If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?

Yep: "Caving as they were winning the fight, and as Trump abuses power to hurt regular people (withholding SNAP benefits, canceling flights) supposedly as 'punishment' for the shutdown, sets a nightmare precedent."

The entire project here is so cynical. "We have to end foreign aid until we fix unemployment and bad schools!" ok are you working to fix those problems? "No."

The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children. Read that again. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

For no particular reason today

Americans admire Singaporean governance but then wonder why they can't get the same level of skilled governance while considering everyone who works for the state evil and unworthy of their salary. Telling!

When they say they’d never support Fuentes, ask them about what they used to say about Trump. This is from a now deleted piece on The Blaze from Matt Walsh

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

The problem with most of Yglesias’s advice for Democrats is that Republicans do the opposite and win all the time. So it’s either bad advice or evidence of an asymmetric playing field, which he never addresses.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Once again - just like they don't shut the government down when they control all of its branches & refuse to swear in elected representatives of the other party - normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform.

This is insane, and now I know why a helicopter buzzing repeatedly woke me up at 4:30am that day. This time they wanted to be done before the traffic started, but the helicopter might've given it away? This cruelty needs to be widely publicized. @marisakabas.bsky.social @georgetownuni.bsky.social

-Sep 30: USDA releases guidance saying they can use contingency fund -Oct 10: USDA tells states to prepare for lapse -Oct 23: USDA deletes guidance saying they can use contingency fund -Oct 24: USDA says it can’t use contingency fund -Oct 31: Courts tell USDA to release funds -Nov 1: no funds go out

The messaging debates are disconnected from the fact that bills that Democrats brought to the floor of Congress have provisions that poll extremely well, whereas the bills that the GOP brought to the floor in Trump I and Trump II are among the least popular bills ever seen in modern polling

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

This is part of the war over How We Remember the Pandemic Always remember the truth: it was a big deal, most regular people were sensible at the time, the anti-vaccine craziness set in late & has been trying to rewrite history ever since

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

unbelievable

A bajillion is a lot and this still underestimates how much more this mattered than almost anything else

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

public officials shouldn't lie

If you look at the White House demolition story and your first reaction is "no one gives a shit about this, they're worried about their bills" and not "this is the easiest proof point ever that the GOP doesn't give a shit about your bills" I'm afraid you have failed a fairly easy political IQ test

Kat Abugazeh’s campaign has crossed a threshold where the risk she’s taking is significant enough and the actions admirable enough I sorta am past caring if it’s a publicity stunt/brand building exercise or not, it’s still brave and worthy of respect.

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

People ask a lot about whether protests matter. While Trump’s approval rating is driven by many factors, events like the No Kings rallies likely play a role, too. Media coverage and people seeing their neighbors take a stand help convey that disapproval is not just acceptable but widespread.

The authoritarian nightmare. A regime with a massive security apparatus used for political purposes, completely unconstrained by the rule of law.

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

I think if the dems truly did things that made economic life better the corporate consultants would be begging for a return to identity politics

What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication? It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.

Anyone who takes seriously a “Democratic” polling report blurbed by Patrick Ruffini is a mark

what the hell are you talking about man, biden's entire presidency was about the middle class. it was the entire political theory behind deliverism and the economy

Si vous communiquez toujours sur X TIREZ VOUS Ce que vous publierez n'aura plus aucune visibilité "normale". Vous écrirez dans le vent sauf a flatter les curseurs de l'ia locale. Ya plus aucune vulgarisation, plus aucune visibilité normale et logique à y espérer.

i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away

“They’ve got money for ICE and golden ballrooms but not for hungry families” is so easy it’s almost funny

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

"Who was actually president from 1981-1989?" is rapidly coming to rival only "Who was actually president in 2020?" as the great political question of our time. Again, Reagan spoke the free trade talk. His walk was erratic at best. www.piie.com/blogs/trade-... www.cato.org/sites/cato.o...

Texas here: Maybe the public has been ignoring posted syllabi, but right-wing think tanks have definitely not Ignored them.

I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.

One reason you don’t wanna fall in love with one guy from Maine because he says “corporate power” on his website is that you are handing Republicans a bipartisan excuse for having Nazi associations. “I was only 35 and didn’t know what the ‘14 words’ meant.”

People go “Well these pundits are smart enough to see what Twitter is doing to their brains” but I assure you many cannot. That’s because the thing that determines whether your brain gets cooked isn’t SMARTNESS but SELF-SECURITY.

The fact that some prominent Democrats defend a Maine Senate primary candidate’s Nazi tattoo while he isn’t even leading in polls, but not defend a NYC mayor primary winner from false smears even as he’s leading general election polls says a lot. That doesn’t seem driven by voter preference.

Always take sentences using “the Cloud” or “the Internet” and try replacing those phrases with “A shed in Virginia” to see how they hold up. “Our service is fully based in a shed in Virginia”; “All my files are in a shed in Virginia”; “A shed in Virginia was designed to survive a nuclear war”, etc.

Yeah, this is what I wrestle with -- a college freshman today was only nine when Trump first ran for president. They've grown up with him as a baseline, not an aberration.

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

As a reminder, when Biden announced student loan forgiveness—based upon a statute passed by Congress which explicitly said the President could do exactly that—Douthat called it "semi-Caesarist" because it was done "without consulting Congress."