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?

There was a whole podcast about this!

—2016 Proverb

Trying to make this observation delicately, but there was an obvious relationship between users with the “posted more than 100 times yesterday” badge and users who had a very hard time with Senate developments

Yeah this is how it starts

really tired of people with every advantage adopting a pose of world-weary skepticism to hide their own bitterness at having come out slightly below where they wanted in the social hierarchy. please do something with that other than pretend to be a reporter

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

To be ideologically consistent it’s required to be pro both HAMILTON and Zohran’s musical foray (me) or neither but not one without the other

As much indifference as I have toward the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there’s no denying it played a crucial role in giving nerds a pop cultural outlet outside the confines of National Talk Like a Pirate Day and the like, and for that I am forever grateful

This is only a contrarian view on a website that has full on lost its mind.

It's wild how many people are wholly willing to straight up say "Israeli money secretly controls our elected officials and this no this does not make me antisemetic."

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

They call it “the UK” because instead of addressing a stranger with something normal like “Hey, how’s it going?” or “Hi, how’re you doing today?” they just look at them and say, “UK?”

are writers for the spectator okay?

You’re mad that Sydney Sweeney didn’t take the bait. I’m mad that she didn’t defend the premise of the ad on the merits. We are not the same.

(NARRATOR: It was not effective.)

writing it "f*ck" sickens me. a coward's curse. say fuck or find a different word. get that nasty starfish asshole out of my sight

There are two reasons people do this: 1. Hating Dems is "cool" and "hip" and the way to show that you're totally savvy and part of the in-group; and 2. It's just kind of assumed that the torches and pitchforks are already out for Republicans, so why actually bother to take them out? Both are dumb

Don’t forget, folks, this vote in the Senate yesterday can definitely be pinned on the worst criminal in all of American History: Hillary Clinton.

Only one major American political party is trying to preserve and expand access to healthcare and it’s not the GOP This is bad shitposting

it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!

A few years ago there was a terrible Gen Z tweet everyone dunked on about how people should get their car insurance payments back if they don’t use it. Anyway it’s fun to discover this is now the stated position of the GOP

The Democrats are not at fault for anything going badly in your life right now.

I think that, fundamentally, ending the shutdown without a commitment that congress actually controls how money is spent in this country is Very, Very Bad but I am being thoroughly polarized away from that position's salience by the monstrous behavior of the sephiroth-posters who want starved kids

If you all knew who writes and posts Joyce Carol Oates's tweets for her (and has for years), there would never be another screenshot of one seen again.

(Chuck Schumer had literally nothing to do with this and is voting against it)

even within your own lifetime it is difficult to recall how much better everything you eat, drink, and touch is than it used to be

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

This one is R+10, which makes it within the realm of possibility if you look at VA-Gov and NJ-Gov which were also 10% swings over 2021. Uphill for sure, but worth the effort. Motivated Dem turnout might win this one.

I’m putting together a team

never say to me, the words "Crooked Con".

the contrast between the left in NYC and San Francisco is incredible winning the mayoralty by relentlessly focusing on the cost of living and making government more effective vs. promoting a shitcoin named after a bodega cat run over by a Waymo

I don’t remember them having hashtags back then

This is when we entered the alternative timeline, not 2016.

Has anybody seen Graham Platner recently

I think at some point we're going to have to have a reckoning on how the memefication of "genocide" and "genocidaire" as extremely bad and harmful for pretty much everyone except Trump.

A very interesting comparison here. 2025 vs 2023 for my state of NSW. Testing for COVID-19 and influenza has not changed substantially that I'm aware of in this time. The labs generally test for both on any swabs taken. The ratio of COVID-19:Flu 2025 - 0.49 2023 - 2.97 (!)

I don’t think it’s good to sell some romanticized fiction of “Europe” to the rest of the world. For example: In Germany, busses are not free and people go to actual jail if they’re caught not paying multiple times.

if i ever reach this point then just put me down

I don't disagree with the idea that you should be genuine and not compromise on your values, but these polls are absolute garbage. People do not accurately report how much things on the news will change their behaviors.

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

the public already accepts that human-driven cars kill 40k people a year in the US alone I'm not advocating that _anyone_ be killed by cars but idk how we can get ppl to care about one death if they don't care about 40k

Me every couple of years: What was Dear Evan Hansen about again? Me ten minutes later reading Wikipedia: *eyes widening*

So it’s essentially an automated Michelle Carter

It would be better if it were cynical; it is unfortunately deeply sincere, and emblematic of what I can only describe as a paranoid nervous breakdown encompassing most of the institutional leadership of the American Jewish community.

The incident in Paris tonight with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra was not just a protest, but an act of antisemitism. Disrupting an event meant for culture and unity, targeting Israeli performers based on their nationality, is hate. share.google/oBXJI4r... 1/4

I found this to be a very compelling argument for why generated AI output (research, images, code, etc) can feel really great to you, while no one receiving that content cares very much.

I do not think all anti-Zionists are antisemitic, but anti-Zionists who label Zohran Mamdani a "Zionist" simply because he condemned swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn are in fact antisemites.

twelve hungry men

Osita Nwanevu is a bad political analyst whose opinions are echoed by people who repeat to themselves over and over that Trump is easy to beat and only dem incompetence lets him win bc they can’t face the fact that huge numbers of Americans are fascist-curious bigots, so beating them is hard.