something surprising I learned from the recent @jewishcurrents.bsky.social podcast is that Candace Owens is less nuanced in her antisemitism than Nick Fuentes, which is saying something (also shame on Norman Finkelstein for going on her show and pushing back on almost none of it)

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

famously, uninsured Americans can purchase superior healthcare for low prices

OpenAI: trained on private intellectual property it didn’t pay for, insured against failure by the public

Incredible how the tankie replies to this are just amplifying the joke

jesus fuckjng christ

Strong "Arthur Dent trying to get a cup of tea from the Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser" vibes

putting aside the “government as a business” misunderstanding, before his career as fuhrer, Trump was widely known as the “King of Debt”

I hope that these kind of incidents break through the pro/anti-immigration politics frame to be widely seen as a lawless assault on basic human rights

the guy who gutted USAID. we’re not living in a subtle age

good to see the company led by elon musk, who has railed against mail-in voting as ripe for fraud, allow mail-in voting for his compensation package decision

I’ve always hated this take: 1) it’s fundamentally a right wing framing 2) it’s effectively crowing about wall st and silicon valley

jfc this quote

finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."

in a YMG mood

there’s a Supreme Court justice who begs to differ

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I feel like the original was more honest, this is trying to make it sound like political disagreement

It’s getting so bad that you can no longer distinguish masked goons out to harm innocent people from ordinary robbers and crooks

TIL that there’s an antifeminist hand gesture conspiracy theory in South Korea that is so prevalent, games companies and even Apple had to alter their media to avoid backlash

ok this is what a bunch of sesame street characters would look like without their fur

This plays on repeat in hell

Interesting to think how Zohran Mamdani might be a lawyer in Johannesburg or doctor in Cape Town right now had it not been for the University of Cape Town's incredible racism. mg.co.za/article/2018...

It’s getting so bad that you can no longer distinguish masked goons out to harm innocent people from ordinary robbers and crooks

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

I do coincidentally know two people that moved from South Africa to Florida but one was fleeing the white nationalist authoritarian government and the other was fleeing lack of clients for their business

In 2020, a young socialist organizer & AIAC contributor sat down with us, sharing his vision for a world that empowers working people over the rich and powerful. Today, that vision has carried him to City Hall. Congrats, Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 🌹 africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...

how did I miss this at the time

Mamdani winning would really impact the national brand of the Democratic Party, leading people to falsely believe that most Democrats are responding to the material needs of voters and not aging into complete irrelevance

I really hope the Mamdani win delivers the fatal blow to the lazy and deeply wrong rhetorical running together of "working class" and "white" (so prevalent after 2017)

And it wasn’t just the historical references: this is a nuanced piece of rhetoric

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

It’s taken 16 years to go from winning in politics despite a smear campaign accusing you of being a Muslim socialist born in Africa to winning while openly being all those things. Progress!

The label “Democratic Socialist” may now be more boon than burden not just because of the association with Bernie and the enthusiastic votes of left-wing Millennials (sadly that’s not enough to win an election) but bc it marks you as a different kind of Democrat, similar to being an independent

(just woke up here and) phew

Democrats have much to learn from Republicans in becoming a welcoming, big tent party

Mamdani winning would really impact the national brand of the Democratic Party, leading people to falsely believe that most Democrats are responding to the material needs of voters and not aging into complete irrelevance

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

that thing everyone said was going to happen is happening

I don’t remember Mamdani professing to hate Jews, but the president wouldn’t dissemble about such an important and sensitive topic, so I’m sure he must have at some point

So much conspiracism is just describing the normal functioning of complex systems with a flashlight under your chin.

You know, I’m not sure how fun this fact really is

they should probably make it a public holiday in Iraq

There will be people (mostly liberals) who want to contrast Cheney favorably with Trump: don’t do it! He absolutely set the stage for the current imperial presidency's lawlessness, mixing his personal financial interests with foreign policy and vastly expanding the executive's extrajudicial power

the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.

C’mon

To be clear, the anti-Hitler wing of the party still supports extrajudicial killing of a class of humans they deem to be inferior