By far, the only “famous alum” my high school class ever cared about. Go Titans 🟥🟦⬜️

Much like the third reich, the antebellum south, namely the planter class, had global aspirations. Expanding it’s feudal-style slave society throughout the western world was an indirect goal in supporting the Mexican War. They viewed westward expansion as necessary in order to solidify their power.

The word “miscegenation” was a word literally made up as part of a misinformation campaign aimed at stirring discontent amongst northerners wary of the Civil War and Lincoln after emancipation. It went on to be embedded in anti-interracial marriage statutes across the South for nearly a century.

Jefferson’s father-in-law John Wayles raped his slave Elizabeth Hemings, whose daughter Sally was born into slavery under Virginia’s 1662 law. At 14, Sally accompanied Jefferson to Paris, where he, at 44, began a sexual relationship with her that produced six children.

If you’re seeing this, consider it a sign that you should read “Generation of Sociopaths” by Bruce Gibney

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Billionaire Brain™

They cover for Trump because he’s the only president in the modern era to have no qualms about calling them out and leveraging the power of the Office. Same dynamic with business. Dem presidents would fare better if the played this kind of game more aggressively and across many fronts simultaneously

Not a Somalian. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Yet another immigrant solving America’s problems.

The #$TSLA valuation is like that scene where Wile E. Coyote runs off a cliff but knows that he won’t fall so long as he doesn’t look down.

This is a scarcity mindset. It shouldn’t be surprising that some of the best students from all over the world do outstanding work, but now Harvard has to force some kind of artificial hierarchy of scores. This discredits grading far worse and negatively affects students willingness to collaborate.

In March, around 200,000 immigrants began losing their commercial driver’s licenses, which are required to operate large vehicles like semi-trucks, buses and tractor-trailers.

The wealthy and big-businesses don’t escape taxes because of low nom. rates, you could triple or even quadruple it and it wouldn’t make much a difference. They avoid tax bills through reclassification loopholes + legal deductions that dwindle that amount, sometimes to 0. It’s a legal backdoor trick.

Pretty wild that in a district as small as KY4, primary voting more than doubled from 2024.

A lot of boneheaded takes by Bezos in this interview, but he’s right on this one. Cut off tax deductions that disproportionately favor business and capital to pay for it. They can get it back from the increased consumer spending. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/j...

Once again, conservative politics is inherently dysfunctional. It is a political expression of grievance and discontent. At no point in the modern era has the GOP been in complete control of the federal government.

One of the more annoying aspects of the "for you" tab is the reverberation of the same content/ideas/sentiments, usually from far left accounts that are terminally online. Hoping the mute function sends a message to this algorithm.

Claude's response here has me seriously re-evaluating what I would consider to be sentience in a practical sense.

Joe the Plumber is now Chud the Builder. Perfect transiton between boomer right wing politics and Gen Z right wing politics.

I’m pretty certain Fetterman’s flipping the moment he can’t milk his Manchin shtick anymore. Keeping tradition alive in PA by being this generations Arlen Specter.

the Utah GOP, angered by a 2024 state SC decision, passed laws expanding the court by 2 justices and creating a special 3-judge panel to hear constitutional challenges they immediately used to move unfavorable cases. A bill to let voters override court rulings was proposed but never passed

“I spoke with the great General Tso and he thanked me for what a terrific job I’m doing as president.”

the conservative ethos in a nutshell.

The United States of America’s 250th birthday isn’t actually until 2038. The first time the colonies were actually united in any sort of way was in passage of the articles of confederation (Nov 7, 1777). It wasn’t until the constitution was ratified June 21, 1788 that the actual union was born.

Covering Trump is basically a daily humiliation ritual and I love that for the journalists who were so excited for his return

You could run a campaign ad of clips like this mixed in with him sleeping in meetings.

The biggest tinfoil hat belief is that there is an unspoken but concerted effort by the world’s wealthiest people to prop up Elon Musk because he is an effective and unwitting chaos agent against the masses.

*small farmers* For the major market share operators it was never about anything related to farming.

This is trumps subconscious way of subjecting the press to the same type of humiliation ritual he does to all his subordinates. he knows he’s liable to fall asleep, he just knows that it doesn’t matter because he sees himself as untouchable. Rollins and Oz see it.

It is astounding how much anti-socialist discourse *entirely* relies upon a completely wrong understanding of what socialism actually is. Really remarkable.

Was just thinking about this the other day. There are more people who voted for Donald Trump in LA county, a county he lost by a 2:1 ratio, than in all of Oklahoma, where he won by 2:1 ratio and was awarded 7 electoral votes.

In September 1861, CSA Gen. Leonidas Polk made an unauthorized invasion of neutral Kentucky which compelled the state legislature to actually join the Union. The state was never an actual part of the CSA.

I’ve been reading “The Scarlet Shredder” book of the Dog-Man series to my kid and it is truly an allegory of our time. An evil tech-villain plots to enslave the word with an army of AI agentic robots while a corrupt judge and police chief attempt usurp the authority over the town. Published in 2024.

rare break from class solidarity from one of the richest people in the world.

One of the best arguments against lifetime tenure for scotus judges is that too much time in the ivory tower negatively affects perspective in this era. The Court has evolved past it and Roberts is an inept chief.

We need less McClellan energy and more Sherman.

On this day in 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the racist Chinese Exclusion Act, the first federal legislation to restrict immigration. He did so due to extreme nativist sentiment & inflated economic concerns about Chinese immigrants “taking” jobs from Americans. Image: eastwindezine.com

Needs to be an overhaul for sure, but even that won’t mask rank incompetence. The Westfall Act grants fed employees absolute immunity from common-law tort claims for acts committed within the scope of their employment. POTUS is not an employee and rape is not part of the job. Embarrassing filing.

One of America’s oldest traditions is alive and well. A statehouse Dem, Frank Burns, actually joined the vote on this making it technically bipartisan. www.theroot.com/pennsylvania...

Everybody on here is mad at Obama because they’re conflating their social spheres for the public at large. You have no idea what type of person a swing voter in today’s electorate is actually like. Think schizophrenic algorithm addict with a learning disability, not a ton of bandwidth to work with.

Almost the entirety of the tax code is a manual for how capital can escape taxes. Wait until you find out how they’ve been using sports teams to book bullshit “losses” against their aggregate businesses…

IMO this is serves as evidence that republican voters who are critical of trumpism would rather just leave the party and register as independents. Only registered republicans can vote in this primary and his net approval in the state is -14

Taibbi used to be a real investigative journalist, then he got covid brain and became some some sort of cross between Joe Rogan and Tim Pool

Whenever I see these charts, it makes me respect the flat approval poll less and less. It seems like the biggest source of approval is something that isn’t issue driven, and IMO it’s the constant antagonism. There’s a critical mass of the electorate that has psychologically broken politics.

It’s frustrating to realize that the best and most effective argument against ranked choice voting is that the median voter is too dumb to understand it. There needs to be some kind of cultural mechanism that can gently explain and demonstrate it to the masses.

In his campaign to take Vicksburg, Grant’s army subsisted off the land in order to improve efficiency and mobility. The extremely high prices of food priced out confederate citizens and kept a floor on supply, which made for ripe seizure by a commanding army. Whole farms were taken.

Farmers vote against workers' interest bc most of us aren't working class. Farmers are business owners. With inherited wealth & property. It's not that hard to figure out! It's not folksy, & it's not "economic anxiety." Most *small family farmers* in the US are millionaires w 6-figure incomes.