Think about all the stuff we heard about RFK Jr’s past and imagine what someone helping him would be worried about the public finding out.

well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.

I bet there's way more money in being a reactionary influencer than a congressional salary. That said, I fear this means Trump is still unquestioned within in the party. One of two Republicans who stood up to him is out

They all thought Zohran was genuinely going to be snatched and deported to Uganda like some fucking movie 💀💀

The internet absolutely rules. Some mutual you don’t know irl whose handle is “chodemuncher420” and posts fart memes in pundits’ replies will write “My wife and I help out foster kids 4x a week so they can go to college. We work with this charity that could use some help, please donate if you can.”

its moments like this, where you can tell who hates Trump with everything in their heart and soul, and who really wishes they could trick Orange Daddy around to being on their side tee-hee-hee wouldn't that be great. I don't want Trump to do anything, I want him in prison.

ah yes, the thing that makes me a “cultured elite” is i am not a big enough rube to believe that trump is some bottom-up populist phenomenon bsky.app/profile/zacs...

Okay this is where the reacts start to get a little bit Trump 1.0 era embarrassing.

Loomer having a sad

DisneyPlus’s acclaimed series “Andor”

Guys I get that Mamdani totally rolled the guy but can we stop pretending the president isn't a venal, evil sack of shit. This man is all but certainly a child predator

Why do I have a feeling we're witnessing the beginning of a domino meme for 2028?

a significant reason Mamdani can get away with this and other Dems can’t is less that he’s charmed Trump and more that he’s charmed you, dear reader, which is why you’re not yelling at him for being a collaborator or an appeaser right now

I get why we look back on the pandemic as a bad thing overall but the cancellation of Burbank’s unbearable and hellish “Holiday in the Park” street festival that one year gives me mixed feelings tbh.

hahahahaha I knew it. "I feel very confident that he can do a very good job. I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."

It kinda reminds me why Obama was limited in being able to help other Dems win

Dynamics like this (which are very familiar and common to us in the information spaces of Dem voters) are probably significant and indicative of Republican electoral success and it’s delusional to hand waive away the idea that it matters.

This post is full of people saying "Exactly how horrible are the Dems" and one dude keeps reposting the same summary of the Democratic amendment that did exactly what Mr. Glickman says they should have done which was voted down along party lines.

Two absolute legends going head to head, who's your money on?

Much like USAid, if the rest of the world wanted to replace what the US has done for the last 80 years, they would have been doing it already

When I ask people why they are not over here invariably it’s like “oh I tried” and they cite one bad lib left take they saw over here like it’s emblematic or like an orthodoxy that doesn’t track at all as even remotely definitive.

Quite frankly, I think non-fascists who are still using Twitter and somehow still believe it’ll help them achieve non-fascist aims are 100% delusional. It’s pathetic.

It's a censorship engine designed to promote ideas that Elon Musk likes and suppress ideas that Elon Musk does not like. I really don't get why this evident fact - that Musk openly admits! - is so hard for so many people to understand

This:

you will never understand politics if you cannot accept that *some people want bad things*. not because they've been tricked, not because Capital has manipulated them, because they *have bad values*

completely outside of politics, this is so charming

I feel like evacuating a city of 14 million because they are going to run out of water should be a bigger story regardless of where it is.

This is an interesting video and I think the general ideas are correct even if it may not entirely hold up to rigorous analysis. I suspect underpinning this are two interconnected elements...

At the end of the day you either treat wanting Republicans to lose as an imperative or not and we’ve been drowning in generic accounts like hippo for years now who would die before ever being seen as a partisan invested in the materiel outcome of the non fascist party beating the fascists.

the thing about social media I keep saying is that it makes EVERYBODY into a potential media outlet and some of those media outlets gained reach/influence comparable to the traditional media, and gained it far faster than they gained any consciousness of the responsibility that should come with it

Woody Strode, featured actor in many John Ford films, was a wrestler before getting into acting. He had a match with Tor Johnson (star of many b-movies) that I tragically can't find.

People said it would be a long time before AI took any jobs but judging by the latest Grok update Kara Swisher will be out of work very soon

Someone who has harsh criticisms for Obama can definitely be an ally. Someone who thinks Obama and Reagan are indistinguishable is probably not one.

there is something incredibly unseemly about a collective freakout over a muslim-american becoming the mayor of a large city while the most openly white nationalist administration in american history does its thing

Wrong. Rock. But also couldn’t help noticing she makes these meaningless pedantic criticisms of Hillary’s warning about fascism in 2016 because she got dragged a few years ago for confidently stating that Hillary “never spoke” about the issue. Also her friends all laughed at the warning at the time.

I was at the pharmacy the other day and an older guy walked up to the window next to me and gave his name as Stephen Miller and he must have seen my head whip over and he just looked at me and said "Yeah."

I'll never judge someone for not being a ra-ra USA type person because I don't know what their experience of this country has been, but the people who get upset at others expressing any kind of positive vision or attachment are just doing FUCK U DAD politics. most countries are many things.

Yea! The great Lav Diaz working on a large canvas for the first. Can’t wait! youtu.be/8h7rriQD1qc?...

If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.

Tom Nichols just switched back to being a republican

they have his NASTY ass his own meal!?!?!?!!

This is why I find the gag reflex against criticizing voters so common in our tent both troubling and fascinating, Like I think there is a virtue signaling logic to it they are following but they overlook this basic fact touched on below so in committing to it they make themselves dumber.

it is possible for a good cause to lose elections! the people are not inherently virtuous and wise!

Scoop: The Trump administration has quietly erased trans people, people of color and to some extent, the idea that some groups have more or different difficulties than others from the National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers. Why? Unclear! They wouldn’t tell me.

I really think this kind of thing is a bad idea, because who wants to start a relationship *with a doctor’s office* by realizing the first thing that happened in that relationship is that they tried to trick you?

The threat to hang them was entirely metaphorical

By intractably tied I don’t merely mean “behind the scenes reporting is too hard to ignore” the art vs artist problem etc No I mean you can see in the legacy content so many of us grew up with and loved and broadly influenced culture that it’s a world built by a man who got off on abusing people.