If ilhan Omar had a "favorite philosopher" who said something like this, the media would literally hound her into resigning. But they don't even report on the fact that the sitting vice president loves this guy, a disgusting anti-semite

Anyway I'm so glad that, out of an abundance of respect for norms and afraid to appear partisan, Merrick Garland paused investigations into Trump before the 2022 midterms. Would hate to see what would happen if we lost our norms and saw government used as a partisan weapon instead!

Dear @nytimespr.bsky.social. Your press release re comments I gave to @transnews.network includes many errors but one assertion is true: “TNN featured an interview with a former editor on the International desk at The Times who was not involved in these coverage decisions.” That is the problem

I think it's hilarious that @nytimes.com thinks that they can print a "fact check" of former editor Sweeny's interview in which they say this is false and that is false without bringing receipts. You have thrown away your credibility. Why should I believe bald assertions from you with no evidence?

My sister was one of those leftists who said America was irredeemably evil and must be destroyed. I tended to disagree. But in a world where 1) this is the dominant, explicit attitude of America‘s ruling party and 2) no one has any real plan to permanently defeat them…idk how you’d argue with her

I don’t even feel enraged anymore when I see this stuff. I’ve moved on to just quiet acceptance that we don’t have a functioning political system. I don’t know if it’ll last, but now I just feel numb when elected Democrats help Trump by voting for his nominees or refuse to put up any fight.

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

really curious about the extent to which it’s arguable taxpayers are footing the bill for this

Trump's conducting illegal kill campaigns and military raids and 7 of the 47 Senators in opposition just voted to confirm a Trump nominee to the Pentagon. We can dream of what it will take to change the party eagerly cheering the killing, but a good first step would be opposition from the opposition

So far the Mamdani administration’s strategy is “we have all these ideas about how to help people so let’s try to do them” which seems like such a rare thing and which then makes you say “wait why is that a rare thing?”

If this happened to a conservative organizer, Republicans would make her a hero, a household name and a congressional candidate. Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.

second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

i want to stress again that every time i try to explain this shit to normal people i sound like i have to be institutionalized

can someone explain to me conceptually how the president of a country with a military can be in violation of an American law against machine gun ownership?

personally I think if a story about an illegal war and kidnapping leaks to you should publish it.

if what I did was a "war crime" then how come I'm not in trouble

“Kinetic action” is such a goofy euphemism for shooting and bombing. it doesn’t even obscure anything. it’s like the wannabe operator version of “unalived.” Why do people talk like this.

Took a great big couch nap, stared at my TV in pure confusion for about five minutes, remembered we abducted a world leader, drank the last of my coffee, and used this site. You can do it too. Call. Impeachment and removal.

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

look man at that point you get yourself arrested it's not as though "signing up for the military" didnt carry risks, you just thought they'd be mortal rather than moral

at least part of everything this government does is to impress a handful of psychos on twitter

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

based on the most recent tweet visible on screen, this photo was taken in the hour that passed between these two posts... during which time the strikes were taking place. the most important thing in the room was tweets. they wanted to make sure people were posting about it.

This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets. polymarket.com/@0x31a56e9E6...

Imagine if Al Qaeda had hit Bush on 9/11 and Bin Laden got on TV and started describing his plan for running the fifty states. Shared his plans for redirecting coal mining operations In West Virginia.

always so jarring to see a us politician capable of speaking with any degree of moral clarity

lol Schumer's response is literally to say this is a distraction from grocery prices. Beyond parody man.

jeffries needs to be the fuck out of office

Just saw someone claiming that the democrats doing nothing is fine because you shouldn't stop your enemy when they are making a mistake and whilst that may be true you definitely should stop your enemy when they are *killing innocent people* and it feels bizarre to have to say that out loud.

you don't need to add caveats agreeing that the head of state abducted is a bad guy before opposing abduction of a head of state by military force. If the rule was any head of government is fair game then the entire world would be a series of decapitation strikes and show trials in foreign courts.

Washington Post celebrates Trump's lawless, imperial terrorism by swiping at NYC's new mayor.

they want the city to enforce speech codes against the condemnation and boycotting of israel because they say it demonizes jews and makes us vulnerable to attack while ignoring that it's this very sort of exercise of power in defense of israeli brutality that demonizes and endangers us

The leaders of every major institution have straight-up fricasseed their brains with 16 hours of daily Twitter time and are now incapable of any thought that can’t be formulated as “CHEW ON THIS HOT TAKE: [biggest pander imaginable].”

I don’t think nearly enough people are willing to connect the dots between the all hands on deck effort to discredit and ban critical histories, even those that sought to expand the “patriotic” vision like the 1619 Project, and our current moment where this vision is now supposedly hegemonic.

Reuters selecting random Grok outputs to quote as if they were messages from Grok the entity. Really dark shit man! People just do not understand what these machines are or what they do. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

By retreating only to "kitchen table issues" to avoid being labeled "woke," Democratic leaders have left an open goal for the GOP. When you treat the harassment of vulnerable communities as a "distraction" rather than a crisis, you're not avoiding a fight: you're just forfeiting it.

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

Not really discussed that often but one of the secondary & tertiary reasons Israel's public image has so rapidly declined among the youth in countries like the US, UK and Germany is because of behavior like this. Petulant, circular, nonsensical, extremely whiny. It doesn't make *Mamdani* look bad.

The someone she’s quoting is an old school MRA from the Roosh V forums who wrote a book called “Do the Philippines: How to Make Love with Filipino Girls in the Philippines.”

Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.

has anyone inquired into how much the need to make commercial LLMs usable by people who hold psycho false beliefs has undermined safeguards against things like the below? there have got to be emails where someone is saying to make it agree the election was rigged it's going to compromise safety

It’s not even “are these people racist?” It’s “do these people have any beliefs at all besides white supremacy?”

Yeah sure why not

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

*Sully Sullenberger starts sweating*

Using the processes of liberal democracy to restrict the rights of vulnerable minorities is contrary to liberal democratic principles.