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One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

"We were told feces is the dirtiest food contaminant & that E. coli can kill you. Is that no longer true?" "It's true, but then the question goes back to reversal of the endangerment finding, which is: Is feces a pollutant or something that helps plants grow? We know it's the latter."

Bill Clinton talked to Loretta Lynch on the tarmac

it’s true that a functional welfare state requires more of a contribution from society at large than just soaking the rich can provide, but that’s besides the point soaking the rich is a goal unto itself

WTF for a host of reasons, but the longest possible Max8 flight is about 7 hours, and that’s about as long a flight one can take within US (except to Hawaii). Why on earth does it need a bed? Reclining seats certainly enough for rest.

One of the reasons I have a lot more respect for an honest liberal centrist like Michael Bennet than a maverick progressive like Ro Khanna is that Bennet clearly believes in something and Khanna believes in fucking nothing.

"I'm devastated. Devastated. Well... not that devastated."

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

what id say is that consensus reality is a public good and it takes public policy to create. by the same token it can be insanely profitable for shitheads to pollute the commons if nobody stops them

The Future is gonna be written by the inter-religious, interfaith, ecumenical and inclusive movements in the world. Probably more of a "faith statement" than a claim, but whatever: it's gonna happen.

FCC making stuff up on the fly I see.

we gotta leave that shit in Woke 1, cultural blending and intermingling ris good

Yeah. It sucks, but in the end people always make this more complicated than it needs to be. In the end it's always simple and boring and infuriating. Keep Republicans away from power, things can sometimes get better! Let them IN power and things will always get worse.

Frame: the left is hurting itself by not engaging with the god machines Negation: but this technology doesn't do the things you claim kirby: the people writing these stories get funding to support narratives of power and inevitability, and that's what we should be scrutinizing

I controversially think dems line on trans kids should be idk 15% rhetorical defense and 85% deflecting and calling the gop pedophiles

If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.

The use cases derive from their awful attitudes toward life: • Sees art only as a low-paying job; got an MBA instead • Thinks the idea for a book is the most important part like an idea for a company • Views SW engineers as replaceable cogs • Gets long email from an old friend & wants it summarized

Republicans fucking with CHIPS.

libs getting the chamber of commerce in the national divorce, sure, why not, welcome aboard www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

Well if we're casting the net that widely, let's just go with Biden/Trump (Hunter/Mary)

(Entertainment news 2024) “NEW SHOWBIZ CONSENSUS: twenty rightwing comedians fame-pushed by billionaire algorithm botfarms are advocating for a fresh new dystopian police state that must be hip, edgy and overdue if these badboy funnymen are saying so”

this post was quite the adventure before I remembered there's an olympic sport called "skeleton"

one of the things that’s harder to see while we are in it, but will jump off the page at future historians, is how deeply corrupt *the entire trump family* is, and how they abused and and manipulated every lever of the federal government they could grab to steal everything that isn’t nailed down

"I'm not scared of a germ. I'm scared of a worm."

“It’s the coverup, not the crime” has done irreparable damage to American journalism.

Seems like a lot of evidence against a “the failure was democratic messaging” story of 2024. What’s happening, that people disapprove of, is exactly what prominent democrats said would happen (and often was written down in Project 2025).

See, wisdom in men is arriving at the age where you realise running the planet is a pain, and what you actually want is a shed to potter in. And for a shed, you need jars to keep things in.

When people read current writing on immigration a few decades from now, it'll hit the same as a reading the way people wrote about "the Jewish problem" in the 1930s. Just loads of well-educated and seemingly normal people accepting a monstrous normative frame as though it's natural.

There's a reason no one starts running for President before the midterms. I'm delighted that clowns are seeking to bestow onto Newsom the "mantle of inevitability" because it means the actual nominee selected by the voters is going to knock it off his stupid head.

Can someone ask Bondi if we are allowed to care about the Epstein files again?

Wow, almost like the media and journalism profession failed in some sort of professional duty to actually inform these low-engagement voters about what Trump was saying he wanted to do and the consequences of those plans. There is a moral-failure-of-the-voters here, but it's not the only one.

Pam Bondi is now freeing accused drug dealers bc her demand that AUSAs do unethical things got all the prosecutors to quit. www.startribune.com/case-dismiss...

A US Marshal who is part of Trump's surge of feds in DC shot and killed someone in DC yesterday evening and there is barely any coverage and not a single post on here yet about it? wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

yeah, there's a small tax on ech wager. but it basically wrecks a gambler that makes a ton of small bets, and breaks the stupid parlay betting system.

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

I don’t really pay attention to charges of doomerism. I don’t know what it means offline. I do know that refusing a version of how the future will unfold forecloses on the power that actually shapes that future. That’s not disavowing that tech changes are happening but they are in now a given.

A friend of ours was able to be a test subject for an mRNA vaccine for an aggressive form of breast cancer. Completely worked. It is one of the greatest miracles of science and like 40% of the country turned it into The Jab because they are mushheaded simpletons.

having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood

“You usually want to turn your little guys into women. But every now and then, it is better to turn one into a horse.”

In the early 90s someone told me I didn't know the "real Rockapella" if I was only familiar with their Carmen Sandiego-related work

"rich asshole who stops a multi-billion dollar project and causes an international incident to protect his lucrative duty-free gasoline concession" is really the perfect exemplar of parasitic trumpism. think of how wealthy the american people would be if we shook off all these bloodsuckers.

This would be terrifying if control was actually going to come down to a small number of closer races. But it’s not, and nobody frothing into a panic over it will internalize that load bearing part of the speculation.

Sen Ramirez: "Let me remind you, you will not always be in power. One day, you will be held accountable for your role in this dark day in America."

Real man of the people, this clown.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

the primary reason rightwingers will never control culture is because everything they do is hinged upon it being a reaction to the broader culture. the TPUSA half time event would not exist without it being a representation of their grievences

I'm just a liberal squish, but I think America should not have concentration camps.