He better have a fire and brimstone monologue ready for this

you know, we had this extraordinary period of high growth and low interest rates that was completely squandered and basically none of the tech elite lost their jobs or reputations over it

every journalist knows they are packaging the entire Charlie Kirk story dishonestly, and they all think it is incredibly rude to point that out

Spent some time thinking about how hard I’m gonna party When it Happens. Highly recommend it.

This guy has to have a social media team older than he is

I think Michael Schaffer is, perhaps, a stupid hack with a fake job

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

Former counselor to RFK Jr’s predecessor:

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Gotta love that Donald’s inability to do anything but insult people comes out even during a memorial

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

lot of people immediately able to grasp why this is bad still making excuses for posting on twitter

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Democrats need to seriously consider an impeachment inquiry into now-Judge Emil Bove if/when they take back the House. He led the brazenly corrupt Eric Adams quid pro quo. He facilitated the Tom Homan bribery cover-up. And there’s probably more! He was Trump’s hatchet man at DOJ for months!

As far as I can tell the Trump Administration’s stance is that he took $50,000 in cash for totally innocent reasons and that thinking otherwise is deep state nonsense. No, it’s not plausible.

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

one of the things which is sort of a shame about the loss of the robust ethnic press of the early 20th century is that it would allow the community to work out whatever the fuck is going on with schumer's donors without doing it front of every antisemite in america

I‘d actually very much love to live in a world where I didn’t feel obligated to Vote Blue No Matter Who because there are multiple things I’d change about the Democratic Party if I could, but every presidential election for the rest our lives is a referendum on whether Groypers should have nukes.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

He allegedly accepted the money ***in cash*** "On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case and sources."

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

that was way funnier than i thought it was gonna be

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Remember when people said this wouldn’t happen

The FAQ posted online for this program claims that this would be an EB-1/EB-2 visa. That is EXTREMELY illegal. Those visas are, by law, ONLY for people with “extraordinary” or “exceptional” ability, or advanced degrees (MAs or PhDs) who are being hired by an American business.

Illegal, vulgar, crass, and narcissistic all at once.

I won’t pretend to know who can win let alone who should win, but I do wonder sometimes if the actual lesson from Hillary and Kamala is not so much that voters don’t want a woman but that voters don’t want someone who sometimes comes across as a phony careerist

You’re not allowed to investigate whether this actually happened, you must dismiss the employee immediately or I’ll bring fascist goons to harass you.

One assumes that SB doesn’t have cameras all over their locations to stop any sort of retail theft etc but, at this point, to deliver hard documentation in under an hour to refute the weekly right wing viral moral panic fabulism about a blue hair barista doing a hate crime to republicans

Frame this, honestly

Holy fuck

not surprisingly, they both get at the fundamental nature of cults and seek to describe the fake reality the right wing cult lives in.

legit think the two best texts for understanding modern conservatism are folding ideas' in search of a flat earth and elephant graveyard's comedy jonestown

becoming fully beaudrillard pilled. realizing the entire project of 5-4 has been in many ways detailing how conservatives have built a simulation of academic and legal scholarship, in order to live in a hyperreal world in which the constitution demands white supremacy

This is not a reason not to give to Gazans' GoFundMe campaigns if you're willing to tolerate some risk of diversion and fraud, btw. Everything has some risk, and we need to be brave these days.

You know what's interesting, is that the legal risk of, say, giving to a Gazan's GoFundMe is probably a lot higher than signing up for a permitted protest.

I really think that Dems should demand firing RFK Jr. as a condition to fund the government his negative value over replacement cabinet member is undoubtedly the highest in the administration

This is doubly true for the bad faith argument-framers who are jumping in. Some people are saying “do not sign up” and the others are saying “it won’t hurt you if you do”. That’s getting characterized as “you have to sign up, it’s really important” which is stupid, and not what people mean

inspired by absolutely nothing that is currently happening please reply with the two Bluesky posters whose multiday vituperative shitfight would render the site least pleasant

This is the only acceptable energy when looking forward to when we have the reigns again The capitulators cannot go unpunished. Once MAGA faces the law, so will corporate ghouls that enabled them.

Lander does this shit when he's not even running for anything. The realest possible one

This is a clearly impeachable offense he’s reportedly going to finish committing tomorrow. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

Apparently huge swaths of America never inoculated themselves by hanging out on tumblr and watching these people crash out in insane ways

are you going to get one set of opinions from either group? of course not - for one thing they're both highly stubborn and opinionated cultures. Is the aggregate of that experience far more useful than random American academics and lawyers? christ, yes.

again, you are *posting on a public forum.* spreading panic and paranoia is antithetical to the solidarity and organization needed at this stage of resistance. And, bluntly, the opinion of *any* American is less useful than talking to South Koreans or Ukrainians and others at this point.

again, as somebody who has actually lived in a dictatorship and worked with dissidents from across the world, this kind of whiny cosplaying by academics pretending they have some secret knowledge of resistance is very annoying.

this is a thread about a semi-retired corporate attorney at a white-shoe law firm telling people not to protest

the reason his writing is so obtuse is that if he said the plain meaning of his words, which is, "being Black is a form of knowledge which supersedes understanding the criminal justice system's limits," people would just laugh at him, because this is just standpoint epistemology gone berserk.