This is a grown man suggesting that good cocktail party conversation is telling a robot to insult the other guests, and then – and this part is key – making it do it again

I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

CNN: In the last couple of weeks or so, she's become kind of an ally on some issues. What do you make of this? Auchincloss: No, John, she hasn't.

Much like USAid, if the rest of the world wanted to replace what the US has done for the last 80 years, they would have been doing it already

It’s really cool watching people on this website cry about how anti-technology and progress the world is re: AI and hearing, from the small number of instructors I know in real life, how this stuff is just destroying traditional instruction with no effective mitigation for public education systems.

I hate this sort of meme. “The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.” Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?

Had a perfectly normal Byzantine Revival game going in EUV until...wait is that the pope in Anatolia????

i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia

"Freedom from want is not a noble ideal just because it mitigates against the suffering inherent in poverty—it is also a key pillar in making a society truly open, as personal wealth is nearly synonymous with choice in a modern, commercial society." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...

yes, and: there is an entire generation of voters out there that don't know what politics is like without Donald Trump

This is the ultimate sickos game

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

the brutal ableism of Trumpism is an underrated part of its ideology by most pundits. Trump mocking a disabled journalist *invigorated* his voters rather than repelling them, because it made them feel that they were safely on the side of the bully, rather than the victim.

Bluesky rn

"Let this be the last time I say [Cuomo's] name as we turn the page on a politics that abandons the many and answers to only a few.

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

Now, the question I have for the Republicans is, where do you go from here. Because, the voters are already incandescently mad at you, 10mo in. How do you think the voters are going to feel after another 12 months of this, or 3 years of this, when you have midterms or the presidential election?

American voters:

yes yes yes to all of this. material politics is the way forward and that doesn’t mean slogans it means the very difficult work of being a real presence in the lives of the people who you want to trust you.

I’m crying www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

getting the entirety of hitler's 1934 nuremberg rally speech tattooed on my back, as a tribute to my nazi-fighting grandfather from the 101st airborne.

the working class is concerned with other matters, such as how much it costs to hire a servant to deliver you a bottle of water when you find the water in your kitchen unpalatable

you can’t really call this anything other than cowardice

'the Democratic Party should be less dominated by out-of-touch gerontocrats' is a principle that also applies to Bernie Sanders, 84.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

lol “No Kings” is such brilliant branding because Trump’s people are such inveterate reactionary shitposters that their only reaction is, can possibly be, “oh him being a king triggers you? Then yeah he’s a king, he should be the king forever.”

if true, about 2% of the U.S. pop

Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me

Can't think of anything more quintessentially american than opposing kings.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

I understand why people think that the accumulated participation in the civil rights movement would be extremely high, given how large it looms in historical memory, but by modern standards it wasn't really. We're talking about thousands to tens of thousands of people at most protests.

I absolutely love Baker

imo having children incurs such high and specific opportunity costs in terms of lifetime earning potential (time off work, constrained choices, etc), that = I think it's appropriate to smooth out those somewhat with taking child dependent status into account wrt taxation

Is Pulisic the best player in Serie A right now?

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure

until there's a Republican congress and a Democratic president, in which case it will suddenly be very important. the country cannot function as a real democracy with corrupt, partisan serial liars controlling the Supreme Court; it has to be the first priority of a new administration.

it is a little amusing to me that Trump is indicting Comey, the federal official who took arguably the single most effective pro-Trump action in the last 10 years. getting a little chuckle out of that

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

we need to raise billions of dollars so we can build a fake nyc and truman show eric adams

maybe I’m just in a good mood this morning but this feels like a thing we might look back on as a turning point, even if symptomatic rather than causal

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

anyone who imagines that the Letter from a Birmingham Jail is talking about liberals does not understand the politics of that era in the slightest

Ezra Klein is a good person, and his mental blindspot led him to extend a presumption of good faith towards a deceased monster instead of wrestling with the monster's actual politics. These can both be true.

this was summer ‘24… MAYBE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE SOME HEADLINES ABOUT THIS IN THE FUCKING FALL OF 2024, MERICK. MAYBE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL.