virtue signalling is good actually

Enjoying Paris with the Women’s Forum. Don’t worry about sad trolls caping as journalists who tell on themselves every day. ✊✊🧡🧡

Finally found the ICE video that I fully could not watch and it was the man having the seizure while they pulled a child from his arms. Countries are fake, borders are fake, nothing can justify this inhumanity. It’s all just for the abstract comfort of withering country clubbers and their pawns.

like how little do you think of americans that “daily videos of masked men terrorizing children and tearing families apart” is an issue you don’t touch because you think you’re going to lose on it. that’s insane

I argue back when people claim “Democrats don’t really want to win” but when that claim is made, this is the kind of example that can be cited to support it.

one of the (many) toxic dynamics in DC is the way Hill and agency staffers are constantly in close social and professional contact with lobbyists and lawyers who make 4x what they do, and the lifestyle inflation and status anxiety and career-exit paths that gap creates

boy I saw that in person a LOT living there. particularly toxic in an expensive-ass city like DC, you basically can't start a family on staffer wages bsky.app/profile/seth...

you look at Texas, they pay the state leg $7,200 a year and as a result like half of them are car dealership owning reactionaries

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

This and the minimum wage should be indexed by cost-of-living and here CEO pay imo

They're trying to gut LIHEAP for the same reasons! When I was in recovery and physically couldn't work for months, LIHEAP literally kept me from freezing to death in my place in South Philly. These programs work and save peoples lives, and that doesn't line up with the pro eugenics crowd

Genocidal oligarchs still acting like this is a live debate. That land has been had. Nothing you can do about it. It's gone. It's had. You lose. Drainage! Drainage, David, you boy. Drained dry. I'm so sorry.

I didn't say Trump is easy to beat. Presidential races are now close due to increasing partisan polarization. I said that Trump, the most unpopular president on record, is a bad politician who has been carried by external factors and, per data, has underperformed relative to normal Republicans.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

the thing is China is doing *both*

This is less about Stefanik's electoral viability and more about how Jacobs's NY/Nassau Democratic Party is racist and Islamophobic. Both he and the Democratic candidates and officials he prefers are racist and Islamophobic. They'll amplify her message the way they amplified Trump's in 2024 and 2025

Stefanik will run for governor as if running against Mamdani; Democrats like Jay Jacobs, Schumer, Gillibrand, Suozzi, and Gillen have retreated off the field in advance because they feel the same way about him. Jacobs oversaw a red wave in a blue wave year. It is dangerous to leave him in charge

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

2/2 pays as much attention to what we're up to musically as to the guy at center stage -- which is where, for me, this album really soars, there's an ensemble feel to it that thrills me. can't wait for you-all to hear it. as duty requires I will be on here banging the drum about it tomorrow!

this review of the album we have coming out tomorrow is critical in the very best way -- the author asks good & fair questions about how my lyrics work differently within the more-details environment of a stage-musical conceit, and, v. importantly for me, 1/2 www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-mo...

did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb

Richest nation in human history

Facebook knows that it is committing fraud and does not care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

There are no words for how evil this is

We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.

Y'all are really pushing all of the Black journalists out of the industry, so that you can ask trash questions like this? Embarrassing. Some questions are harmful in and of themselves. It doesn't matter what's said in the debate, or who "wins." Pretending that this is not trash, is weakness.

I don’t even have words for this. One of the 2 guys responsible for this mass death wants a peace prize and the other wants $1trillion to be a bad CEO.

twelve hungry men

We’re so back

A St Louis Fed paper analyzed the Silicon Valley Bank bailout and analyzed the assets and found it would have been better to let it fail because 90% of the assets were crypto and VC bets and would have had little to no effect on the broader economy.

In other words you have to realize that a world in which the government no longer feels bound to spend the money allocated to it to spend on x, y, and z by law is not one in which you know you'll get SNAP back when the gov opens just because you voted to have it in the budget. That's why it drags on

This is the thing though, this is the normal way of thinking about shutdowns. And it's why the Dems didn't do it the first time! But, the real problem here is that the shutdown reflects the consequences of Republican rule breaking. You don't actually know if the pain stops if you give in.

Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology

To what do I owe the pleasure, Breton?

The Mississippi GOP's main project has been to roll back the civil rights movement, starting with the re-segregation of public schools. ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 mn over 6 years from state coffers.

Maine rejected a ballot measure that’d have restricted mail voting and imposed voter ID. By a large margin, 64/36. The no got 90% in the city of Portland. (!) boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...

This can’t possibly go horribly wrong

Tomorrow's Premium: Based on analysis of years of reporting, OpenAI has burned $23 billion since 2023, ending 1H 2025 with $9.6bn cash. OpenAI appears to have $9bn+ more in burn than has previously been reported. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

ah good, another media conglomerate whose nepo baby owner will apparently destroy it to help Donald Trump

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Fuck this hall monitor shit

I think people ignore how many Mamdani style candidates that have ran across the country and were very popular, but the establishment Democrats organized themselves to crush them. I could be wrong, but I think most progressive initiatives and politicians get blocked by Democrats nationwide.

During the course of my work in the political sphere I have come to know many people whose main job is opp research and tanking candidates. Most of them, as voters, lean right or are right wing. They all report that a lot of their work is establishment Dems hiring them to kneecap progressive Dems.

No matter how badly you want to be famous because you think it is gonna save you from collapse/poverty/work, you are still gonna be just another cog in the machine until the machine no longer exists. There is no money in celebrity anymore. Thats why we have a proliferation of reality tv “stars”

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc