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This is a bit of a subtweet, but I think this reminder needs to go out regardless: You do not get to call yourself an ally. The ally moniker is one given by the marginalized group you are allegedly being an ally to, and can be revoked at any time. The ally moniker is not for you.

Can confirm, was visiting friends in England many years ago and they said we were having taco night and then produced this. I was so floored I took a photo and still have it

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Seriously, I went my entire life with a subconscious stereotype of Brits as educated and worldly (and it even survived a college summer in Britain) but after that episode I was like "The FUCK? Have they been like this about EVERYTHING the whole time?" And indeed they have.

It's worse than you can possibly imagine. I love GBBO but my respect for THE ENTIRE ISLAND OF GREAT BRITAIN was decimated overnight about the fourth time I heard someone use the word "tack-os," and I'm not even kidding.

The middle photo makes me irrationally angry

It's so smart. If he ever wore a swimsuit or tank top or even a T-shirt that would be the picture right wing news outlets would run for EVERY news story about him.

"Mamdani always wears a suit" is a great example of how you can turn something unremarkable into a beloved bit just by committing to it and repeating it

anytime I see someone deploy a bespoke purity test it is a very early sign that they're going to be someone I loathe.

I've run the numbers. Here's how many billions Trump has cost America www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BPO...

For most of us, seeing the Klan 2.0, a.k.a. Patriot Front, march through Washington, D.C., unchallenged by authorities overshadowed any celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. My ancestors lived through this. And no one today can say with a straight face that racism is behind us.

the fact that we're talking about him as the Dems' "leader" a decade after he left office is ITSELF proof of how he did zero work to build a bench or a sustainable party, just an utter horrifying failure with severe consequences

If you reach the presidency and don’t aggressively challenge the culture of elite impunity, then you’re not meeting the ultimate task.

The right wing press will push to make Obama the face of Dem leadership, but no. It's over. Obama bears a lot of responsibility for this moment. Squandered the biggest bully pulpit since FDR. Did not jail one banker. Did not call the torturers of Abu Ghraib to account.

“The apple didn’t fall far from the tree” Of course not, they fall straight down. That’s how gravity works.

Incidentally, I delight in the fact that there was somebody in Bonn whose job was to count the Counts, and somebody whose job was to check whether each Count counted as a Count.

I was not previously aware that post-War Germany had suffered from a plague of spurious aristocrats, many of them engaged in the old advantageous-marriage scam. (If anyone feels like making that the premise of a book or drama, call it "Von for the Money". We can split the royalties.)

i thought maybe today i could learn opengl and graphics programming from first principles, heres how far i got

The interesting part is they're quoting potus. They aren't just saying these are the numbers, and true. They're explicitly distancing themselves from them. Maybe this doesn't mean anything, but...

Remember, this is the man who inflated the values of his properties to get loans, while understating them for tax purposes. There's a reason his pharma price cuts exceeded the level of "free" while his national economy figures exceed the levels of achievable. Wharton should rescind his diploma.

The made up numbers are now being imagined to 3 significant figures and compared to a non-existent historical time series.

Republicans did this!

Sex and sexibility

Philosophy and other humanities degrees are prudential not because AI companies are hiring, but because in a world with a lot of unknowns, it’s good to have intellectual flexibility and adaptability. Majors that focus more on job skills lack that.

Telemundo ruthless with the crying Brazilian children footage

Last 4th of July, a dad had a kid run up to us and ask why I supported Hamas. During a parade. I’m Palestinian, I’m used to it. But goddamn, be better.

Zelenskyy: Intelligence has once again received information that Russia is preparing a new large-scale strike. “This is exactly Putin’s style – right after America’s Independence Day and just ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara. Russia wants to bring even more evil and kill more people.”

I suppose it was overdetermined that the GOP's internal divisions would fracture along incredibly fucking cursed lines, but it's still fucking cursed.

My suspicion is that there are some people who know fine well that Trump has been on the phone saying "buy my missiles and sell the NHS to Palantir or I'll fuck you," but who tell their colleagues "yeah it's Russia," and those guys just yomp off to the TV sofas to blart out their bullshit.

Becerra knows California’s government and knows promises like state-level single payer healthcare can’t pass. That realpolitik progressivism is anathema to the DSA. The Chevron donation wasn’t a wise move either.

I admit I thought them liking Steyer (he's a mega wealthy white guy) was strange, especially because Becerra is experienced, actually progressive and is hispanic. It's possible they don't connect with him because of that given what else we're seeing.

Burgum tried to present himself as a rational and sober alternative to Trump during the 2024 GOP primary. This is what he's reduced himself to in order to maintain a proximity to power.

Resident of Mexico buys entire men's national team Rolexes as a thank you in advance of a win. FIFA makes team return watches because "bribes" are bad for football. FIFA having a problem with an honest gift & calling it a bribe is some comedic gold. brobible.com/sports/artic...

Actually, Thunderstorms. And a lot of them took shelter in the African American Museum: bsky.app/profile/circ...

An educated population understands nuance, and appreciates critical thinking with robust debate. Can't easily polarise them with glossy propaganda. Can't get them angry and violent over political lies.

Your reminder that the continuing attacks on public education emerged out of James Buchanan (Mont Pelerin Society) through Roger Freeman (Atlas Network’s Hoover Institute). They consciously blamed the student uprising against war, The Man and racist systems on an overly educated proletariat. #Auspol

Election theft is a way to get Amerimaidan, not a way for Trump to finish off American democracy *successfully*.

Promoting 'your' Substack on a website that *suppresses links* and whose algorithm *punishes content with politics anywhere to the left of Rishi Sunak*, and whose writing bears a cursory relationship to your voice. The whole thing is just sad, really.

Of course he did. He cheats constantly and since FIFA is almost as corrupt as he is,they were happy to help. He's tainted the win if there is one but he's never cared about that. I think he actually prefers it if everyone knows he cheated because it makes him look even more powerful.

lmao

Telemundo FTW #WorldCup

The uneven application of justice means one segment of the society (often Black folks) receive disproportionate policing, while another segment gets to do whatever they want. That is what a low-trust society is. So, until we impose consequences on maga, nothing changes.

we aren't really a nation any more, we're just an infinitely collapsing prisoner's dilemma, with everyone rushing to be the first to strip out the copper from the walls

Can you imagine asking 21st century Americans to accept rationing or any of the other sacrifices made in WWII?

I’ll note two things - one is that the actual request was to set things between 75 and 78, and while plenty of people didn’t go all the way to the top of the range, everyone in the city just bumping things up by 2-3 degrees (what I did, to about 76) relieves a lot of the burden.