The agenda is to punish Dems for standing up to Trump and reward Dems for capitulating, in part because they want the Dems to lose the midterms and don't want them pursuing politically effective strategies for that reason alone bsky.app/profile/them...

it should be a tell about what's happening in the media now that most mainstream commentators seem openly frustrated that polling does not blame democrats for the shutdown

Dizzying how some of the biggest doofuses who skulked around the most feverish, fetid corners of the internet now whisper in the ears of the people who run the government. Ten years ago, Posobiec was an Infowars clown who was throwing out 1488s and parenthesizing Jews on Twitter.

We've got more lights up for Halloween this year. By mixing some oranges and whites from the Christmas sets in I extended them a bit, though I could just get more LED orange and purple.

"You couldn't make Fern Gully today"

Canceling energy projects like this, including wind farms, is an immense waste of money. Additionally, of course, it takes the US out of the technology competition. Lose-lose.

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled? Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

The likely result of only Reform being able to get above the pack would be a near sweep of England with regional parties dominating Wales, Scotland and NI. The next British election is probably years away but the major parties should take a long look at PR. We also need to consider it in the US.

the belief that a parent's religion exempts a child from human rights protections is the single toxic root of all conservatism. regardless of if you're LGBT or not, ending the idea that parents have the right to indoctrinate their children is essential to preserving your human rights

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

the unstated implication of caldwell's faff is that discrimination against minorities somehow enhances military effectiveness rather than degrading it

Home sick today, but it's with the cats.

Just as a general piece of advice, it's a good idea to let your town and city officials know when you approve of something they do. It will encourage them to do more things like that in the future, and it's also just nice because they get hit with a lot of negativity.

There are a number of people in the comments on this post who are exemplary of the problem being discussed by the post. Campaigns have finite time, money and credibility. They need to make decisions about where it gets spent and on what people it would be wasted. Some people yell "I'd be a waste".

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Also they ran just incredibly awful commentary with incredibly shawty evidence (which I’m sure will become feature at CBS now). For example, the author of this piece claimed the Allies won WWII with inferior technology minus the atomic bomb lol

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Anyway, LUCE is doing incredible work right now. Putting in my usual plug to donate or volunteer. And save their number: 617-370-5023 www.lucemass.org

"Show me your papers."

This man never really understood complex geopolitics and he's been trapped in 1989 for the last three decades but his brain is extra toast at this point.

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

No effort to deescalate, no effort to walk away, just sling the rifle and physically attack

Genuinely incredible how unprofessional these guys are. One dude yelling in your face and you immediately assault them on camera?

Everything, according to trump, is his personal property. Museum artifacts, classified documents, the white house, air force one, private companies, private universities, your farm, your taxes, your daughter. To assert at all otherwise is to proclaim yourself an enemy of the king

Vance’s is a white guy whose entire political career was handed to him by billionaires — a career also fueled by the grievance that U.S. institutions conspire against white guys.

Kathleen Parker: "I'm fine with fascism bc it wont affect me personally and thats all I really care about"

ten million people are gonna decide how to vote next year by asking AI and republicans are investing significant resources in making sure it answers with “republicans”

4) when workers clock off in 1913 they go to a saloon or hall with other workers where Frank Little can exhort them. Now they go home and either watch Netflix, and the politically engaged ones log onto microblogging websites where people tell them that organizing is a trick by the feds

A couple things going on here: 1) USA = real big, logistical equivalent of European national general strike would be one (1) state 2) this means workers are physically farther apart, especially in 2025, means harder to physically organize 3) there just isn’t the equivalent of the CNT/CGT here

Sure, literally will not matter in big boy war

Signalgate 2.0, this time not about plans for attacking Houthis in Yemen, but sending the 82nd Airborne to Portland, Oregon

This was done at the direction of Pam Bondi. The US government is now dictating what apps you can have on your phone. The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.

My state senator, Edward J. Kennedy Jr, has died at 74. He was at the center of my getting involved in greater Lowell politics. The stand he led as a city councilor to keep the high school in downtown got me out to vote in my first municipal election here in 2017. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

"Allowed to do that" what a fucking waste of space

some people told dave chappelle his jokes weren’t funny and this ego maniac has been having a meltdown over it for ten years

they’re calling him the shutdown king, folks, no president in american history has been more incapable of leading his party to do one of the most basic duties the president is responsible for

People who wanted a shutdown shouldn't be surprised by this framing. It was always going to be framed this way. That needed to be part of gaming out the shutdown politics.

This is why I really can't stand the people who think not voting somehow absolves them of moral blame, even though I recognize that a Harris administration (like literally every presidential administration) was going to be morally flawed in one way or another.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

hi, federal judge expert here! this is not funny. conservative, Reagan-appointed district judges only use epistolary framing devices in their opinions when they are in extreme distress.

We've got 5 weeks to election day and a lot of work left to do if you can help out. bsky.app/profile/saga...

Some people in the slightly more suburban neighborhoods of my small city treat the slightly more urban neighborhoods like mine like they're terrifying. City councilors from the more suburban parts vote against things because they'd make the city more like my neighborhood, like it's a threat.

My city council race is between two Khmer-American Democrats with a mix of progressive and conservative positions that are not radically different. But our incumbent, seeing the rising power of Trumpian and pro-Hun Sen forces, surrendered to them, while the challenger I support is no longer asking.

Same. “Abundance,” the trademarked and branded flavor, is being trashed as a label by guys who are trying to side car in a bunch of shitty things I do not want.

i do not know how you could, from the perspective of 2025, say, "what we need is for socialists to be in charge. not because they are better (they are) but because their reforms are permanent."

Trump's Ryder Cup Is Decadent and Depraved www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

The minority party literally doesn't get a turn at bat in this analogy.