find me another Dem that wouldn't be too afraid to do this. seriously.

as always, the crucial question with the Trump administration is not "would they" (they would), it's "what will stop them?"

I still think this is true, even if recognition is an encouraging sign that *something* is changing

making unilateral moves because you think we aren't ever going to achieve peaceful coexistence on our own? we'll show you by making peaceful coexistence logistically impossible!

The Aaron Swartz production function www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-aaron-...

Some phrases are too cursed to even fully contemplate. “Anthony Scaramucci crypto conference”

Once again, Israel being singled out for criticism when none of the other countries that killed 31 journalists and destroyed an 800 year old mosque over the weekend are mentioned here

Donald Trump is subconsciously recreating the conditions of 1970s stagflation in an attempt to re-experience his personal peak decade, the 80s

I’m old enough to remember when the theory was that large tech companies were too invested in stability to support a fickle authoritarian

Once again, Israel being singled out for criticism when none of the other countries that killed 31 journalists and destroyed an 800 year old mosque over the weekend are mentioned here

Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”

just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

Foot fetishists must get real worked up when they read the phrase “coming on the heels of”

And then recall that we recently discovered that Meta makes sexbots for kids

Some of the things the Trump administration has stopped counting/monitoring, in whole or in part: Maternal health, mental health, STDs, substance abuse, car crashes, other accidental deaths and injuries, child welfare, hunger, air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, the costs of extreme weather

Oh man, RIP

motion smoothing is unwatchably bad

the latest KYE (paywalled) episode reveals something telling: Matt & Sam received an invitation to debate Kirk (and Posobiec) a few years back...

the war in Gaza hasn't only been a genocide, it's also been an ethnocide, a domicide, a scholasticide and an ecocide

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Yes, the notion that people are arguing over the tricky nuances here is simply not the case: they are perpetuating a deceptive caricature

People keep talking about tech firms in relation to the H1-B $100k fee but it’s gonna really sink universities.

to add to the stupidity, the fee is so onerous (higher than the annual salary of 80% of H1-B recipients) that it's tantamount to scrapping the whole program even though the administration claims to support it

I mean, what’s the point of having press credentials anyway if you can only be a mouthpiece for the regime?

I try use this meme sparingly but…

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

Dutifully awaiting my cancellation

Pathetic, but I will say Tim Kaine has been unexpectedly good on Palestine lately (called for suspension of at least some weapons transfers to Israel and unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state a year ago, which shamefully counts as “early” for Democrats)

I was astounded to learn the other day that 40 percent (!!!) of global bulk freight shipping is fossil fuels

I recall an anonymous quote from an elected Democrat asking with exasperation: do people expect us to put our bodies on the line? @katmabu.bsky.social did it. She gets it. All the respect.

the proliferation of dumb and disingenuous "what democrats/liberals/the left can learn from kirk" takes has made it impossible to write the smart version of this, but I... uh... err... gulp.... do think there is one, sort of (wait, hear me out)

Albania awards public tender to company who said winning it was their grandmother’s dying wish

“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”

I can’t believe this is actually happening

I think it would be a mistake to write off anti-monopoly politics as a Biden-era failure. It’s ripe for inclusion in the anti-oligarchy narrative, and the so-called populist right have jettisoned it precisely because it serves Trump’s own protection racket agenda.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

The out group that the law binds but does not protect has been widened to include “children”

imo the sense that the Trump 2.0 tariffs, layoffs and spending cuts are no big deal for the US economy is much less a function of resilience than it is of time

The parallels between what’s happening now and what happened after Putin was first elected are inescapable.

i actually tried to get a day job where i gallivant around evangelical churches generating youtube clips of "communist transsexual DESTROYS rightwing chud" but unfortunately no billionaire investment managers at the Republican National Convention would fund the project

Axios identifies an actual, disturbing story about a trend toward corporate-government aliiance, which it might have been nice not to nickname is if it were the latest red-carpet trend at the Emmys

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

While we're talking about censorship, I'm just remembering drafting a condolence letter to a USAID partner org in Gaza who had staff killed by an an Israeli airstrike and a Biden USAID appointee removed reference to Israel so it was an "I'm sorry your staff died randomly that sucks tho" letter

For @thenation.com, I wrote about the trend of young Democratic candidates attempting to duplicate the aesthetics of the Zohran campaign, without the ideological foundation, economic populism, or authenticity that made it successful. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

they had great TV when I was younger, you could never make Andor today

Is the beard sapping Klein’s mental strength as it grows, in some kind of reverse Sampson effect?

We’ve just had an object lesson in what happens when you jettison your traditional base in an attempt to appeal to the right and it’s called Keir Starmer