my favorite thing is how we're all just supposed to believe these assholes when they equate gov't and academic censorship with "someone was mean to me on the internet"

Think the GOP has a bad Latino problem.

Nogales, AZ 95% Hispanic Presidential 2024: D+38 AZ-7 Special Election: D+70 32 Point Shift Left!

I had missed this: In a small, rural Iowa county, Floyd County, a Democrat won one of the three seats on the county's board of supervisors tonight. He ousted the Republican who'd been appointed to replace the Republican supervisor who passed away.

Work requirements are stupid, just like drug testing.

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

Hillary Clinton: "Your economic standing, your wellbeing is directly connected to the abuse of power. How do you hold a president who's abusing power, raising costs, imposing tariffs, raising healthcare costs, how do you hold that president accountable in a midterm? You vote against his party"

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

Streeting would be on the far right of the US Republican party on this issue.

If I were a truly brave woman in it for a future I will not see, it would be to overturn the 2nd Amendment

What’s happening: Napoleon is master of Europe. Go deeper: Only the British Fleet stands before him.

"The libidinal pleasure of ‘owning the libs’ that now passes for modern conservatism is going to become more costly for them as time wears on." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-left-is-...

A lot of the commentators who deride Bluesky as a smaller or less active platform than X are totally clueless about how power on the internet works, which is also how they lost it to the alt-right. Internet culture fractured a while back. Niche spaces are actually the way to grow

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

My electric rates are up 15% because our large president shut the renewables off

Me, a dork: I am...actually interested in this if it becomes a thing. I liked Arc but of course then it got messed up by the $$$.

Americans have too many guns and our gun regulations are far too lax due to the worst people's interpretation of a bad law. That's it. That's really the main issue; everything else is secondary for these violent incidents.

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

The ease by which people can procure guns hurts everyone www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-...

What “run it like a business” often means

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

“Unproven” “Controversial” “Hotly debated” “Contested” This is all fucking weasel shit. It’s denialism. Again. They did this shit with climate change, vaccines, trans healthcare and now it’s autism: Invent a debate between science experts and random Nazis and pretend both sides have a point.

Car dealerships and political ads during election season basically keep local TV alive

i have seen exactly zero evidence to suggest that peter thiel is anything other than a dumbass who got lucky once

2) Insisting that colleges only protect free speech if a privately funded org that has no direct role in university governance says they do is a strange way to promote free expression and intellectual diversity. 2/

My semi-annual reminders about the FIRE annual “free speech” rankings on college campuses: 1) FIRE has promoted highly punitive and restrictive positions on free speech in higher ed. They lack credibility as a source of information. 1/

I'm starting to think anyone who can make a billion dollars has some sort of pathology.

NPR, what the fuck are you doing. I'm autistic because my biological father is autistic. We just have the word for "what's going on with Neil" now. Jesus Christ.

it's absolutely fucking crazy that "retroactively legalize Watergate" and "exclude Black people from literally every area of public life" are the two primary a objectives of the chief justice and yet he is never reported on like the vicious gutter racist he is.

Great column, as usual. The central lie of unitary executive theory (and the originalism/textualism that births it) is the same, IMO, as the central lie of much of biblical “literalism”: that this document, written long ago, is actually a secret message to us right now specifically.

I think its bad that our HHS is being run by a eugenicist antivaxxer

My child is trying to do Hamilton choreography while getting ready for bed

What Pedro Pascal has done in the last five years is, for me, the single most impressive act of sheer will I've ever seen in media? It's like he turned 44 and chose to become the biggest actor in the world. And now he is. He's also cool as hell, which amazes me more.

also he asks follow-up questions, which as I've noted many times seems bizarrely beyond many US interviewers, especially on TV.

Pray to God that normies learn one thing from this disaster: You don’t have to choose between groceries and human rights. You have cheap eggs and allow trans people to exist. Completely compatible.

Good God it's pedocon theory all the way down

The thing no one wants to acknowledge here is that America electing a questionably lucid, virulently racist old autocrat with a cult of personality doesn't discredit us with the rest of the world, it makes us more like them.

Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor, is 1 of only 100 Americans out of over 250 million adult citizens given the consequential responsibility to advise and consent on exec branch nominees. He used that to approve an antivax, anti-science conspiracy theorist as the nation's top public health official.

Hello, I'm Elon Musk, the doge guy, I just wanted to come to Virginia to say, I hate this lady. Instead, I love this other little guy, he's the one I love, me, Elon Musk, the DOGE guy, hello, I'm in Virginia.

new pop-up monument dropped

Several months ago, I learned that a friend I had met because of similar academic interests was planning to co-write a book with an aggressive and vocal bigot on X. When I asked, “Why publish with someone who constantly demeans other people that way?” the response was “Well, he’s always nice to me.”

No evidence. No science. No solutions.   Just Trump peddling another dangerous lie — this time about Tylenol and autism — that sows chaos, scares parents, and puts our health at risk.

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

I think we have a lot of parents with profoundly disabled children who do not receive sufficient support for their kids' needs and I am so incredibly sad that their has left them vulnerable to hucksters who sell them only lies.

My steelman of this argument is that the broad liberal coalition should support the liberal principal that people should be given choices about where they live; density and non-auto neighborhoods have been suppressed, you can unsupress them and the market will handle suppressing the other way.

Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, "The US is complicit in this famine and unfolding genocide, and it's on President Trump's watch" Matt Frei, "President Trump complicit in genocide?" Former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, "Yes"

Imagine being this far in the tank for a pedophile rapist who isn't gonna be alive in 2030.