A fun fact about Gavin Newsom is that when he ran for his first term as governor, he secured the critical endorsement of the nurse’s union by promising to set up a single-payer healthcare system in California…an idea that he dropped immediately once in office.

Oh no, don’t throw me in the briar patch, please, I beg of you, anything but that

Wake up sweetie, new defense of creedal nationalism just dropped (seriously, what a fucking hero)

Enjoying a healthy and nutritious keto breakfast burrito (a 3-egg omelette with bacon, fried mushrooms, cheese, and mornay sauce)

What The Fuck Are These People Ever Talking About, Part 1,847,383

Yes king

A lot of people who have never been asked to personally sacrifice more than about 3% in marginal tax rates to vote “the right way” are way too comfortable mocking others for having a hard time voting for people *abetting a genocide against their family members*

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

we need to return these sorts of words and ideas and principles back to government and the act of governing. the idea of public service needs to be reasserted

Obviously it’s way too early for 2028 polling to mean much. But also, now is the time to start poisoning the well against Newsom for your boomer parents who think his troll posts against Trump are really funny

This is correct but it should be pointed out how our system intentionally forces this onto the PMC. Making college/professional schools so expensive that you had to go into serious debt to attend was a policy choice *designed* to force students to pursue morally-compromised careers after graduation.

Trump II is not only the most corrupt presidential administration in this country’s history, but is also the first openly pro-corruption administration we’ve ever had. You’d think the opposition might want to stake out a really strident anti-corruption position to capitalize on that, but…

If yall dont stop disrespecting Jaylen FUCKING BROWN.

Americans don’t deserve for Donald Trump to have been elected President, but every once in a while we get a little reminder that everyone he beat to get there absolutely, 100000% deserved to lose. Goes a long way to explaining how he won despite his manifest unfitness.

“Head coach of middleweight program is poached by heavyweight program following successful season” happens literally every year, can we please calm down?

What an unbelievable day to be a fan of Arsenal, the Celtics, and Michigan

Personally, I dont think that “Be a two-parent household where both of you make full-time white-collar-professional incomes” should be what it takes to both have children and live a somewhat comfortable lifestyle bu that just makes me another loony lefty on bluesky who doesnt understand math ig

Given everything else we know about Trump, we can’t rule out that he simply doesn’t remember saying any of that stuff about Mamdani or, if he does, that he didn’t know this is the same guy.

pretty clear what happened: Zohran converted Trump to the divine and immortal science of islamo-communism.

It’s yet another artifact of the reality that you can’t win a Republican primary anymore without catering to (or personally being a member of) the lunatic fringe. 2015-2020, the lunatic fringe was very into Pizzagate and QAnon, so a lot of Republicans just reflexively repeated their Epstein shit

I haven’t seen reporting to this effect, but I really wonder if “we have to preserve the filibuster” was a primary factor in the decision to cave. As in: these Senators know Ds likely to win back the Senate soon, and want to have the filibuster there to give an excuse why progressive leg can’t pass

This sounds like an absolute fucking nightmare to deal with

Honestly, a thing I have been wondering about is if Netanyahu actually will come in order to provoke a crisis. Would NYPD follow an order to arrest Netanyahu, even if it meant overcoming armed resistance from Netanyahu’s security forces? What if Trump deployed US soldiers to protect him?

“Let us use mRNA vaccines and you won’t have to buy sunbutter for your kids anymore” is the kind of message that could break MAHA within a month

There’s almost nothing I want more than a Democratic Party that is actually like the one that exists in Republicans’ imaginations

I still get absolutely blown away every time I am reminded of how little white collar professionals get paid in the UK. Doesn’t matter how many times I see it, totally flabbergasting every time.

Jesus Christ

Tie game, bases loaded, bottom of the ninth, Game 7 of the World Series, at home. Literally the situation you spend your entire childhood pretending to be in. Unbelievable.

Hearing rumors that the 2024 NBA Finals MVP might actually be pretty good at basketball; will post updates as further details come in

Boy if “My baby is currently healthy, therefore I don’t need to take precautions to keep her from getting sick later” isn’t the tidiest summation of American idiocy I’ve seen in a minute

YIMBYism is weird because the big picture goals of density, affordability, walkability, etc are all obviously good but then you stumble into a thread of them yelling about how it’s bad that a university isnt allowed to shove its students into windowless boxes anymore and it’s like who are you people

consider that the psychotic loop of chatgpt mostly seems to be 'the chatbot repeating your own ideas back to you and telling you they're brilliant' and then consider billionaires and the people around them

If we’re ever going to have rule of law in this country again, Hegseth and the whole rest of the chain of command involved in these strikes need to be charged with murder and jailed for life.

The Celtics’ Heroes Among Us thing is so great man. Especially when it’s honoring random citizens who have found themselves in a bad situation and done the extraordinary. Every time I go to another team’s game I’m shocked they don’t have a similar ceremony

ready to vibe

Feel like we could have been spared a lot of tiresome discourse the past couple days if the Platner oppo dump had simply led with the nazi tattoo. Lot of his defenders sound like they just got in the habit of defending him on the other stuff and now feel they can’t back down w/o losing face

Liverpool concede 5 big chances to United, leading to 2 goals. Arsenal have also conceded 5 big chances, leading to 2 goals…over their last 4 PL matches combined.

It’s cool how we’ve created a system that has both funneled world-historic levels of wealth to many of the dumbest people alive and also told those same fucking dunces that they are omni-capable geniuses who can and should dominate any conceivable human endeavor as soon as it passes their fancy

OK ok I get it I’ll go donate to his ActBlue sheesh stop badgering me about it

But of course it is impossible for the industry to be “normal” about LLMs, because if they’re not going to completely change the world, there is no way to justify the billions and billions in investment capital it is taking to train and run these things.

“Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ” goes insanely hard, you see why these people ran the world for like 1300 years

Hmmm, maybe it actually wouldn’t be a good idea to encourage people to stake their retirements on the purely speculative asset class with no underlying cash flows that can and regularly does see its prices crash by up to 100% in a single day for any or no reason

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Imagine if health care was just something everyone had, and not a zero sum competition between "good" people and "bad" people

If they do this to the world's most renowned activist, what do they do to people we will never hear of? The EU must cut all ties with the government who orchestrates this depravity.

Liverpool have allowed more goals than 5th-place Crystal Palace have scored

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

You either die a hero or see yourself live long enough to become the Jeb!

Its so odd that these companies started doing “woke” things to market to upper/middle income 18-45 year olds, aka the most reliably liberal group we have, and then thought they could simply do a 180 on all that overnight and not suffer for it. Like did you forget why you made all those 🏳️‍🌈 logos, or…?

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