensive-ass Seattle or the white separatist infested PNW. Literally just come to Atlanta.

'a rising power inevitably fights the ruling power unless diplomats' hobbyless behavior

I think that the AI-naysayer circuit is becoming more of a grift than the actual AI industry. Lots of very experienced cognitive scientists, linguists, and programmers just locked in an ivory tower totally missing that the world is passing them by, hoping folks will keep buying their books.

Two police officers from Gratis, Ohio, an all-white town per the US census, showed up at a majority Latinx public school in Cincinnati—50 miles away—to search for kids for ICE, disguised as a “wellness check.”

The US is not the only developed country where teachers buy pencils. The US actually invests quite well in education by developed country standards. We ought to invest more, because our extremely R&D heavy economy would benefit from it. We only need foreign PhDs b/c our R&D is stupidly big.

my favorite genre of international dialogue

Alan really gets at it here:

Spotted on Tumblr…

I'm w/ Serwer tactically as well as morally. My morality's my own & I don't evangelize. But as a student of the right I'm constantly astonished by how *profoundly* those who think violence will work against it underestimate its resources for violence--*&* its vulnerability to committed nonviolence.

The simplest answer is that the people making these decisions are trapped in a hype bubble. The conspiratorial answer is that they are building The Machine.

tbf both are freaks lol

I am not on Twitter. I have not posted on Twitter since mid-December. I do not use or even look at Twitter. Nonetheless, I can fully recognize that filtering all the liberals out of elite parasocial communities, and replacing them with Nazis, has substantial negative effects.

Like every historical figure, Paine’s reputation and relevance has ebbed, flowed, and evolved over time. One notable moment when Paine re-entered the national chat was during the Popular Front, antifascist mobilization of the 1930s and 40s. Left: 1943 Right: 1945

I want to get Ray Blanchard to look at this and tell me that autoandrophilia isn't a thing.

Gender is stored in the balls.

New — The Senate has just voted against advancing an Iran War Powers Resolution for the seventh time, 49-50. This time though, a Democrat was the *deciding vote.* Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski voted to advance it. John Fetterman voted against it.

“Energy prices, grocery prices, core inflation, and the CPI are all surging, thanks to Trump’s war in Iran. And he can’t escape responsibility. Why? Because he has repeatedly admitted, on camera, that he foresaw the war’s economic damage and started it anyway.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-admi...

Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some states are finally turning things around. n.pr/4wspadU

Mr President a second Trump term has just hit the economy

WHY SHOULD EUROPE FORGO THEIR PRIMARY SECURITY THREAT—THE WAR IN UKRAINE—TO DIVERT RESOURCES FOR AN UNCLEAR AND OPEN ENDED WAR OF CHOICE THE UNITED STATES LAUNCHED WITHOUT EVER ONCE CONSULTING EUROPE CAN A SINGLE ONE OF YOU PEOPLE ANSWER THAT

ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

I think a lot of people fundamentally do not understand that MTG breaking with the GOP over the Epstein files is *because of* this

In a gentler, kinder world with less bloodshed we'd see Netanyahu's corruption in the same lens as scandals of median post-Soviet oligarchs, but we live in a less perfect world.

I was recently given the Kindle that belonged to my grandmother who now has dementia. She exclusively used it to read the Bible. I found a "Bible Quiz" game on it and decided to play it to see how well I did. This was one of the questions, and the answer with the checkmark is the expected answer.

They didn't deserve the TVA. Giving the south electricity led to them having Twitter. We need to go back.

America’s 20th century rise; our victory in World War II; the post-war international order anchored on the dollar, democracy, and stabilizing institutions; increased standards of living— it’s all meaningless if all you wanted was to keep pre-1865 domination over a subset of people in your own state.

Anti-abortion advocates don't really believe that fetuses are people, or that abortion is anywhere near murder.

"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need" implies that the committed communist needs to maximize their ability and minimize their need, otherwise the whole project collapses under the weight of layabouts that just want to poast and smoke weed!