These are the two optimal types of Baseball Name.

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

i mean, yes. but left of center people do not need right wing spaces in the same way right wing people need left / liberal spaces because right wing americans are antisocial freaks who build nothing of value for society.

All the centrist/conservative Democrats who wanted to allow Abrego Garcia and everyone else Trump sent to CECOT to rot in a slave camp should be embarrassed with themselves and think deeply before saying anything about anything.

See, the thing is that whether USAID was a cynical op to expand imperial influence or a sincere act of goodwill from the United States, all those Africans are still dead.

the slavers’ obsession - both before and after the war - with presenting their hideous police state as necessary to forestall sexual violence is what you’d call projection

This argument - that court reform is the necessary precondition to any other Democratic priority - is so transparently, inarguably true. If Democrats don't support it, the only logical conclusion is that they want to be seen passing legislation but don't actually care if it gets overturned.

As this tweet makes clear, it’s hard to talk clearly with other things in your mouth. Graham is warning Trump is about to take the L. He’s also pretending there are other letters available.

Billionaires and presidents and corporations are taking your money. We’ve increased productivity by an insane amount and they’ve gobbled it up for themselves and their crotch goblins.

let this be a message to Americans who join the military. the GOP will campaign on your death and use their power to delete your existence from the history books once it becomes inconvenient.

I would simply not house Lilith in a sub-basement under the White House instead of covering it in a massive AT-field

The thing about all the opposition to the Kristoff story is less that any of these people actually dispute the substance and more that they dispute the de-monopolization of victimhood on behalf of a country which has nuclear weapons and is the longest-ongoing military occupier in postwar history.

Oscar Isaac deserves credit for being, as far as I know, the first major actor to capture the tech bro CEO, in Ex Machina. Those guys were all over the news by then, but movies were still doing the "babbling nerd with a pocket protector" thing. Also accurate: what he really wants is slavery.

I don’t care if Hydrox came first! Taste better!! This is the harsh world of sandwich cookies!!! We don’t care about your history! You get nothing from being first!! This is about advancing the science and your ass got left behind!!!

America has probably been cooked since Reconstruction tbh That doesn’t mean we can’t create a Second or Third American Republic that actually works but I feel increasingly confident that this version of America has failed and is over.

CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get? LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire.

Sorry but it’s pretty funny that “broadly left-leaning politician, in a development inexplicable to those close to him, becomes much more ideologically conservative after a medical event known to have caused lasting brain impairment” is a plainly true story political media just has to kind of ignore

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

Republican healthcare plan is storming the capital & bear-spraying a cop so you get $ to buy chemo for your daughter

I'll have something coming out about this eventually but to say this killer was motivated by just "nihilism" is wrong: The killers glorified neo-Nazis They promoted Siege and ideas like "accelerationism" Their influences were ripped out of a "Terrorgram" documentary. www.cbsnews.com/news/san-die...

We need to take this "nihilistic hate" jargon and throw it in the trash. Definitionally, it means nothing. Law enforcement is only interested in it because it helps them obscure right-wing extremist violence. The public finds the concept offensive. Just drop it, imo www.cbsnews.com/news/san-die...

We’re going to be seeing a lot more of this sentiment. Do not trust these people.

So the same people who have shouted and cried about colleges indoctrinating students for the past decade are now going to pass a law that requires students to take right wing indoctrination courses.

It also further encourages the real goal of billionaires and MAGA: the erosion of government. It takes Project 2025 to its truest aims. Elimination of everything that serves the public and extraction by private interests of everything else.

Buddy you ARE the bigger challenge

What about the eight Dems who also voted yea for this? Or is the Equality Caucus too dedicated to performative anger that you can't even dream of being mad at Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, Cleo Fields, Laura Gillen, Vicente Gonzalez, Marcy Kaptur, Marie Glusenkamp Perez, and Eugene Vindman?

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

It reminds me a lot of the "young men don't go to war anymore" complaint. War objectively sucks! It is a very bad thing to experience! Even US troops, with overwhelming firepower and superior logistics do not generally have a great time doing it! It is good we put fewer people through it.

I can't believe we turned "Laptop Worker" into a term of derision. We now have the tech and business models to allow millions of people to make a living in ways unthered to a farm plot, assembly line,, or cubicle. That's very cool! Do not project your weird yearning for the mines on to me.

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

This precedent could also be applied to government officials who blow people up in boats without a declared war, due process, evidence, or trial.

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

Socialism but anti-social isn't really socialism, it's just crank anti-liberalism

"He was a trailblazer! He fought for LGBTQ rights!" Let's clear something up: he fought for rights that would help him, personally. He wanted to be able to get married. He wanted to be protected from discrimination. I do not think he cared if anyone else benefited from this. It was self-interest.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

Massie, outrspoken on Israel, loses. Chris Rabb, outspoken on Israel, wins. Let this be the end of the bozos peddling the idea that the MAGA base > democratic base on Israel. It's all cloutchasing nonsense, dare I say an opp, to fragment the left's real power on this issue. Onward...

Republican voters are Bad, but Republican *primary* voters are Literal Demons From Actual Hell.

the problem isnt AI so much as it is how AI intersects with everything else at the moment (across the spectrum! ecologically etc). its actually pretty good at doing a lot of braindead bullshit email jobs. the problem is you are injecting that into a broken society with mostly braindead bullshit jobs

Damn crazy how when these guys know they aren’t gonna be in office anymore they suddenly notice all the bad stuff I guess they must finally have time to read about it

most non-cybertruck 4x4 failures are people getting into situations they could've handled but don't, due to arrogance and lack of experience most Cybertruck failures are people trying to do things no vehicle can safely do, because they believe their car is magic

The most principled figure in American politics: a retiring Republican Senator thinking about their book deal

You mean they can't just say the plane had drug dealers on it and we just have to take their word for it?

I think this is why so many business people and the editorial class got so completely brain poisoned from Twitter back in its heyday. It was literally the first time someone had ever told them to shut up or expressed anything other than admiration (or faux admiration) towards them.

spending $100m so 9,000 people can look at their health insurance bill and move back to south africa

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

"I ask all of you to think of it, graduates and families alike, let yourself dream of a future in which we can harness this amazing new technology to eliminate entry-level jobs entirely. Indeed, that work has already begun, and that future is now." /college kid booing intensifies "Wow okay,"

Fuck Reagan forever.

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"

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.