Basically www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

Don’t make them seem invincible. Pretending that our system can easily be reduced down to Trump’s personal control of absolutely everything is actually the opposite of informed or savvy www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

I’m not gonna dunk on some small depressed account, but one reply I get to this is “you think there’s gonna be elections/Trump will listen to judges??” And I wonder how people haven’t noticed that Garcia is home and free and Republicans got crushed in elections this year

Big congratulations to the “no new wars” crowd. You weren’t the only ones who willfully forgot Trump’s first term, ignored various things he and his team said in the four years after, and voted for a made up version—or didn’t vote while claiming it wouldn’t matter—but no one did it as hard as you.

Yes, power source. Here's how. insideevs.com/news/782968/...

EXCLUSIVE: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social will be sworn in as mayor on midnight on January 1 inside the old abandoned City Hall subway station, saying that he sees the venue as a symbol for the aims of his upcoming administration.

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

You can really tell who got bullied in middle school and who didn’t.

But it’s not any other person and it’s not arbitrary. It’s a person who has positioned themselves above and outside the law while using that position to enrich himself and tear the country asunder. He literally ran with the Epstein files as a major campaign issue!

When we retake power, we should do this for states that let children and the elderly drive aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-...

We are going to win.

This sounds nice, except: 1) A lot of the time, the farmland is a desirable location because it’s near the necessary grid infrastructure, which the car park may not be. 2) You still need to convince the owner of the car park that this is a good idea and won’t disrupt the car park’s core purpose.

Re-upping this almost a year later: it was not just a slow time of year, and congestion pricing is a resounding success.

Try this instead: I was wrong. I overstated narrow election results, underappreciating how many Trump voters didn’t believe he’d do what he said. I miscast fascists and oligarchs gaining political power as a popular cultural shift. I got some of this on X, failing to recognize it’s skewed that way.”

Fox reports that that while many of the redactions to the Epstein Files were made to protect victims’ identities, “the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.” In other words, DOJ admits that they edited Trump and his pals out.

Being normal about things is so fucking cool.

She’s got my vote.

Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!

As someone who generally thinks MattY is fine if not right, I can’t tell if he’s lying through his teeth here or if it’s another case of X brain poison. A) This won’t win back Ohio, B) It doubles down on a dying technology while China runs laps around us, fueled by cheap clean energy.

David Brooks writing about how there was nothing to see with the Epstein Files while not disclosing *he was in them* is at least a Nuzzi-level journalistic scandal What I'm saying is, get ready to see a nude painting of David Brooks in the NYT within weeks

“At best, they're a way for skilled employees to be more productive and save time on low-level tasks, but those tasks were already being handed off to lower-level employees. Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative.” Duh www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...

Brooks should be driven out of public life. The fact that he knew there were photographs of himself with Epstein and he didn't disclose that while also telling people that they should move on is just straight up unethical.

Donald Trump interrupted national tv today to promise a million people (with guns!) two billion dollars he doesn’t have on a timeline he cannot meet to buy Christmas gifts he has personally fought to make less affordable

One of the biggest moments of my career: USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!

And it needs to understand the moment. In 2021, Olaf Scholz listed the most influential books he'd read, comprising Hillbilly Elegy and Old Left texts about labor and inequality. Those texts are 20c politics; in the 21c, politics is how to build an EU that Putin fears more than we fear him. /end

Polarization on geopolitical alignment is going to continue until the three things that need to hang from the Kremlin - the EU flag, the Pride flag, and Putin - do. Economic differences are more about corruption than large differences in inequality - both the postwar world and Thatcherism are dead.

I bring up the DPP because in Taiwan and Korea, the center-left is rooted in ideological liberalism (including democracy protests in the 1980s), not socialism. And in Taiwan - but not Korea - it's also been able to claim the mantle of patriotism much better. The result: they're people's parties.

Feverishly working on this

Did not realize the original Miracle on 34th Street had such a strong anti-urbanist message.

Also, when your political strength is built on the idea that no one is allowed to say no to you, being successfully told "no" is potentially very, very bad

Strange man, LOVES big words.

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

Not only did the Mets lose one of the best, if not THE best, closer in the game, but a key part of the Citi Field experience is gone. Everything just sucks a little bit more today than it did yesterday.

The most compelling argument for this is that Sam was once a baby raised without ChatGPT, and look how he turned out.

Just use Arial guys.

you don't get to fuck the elephants and cover the circus, that's like the most basic journalistic ethics imaginable and I'm sorry I don't care if the elephants were dominating and patriarchal or whatever, if those are insurmountable obstacles for you why do you have the prestige job

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Part of what I find so frustrating about The Cause is that so often in the nonprofit world it takes precedence over any kind of actual benefit-cost analysis or impact assessment. Just shut up and take your $50k/year writing reports that nobody ever reads because The Cause is important.

Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.

These people think others take adopting a country as unseriously as they take adopting Catholicism.

While I think the left/right civil war risk is vanishingly small, the *actual* civil war risk is if these chucklefucks politicize the military to the point where generals start feeling like they have shanking to do once he goes.

I’m all for trashing the Dems but this is literally what they’re doing, pretty much anywhere they can do it?

Somehow I feel like Hakeem Jeffries is not the man for the job.

Capital yearns for pedestrianization.

This is the thing. There will be elections. Dems will win. They will regain power. It probably won’t be enough power. But even if it is, Dems are either a) temperamentally too chickenshit to use it (Schumer) or b) actually kind of into corruption themselves (Jeffries), so we don’t get off the ride.