the thing is, a certain type of person will say “well, that’s good, we make too many things out of plastic anyway”, but there are very good reasons we make the things we make out of plastic and other alternatives, when even possible, will be worse in terms of cost and, very often, reliability

yes, mister president, that’s right, let’s prepare americans for vietnam war II, a war which famously had no political consequences for anyone

Another entry in the burgeoning genre of ‘can you imagine if Russia did [thing Russia is doing]?’

Trump was right derided for threatening to blow up Iran’s bridges and power plants. Putin has actually attacked literally every power plant in Ukraine Anglophone left why are you like this

My prediction is that AAA games are going to get a moderate benefit and there's going to be a Cambrian explosion of indie games, which I think is about what everyone wants

There's unfortunately nixon go to china energy on the political calculations of how the DEA plays this in terms of leaks/undermining/etc with a republican admin vs dem No excuse for Obama not at least laying the groundwork like Biden did though

1) Folks need to check the dates on the references in this and remember who was in office from 20 Jan 21 to 20 Jan 25 2) yes politicians can in fact Just Do Things and should, but lotta people underappreciating how vociferously the DEA has fought this and how they're a bunch of republicans

Xavier Becerra’s promise to freeze utility and home insurance rates would be completely catastrophic, send the insurance industry into a death spiral and is essentially climate science denial: a refusal to believe climate change is imposing real costs and tradeoffs. Do NOT vote for this man in Nov.

please continue injecting this shit into my veins after literal decades of “suck it losers” preening from republicans every time they get called out for horribly gerrymandered bullshit the shoe is on the other foot and I simply cannot get enough you want to end this? unfuck your own districts too

Ashamed Meta Employee Just Tells Everyone He Works As Guard In Private Prison For Disabled Children https://theonion.com/ashamed-meta-employee-just-tells-everyone-he-works-as-g-1851012454/

Banger.

Climate change denial takes many forms. The demand for state subsidized home insurance in wildfire, hurricane, and flood risk areas is one of them.

"Streamer who says you should shoplift because lmao at the consequences" has probably voiced some choice words on stream when their Doordash driver swiped their food

The “music for people who have tattoos of their children but not custody” tour.

Jia Tolentino bragged about stealing from whole foods while conveniently leaving out that she spent her book advance on a cruise that cost so much money it got written up in Conde Nast Traveler

“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

also the bald eagle with the brass knuckles goes *hard*

like, neocons at least knew how to use power. we can give them that much credit.

god help me Bill Kristol's spitting fire again

Also: Hasan is the worst possible voice to say the rich don't play by the rules when he's literally a rich dude that is existing on family connections and pretty privilege

There is a necessary cultural project we must undertake that will have to extend after all of us (except me) are dead and it will be the reconstruction and reinforcement of the social contract as a duty each and every person is born into. Nothing we do to save our nation will matter otherwise.

You feel like you don't have to pay? That's great, very brave! Enjoy having your bags rifled through and items of value taken as "evidence" or simply going missing without explanation because, frankly, what the fuck are you going to do? Fuck you for not playing the game.

Even if they're being jocular, which they are, they're adults & I reserve the right to judge them for their convenient cynicisms

Imagine every interaction with a public official—from people working lines at the airports, to cops, to the people responsible for keeping your power on at your job—requires an exchange of some petty cash. Just the constant friction of graft to not get fucked over. It's bad.

I've spent a lot of time in countries where graft and grifting are the norm and I assure you it is worth a truly immense cost to prevent that from taking hold in our society. You do not want to live in that kind of society.

One of my fifth graders apparently read in her history book that "Thomas Jefferson was one of the first people to try and stop slavery" and I have now set her up for failure by telling her to ask her teacher why the book says that but doesn't mention that Thomas Jefferson himself owned slaves.

This is an incoherent vision of politics and political economy, the Louvre is a public institution, you are literally stealing from The People

also all these people are rich

I think it's bad to encourage people to commit actions that will likely get them arrested, making finding work and housing more difficult for them in the future.

get in loser we’re being prosocial we’re paying our taxes we are NOT stealing from whole foods

just FYI, this does NOT mean food safety incidents spiked 40% last year. more people are likely paying much closer attention under trump (which is smart!) but be careful not to conflate the stats here

Do it moron. Squeeze all the blood out of that stone. I fucking dare you

Elon Musk cost Republicans four House seats

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

like living with an elderly bulldog

land doesn't vote losers

lol. lmao. rofl.

If VA and CA house Rs getting nuked don’t like it they can cross the aisle, make Jeffries speaker, and have barebones national ban over to Thune by Friday.

It is objectively bad for democracy that both blue and red states are doing extreme gerrymanders. But the only feasible solution — a national ban on partisan gerrymandering — has only been endorsed by one party. And it's not the one complaining about Virginia right now.

SPLC knows ball?

Evelyn Normielib is here and she is politely voting to gerrymander your ass into irrelevance

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters: you brought this on yourselves you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster you earned this

Hakeem Jeffries puts out a FAFO: "We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast.... Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time"

Foghorn Leghorn you have to stop. You smoke too tough. Your swag too different. Your bitch is too bad. They’ll kill you

fun fact: two years after Manchin won in West Virginia, a left wing populist ran on this exact platform… and lost to a corporate Republican by 40 points the conservative white working class doesn’t vote for wealth distribution. they are temporarily embarrassed billionaires who love daddy Trump

I know that Julian’s not a smart guy but I really wish that people could understand that when conservatives say they want to take on billionaires, they mean Jews. They’ll tell you this if you ask!

There’s a kind of guy who loves the idea that ordinary conservatives actually care about “fighting billionaires” and I think it’s laughable. They keep voting to make your life worse because their politics are that they don’t like you, not because they’re under the spell of a trickster political god.

the question, the same one asked by Jimmy Carter before he lost 44 states, is how the hell to pivot while you're still in power and everything bad is still Your Fault

The right gambled, tried to rig the election, lost, and now it’s excuses and tears. Thanks for everything, Virginia. 🙏🏽