Okay so I’ve got a podcast to pitch to everyone

It’s interesting that American politicians concerned about inequality and its corrupting effects go “I won’t take donations from rich people, no matter who or what they stand for,” with virtually none going “I’ll hold rich criminals accountable, their money has shielded them for far too long.”

These are concentration camps.

I’ve avoided a lot of the Platner discourse because it’s a toxic tarpit, but I think the notion that the lesson here is primarily about either one political faction or something essential about “unvetted” newcomers, sits in some considerable tension with the entire Eric Swalwell experience.

i'll take a stab at translating this: one of the theorized risks of an outsider movement is that you get more Badly Vetted Candidates, but this year we've had two real huge blowups and one of them was a decade-plus officeholder, so it's not just an outsider thing

Black leaders across the South have expressed a visceral shock in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. But as the surprise wears off, a sense of isolation has begun to set in among some. 🔗 politi.co/4vSW46T

Tolkien wrote a YA novel where the villain was Smaug, an evil dragon that hoarded wealth & polluted the earth. Everyone working in tech who loves that book & that author has missed its point. These are also the same people who assert that thinking about literature is a waste of time. 🤬🤬

it's so vital to have journalists who cover the video game industry, so we have full context on shit like this

Here is a verified gofundme for his family: gofund.me/bf251d4ee

been trying to avoid this as long as possible, but I'm definitely in need of emergency mutual aid since, like every other journalist in this godforsaken economy I'm unemployed and it's tremendously bad rn. Any help appreciated. I hate this, thanks. cashapp is $ShadyDame PayPal is sorayamcdonald

Hey ya’ll! My homegirl is looking for her cousin. Last seen in SE D.C. Please, If you’ve seen her or have any information please contact the numbers on the poster

Agree. We’ve been reporting lately on ICE ramping back up to 11, but the trump administration is trying to do it without Minnesota type headlines. The secret police are trying to be more… secret

Reminding everyone of this

ICE fatally shot a man in Houston yesterday. Agents arrested a nun on her way to mass. An Afghan who helped the U.S. military died in ICE detention, one of at least 21 people to die in detention this year. The headlines have moved on, but Trump is still waging his reign of terror.

excuse you, but Calvin and Hobbs, Garfield, and Far Side collections

completely tracks, knew a couple kids I went to college with who got caught up in this BS. Both virgins wanting to fix that...within two years they both became "libertarians," and proto-incels, and both got in my mentions during the first-wave of BLM on some BS. Both went super MAGA.

The three major pick-up artists I can recall went into 1) extreme right-wing religious orthodoxy (and celibacy) 2) reactionary eugenics stuff 3) And... AI gf www.wired.com/story/pickup...

“Show me the video,” Evaniel Johnson told The Associated Press. “Please show me that — and then I’m OK. Until you show me that, I’m gonna fight and advocate for my grandson until there’s no breath in me.”

pondering a potential england-argentina semifinal

this is the problem with the ideology trap

So there’s a famously pugilistic poster on here (who has me blocked) who said, essentially, that character doesn’t matter when choosing to vote. Only policy. And I think that is just fundamentally backwards and, ultimately, the reason why the online left keeps falling for lying grifters. (Thread)

When my Civ VI game gets really interesting

Again, this was literally the lowest, most essential bar in US politics from 1949-2017, & then everyone decided they were shameful oath-violating cowards & He was One Special Boy: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Look I'm just saying it doesn't take a super savvy operator to look at the Nazi tattoo bullshit and realize you don't want whatever the fuck is going on there all over you

Lupita Nyong’o's beauty sparks social media war about whether her beauty would have sparked actual war

I told y'all niggas that Graham Platner had a case about 6 months ago. Anybody wit some sense KNEW he had a case with everything else they knew about him.

A lot of people assume "imperial brainworms" are exclusively expansionist but they're not. Imperial brainworms are "how dare those little people challenge our authority" because you're fundamentally incapable of truly seeing other people as equals

in this house we believe: - treaty allies are real - we owe sooooo many reparations - NATO must be a real collaborative defense framework - Slava Ukraini - free Palestine - defend Taiwan - abolish ICE

talking to a woman who wears these...and I'm not sure how to break it to her. Everything else, dope, smart, cute fits, funny, all that...but these. I have no idea how to approach this conversation

Either you're like Coons and think we can make this water under the bridge because we're the superpower or you have the flagellatory leftist takes about living in the imperial core and think the security architecture needs to go entirely as a form of penance

My take designed to offend the maximal number of people is that most politicians left of the GOP are not built to navigate this because they have imperial brainworms

oldest story in the book and yet "the left" getting its ass beat over its refusal to acknowledge it

most of the time it's the fault of the 19th century

Those sons of bitches who got Obama elected are some of the most insufferable alive. They walked into a hurricane, wound up on a mountaintop, and they think it means they can fly.

Federal agencies are no longer providing cybersecurity funding support for elections or sharing foreign threat information. But there are still ways that local election officials and the public can prepare ahead of the midterms. bit.ly/4fgaS9L

The Trump administration violated U.S. law by providing Iran’s government with confidential information detailing the asylum applications for Iranians it planned to deport, a new lawsuit filed in D.C. alleges.

If roughing up a girlfriend and locking her in a room was a virile, authentic a rejection of “smoothgroined” “HR lady” politics, but a rape is too far, then what’s at stake is not a principled rejection of violence against women but a cynical assessment of how much violence a man can get away with.

Karl Zerbe, Harlem, August 1952 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135522

Yes. But not just the Maine left! Bernie, Warren, Khanna, multiple more centrist electeds (Gallego). *Many* pundits & strategists, incl. progressives. These folks could’ve pushed him to drop out earlier & did not. Tattoogate + the Reddit posts were the 1st easy offramp. Domestic abuse another.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

Local leaders in these cities have said they do not believe the federal intervention is necessary, and some have challenged the deployments in court.

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Only men who worship violence thrive in war, which is why the U.S. has a rich tradition of awarding the Medal of Honor to Quakers and Pacifists

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience. Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense. They admitted it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

It occurs to me that America might actually be doing a better job of wrestling with its past than it gets credit for, we just don’t notice because the truly bonkers shit in other countries is in languages we can’t read

Mamdani: "Therein lies the work of America -- a striving, a bettering, the reaching toward perfection. What a privilege each of us has to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before."

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases