it really should not and can not be forgotten that this type of technocratic liberal did so much heavy lifting and legitimizing of JD Vance in the public zeitgeist and is partially responsible as to why he is where he is now

Also, the IRA had tons of highway-related projects! The idea that it was some sort of Trojan horse Green New Deal — which itself was full of kitchen-table-style jobs programs — is false and a creation of right-wing propaganda that lots of centrists either fell for or were totally willing to parrot.

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

I worked at the regional HG of the LA Co. Public Library for a while. Baker & Taylor shipments would come through and I'd process them out to everybody in our region. It's a robust system. Private equity is the enemy.

Florida has a fairly well documented problem with young people leaving the state after they grow up but I guess one way you can ameliorate them is kill them before they can leave on their own

remember when elon musk was still in government and DOGE still active and they pretended for like a week rampent social security fraud was happening, and then it turned out they just didn’t understand that databases would include people who passed away and we never heard about this “fraud” again lol

One year ago, I went on CNN and expressed my concern that if Harris lost after not defending trans people that somehow the takeaway would still be that trans people were the reason. I hate being right! www.readtpa.com/p/watch-the-...

The irony behind all of the Democratic blaming of trans people for their losses is the simple fact that we would be in a third Trump term right now, not a second, without trans people pushing Biden over the finish line in 2020.

wake up babe, a new way of saying "we just put 14,000 people out of a job" just dropped

This gets at the core problem the Democrats have right now: Consultants keep telling them to focus on ‘kitchen table issues’ but they don’t have an inspiring kitchen table agenda! ‘Expanding drug price negotiation’ is technocratic and taxing the wealthy is something they refuse to deliver on.

The "don't talk about social issues" strategy only works if you *admit that was your strategy after the fact*. We're in this doom loop where Democrats try something, gaslight themselves into believing they didn't try it, then decide to try it again.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

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Between this and Sabrina doing a similar thing it is VERY CLEAR which pop stars are aware of The Moment right now and are rising to the occasion and which ones don't give a shit

If Harry Potter is more popular than trans people, that's an indictment of society, not trans people. "Give up this hobby that is literally bankrolling our extermination" isn't a big ask tbh.

it is so abundantly clear that mamdani's position on palestine is what is driving schumer up the wall. it's kind of pathetic at this point.

The Supreme Court announcing that a president cannot not be held criminally liable for virtually anything he does in office based on nothing in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution was extremely bad, IMHO

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

it's depressing but unsurprising that the guy's campaign was legitimately too good to be true. could've been nice! ah, nevertheless

Democrats are still voting to support Trump nominees

Haven't seen anyone comment on it yet but this local Illinois journalist has revealed that internal AIPAC fundraising emails call both Kat Abu and Daniel Biss anti-American for their opposition to Israeli apartheid.

The media is even hedging its description of that diarrhea plane video as "seemingly AI generated." That whole "the job of the media is to look out the fucking window and find out" has very clearly stopped being a thing. "Seemingly" as if maybe that did happen, who is to possibly say it did not

in some ways, the greatest challenge for Democratic base voters is to get their elected officials more afraid of their base than of the Beltway culture

i'm so sick of hearing about this goddamn tent

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

it's funny because during the shutdown, the president has been cutting funding and approving new funding without congress. soooooo.......

if AI guys have their way the keyboard and mouse will be replaced with a slot machine lever which you pull over and over until the computer outputs what you want

curious to wake up to all the coordinated messaging about who and what *aren't* part of the protest movement. seems strangely focused on nobody to the left of manchin having an opinion for some reason

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism. Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

these people know how extreme they are

israel has already broken the ceasefire

the thing about the bubble popping is that the more we TALK and THINK about the bubble popping, the more likely it becomes. because the economy follows warhammer 40k ork logic

Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

at the absolute minimum Jeffries needs to be replaced by someone who understands that Wallet Inspector is not a real law enforcement occupation

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversaw a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, TN, with a staggering history of throwing children in jail. In one case, 11 Black children, as young as 8, were arrested for a crime that doesn't exist. Revisit our 2021 story w/ @wpln.bsky.social: