This is called "the Weave"

His poll numbers are tanking. Last month's #NoKings was the biggest protest in US history. And that was before the poop video, the Gatsby party, razing the East Wing, bailing out Argentina, starving SNAP recipients, ruining air travel, and Tuesday's mortifying (for him) election.

wifes love asking shit like "Honey, what is the Blowjob Olympics?" and "Why is 'Blowjob Olympics' listed on our CC statement like 14 times"

Jesus Christ, I would have been fired into the sun by the US Attorney if I pulled this shit

you know, there’s interesting stuff to be said about the complex relationship between gay identity and sex, but it probably should be written by someone who isn’t drooling with resentment while rehearsing a bizarre string of cultural allusions that suggest they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Donald Trump murdering Jeffrey Epstein to cover up his sex crimes, both candidates went to great lengths to hide their most dangerous secrets.

As far as a smoking gun, these emails demonstrate that Epstein was acting as a close and trusted advisor to the Trump administration. That doesn't happen without Trump's blessing.

this gets reposted a lot, but truth be told trump has never really wriggled out of anything. what actually happens is that other people passively or actively support him

This is not an aberration, nor is it a titillating tale of pervy old guys. The oppression of women, including via sexual crimes, is a pillar of the global POLITICAL economy. It's why power & wealth are distributed as they are: maintaining that distribution requires collective action by many men.

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

>He waited for her >He asked the parents approval >She followed him into besieged Idlib >Even as Jihadi emir he never married another woman >She never wore a niqab >He brings her everywhere with him in public I am afraid our AQ Emir is a wife guy

You see Trump working the phones and realize White Housers are looking at this morning's emails and thinking, who cares abuot those nothingburgers we need to flip boebert so the bad stuff doesn't come out.

Neutrality and objectivity are not the same thing and are, in fact, often contradictory goals. The objective truth is often not neutral in its political implications, and it would be a useless exercise if it was.

"they didn't release the good emails from the sex criminal the president was friends with"

I mean they are literally refusing to do their jobs at all rather than face these files, what else are we supposed to conclude? nobody has ever acted guiltier than these people

Trump did the thing, everyone knows he did the thing, and he's got an entire political party and associated media apparatus trying to cover up his clear involvement in the thing. One of the sickest, most sordid chapters in an especially sick and sordid period of modern American history.

the president raped children and his entire political party continues to actively cover it up even if we can't throw him in jail for it he should resign in disgrace and so should all of them

Trump *is* the Epstein Files

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

A 50 year mortgage minimizes your monthly payment by $200/month but adds $390K in interest over the life of the loan

Weird how at some point the ACA subsidies went from meaningless technocrat babble that it was obviously incredibly stupid for Democrats to try protecting to being incredibly important for helping people avoid suffering. And Democrats managed to get it wrong both times!! What were the odds?

/3 I am informed it’s normal to get more intolerant as I get older and I think I am absolutely getting less tolerant of other people’s absolute bullshit.

Well, fuck. Revoking any and all Peripeteia recommendations (and I wish I could un-back it on Kickstarter) based on the very thinly veiled transphobia from the dev (the first one in the screenshots here). I hate this.

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

I'm sill waiting for answers to several questions. Who else wants Schumer's and Jeffries' thankless jobs? Who is actively and publicly seeking them? What would they do differently? If it's be more tyrannical, I don't want them. Leadership and control are not synonyms, nor should they be.

*loud buzzing errrrrrrrrrrrrrr sound* VENESSA, SHOW ME THE MAP OF NATO

Like so many things about this administration, it's amazing to watch them find the topic that they think they need to talk about, and immediately turn it into ALL STICK NO CARROT

The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.

This is happening because of republicans.

In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help. We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party

The Senate Dem splitters are cowards who gave in way too easily somewhat too soon and also we weren’t doing this forever. Seriously, guys. It was never on the table to do this forever absent Republicans refusing to vote for their own bill, which I suppose they still might over in the House.

the secret is that its all of those thing

i dont think there’s ever been a point where corporate america has had a sincere sense of morality but it is probably a sign of the times that the culture at most major firms does not even pretend to encourage ethical behavior anymore. the transformation is really stark in tech.

i think "Trump learns he can get things out of the legislature by threatening to starve Americans" is a giant political boon for Democrats honestly. like how do we think he is going to employ that lesson in future that does not have dire electoral consequences?

Reminder: a lot of people currently handicapping how the end of the shutdown will play politically also handicapped how the shutdown would play politically 40 days ago and they were pretty wrong about that.

It’s such a bad idea, when one of his crimes was calling forth an insurrection, that he’s actually forbidden from holding the office by a constitutional provision, which a unanimous Supreme Court invented a way to turn off.

It has been my duty as a historian to record how smelly Che Guevara was. Honestly one of the stinkiest dudes in history. He was immensely proud of this & once showed off a pair of underpants he’d been wearing for two months. They were so filthy, he won a bet that they could stand up by themselves.

one of the funniest things about all this is that when you read about the history of men and warfare it is an endless series of internecine feuds between the biggest fucking prima donnas you've ever heard of

A lot of nyt folks, me among them, believed we could change the culture and the coverage from the inside. That by working within channels, we could convince the leadership of its obligation to cover trans ppl fairly. In hindsight I’ve come to think I was naive.

Should Charlie Brown not have had hoes?

Douthat is a slimy creep, particularly on the subject of women, as he’s shown for a long time now. NYT editors are showing their asses when they publish and promote his “just asking questions” retrograde misogyny year after year.

feeling sorry for all the millionaires and billionaires who didn’t get to see this perfect NYC sunset because they fled the city forever today. 😞

"the best explanation for 2025 is that voters didn’t know what they were getting with Trump 2.0 last November, but now they do — and they don’t like it." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

election night summary: nothing bad can happen. it can only good happen.

Cuomo gave a fairly graceless concession speech, and Mamdani rips his skin off: "My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo the best in private life. But let tonight be the last time I mention his name."

there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Prediction: The Senate is now in play.

Republicans drawing district maps that can survive a +8 Dems swing: Haha Fuck yeah!! Yes!!! Republicans modeling a +10 swing to Dems: Well this fucking sucks.