I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.

Fuck Jared Polis

9 years was not an excessive punishment. Peters was a county official who used someone else’s security badge to let a fellow election denier access the whole county's voting data. That is an extreme breach of public trust for the purpose of undermining our democracy; harsh deterrence is vital.

Rotating villain theory strikes again

I hate these fucking people. Look at our opposition party. This is fucking pathetic.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

marjorie taylor green can get fucked for all eternity, what is wrong with people

We didn't devastate the south enough after the civil but it's not too late to start

I try to put Times rage bait out of mind but when I saw this shit this morning I was truly repulsed. Fuck these people.

Republicans: "We just cut down all the redwoods, turned the trees into baseball bats, and now we are using those bats to kill endangered owls and to bludgeon Democrats." Courts, media: *thumbs up* Democrats: "What about solar panels on some things?" Courts, media: *rolls out the guillotines*

Gas prices the highest in years amid a disastrous war and the leader of the opposition party is busy thanking the White House for posting grainy "UFO" pics 👍

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

It's literally infallible except for one not so neat fact.

With the VA maps being thrown out, and southern states redrawing their maps, I can’t decide if we are living through pre-civil War or the end of reconstruction. The whole system just doesn’t work, and we will have to fight hard. It’s a republic, if we can keep it.

Concerning!

Why shouldn't Virginia Governor @abigailspanberger.com announce something like "the Supreme Court just ruled that state governments can redistrict, multiple Republican-controlled states already are, and the people of Virginia indicated they want us to, so that's what we're going to do," then do it?

The defining factor for the Reform vote and the Brexit vote is very low educational attainment. Same with MAGA, same with AfD, same with Rassemblement National. Should be enough for all serious parties to put education at the heart of their agenda.

I’ll vote for whichever 2028 candidate promises reconstruction 2.0 at this point

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

Iran keeps cooking our ass with these videos

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

motherfucker could send all of his kids to college with the gigantic check he's got from liquidating his assets but I'm sure he'll invest it all in kid rock buttcoins and trump commemoratives while the kids rot away getting addicted to opiates and otherwise being drains on society

the thing dem pols need to internalize is this guy and his entire family will vote republican for the rest of their lives, regardless of the republican party literally ending their livelihood

Brad voted Trump because the centuries-long legacy of a failed Reconstruction followed by multiple red scares has left most American incapable of understanding who is oppressing them and how. Also he’s racist.

I just talked to someone who recounted seeing literal cross burnings driving through backwoods areas in Tennessee in the 2000s. I think people who have never been to these places often don’t appreciate how *open* racial hatred still is there.

Everyone's boomer parent is going through this right now

Me: I voted for Donald Trump because I had him confused with that other guy. Donald Duck. NYT reporter: Are you sure you want me to print that next to your real name and a drawing of you? Me: Yes.

just an incredible set of examples of “however stupid you think the median voter is, they’re stupider than that”

finally a use for these

If you are in line to beat up Michael Tracey in the Hampton Inn parking lot, stay in line

wheezing

Here's the initial block list of those who attended the WHCD tonight. Adding names as it becomes clear they were there.

Yeah I dunno but I wouldn’t claim to call myself a journalist and president of the WHCA while sitting next to the man who said Jamal Ahmad Hamza Khashoggi probably deserved to be dismembered alive by a bone saw. Just a grotesque group of people.

Who will be the first self-important journalist to begin wearing a pin to honor their collective sacrifice? My guess is Jake Tapper

You don't hate these people enough

I’m really trying to be respectful towards the people who attended but I cannot help gesturing wildly towards this entire event and yelling “this is why people do not trust the press”

The WHCA continuing their glorified meet and greet after an active shooter and a death is really just so spot on for the horrendous sociopathic tendencies of DC political reporters that I can't quite believe it's real.

lmfao

I’m at the combination Comedy Central Roast of Adolf Hitler / Reichstag Fire

If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

Thats the level of career focused sociopathy we know and love from the white house press corpse

taylor lorenz screaming at the shooter for not wearing a mask

Seems reasonable, think about everything that the attendees needed to deliberately ignore in order to show up in the first place

Wtf kind of dystopian RoboCop satire ass shit is this?

Prosecuting every one of the people involved in this is the moderate position and voters need to be reminding every single Democrat running that this is how it is.

there are of course words like dishonourable and disgusting and disgraceful but no sequence of such words that i’ve yet found a way to string together accurately captures just how despicably evil this really is