A lot of people have wondered why Bungie didn't immediately start working on Destiny 3 after The Final Shape two years ago. The answer (as it usually is) is how much money it would take

If you vote against trans right when they need you most I will never trust you. If you make excuses for people who put trans kids in danger we will never, ever be in solidarity. You either meet the moment or get fucked.

Does Maggie Haberman know this? Asking for a friend…

Fuck. These. Motherfuckers.

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Oh… so they can make a roadmap and blog details about upcoming plans for their games still. Interesting. Reminder: if they wanted to, they would.

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“I’ll match you shot for shot!” Kashingout, probably.

“We have to respect the constitution…” The fuck we do. These racist, classist, sexist motherfuckers laid out an authoritarian state and were supposed to revere the thing because there were additions that people had to die to get done? What’re we doing here.

The gas prices are just the leading edge of what’s coming. Talk to the people you care about and your neighbors. A lot of media isn’t covering this at all and people really don’t know what’s happening.

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

I know normalization is just what we've decided to do to cope but turning a botched assassination attempt on the president of the united states into a public debate on gilded playspace is FUCKING STUPID and I refuse to treat this bullshit pivot seriously or with respect.

Anyway. I’m glad nobody was hurt and I’m sure the journalists who attended the WHCD will not center themselves and their personal experiences and instead remain focused on holding the powerful accountable and informing the people about their government.

Chuck Schumer will appear on Press The Meat tomorrow morning to remind Americans that there is no place in American society for the kind of person who would use their time machine to travel back to 1889 and kill Baby Hitler in his crib.

When you get called in on your Saturday off but you’re already two deep…

Won’t someone please think of the journalists who elected to fete a madman

Every one of the fake-ass journalists in that room are going to be so annoying about this for a long time. Truly.

Is there someone dead in the lobby or is there someone in custody? Was the person armed or not? Did he make it into the ballroom or not? Usually there should be a pretty wide grace period on finding this out, but there are literally hundreds of reporters in the room and nobody knows shit.

roll tide

Corporate Dems would rather embrace antidemocratic figures and grant them legitimacy than to partner with leftists who want to make needed reform. It’s been obvious for a long time and anyone who doesn’t see it at this point is willfully ignoring it.

Hey you know how the Right was laser focused on learning illiberal strategies from Orbán in order to pervert and weaponize the state? Now is the time to learn from the dismantling of that regime, including a relentless effort to prosecute them for their crimes.

All the warning signs are blinking red and every other country is preparing their people for a massive crisis. I’m asking people to please remember how Trump handled the beginning of Covid by gaslighting us and refusing to be honest about what was happening.

“I remember when we were driving, driving in your car.” For my dad. RIP. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/driving-in...

Vance has a humiliation kink. NTTAWWT.

Shoutout to the Mets for this 📸 @mets.com

Notable that JayDee’s father abandoned him sofuckingfast…

And at least COVID was a reaction to a true bolt out of the blue, which he fumbled spectacularly. This Iran debacle was a choice. It is a meat grinder he got talked into putting his dick into. Absolute madness and the most QED argument for not electing an easily led, corrupt, vulgarian to POTUS.

I think there are two reasons we get contradictory messaging every hour now. One is to manipulate the market and profit, which is the only thing Trump can still effectively do, like a monkey hitting the lever and getting a pellet. And second is just throwing shit at the wall in hopes something works

Like Covid, a delusional Trump is meeting a problem he can’t bullshit his way out of or declare bankruptcy from or negotiate a friendly deal for. It’s pure and simple reality meeting him like a brick wall at 100 mph. And we’re watching what happens when an unworthy leader has to lead. Not good.

People keep asking me what I think Trump will do and honestly I don’t think Trump even knows. He’s meeting eye to eye with capitalist pressure he probably doesn’t even begin to understand and is staring into the abyss, which is why I think he can’t help but change the subject to construction.

Maybe he pulls out without securing the Strait, but that just creates economic chaos and likely the next chapter of American decline, and I can’t imagine the entrenched industries, which would be possibly leveled, just let that happen. It’s just bad. All so, so bad.

And the longer Trump procrastinates the more he’s going to hear from every oligarch who bought him that he has to go full bore, that there isn’t any choice. He’s meeting, head on, the truth that a president is only in charge aesthetically and that market forces win out. Which is no doubt terrifying.

We’re likely days away from decision being made and Trump, who never wanted to be president and just wanted the prestige of being smarter and better than everyone, doesn’t want to make it. So he lies, fabricates, and probably delusionally hallucinates. That’s how bad this is.

And, like everyone paying attention has been screaming, it’s a choice between pulling out and accepting the petrodollar is severely compromised and our economy is fucked or going all-out into a meat grinder that could go insanely and irreversibly bad. My guess is he doesn’t want to make a choice.

Trump trapped himself in a no-win, every option is catastrophically bad situation. He’s hearing from every world leader, every fraying and dying alliance, and every oligarch who sees the disaster of pulling out and he’s just spamming feints in hopes it’ll fix itself. And it won’t.

I wouldn't put this man in charge of a Dollar General.

It’s impossible to watch any of this and not walk away believing that Trump has absolutely no idea what to do and is terrified about putting troops on the ground but is penned in with no good options and is just stalling for time and hoping something fixes itself. And it just won’t.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

objectively the funniest critique an american could level at another country

“The US military made a huge mistake and quickly realized it and they’re going to pull out in order to minimize the damage” What the living fuck are you talking about? Have you ever lived in this country? Even the smart presidents fuck this up and we’re talking about the bad brain crew here.

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No matter how much it's talked about, it's still not talked about enough that the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on whether the words in the 14th amendment mean what the words in the 14th amendment mean.

Right, simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers and start over.

Few hundred people out at our protest in Maynard, MA. Speech right now about the horrific conditions at the ICE concentration camp in Burlington.

Not at all concerning that we got pulled into a disastrous, unwinnable war by multiple client states that looks ready to destroy one of the load bearing structures of our economic hegemony. Everything’s great. Glad the American order got us here.

Unless we address the material conditions creating our multiple crises MAGA will be followed by an overtly Neo-Nazi movement that blames everything from the War on Terror to Epstein to Iran to economic collapse on Jews controlling Trump and the US MAGA isn’t going to simply wake up and turn liberal

Hey Corey, your peers have incredible power that they’re not using to do what is right because they’re choosing what is easy. If they’re too afraid to do what is right they’re not really good people. They’re self serving cowards.

Cancel that shit forever