starting to think that being terminally online infects some people into becoming utterly unable to admit they might have been wrong about anything they posted online “keep posting through it” has become a desperate mantra

there are men on the left who will see right wing men as their allies above left wing women because in their eyes the former confirms masculinity and the latter conveys weakness

When you give law enforcement a legal monopoly on the truth, this is what happens

In a hearing where residents grilled officials on data centers, a resident of Tyrone Township, Michigan, asked a simple question: Have you signed an NDA with any party regarding developments that could affect the town? The majority of the township's officials refused to answer.

this is a good savvy question. i'm back pocketing this question

Republicans want your kids dead.

It would be nice if the media was as interested in Ken Paxton as they are in Graham Platner.

Accurate. He's also the one stealing all our tax dollars.

If you're a dude resentful of the influence of Democratic women inside the Democratic base... just go be a MAGAt already, or else fix your prepubescent brain and recognize who the fuck the Democratic base actually IS.

The same Republicans who think they can only be manly men if the United States is militarily murdering people in foreign lands are the same dudes who daily fellate a saggy sundowning pedophile who would forget his own name if it weren't endlessly shouted at him sycophantically.

if you make it a point to call credible allegations of sexual assault and domestic violence "uncorroborated" you're a piece of shit

Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The foundational lie of Trumpism (and I’m using that word precisely to refer to the ideology of intellectual types who defend him), from day one, has been the claim that good character is a “luxury belief” and nothing more than cover for the wealthy to punish the poor. This belief is evil.

Same reason there’s Salvadoran, Vietnamese, and Iraqi neighborhoods: Destabilize a country long enough, its people end up on your doorstop. The U.S. made Colombia its backyard, bankrolling paramilitaries and shielding Chiquita’s death squads. Colombians are here because the United States is there.

Best: the press acting on journalistic values and commitments Not great: the press maximizing audience size and advertising revenue Worst: the press is what billionaires want it to be

I could take Matt Taibbi or Ken Klippenstein in my sleep, and I also have a long history of stuffed-animal tea-parties and ballet recital attendance tearing up with pride for my daughter.

“If we want rugged, square jawed, muscled… I mean uhhh blue collar people in office we have to put up with their coarse proletarian sensibilities” - man who has never even gardened

oh well! rape happens!

“Non-consensual sex” is rape.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Matt Taibbi moved from Russia to Buffalo in 2000 and started a local paper called the Buffalo Beast. I was there. They rated our bars by how easily he and his friends could take advantage of drunk women. They had an actual rating system.

This checks out. 🤜🏼

it really is astonishing how much of this sneering obsession with macho posturing is just warmed-over trumpism, down to the assemblage of an insular fantasy world where twitter bon mots pass for strategic wins in a forever war against the tide of a culture that’s largely moved on

also i feel like if youre a man doubling down on platner or trying to defend your previous support of him after all this nonsense started coming out.... your psychosexual insecurities are showing

No lies detected.

Just a reminder that Trump has access to top notch medical that us commoners don’t. On our dime. His administration is stripping away funds for research he’s benefiting from.

It never ceases to weird me out just how much of right-wing politics is built on a burning desire by immature adults to wear costumes in public. Seriously. It's dress-up. They want to play dress-up all the fucking time. "Here's muh cowboy hat! This is muh 'Real American' costume, yuck!" Just stop.

Notice that the far right in EVERY country is essentially a criminal conpsiracy with aspirations to dictatorship? They're all in cahoots. By definition, a far right political movement thinks of "law" as something to weaponize against the plebeians, rather than restraints on their own behaviors.

respectfully, no that is england's. Yours is to crash out in this exact round. You are Mexico with fans who care less

I'd love to be able to tell you that the woes of the USMNT are because boys' youth soccer is a broken, unaccountable, and money-driven morass in the United States... but girls' youth soccer in this country has all the same problems. Pathways? There aren't pathways. There's a labyrinth instead.

Again, Mitch McConnell is most likely DEAD. Meaning, a Republican Senator and former leader of the party is no longer among the living (most likely) & REPUBLICANS HAVEN'T SAID A WORD. Furthermore, they still support a rapist & Paxton let a pedo go free. The entire system is rigged for the right.

The most reliable thing in the world is that if you hear two stories about a guy behaving physically abusively toward women, there are five more you haven’t heard yet. People have patterns.

Helen of Troy, Lupita Nyongo sparkles in Christian Cowan for the London premiere of #theodysseymovie.

Iran War disaster. Knicks game loss. Hail at Mt. Rushmore on July 3. Sandstorm in DC on July 4. 4-1 World Cup loss. Trump is like a traveling pestilence.

Once declared brain dead, they usually withdraw life support around 48-72 hours. But like you said, the body can only take so much. He wasn’t in a good place prior to crashing.

Just some food for thought about McConnell: Survival rate for someone over 80 who needs pre-hospital CPR is only about 2-6%.

Among other things, the latest turn in the Platner story is a good example of why journalists need to get off X for professional and personal reasons, not just ethical ones. The writers who gassed his campaign up and now need to walk it back are mostly people who cooked their brains on X.

Everything Trump Touches Dies. Even the World Cup.

Trump hexed the USMNT like he did the game 3 Knicks.

This right the hell now!

It has been a team-wide catastrophic collapse for the USMNT. Bad first touches. Timid to 50/50s. Poor decision making. No game plan.

This feels like a good time to note that, indeed, USWNT is the winningest team in international sports history (win percentage: 84) the18.com/en/soccer-en...

As much as I hate to say it because it’s cheap webforum meta discourse, the strongest correlation to Platner support wasn’t ideology, it was if you still frequently use X, The Everything App. I would hope that would lead to some introspection about what remaining on there does to your judgement.

Man, the U.S. team is just sucking today.

The Coward Matthew Yglesias

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious

it would have been so easy to listen to the people who were like "nah" when it came to the Nazi tattoo guy.

It's literally so easy to believe women. You don't need details. You just have to treat them like real people because they literally are.

I am so fucking tired of woman having to stand on a national stage and tear their hearts open and pour their trauma out in front of the entire country. And still not be believed. Or be told it doesn’t matter because we need her assaulter. I’m so tired of it.