We're just now dealing with the ramifications of social media being utilized to dismantle democracy and set up a surveillance state. I have no idea how these new powerful generative AI video models will help destroy reality and thus society. I'm so pessimistic about all of this.

“I personally witnessed Defendant Trump telling the Plaintiff that she shouldn’t ever say anything if she didn’t want to disappear like the 12-year-old female Maria, and that he was capable of having her whole family killed.” - Tiffany Doe - June 18, 2016

"Republicans are banking on Americans being such unreconstructed racists that they no longer care if immigrants are here legally and just want them all out." Fixed it.

I can’t even explain how pathetic this is. This fucking nerd on a power trip. You’re always gonna be a dweeb, Stephen.

"Tell, don't show," part infinity. Not ok to *quote* Donald Trump (or Charlie Kirk!). If you do, Mike Johnson will "disagree with your characterization." 2025 Fox hosts talk OVER vids of a Trump speech. We did a whole podcast on this phenomenon last week: www.buzzsprout.com/229/episodes...

Tw: Trauma dump I recently went full-on no contact with my parents. It was a year in the making. I told them I'm trans a year ago, and asked them not to vote for Trump. They played dumb, pretending I never did that. They acted supportive, pretending to be confused at the idea Trump is anti-trans.

This is the whole vibe of Ezra Klein now. He went from the healthcare policy guy whom I took seriously to a reactionary Neolib who couldnt take the country's pulse because he's measuring with his thumb.

Yeah a lot of us have kinda picked up on this but we need to talk about it explicitly. Also, @jaketapper.bsky.social if I don't see you talk about this shit I'm going to continue making you the butt of jokes about this until he dies.

FFS.

*Ezra Klein bursts in, carrying loose papers, books, and rolled-up blueprints* GUYS, I know how we can start winning elections again! *panting, shirt soaked through with sweat* We just have to try the same thing we did last time-but we pretend it's something new! NOT neoliberalism. Abundance!

"I miss kindergarten because that's when we all agreed racists were monsters" Bro, I am so disappointed in some of the people I went to kindergarten with.

Actually fuck yeah, Democrats. Only Trump can make Democrats look cool.

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

In which driftglass and bluegal suggest Ezra Klein's next article be "LibsOfTikTok is doing politics the right way" and the Left could learn something from them about doxxing their enemies and orchestrating targeted harassment campaigns against supporters of our opponents.

Nationalize big tech. Especially Amazon and Google.

You can't just tell me the shit appeared out of nowhere while I'm still digesting the madness of Donald Trump offering a hat that says Trump 2028 to Democratic leadership. Was this sleight of hand? A hidden compartment on the desk? Misdirection? Does Hakeem Jeffries think magic is real? Is it?

They just wanted to give Trump a little$24 million gift and some bragging rights to make him feel like he's omnipotent. Sweet.

Me and the boys taking notes on whom to hate from Gavin Newsom.

Goddamn it Hakeem what the fuck.

Somebody should have told Emma Watson that when you cut a liberal, a fascist bleeds.

NEW: Republicans refused to change the rules to fund the government with a simple majority, & failed to pass a funding bill. Fetterman, Cortez-Masto, & Angus King voted with republicans to fund the regime - but came up short in the end. THANK YOU to Schumer for not voting to fund this government.

Ted Cruz Is Doing Politics Right

Someone make Ezra Klein read this like you rub a dog's nose in what he did wrong.

Meanwhile at the Riyadh comedy festival

Translation: feel free to harass and rape fellow soldiers and sailors with reckless abandon because there’s no longer a safe way for them to report you.

Oh damn, he found his ovaries. Now don't lose them again and I might not donate to your primary challenger.

I hate when I make a good-faith explanation of facts and science, but it's directed at some bigot on facebook who's going to call me a tranny and say he won.

It's like a Grima Wormtongue situation but Theoden is also a racist piece of shit.

"This dumb bitch has no idea what the fuck she's doing"

starting to think that an increasingly senile trump is being shown a different reality by his aides by making ai videos of shit and telling him it’s real news

The President of the United States is a weird racist with sundowners.

David Cross folks.

I can't tell you what I would give to have actual radical left Democrats instead of centrist pick-me fuckweasels.

He's such a weak little bitch.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

The NYT ate with this, ngl.

Lmao what?

I don't think right-wingers should get credit for fewer terrorist attacks this year when the government is offering signing bonuses to white supremacists to terrorize brown people. That doesn't count in the stats.

Can you imagine having favorite writers and one of them is Ezra Klein?

My excitement for Hakeem Jeffries is only dwarfed by the immense disappointment I feel in him. I remember his ascension. I was ecstatic. Now, I cannot wait to see him gone.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is an actual saint. I wish I could have a conversation with Ezra Klein without choosing to yell at him.

the only kitchen table issue to them is salvaging obamas half assed legacy

Jfc, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Way to show your whole ass with this bullshit. Where is your support for the Democratic nominee for mayor of NYC?? The people voted for Mamdani: where is your support for representative democracy??

Reposting this as a reminder that we are NOT merely in the fifth (non-consecutive) year of a Trump presidency. We are in the 45th year of the Reagan Revolution. driftglass.blogspot.com/2020/10/this...

Leslie Jones on the Daily Show sounds like my internal monologue when I see the news.

This video made me a communist because the type of post-capitalism they're trying to create is so bad. I've never seen all the pieces put together like this.

This is the realest shit.

Jeffries and Schumer will have their meeting, apparently. I wonder how cheap they'll sell us out for this time.