i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.

the typical voter is clearly more restrictionist than the average liberal. they want less migration and a more orderly process. and if democrats picked fights around the volume of immigration and for a more chaotic process, this would work in the president's favor.

If you’re not white make sure you carry your fucking freedom papers with you bsky.app/profile/radl...

i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.

"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."

This is actually a really common scam these days. A scammer will call and use AI to replicate a family member’s voice and the family member will sound distressed and having an emergency so you don’t have time to think. Best thing to do is hang up and call that family member “back” to confirm.

Dictators like Trump depend upon fear to enforce loyalty. Once defections start, it can be hard to get people back into line. In the last month or so, we’ve seen defections from MTG, all of Congress on Epstein and leaders on Venezuela, and Indiana on gerrymandering. That’s a sea change.

The regime can still do an incredible amount of harm while they’re in power. And, they are in some ways at their most dangerous when they’re at their weakest. But, we should all take courage from their failures and the many cracks in their coalition. If we keep pushing, we will win.

In the last few weeks, I’ve become increasingly convinced that Trump and his regime are totally cooked. They can only stay in power by stealing elections—but they can only do that if enough people are willing to help them. They’re in a downward spiral and can’t pull themselves out of it.

The article is bait, of course, but let me tell you. This sort of faux revolutionary "woke is the enemy of the worker" class reductionism is what dirtbag "leftists" gifted off for YEARS. They made a ton of money and helped no one. It's a grift

i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.

what about the somali customers? good chance they were working class too. do they not deserve to live in a world where they can buy a snack without an assault on their dignity?

If you’re a labor leader, I also imagine you have enough problems without workers’ rights being equated to shielding people for yelling slurs in a prominent prestige publication.

idk why people think it's big-brained to look at cases of clear cut, *seething* racism and be like 'of course this is horrible but what about the person doing the racism? what protections do they have?' if poc weren't being thrown in pain boxes and in front of trains i guess i'd be more open but,

We're completely screwed if our response to measles is going to be asking antivaxxers - the most selfish and stupid people in our society - to voluntarily self-report and quarantine for 21 days each every time they get exposed

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Prince Charles leaving Cirencester Hospital after shaking too many hands (1990)

“Tell me your name and your birthdate and I’ll tune into your energy.”

Y’all I’m sorry the fact that Mark Cuban’s Cost-Plus-Drugs can exist at all is proof that the system is rotten. The entire concept makes no sense if you take the insurance company’s word for what they’re doing.

Just saying lying lmaooooo 🙃

the cool thing about shame is that you absolutely *can* force people to learn it against their will

I deleted all Meta accounts with Facebook and Instagram due to their non opt out of data tracking. They are tracking your political views, ss number, passport number, and so much more. They explicitly say they are giving it to the government and police. On the plus side... I am a lot happier.

My two cents “she’s got a wonderful boy” Trump 1) didn’t remember Barron’s name and 2) didn’t remember how old Barron is right now in the moment. The dementia is in.

A Pulitzer for whoever chose the photo on this one

I don’t particularly care about Taylor Swift but this news struck me b/c this is one of several outrage-farming bot attacks that I’ve seen gain a serious foothold online, particularly on Meta, & I don’t think enough people really grasp how it easy it is to outrage-farm the algorithm on Threads

so many of our current problems stem from americans not being able to comprehend that a guy they know from tv might actually be stupid

When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

They sent JD Vance to Indiana and they were like never do that to us again

this weather can only be described as hibernation conditions. my instincts are screaming for me to crawl into a cave and sleep for three months.

Currently in the US, artists making tv and movies sell their copyright to the companies, this is how we get residuals and health + pension. But idk I personally don’t want to sell my characters and stories off for anyone to fuck with, even if I get a cut of that pie (which I almost certainly won’t)

I hope that maybe one result of the companies in Hollywood selling their IP to AI will be more big name writers and directors getting return of copyright in their contracts. Ryan Coogler already did this with Sinners so there’s now precedence.

Put another way, if Dems are consistently doing 13 points better than the presidential toplines, and if they can throw a scare into Republicans in much redder seats, a Trump+15 or even Trump+20 district won't cut it for Republicans next year. And they know this.

I think we know who to thank for the failure of Trump's effort to bully Indiana Republicans into passing a new gerrymander: Aftyn Behn, Eric Gisler, and every Democrat who's run in a special election this year. The GOP saw all these overperformances, and they were right to be scared.

More consequential than the two house seats, frankly, are the signals that this sends 1) Indiana GOP thinks they are better off not spreading their numbers thinner, even though these were *all* double digit Trump 2024 seats 2) They're no longer afraid to tell Trump to shove it

I wrote about Trump’s racist attacks on Somali Americans, a disgusting bit of cruelty that I nevertheless think reveals the administration’s weakness. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

When I heard that Disney did a deal with openAI my first thought was “goofy is going to suck so much dick”

ITS OK TO HAVE PRIMARIES IT IS IN FACT GOOD.

This is Tuffy. He just woke up from surgery. Has no idea where he is or what's happening, but he's thrilled to be here. 12/10 (TT: teddy_and_tuffy)

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

We’ve reinvented the concept of 1-800 psychics and made it worse in every conceivable way.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

this idea that ones twitter replies represent ANYTHING of note is a good example of how social media can fry the brains of the weak willed

🚨 New York Times reports more details than we've had before on how Donald Trump's administration pulled strings to pressure Romania to allow Andrew Tate to travel while he was charged with crimes including trafficking minors and violently beating and raping a 15-year-old girl.

barring some sort of society-wide denazification effort I am basically not at all interested in reintegrating anyone involved in this administration after it all comes crashing down. if someone comes to me with DOGE on their resume I will tell them to fuck off until my dying day

My grandpa was born in the US to German parents. He had younger cousins who were in Hitler youth in Germany. Decades later I talked with some of them about it (with the ruthless candor of youth). Why did you do that? What were you thinking? What they described was a lot like this.

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

My lord, I just fully processed where it is this thread is taking me: the man is Slop Incarnate. Trump is Slop Incarnate.

I made this handy Venn diagram depicting two groups: people who need 3 dementia tests in 6 months and people who should be President.

In two years max we're going to start seeing education beat lifestyle articles about how all these folks in the industry send their kids to schools in caves to learn about the shadows on the wall