looking at stamps as one does and wow these are good

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This is one of my favorite songs, it's been stuck in my head all week. But I've never heard this version and dang it's good.

oh, we're doing Battle Hymn discourse again?? then it's a good time to repost THIS, one of the greatest musical performances in all of human history. (it's *always* a good time to repost this video, I could watch it a million times and never tire of it.)

labor unions are BY DEFINITION not neutral parties to any discussion of labor in any context, why the fuck would they *ever* agree to give up "full editorial control" over anything they publish about their work & their members?? just find new publishers instead of foisting this on unions!

If Hillary Clinton had won, we’d have a liberal Supreme Court majority right now. Just puttin’ that out there.

There will be much said about Nancy Pelosi, the greatest Speaker in modern history (& yes, imperfect otherwise). For now, I'll simply note that, along with passing the ACA, she (& Biden) spent the last 4 years passing some of the most progressive legislation in 🇺🇸 history, with threadbare majorities.

I mean, in terms of votes and legislative output, there's a really strong argument that she was the greatest Speaker of all time—top 3, at the very least. We're never going to see another one as good as she was.

CPAC used to always host a pretty large regional conference in Dallas every year (I think that stopped with COVID? but it's still a really popular conservative conference hotspot!), and every time it came to town, Grindr would be absolutely filled to the brim with nameless, faceless closet cases.

this is the video he's referring to. it's a really interesting watch because you can literally hear & even see her start to think out loud, 'oh, I probably shouldn't be talking about government guarantees??' she begins tripping over her own words because she's clearly thinking WHOOPS, I should stfu!

"Thank you @megynkelly or Kelly Megyn or whatever your name is!" lololol. dear lord, the shaaaaade!

every once in a while we get a really tangible reminder of how Facebook has really been at the dead-ass center of the enshittification of the *entire* internet. like, I'm not sure there's another actor on the planet more responsible for making our daily digital experiences as regressive as they are.

There seriously needs to be a study about how the everyday life friction of increased grift and enshittification in every aspect of life weighs on people’s institutional trust and what effects they may have on political attitudes and participation.

wow, this piece makes it sound like the organization is on the verge of total collapse?? I wouldn't have imagined this would happen, but you definitely love to see it.

oh man, they are gonna go AAAAAALL IN on a red scare after Mamdani's win, aren't they?? we're all gonna be so sick of the word "socialism" by the end of the year.

to be very, VERY clear about what's happening here, they are not cutting flights to "ease pressure" on air traffic controllers. they are cutting flights to *increase pressure* on United States Senators (to do what Trump is demanding they do by nuking the filibuster).

This is why Trump has such a connection with Adams. End of the day they’re both just grifters who stumbled into politics through a combination of egomania and an eye for corruption opportunities.

Literally the most corrupt major global NGO on Earth. Of course they're buttering up Trump with a fake award!

HEY BRO IS THAT WRITING ON THE WALL FOR YOU

people under a certain age will think that this has to be a shitpost, but I can assure anyone who is wondering otherwise that it absolutely is *not*. say what you want about his career post-9/11, and A LOT deserves to be said, but he has never left the 9/11 day-of mindset behind, ever.

I think there's a layer to this that everybody has so far missed, and it's that he absolutely DID NOT think of the comparison of AI and *utilities* all on his own: it means that people around him are talking about AI being classified as & treated like a utility, an earth-shaking change.

This is not the most important aspect of these arguments by any stretch of the imagination, but the absolute shellacking of Trump & the GOP is weighing very heavily on all of the conservative justices' minds this morning as this case gets underway. There's no way they're not thinking about it.

ngl, this is totally great and all, but there was absolutely ZERO excuse for that rightward shift on economic issues having gone against Democrats in the first place in 2024. I swear like 60% of this country just chose to ignore every facet of basic reality for the last three years.

to be fair, this is the exact message that Republicans in Texas have successfully used to stay in power since they completely took over in the 90s. "yeah, we're awful & have done some regrettable things, but that's exactly why you should vote for us," is somehow an unbeatable philosophy here.

smh. yet more proof that influencer culture is corrupting & ruining everything. OF COURSE there are a bunch of predatory online weirdos with TikTok accounts selling courses about how to scam the VA disability system! why wouldn't there be??

