Ahh new Rosalía record is out. That single w Bjork is great imo.

Barack Obama governed further to the left of almost every single state leader Europe has ever had.

⚡️Ukraine's state-owned energy company says all of its power plants are down after Russia's 'largest-ever attack.' The recent Russian attack destroyed all restored capacity, leaving the plants generating no power, the state-owned energy company Centrenergo said on Nov. 8.

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I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Ben Shapiro tells Megyn Kelly that to avoid vile extremists like Nick Fuentes “the first thing people need to do is turn off X, which is poisoning brains and making people think not true things.” Yet, Shapiro continues to post there, often multiple times a day. youtu.be/tprng5mObQg?...

The difference between how @thebulwark.bsky.social approaches "trans issues" and how the prestige mainstream intelligentsia/punditocracy does is fascinating, and I really think a lot of it comes down to the difference in how people's worldviews were shaped and the milieu they've been marinating in.

Folks need to decide if they want maximum stove-touching or if they want Democrats to save the public from Republican policies. You can't have both.

Politics being a thing you follow on your phone has entailed a lot of people following this day-to-day stuff who shouldn’t (and in older better times didn’t). Overlap with an inability to process that yes Schumer sucks and should be replaced perhaps but is not actually a secret villain/Republican.

I get that there’s probably political expediency at play here but I wish people understood that ceding the always very vaguely made argument that Mamdani said anything at all to “hurt Jews” devalues antisemitism as a real issue and contributes to turning it into a joke.

the contrast between the left in NYC and San Francisco is incredible winning the mayoralty by relentlessly focusing on the cost of living and making government more effective vs. promoting a shitcoin named after a bodega cat run over by a Waymo

the All In guys were similarly quite clear in saying they became republicans because giving money to democrats didn't curry them special privileges

THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU

#lastfourwatched @letterboxd.social Kathryn Bigelow’s mildly compelling nuclear deterrence procedural, the second of Wang Bing’s long form direct cinema docu series on the tough lives of China’s garment workers, Oz Perkins black comic Stephen King adaptation, classic dream-like italian horror

HUGE NEWS! Because of Democratic pressure, Oregon SNAP recipients are reporting their cards have the FULL November benefits!   Everyone who called out Trump for using hungry children and seniors as a bargaining chip has WON with tremendous results!!

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

it is very amusing that the DC abundance bros are mad about Lina Khan being one of Zohran’s transition co-chairs even though the other co-chair is Maria Torres Springer, NYC’s ultimate abundance YIMBY technocrat

A good amount of Osita’s follower base genuinely appear to be incapable of processing “Trump is a good politician” as something more complicated than unequivocally laudatory but mostly it’s people mindlessly just working backward from “Dems bad”. In each case it’s cynicism making naïveté.

Osita’s take is so played out, dated and negated by reality that it’s self evident that I have license to do that in this case. Plus he sent his horde of morons predictably incapable of realizing that after me so….

Nope. Fake blah blah blah cope vomited out by a shitty media guy. Again how many times do you need to see him survive several things every week that would destroy every other politician’s career? External factors/bad opposition can’t explain that. He’s reiterating outmoded bad pundit talking points.

Beyond parody

Tired of the cope that Trump is an awful candidate. He's such a terrifyingly effective candidate that the public completely memory holed his first term so they could give him the benefit of the doubt. Who were you gonna believe, him or your lying memory? If you even did keep brain records of 2020

Re-elected after being convicted of nearly 3 dozen felonies & 2 impeachments, one over attempting a coup. Like what definition of being a bad politician aligns with his real (and entirely malevolent) accomplishments?

Seems crazy to call him a bad politician when he’s completely transformed one of our 2 major parties into a cult of personality that will abandon what had been core GOP principles for decades based on a tweet he spent 2 seconds on, has transformed the culture of the US in a lot of ways and got

I hope they don’t take this the wrong way but these Osita followers are DUMB DOGS and I am being merciful in not letting them go to town on the poison sausages I carry around w me at all times.

Osita follower and a predictably and depressingly mind numbing circa 2016 era take. Check out the way you can tell he’s still clinging to “Trump voters are more open to our transcendently popular leftist policies than shitlibs all It takes is for them to here us explain what M4A is”

“Layup election” is TREMENDOUS “generic twitter dumb guy shit from 2017” and what I have always loved about the “pied piper theory” he repeats here is it assumes that the only reason the media covered the crazy reality tv guy’s presidential campaign is because Hillary told them to.

Trump is an insanely good politician and an insanely bad president. Part of the former is making people forget the latter

Generic media hacks like Osita can easily get lots of ….let’s say “sweet innocent” followers who are not capable of reading this part: “How many times do you need to see him survive several things every week that would destroy every other politician’s career?”

If you are committed to hack punditry and haven’t updated your priors since 2018 possibly. Many such cases.

Nope. Fake blah blah blah cope vomited out by a shitty media guy. Again how many times do you need to see him survive several things every week that would destroy every other politician’s career? External factors/bad opposition can’t explain that. He’s reiterating outmoded bad pundit talking points.

Ana Kasparian praises Tucker Carlson, saying he "brings up thought-provoking points", and praises his guests, including blatant Russian asset Colonel Douglas Macgregor.

left out of the analysis here are the three main culprits in my opinion: the republican party, which these guys all treat like a force of nature; the media, of which osita is member, and the idiot electorate itself because god forbid you ever suggest the people can make a terrible decision

Generally the dumbest political analysis you’ll ever see this deep into the Trump years will be from someone claiming “Trump is easy to beat”

Insane disqualifying cope to say he is a bad politician. How many times do you need to see him survive several things every week that would destroy every other politician’s career? External factors/bad opposition can’t explain that.

Jury finds sandwich guy was actually a hero.

why does RFK just zoom off instead of helping the dude

the house CR is about to expire and with it there’s nothing for dems to do here. republicans created these issues and can’t even fucking negotiate with themselves to fix any of them

Something crazy about the US and international copyright enforcement regime is that they consistently criminalize digital archiving when it is done for pro-social reasons, but consistently protect the reuse of archived materials by other parties when it is for commercial reasons

This is the teacher federal agents grabbed yesterday at Rayito De Sol daycare in front of children. Attorneys for Diana Santillana have filed a petition in federal court to have her freed from ICE custody.

If Trump restarts nuclear tests, it may turn out to be the worst US foreign policy decision since he left the Iran deal.

It's extremely easy to argue that living in Mariupol leading into 2022 was as bad or worse than living in Gaza leading into 2023. It's extremely easy to take up either side of that argument. It's very hard to argue that the IDF and RF military function differently on any moral level