Well this is GDP, not wealth. But - if the numbers are not bullshit - it supports the idea that liberals support the economy and conservatives suck its tit.

Sounds about right.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

I don't understand. Why an interview with Erika Kirk? Normal people don't know who that is, and didn't know who her husband was before the media rammed him down our throats after he got killed.

A strange modern breakdown of the difference between “doing something” and “appearing to do something.” It would be insightful to learn that it is only necessary to look like you are doing a thing, and that actual skill and expertise are irrelevant.

Fact-check: true

This is a good point. Trump seems to be more of an accomplice that a mere client of Epstein.

The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans. bsky.app/profile/jare...

I hear people talking about ICE kidnappings, destroying the White House, killing fishermen, Trump raping minors, etc., and actually nobody talking about “the economy,” which the press and the Democrats have decided is the only important thing.

That is one scary-looking chick. This could easily be a scene from a horror film.

I am expecting that they will find these drugs cause people to stop wanting all the things that give them joy now. They will be tremendously profitable.

"The takedowns and restrictions began in October and targeted the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts of more than 50 organisations worldwide ... in what appears to be a growing push by Meta to limit reproductive health and queer content across its platforms."

I recently checked and see that I am blocked by thousands of BlueSky users. The result is that I am unaware of important discussions happening on topics that I care about, because I did not accurately parrot the required cliches. I am not blaming myself for this.

I find it incredible that they do not see "white guy" as an "identity." They just don't. They see normal people, that is, white guys, surrounded by people with various identities. This is what we call a "blind spot."

Remember how they said the upcoming war in Venezuela was about drugs, and then they seized an oil tanker?

The way the mainstream media cleans up Trump’s racist tirades has long passed the “they’re just making mistakes” phase. This is actively aiding and abetting a racist, tyrannical regime. The ‘mainstream media is the enemy.

So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.

There's a post over on Twitter that I've been laughing to myself about. Some right-wing guy is celebrating that a school took down "All-Gender" bathroom signs and replaced them with "Single Occupancy Restroom" signs. And like... it's the same thing, man. You're celebrating a pointless relabeling.

We knew it was coming, but still heartbreaking to hear of the passing of Raul Malo, a unique musical artist who set the standard high... Impossible to summarize his contributions. We'll miss him.

The FDA did not *attribute* any deaths to vaccine, they simply said that 10 deaths had been attributed. What deaths were they? No specific deaths have been attributed to Covid vaccines by the FDA.

Instead of mini gyms, how about investing in a modern air traffic controller system? Uh? IDIOTS 💩🤡🤬

PIERS: “You’re not gay?” FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.” P: “Should they vote?” F: “No.” PIERS: “They should stay home?” FUENTES: “Yeah.” PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?” FUENTES: “No.” PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”

I just realized what "butter him up" means. You butter him up so it'll slip in easier, don't you.

This.

Jasmine Crockett Posts Bizarre Video of Herself Smiling While Trump Insults Her Half a Dozen Times Mediaite

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

contrarian.substack.com/p/the-second... As horrifying the second strike may be, Paul correctly identified a more frightful issue: Trump’s concocted “drug war” is just a pretext to bootstrap extrajudicial killings into grounds for a regime-change war of the very type Trump vowed never to start

“Given Trump’s position on situations like this, he’s going to either need to fire himself or refer himself to the Department of Justice. Trump has deemed that this type of misrepresentation is sufficient to preclude someone from serving the country.”

This attempt at profound cleverness assumes that people "understand the truth." Two undefinable concepts - understanding and truth - interwoven into an unprovable human conceit.

Double-tap, it sounds like fucking billiards balls.

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Sometimes I just like the titles.

In their confirmation hearings, RFK Jr pledged he would not be anti-vax, Hegseth said he respected women serving in leadership positions in the military, and Bondi said she would not weaponize DOJ against Trump’s political enemies.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

This is just embarrassing.

Rural folks need to face the reality that they are "takers" and the cities are "givers". So step 1 is for cities to demand statehood. Let Central Missouri be a state, bordered by a St Louis state and Kansas City state. See what it's like to have your tax-free utopia.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

You gotta love how the IG doesn't refer to him as the "Secretary of War."

Whatever happened to, "Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop, on company time."

Good point. Also eugenics is an experiment that has to take place over many generations to have a real effect, and it's hard to do anything on that kind of long-term schedule. Can you think of any project (besides a govt) that has lasted more than 100 years or so?

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

We're not sending them our best people.

It's kinda disconcerting when people assume these probably-fishermen were actually drug smugglers. I have not heard of any evidence suggesting they were doing anything other than fishing.

I've used MuseScore for years and always loved it, but it has been enshittified almost beyond being usable now.

Wow, this could get pretty cool. Goose gander etcetera. thehill.com/homenews/med...