Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

I dont have an opinion on Kamala Harris running again but this post from the other site is really funny for how wrong it is, lmao I dont think this has literally ever been how it works? Biden ran 4 times, Stevenson was the losing nominee twice in a row, Nixon lost and then won 8 years later, etc.,

my favorite ice cream flavor regardless of brand is mint chocolate, which apparently is controversial as all my friends hate it lol

IMO this is key. The last shutdown ended because Ds got spooked when SNAP payments were in danger. Warnock, who'd been amazing on ACA payments said "how can I weigh health care against food?" By separating out DHS, we mute that. SSI and Section 8 won't be on the line. We're focused squarely on DHS.

Lemon man good, Orange man bad

"is it cutting money or funding something to fund it at less than the previous year" debate again! everyone spin around in circles until you don't remember how you felt about this last time

I think Democrats should claim that they're going to make immigration tougher, and then simply describe a better version of system when asked about it. Polling consistently shows that the public wants to get tougher, and also that their version of tougher is *weaker than the actual system now.*

a hot take: there is real overlap between spanberger’s first set of executive orders and mamdani’s www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

I had an old post on Twitter about this. The US spends about 18% of its GDP on the social safety net and 3.5% on military. Germany spends about 24-25% of its GDP on the social safety net and 2% on the military. Our military spending is not why they can have nice things or why we don't.

We cannot let this president drag us into more endless wars that risk the lives of American service members and civilians abroad. The attack last night on Venezuela was unnecessary and unauthorized. The President’s actions are reckless and illegal.

Polls shows Americans approve of the deal to re-open the government by a wide margin open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

i am going to sit on the house steps with some fellow furloughed folks who do not like the current deal while also firmly believing all of the current discourse drastically understates how bad the shutdown pain has gotten and what that ultimately imperils i contain multitudes

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

If you want to be the party of doing good things for people you’re in a much harder place than the “fuck ‘em all” party

From the top rope

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist

🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge in Rhode Island rules from the bench that the Trump admin **must** pay SNAP benefits. "The court is orally ordering that USDA must distribute the contingency money timely or as soon as possible for the November 1 payments to be made." Story to come.

This is something I struggle with - The GOP simply doesn't want government to work, so anything that gums up the works of government like DOGE or the shutdown is a plus for them. How do you negotiate with someone with a gun to their head who wants to pull that trigger?

The Administration is legally required to use contingency reserves to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need #SNAP to afford groceries, despite USDA Sec. Rollins’ claim that the Administration is unable to do so. My statement: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

Trump is saying if Democrats don't bend the knee and let him take health care away from millions, he's just going to turn around and inflict pain by firing American workers and withholding funding from our communities. That’s not governing. That’s a wannabe king taking hostages.

Cyberpunk may have its flaws - fewer, by far, these days - but it made me feel a feel. I felt a feel at the beginning, I felt a different feel at the ending, I felt other, still different feels in the middle. If the game makes you feel a feeling, honestly, you can overlook most of the rest.

trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.

You hate Nader for spoiling the 2000 election. I hate Nader for destroying state capacity and empowering NIMBYism.

Gavin Newsom went on TV, called Tom Homan a bitch, and said he if he wanted arrest him he knew where to find him. Maxine Waters told an ICE agent to his if they planned to shoot her they should at least shoot straight. I really don't know what you want from them right now.

One woman holding an American flag, shouting at federal agencies here in Paramount, CA. Still lots of chemical munitions, pepper balls, foam batons.

people are reacting to this thread as if stigmatize = illegal and criminalized when I'm pretty sure he isn't saying that we can legalize most drugs so we can regulate them for safety while also still being socially against people being high 24/7 and making drug use their entire personality, lmao

Cowboy Bebop was a perfect example. They completely misunderstood the vibe of the original: it’s supposed to be a cool, stylish sci-fi noir/western about broken people surviving in an uncaring world. Instead they made Guardians of the Galaxy with anime hair and Dutch angles.

do not post about doing financial crimes on public forums

I wrote about the Biden hullabaloo. newrepublic.com/article/1953...

I don’t think we should be able to generate realistic audio and video of whoever we want to from a text prompt

Those who celebrate Joe Biden as a man of immense compassion, a champion of the sick, etc. are correct. Those who condemn him as a racist accessory to genocide are also correct. It is fine to be sad. It is fine to be angry. It is fine to not know what to feel. Legacies are complicated things.

Having actually read the medicaid reports on fraud and waste if you cared about those things you would be laser focused on personal care services and medical device sales, but how many of you even knew that

I get that dem policy wonk bsky and twitter really likes pete buttigieg but he's had half a decade since the 2020 primary and he still polls at 0% black voters. You cannot possibly win the dem primary without them.

This is one of my favorite Johnson tapes

Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

CHICAGOAN POPE!!!! OUR WORLD CONQUEST CONTINUES APACE!

The White House has proposed cutting Section 8/Housing Choice Vouchers—one of the more successful housing affordability interventions—by 40%. If the goal is to create Hooverville shanty towns in parks across the US, go for it. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

Carney is very good at flattering Trump’s ego superficially JUST enough to keep him docile while strongly asserting our interests and boundaries and getting Trump to nod along. Well played.

Extremely cool FEDS Note that links consumer sentiment data to actually spending at the respondent level and shows that the disconnect between sentiment and spending post-COVID was extremely unique and driven by inflation perception not real incomes.