Republicans all across the country are waking up in a flop sweat after seeing these numbers in Morris County. you can't overstate just how big this sort of shift is, and Ciattarelli was a historically strong & well-established GOP nominee!

I have always believed that Youngkin & Earle-Sears would NOT have been elected to their current offices in the first place on the backs of a hideously transphobic statewide campaign in 2021 if there hadn't been an actual sex pest caught in a girl's bathroom in the closing weeks of the race.

“Will include a narrator” is an odd thing to have come out midway through filming, because I suspect it is something they have realised is a necessary part of “getting eight hours out of a cast largely of eleven year olds” *during* filming.

And Trump didn’t even endorse her. I was joking to my fiancée that Diamond and Silk couldn’t cut it today. The mask is totally off, there’s no more coddling of tokens

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

a pretty alarming longform piece about what's going on in Musk's companies as he starts to be possessed by AI. it probably shouldn't shock anyone to find out that Ani, the creepy blonde AI waifu avatar from xAI, was entirely his idea AND that it was built with his employee's personal data.

virginia democrats winning the three big offices with a cia agent, an indian muslim immigrant, and a black lawyer who loves committing terms of service violations is real 2025 democratic party moment

maaaaan, I dunno about JD Vance, but I think getting called out publicly by two different popes would probably get me to reevaluate some things in my life if I were a practicing Catholic.

I mean, Keystone Light is pretty drinkable, but Miller High Life is just rotgut. few things are as painful the next day as getting too drunk on High Life.

this is legitimately the very first time I've heard about WHAT they were planning to do. the only details I've seen published anywhere were strictly about the fact that they're young men from Dearborn. it's nothing short of a miracle that they were caught because these attacks are tough to prevent.

this is 100% true. a *real* espresso machine that makes the true-to-god stuff that isn't just a (tbqh mostly pretty good!) facsimile that's only like 3/4 of the way there STARTS at around $2500, and the optional parts most people will want will add several hundred more.

The man could live without a heart, but living in a world where he was no longer the most evil VP was just too much for him.

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

welp. guess it had to happen someday. 🤷

today's elections present a pretty weird dynamic imho. Republicans are desperate to nationalize NYC's mayoral race because they think it advances their 'the left is too crazy' narrative; the *actual* nationalized races of NJ & VA feature GOP candidates who have shockingly NOT run away from Trump.

Look, Curtis Sliwa is weird in interesting ways, but we don't need to turn that into him actually being a good guy. He's still a colossal racist and misogynistic weirdo. I cannot see a good case for praising him in the way that some of my progressive and leftist friends are doing at the moment.

Let's get this done, California. Vote YES on Prop 50.

She is essentially right here!!! Not to poop on the party, NYC mayor is a bad job that only leads to disappointment, especially promising things that are not really possible. Also can we talk again about how free buses are a bad idea after tomorrow?

I just ordered some, uh, "video head cleaner" for the first time since Kennedy started his crackdown on it, and I'm curious about whether it's gonna get here. I've been reading about some small shipments getting nabbed by the USPS, so we'll see what happens, I guess?

Basically the Democrats are health food, the Republicans are methamphetamine, and the news media is your most toxic friend who encourages you to consume the latter over the former because livestreaming you while you're tweaking out gets them the most engagement online.

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You can still find videos of the Biden Administration's daily press briefings, and I shit you not, the #1 topic for probably half of them was 'Us and other Dems are awesome at running the economy, Republicans want to make us tailspin into a recession,' and the media would never print a word of it.

I think about this a lot, Democrats (both elected and just individual voters) bring this up all the time, the evidence and anecdotal experiences reinforce it (brutally, tbqh) and yet “Republicans are better at the economy” just persists? Why??? I am afraid it’s gender, which is near intractable.

I simply cannot overemphasize just how common a fuck up this is as some of the world's largest and most important institutions.

To be fair I only know who Pablo Torre is because he's on Morning Joe at some point during the latter half of the show just about every day now.