finally, someone making some goddamn sense around here

i really can’t tell anymore if all the “smart choices” i made to secure a “comfortable” retirement will mean a goddamn thing. they will squeeze us dry. “living within our means” will barely be possible for anyone. nice things will be just out of reach. we are being min/max’d to the bottom. 🧵

Just so we’re all up to speed, Musk got into the Trump admin, the Trump admin then allowed unfettered, illegal access to Social Security info for as much as the entire country, and not a single person has been, or will be, held accountable in any meaningful way.

there is some good left in this world

The truly immense amount of damage this stuff has done will not become apparent til after the bubble bursts When a lot of it goes offline cos there's no longer enough investment to keep the lights on, and people have to go back to doing things without it, it's gonna be like going home after a flood

“Criminalization is what got us here, criminalization is what is keeping us here, and more criminalization will definitely *not* get us out of here.” This piece makes a clear and compelling argument that invites deeper consideration.

When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism. A few suggestions...

Name names. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Martin Kulldorff, Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Donald Trump. All of them contributed to this by their relentless attacks on vaccines and biomedical R&D.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off

this year just keeps taking. it’s only february! how much more must we endure??!!

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

finally someone making some goddamn sense

"Twitter is cooking their brains" theory looking pretty strong

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Trump and the Republicans are trying to rig the election. That's not being a "doomer," that's acknowledging reality. Democrats need a coordinated, national response to these coordinated, national attacks. We need an "Elections Czar" My latest solution in @thenation.com

finally?! ... distracted astronauts looking at their phone.... drifting into control panels... leaving speake on loudly while in transit....

the muppet show reboot did a great job! next episode when??

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

I’ve visited Japan only once, but their bathroom game is so far ahead of us. We are so gross and don’t even think about it. Murakami-san FTW!

actual soup nazis

Somehow they’ve gotten so racist that they’re being racist to white people because they aren’t being racist enough to black people

Here is a non-paywalled link because everyone needs to read how the federal government has given itself tools to track your movements, monitor your social media, identify you wherever you are, and hack into your phone. archive.is/202601301237...

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

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Maybe this will help you understand why people are pissed. I get that abolish might not be on the table right now, but he asked for NOTHING

Parker Molloy hitting media with crit damage. IMO this should end any debate about media complicity. jfc

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

Back on Twitter in 2020 someone theorized that dudes were losing their minds because the big disaster had arrived but all their guns and operator gear were useless against a pandemic, and what was effective was actions coded as feminine (caretaking, sewing, cooking/baking, gardening, mutual aid)

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

Dems be like…

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

This man.

we should all be angry and the entire republican party (and some democrats) who continue to enable this madness need to be held to account. i’ll be lucky to retire as comfortably as i had been on track for, but the next generation is screwed.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

It’s not quite as cold as MN right now, but NYC just turned out a massive protest in solidarity in plunging temps, heading up 6th ave.

Thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. The wind chill was 30 below during the march. Hundreds of businesses closed their doors Friday in support of the protest as activists urged Minnesotans to abstain from economic activity.

One of the most unexpected media events of this moment has been entertainment (Teen Vogue, People) & trade (Wired) publications accurately reporting the news & cogently calling out fascist falsehoods, while our Serious News Sources (NYT, WP, WSJ) avoid truth or sane-washes it, and publishes pablum.

"There is no hell hot enough" - me, an atheist

If you’re a grown ass man in full tactical gear asking a child to show you ID or proof of citizenship you failed at life. Utterly & completely failed. Loser.

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Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.

Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously

That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.

on a lighter note...

This is a critical point. What we're really witnessing is the *collapse* of law and order, brought about by Trump's lawless thugs. I think a lot of ordinary people intuitively understand that this is what's happening.

Does anybody ever met a paid protestor? Is this something you can put on your tax return? Is it a cash under the table thing? What is the interview process like? How much does it pay, and is it worth getting tear gassed and assaulted for the salary? What about health insurance? Pension?