i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once

The lesson here is clear: Always make fun of Trump.

Zuckerberg has secured a corrupt court order imposing a fine of $50k on Wynn-Williams every time she criticizes Metaa. It's a perfect demonstration of the techbros complete corruption and subversion of legal process to shield their dealings from public scrutiny. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump is like a child constantly testing boundaries: First, he jokes about doing the bad thing. Next, he tries a little bit of the bad thing. Finally, he outright does and says the bad thing. With no consequences, why would he ever stop?

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

This is exactly why I support the Verge. It’s one of the only outlets supporting real journalism on tech.

this is a cool clip from one of my favorite movies youtu.be/gjOopVs60F0

There is no compromise policy Democrats can offer Republicans to make them act normal on this issue. We simply have to state the basic reality — immigrants contribute to our country in myriad ways — and fight for it. I don't know how so many journalists convinced themselves this isn't an option.

I love how the best case scenario that Cuban lays out here is that billionaires are just constantly getting scammed out of tens of millions of dollars and don't care.

A livable future has to be anchored to "public goods shared in common and distributed to everyone.” That's socialism so USians are mostly allergic to the idea and to me THAT is what needs to be changed and addressed.

Why is the NYT doing LinkedIn grind mentality posts??

Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office

i am LOVING Alien Earth.

I created an AI image of Gavin Newsom too. (really need to figure out how to turn this off)

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech

I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own. Now, we continue fulfilling that promise. Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.

Gavin Newsom's strategy of centrist liberal «populism» seems to involve wholeheartedly embracing AI slop. However, rather than demonstrating a possible «progressive» use of generative AI, this example shows how quickly such a use can lead to the uncritical adoption of fascist aesthetics 1/

this man has more skeletons in his closet than the museum of natural history. and he sucks on policy.

Okay I guess I can see why this new logo is controversial

turns out that downplaying this as “the lever he pulled because he could pull it” and/or just theater and aesthetics missed the actual dynamic at play. he wants more troops in more cities with more guns and eventually they’re gonna start detaining people and sending them to camps.

I deleted Facebook a while back but recently made a burner account with zero friends just to use Marketplace (RIP craigslist). Good lord the slop you see on Facebook is insane.

If I saw this exact segment in a 1990s film about a dystopian future I would immediately dismiss it as too corny and over the top in its depiction of military propaganda. Unless that film was Starship Troopers, of course. Then it would be spot on with the conceit.

West C is bonkers

Democrats and centrist media keep laundering this panic into ‘reasonable concerns’ but the anti-trans movement is overwhelmingly comprised of bigoted loser freaks. We’re missing a huge opportunity to make this a winning issue by pointing that out.

Dems should lean into sneering cosmopolitan elitism imo

Green Dildo Coin. An amount spent on masked thugs and themed concentration camps that could house and feed every homeless person in America. Cage fights on a paved-over White House lawn. It really all boils down to losers who want to replace our society with a different one that just fucking sucks.

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imo, if someone believes some races or ethnicities are genetically inferior to others, that person has revealed a weakness of mind and character that casts extreme if not irrefutable doubt on their other ideas. why would i expect them to use more rigor on, eg, housing than they do on human nature?

Cannot stress enough that the right’s objection to “pedophilia” as a stand in for the dark, secret, nefarious deeds of their enemies, is almost totally unrelated to actual existing pedophilia—as in real violence inflicted against real children and adolescents—which is broadly tolerated in practice.

Trump basically said “i love sex trafficking with you jeffrey”

and take it from someone who has been active in the reform movement for years, spoken to staffers and members of congress about it. current leadership will not push for court reform. schumer, jeffries, their entire network, do not give two shits between the lot of them about the supreme court

do not give money to dems who don’t support court reform. don’t vote in primaries for dems who do not support court reform. do not support dem leadership that will not pursue court reform. do not bother with pundits who are not on board with court reform.

ICE abuse and violence isn’t starting from scratch. ICE officers aren’t new grads from ICE school. ICE abuses immigrants, because US law enforcement abuses residents. ICE facilities do human rights abuses because US jails and prisons do.

Just in time for my birthday today, the NYT publishes my list of climate novels. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/b...

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

Spurs first-round rookie Carter Bryant felt right at home with students from Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children sitting on the floor in front of him Saturday. "The deaf community means everything to me,” said Bryant, whose maternal grandparents are deaf. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

Zohran’s victory is an earthquake. The left everywhere must dedicate itself to an insurgency against Dem incumbents. The Dem establishment has lost credibility w/ its base in the face of fascist threat. The base is looking leftward for new leadership. We are the opposition party.

Many years ago, Zohran attended a few meetings of Survived and Punished NY. When we launched our #FreeThemAll campaign to free people in women's prisons who were incarcerated for defending themselves against DV/SA, Zohran who was then working on Cynthia Nixon's campaign got us on her radar.

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

Jesus Christ, Bill de Blasio is cooking here. nymag.com/intelligence...

ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.

The "No Kings" organizers say that there are more than 1,800 protests planed for tomorrow.: www.nokings.org We'll have journalists at several of them, but you can tag @motherjones.com with your clips and tips.

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people