We're not even action figures, we're just "NPCs" which is why they are fine with us dying.

The details are gross both aesthetically and morally, but Nuzzi played a consequential role in the ending of a sitting president’s re-election bid. Even if you don’t include her role in RFK then getting DHHS, that alone is worth discussing

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To applause and tears, Joe Biden today urged LGBTQ+ people to “get up and fight back” against Trump’s efforts to demonize this community. “This is no time to give up. Get up!" "There’s nothing more American than the notion of equality. Nothing, nothing, nothing." www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...

add her face to rushmore

I really hate this guy.

wow i cant believe it wasnt a democrat trying to bomb themselves to overturn an election they won

More than anything else classism is that if you lose your company half a million you get fired, but if Zuck loses Meta 77 billion he gets paid $28 million. Meritocracy doesn't fail due to DEI, if fails becaues we can't ever let a rich nimrod suffer consequences for any level of screwup.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.

yeah see, Larry Ellison is pressuring Trump to intervene in the Netflix Warner Brothers acquisition. And seeding the idea in friendly right wing media that the Netflix acquisition is an antitrust concern, but it's of no worry if instead, the planet's second richest man owns the entirety of media

You gotta love when a coastal elite media billionaire complains that the media is too controlled by the coastal elites. The son of a Silicon Valley OG billionaire is totally in touch with what the regular American public wants, duh.

Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

Exactly. The new U.S. National Security Strategy is much worse for Europe than most people had imagined. Europe is described as a bigger threat than both China and Russia, and they outline the need for regime change in Western European countries as part of a civilizational struggle.

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

I really despise this framing, like we’re keeping score and Trump is now ahead. This deployment is offensive, unnecessary and illegal. It needlessly puts Guard members in harm’s way and is an affront to the residents of DC.

Straight cis white men can write about "the plight of young white men". Wealthy fuckers can write about "quiet quitting" (doing what you're paid to do) and "device hoarding" (because poor) But if you write about the systemic discrimination you experience, you are "an activist" and can't be trusted.

EU has fined X $140m for breaking European laws and refusing to address that when warned. Likely Musk won't pay and the Trump regime will pressure EU, but if so, they should stand strong and ban the website. And oh the irony that this won't cover the UK, where Musk is stoking division and violence.

Trump's hateful rant and violently repressive action targeting Somali-Americans, ending free national park admissions on MLK day and Juneteenth, and an NSS calling for Europe to be whiter—all this week. No doubt it's extremely racist. The only question is whether Americans think that's good or bad.

The only reason this administration cares about the “threat of censorship”coming from Europe is because tech is literally paying them to take up this fight so they can avoid fines like this. This is about free speech the way poll taxes are about raising state budgets.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

It's wild that in the richest country in the world, every winter, we have to scramble to make sure people don't freeze to death when they sleep outside. And still, we know many will die. Instead, we could solve homelessness with housing and support. Boggles my mind every year.

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full. 25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan. Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

Im starting to believe they are fully willing to let Texas gerrymander for political advantage on the basis of race but slap down CA’s doing do for purely, explicitly political reasons

Hilary Clinton deserves to personally flip so many people off. (Not ragging on Josh here, just saying in general.)

A Mexican woman was grabbed by ICE right after a c section. She was suffering eclampsia and other complications, and her baby was alone in the NICU They wouldn’t even give her a breast pump She has a pending visa for victims of violent crimes… and then ICE committed a violent crime against her.

That's the part that sticks with me. This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something. Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!

Me: I have a book idea that might actually be commercial! Agent: That's great! Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book. Agent: There it is.

Internet, do your thing.

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

i keep thinking about that scene in The American President where President Shepherd absolutely *anguishes* about ordering a strike on the libyan intelligence headquarters because he knows it'll kill a lone civilian janitor

This is a message from an official, tax-payer funded White House account, written by government employees barred by law from engaging in partisan politics

The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.

Anyone here with political aspirations, please take note. We live in an era, policy-wise where there is such a dearth of humanity that if you simply allow basic fundamental baby-brained levels of human decency to guide your policy it’s like 99% certain you’ll be goddamn Superman to the average voter

what the fucking fuck FUCK

This isn't a Supreme Court, it's just six Republican operatives imposing law on the rest of us in order to help Trump and MAGA destroy the Constitution and impose authoritarian rule.

Conservatives want us to believe, against all evidence, that the country is irrevocably and evenly divided on abortion rights. Whether it's standard misogyny or a deep disinterest in interrogating issues that impact women—that easily disproven lie has become political gospel

"We’re stuck in a sort of mass political psychosis: with pundits and strategists advising Democrats to compromise on their most powerful and popular issue and Democrats acquiescing—forever hedging their language and refusing to go on offense." jessica.substack.com/p/abortion-b...

Heritage Foundation and their ilk aiming to legalize sex discrimination in employment.

Instead of bringing down sky-high housing costs, Bill Pulte is weaponizing his role to take on Trump’s perceived political enemies. He must be held accountable for this abuse of power.

I realize everyone knows this, but you'll note that what he saw was two survivors trying to flip a boat over. Which is a thing literally fucking anyone in a shipwreck would do. The other stuff he said was fanfic he made up about them.

it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.

Men don’t have to “pretend to be women” to enter women’s locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms. Famously, Donald Trump just strolled right in

JFC.

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Nor could that boat, before it was bombed, reach the United States. That’s important because it refutes the laughable claim of “imminence” necessary to wrap the strikes under the auspices of a lawful armed conflict.

This stuff is the kind of thing your history textbook puts in the section "leading up to the war."