Exactly this The 60 vote threshold has existed for decades & there's a standard playbook for majority parties to deal with it: buy off a few minority party Senators. But this time around Senate GOP decided to go with a strategy of "Fuck you, vote yes anyway " and feign shock that it's not working

It’s worse than you think. This is his lawyer Rita Glavin who has been paid tens of millions of dollars to smear me and the other women who came forward. She has led his taxpayer funded litigation abuse of us all. And here she is at the loser party with him.

The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @stevevladeck.bsky.social) www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

Our court system has long had immense difficulty enacting justice, but delaying resolution of a matter on procedural grounds for the benefit of a government that is breaking the law to starve children is maybe the most blatant example of this in the modern era.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Kahless tells us time is the one enemy no warrior can defeat. In the end, it is how you spent your that time matters most. Spend it being honorable, strong, and kind. Do this and time will not be your enemy, but your gift to those who will be glad to have known you.

virtue signalling is good actually

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the only "honor" Watson's getting from me is that i've built a lab full of outstanding students who are everything he hated: Black, Indigenous, female, trans, queer, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, and beyond. he might be what the past of our field looks like- but the future looks like my lab.

I keep seeing these videos by trans guys about how trans women are dominating trans advocacy because of socialisation and honestly it's a discredit to the numerous trans men who are involved daily in pragmatic community rooted activism every day without getting involved in promoting transmisogyny.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

Every time I see a picture of JD Vance I'm reminded of the time @bransonreese.bsky.social described a Rude Tales NPC as "a shitty little guy with a face that sucks"

I remember when I was in college my mom told me about an article she'd read where a group of millionaires and a group of middle-class people were asked the same set of extremely basic questions and all the millionaires failed. stuff like "how much does a stamp cost" or "where's your nearest library"

Somehow Ben Shapiro arrives at the correct conclusion about Twitter before nearly all elected Democrats (even if he doesn't act on that conclusion)

Homo Sapiens emerged about 300,000 years ago. Imagine you gave an early Sapiens $9,000. And they looked at you and said “the fuck is this?” But anyway, you piled up $9,000 Every Single Day since the first Sapiens walked the Earth. You still wouldn’t have a trillion dollars. Capitalism is fucked

Ngl… with all the things that are happening in the world right now seeing everyone’s reactions to this is lowkey making me cry 🥹🥲🫶🏽 I’m sharing that happiness, that joy, that euphoria and celebration with all of yall 🫂✨

good morning fish fuckers

10/10 take. No notes.

Also in today’s column: The essential pre-election reporting at @boltsmag.org www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

imagine a podcast that switches to video and you realize it's been recorded like this the whole time

People should do check in's with themselves about what things they are not saying or doing because they are afraid of conservative backlash, including threats and bombardment You need to pay attention to how you are being worked on and how fear is being used to govern you

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

So ready to have my sexuality challenged all over again let’s roll those dice baby

What’s the problem? We’re just displaying a historical fact that this person is a Jew by forcing them to wear a yellow star.

There will be no AGI, there will be no colonization of mars and no robot helpers, not made by any of these people, because they don’t make anything, they manipulate stocks and build houses of cards with shell corporations

Spoiler alert. You ain't an alpha you a little bitch ass bitch and whatnot.

When you're in Malta, say hi to Goosio!

@jessiegender.bsky.social talking about the resentment towards the people that didn't vote for Kamala Harris

The protagonist of Predator: Badlands has a similar narrative arc to the hero of Hundreds of Beavers, encountering trap after organic trap in a dangerous land before figuring out how to use those perils to his advantage. #filmsky 📽

best ending of all time, let's be real

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

This Pennsylvania county stopped charging people 'lodging fees' for the time they spent in jail. Then commissioners voted to forgive over $65 million in these fees. “What a light of hope this has been,” said one woman whose son owed $17,000.

please listen to the union’s calls to action when a company does something illegal and retaliatory to its employees instead of just blindly canceling or boycotting the company because someone craving engagement told you to do so

We don’t have to let them get away with it forever. And we must not. Start building will toward fixing things. So if we are lucky enough to have a chance, we don’t blow it.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

I don't understand how any cis person could be ungrateful enough for the existence of trans people to be transphobic. It's really dumb shit.

My favorite comment on the FT story

the real hero here is the defense attorney who is in court thinking of all the same sandwich puns we are and can’t giggle, can’t smile, can’t even make a rye remark

Young men too 😮😮

Higher quality cos I'm a sicko

What I desperately hope Democratic leadership takes away from this is the realization that YOUR BASE *IS* THE PROGRESSIVES, you morons.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.