They are sovereign nations.

Seems bad that all of the most banal, gormless Republicans who used to just talk in cliches are frothing-at-the-mouth racists now.

Tina Peters should be put in solitary.

Increasingly of the belief that everyone involved in creating and promoting this technology, for which there is no discernible need or legitimate use, should be in prison.

This man suffered from delusions, and ChatGPT fed those delusions, and now, he and his mother are dead. The sooner the bubble bursts, the better.

Textbook example of how neofundamentalists and MAGA theocrats cynically (ab)use the Bible so that its chief function is to provide them with a scriptural imprimatur to pursue antecedently-held bigotries. I'm sure Wolfe implored his fellow believers to observe this sacred duty in the Obama years.

This is clearly AI-written, sorry

Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

The endgame for crypto doesn’t threaten people’s livelihoods whereas the entire point of AGI is to replace us all with computers. It’s no surprise that people now rail more against AI which provides genuine value to hundreds of millions of people than crypto which is a grifter’s paradise.

probably not a great sign that Trump's assistant AG for civil rights uses a slur for people with disabilities

I take a little time off and the leader of Canada’s official opposition goes on a livestream with a guy who begged me for feet pics This is why people think canada isn’t real!!!!!

I am being gradually converted to British style unwritten constitutionalism because "it works how we all think it works" is a much more sensible system than this "if you read the constitution backwards while standing on one leg and divide every third word by the number of vowels" bullshit.

The most interesting thing about Trump, contra Kat Rosenfeld, is that he shows no loyalty to anyone and keeps selling out everyone he steps on to get where he wants and whenever one of his stepping stones like MTG get the temerity to think they have a reciprocal relationship they're all surprised!

the other 49 states can suck it

50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person. This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle. Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities. This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist

One way to look at this is that a 1% tax on wealth over $10 million only yields 0.2% of household wealth. Another way to look at this is that a 1% tax on wealth over $10 million yields $300 billion a year, or enough to make Social Security solvent permanently.

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

"What is the correct response to a natural disaster in human form that is fatally weakening our society and does not respond to any form of legal or social approbrium?" Ladies, you answer your own question by asking it.

Neither of these people believe what they're saying, because there is an one extremely obvious answer to their question.

He campaigned on getting rid of foreigners who are “poisoning the blood of our country.” That’s not even a dog whistle.

Wurman is retracing (toxic) arguments about subjects & aliens (& hereditary alienage) that laid a legal foundation for slavery in the seventeenth century via the high courts in England. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939

Maybe internet fascism is more properly understood as one of those millenarian movements where uneducated peasants rise up because they believe they can build the kingdom of heaven here on earth, except the “kingdom of heaven” is Captain Crunch commercials from 1993 they’ve been watching on YouTube

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

This new CFPB should become our new Home Office and an equally powerful new USAID should become our Foreign Office.

Punditry is a make-work program to keep people like Megan McArdle and Conor Friedersdorf from falling into the dreaded *middle-class*.

The reflexive defensiveness from people at gigantic, multi-billion dollar news organizations with thousands of employees is fascinating. "Oh, you expect us to be aware that the president announced a land strike on Venezuela the day after a holiday????" Yes? I do?

For two whole days Trump's comments on local NYC talk radio just hung in the air without question. The President of the United States claimed a strike on a country with whom we are not at war, and 48 hours passed without a peep. That says a lot about our media environment.

I think it's really worth noting that literally ZERO mainstream media outlets were talking about Trump claiming a land strike on Venezuela until a few others and I noticed this post here on Sunday and started asking questions. That goes completely unacknowledged in coverage.

Rest in peace you absolute legend of an artist

I am once again saying that incels and conservative men could date all the conservative trad wives and pick mes they want who will happily submit to them. But they don’t want that. They want to take an ambitious woman who won’t submit and break her. It’s a game to these abusive freaks.

The Tatars, Baskhirs, Chuvash, Circassians, Chechens, Avars, Ingush, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Buryat, Chukchi, Evenki, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Karelians, Poles, Koreans, etc may have something to say about that. To name just a few.

Yeah it is always important to remember that for as awful as some of these freaks are, Trump is so so so much worse.

Jesus Christ

grok make me a sequel to the movie beethoven. make the children whiter. make the dog white too. put me in the movie and make me fabulously wealthy. make my muscles ripple beneath my tiny italian suit. grok take away this pain

We are in an existential struggle with people who hold our social compact void. That some of these people are willing to submit to republican formalism when they believe it will serve the ethos of their position does not make them any less our enemy. Formalism shorn of telos does not a liberal make.

Yeah this is a good point - it's very small numbers of people as a portion of the country which is great, except for some reason our media and political class have decided that they are objectively the most important segment of the electorate and must be appeased at all costs.

A lot of socially conservative minorities who traditionally voted D started to vote R in 2020, 2022, and 2024. They did so because they like R positions on abortion, LGBT issues, and, let's be honest, anti-black racism, as well as the Trump prosperity cult.

If you want an interesting question, why would a municipality's congressional electorate swing 29 points right from 2020 to 2022 when the state swung left 1 point?

JVL, the Ermächtigungsgesetz of 1933 was a bill. It passed the Reichstag by a vote of 444 to 94 with with 109 abstentions and the Reichsrat unanimously. Illiberal aims do not become liberal solely because they are pursued through the mechanisms of parliamentary government. The aims actually matter.

reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine: "although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness." www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...

“Marjorie Taylor Greene is inciting hatred the right way”

Most of America’s power was soft power. The only thing this administration has shown any talent for is erasing decades of that soft power in months, as well as further weakening the hard power that is the only power it claims to recognize.

A president can do a lot of harm even if they are losing the support of both the public and their chief elite backers. 2026 to January 2029 is by no means going to be easy or painless. People will be hurt. We’ll be unable to save some lives, enormous numbers considering USAID’s demise.

Every time I am reminded of Crenshaw's existence, I think he should be visited by Beatrice Kiddo.

The Fugitive Slave Act was once a bill, too, which people helped pass.

Joe Rogan is an idiot, to the extent he isn't just an idiot, he's an antivaxxer with deep connections to UFC, which is also a thing you can say about Trump

They are also lying about the Obama White Sox thing: he said he couldn't name a favourite *childhood* White Sox player for the fairly understandable reason that he grew up in fucking Hawaii. He became a fan *while living in Chicago* and was at the literal World Series