Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

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Brother Warnock lays it plain.

All hail sandwich guy!!

So many iconic Pelosi moments- ACA, IRA, ARRA, the '06 and '18 midterms... but for me it's the night of 1/6/21. We were waiting to see how many days until they could return to the Capitol to finish certifying the election. She told us, "tonight." I still tear up thinking about how that felt.

there are 3 NYT conservative columns and they just rotate bylines to keep it seeming fresh: 1) What the Dems Should Do, By Someone Fundamentally Opposed to Their Values 2) Change Scares Me, But Not Enough to Learn New Things 3) Good Governance is When I Have a Princess Leia slave, By Ross Douthat

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

This F-ing guy

The democratic socialist future of America will require millions of Leslie Knopes doing the thankless work of the bureaucracy required to provide services to the people. If you think people like her are "neoliberal shills," you're not really a democratic socialist, you're just a cosplayer.

A big part of the reason why the Democratic Congressional delegation is so old is that so many Democratic state legislators got their careers nipped in the bud in 2010 and 2014. Focusing on winning as many state legislative seats as possible is the real way to fix the gerontocracy problem, too.

The American media isn’t a neutral weathervane responding to ever shifting winds of political change. They are themselves POLITICAL ACTORS that, institutionally, favor conservatism, generally, and white supremacy, in particular.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

Curtis Sliwa is one of those people who you can list like 1000 bad things but then at the end you say 'at least he's (somehwhat) honest'.

Recruit a Democrat. Every seat. Every state. Waves need someone to ride them. Call your state party, sign up to run, or volunteer. Make the GOP fight for every inch. Let’s go! No seat left empty!

Two things are true tonight: 1. Different tactics work for different regions. 2. Do your fucking civic duty EVERY TIME.

Look, this guy is a POS but 'smacking fannies and killing grannies' might have been the line of the whole campaign.

A lot of this shit was birthed in school board elections, it's literally ground zero. Fixing it starts there, too.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

My takeaway from election night is this: The worst thing to believe is that the party who loses a POTUS election is dead. I've lived long enough to see the Democrats called dead after 2004, 2016, and 2024 and the GOP called dead after 2008. The parties are never in as much disarray as you think

It's annoying to keep having to point this out, but the actual DNC has been behind Mamdani ever since he won the primary, which you wouldn't know by reading some posts on here.

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'I slayed MCs in the rec room era, my style broke MF-ing backs like Ken Patera' music.youtube.com/watch?v=xRQ5...

Undocumented presence in the United States is NOT a crime. It’s a civil offense. Correct this whenever you hear it.

Watching this Allen Iverson documentary, that dude's high school football highlights are crazy

Reverend David Black has a Bible open and is preaching to the police now, inviting them to join him in standing with the persecuted inside the detention center. "Which side do you think Jesus wanted his followers to be on?"

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.

“What if his Nazism is behind him?” I’m sorry but no… everyone else had the good sense to not be a Nazi At ANY point in their lives If you can’t resist stupidity we cannot support you

Cody looks like he just got introduced as the new football coach of the Auburn Tigers

So his own staffers aren't with the bullshit but these media folks still got them capes on?

When I explain that boycotting an election over an issue has never once forced a politician to embrace that issue, I'm not "scolding people to vote." I'm explaining reality. Feel free to sit on your ass! Just don't pretend that your lazy apathy is somehow going to advance your agenda.

However much you, a politically engaged person, think the average American knows about what's going on, I can promise you: it's way less than that. No matter how low your estimation. It's lower than that.

The contrast between what Obama was expected to do to atone for Jeremiah Wright's sermons, which were not at all racist, and what Graham Platner is not expected to do to atone for his own public declarations, which are, is very revealing.

And that is still disqualifying for being a Senator. He can go help the cause some other way if he's really that dedicated to it. You are not entitled to a Senate nomination, sorry not sorry.

DHS deceptively spliced images from different cities and times in videos sowing fear about "chaos" in Chicago and Washington, D.C., a WaPo investigation found. DHS used footage from years ago, half the country away, or even in international waters, the Post found. 🎁 🔗 wapo.st/4nuDGwf

You’re not proposing marriage to a politician when you cast a vote for them. You’re hiring them for a job. “I didn’t get a plumber to fix the leak because I didn’t feel comfortable putting my name behind any of them. Anyway that’s why the basement is flooded now, but what else could I do?”

Should have known that Maine guy was a psyop when he said “I’m an oyster farmer” yeah and I’m sleepy bear in a nightshirt and cap who sells tea

For all of my adult life, the Mayor of NYC has been heralded as the next big political thing. Giuliani, Bloomberg, etc. And their political career has always peaked in NYC. Maybe Mamdani will be different. But we always over-estimate the national relevance of NYC mayors.

Platner is not a victim of opposition research. This is what happens when you run for federal office. People scrutinize everything you’ve ever done. Every word and every action. Accountability does not exist in playing the victim of your own behavior.

Want to help Jamaica while making sure dollars are channeled to LOCALLY led recovery efforts rather than the international nonprofit industrial complex that left supplies to rot in Haiti? I can’t vouch personally but the American Friends of Jamaica looks to be the place for that: theafj.org

Fresh off the press! A short piece on how I see the overall wrestling fandom. #wrestling #wrestlingcommunity #WWE #AEW ko-fi.com/post/Madolen...

For the thousandth time, premise that Repubs win & Dems lose is bizzaroland. Assuming Spanberger wins govs will be 26R-24D. 15 of 20 largest states have trifectas; it’s 8D-7R. 2022 was the best midterm for POTUS party since 1934. 2024 Senate races were 19D-15R House 220R-215D It’s an absurd premise

Man, Wemby ain't fair. I'd be the first person to foul out on frustration fouls if I had to guard him

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It’s really this simple. And until we accept that we’re not going to get anywhere.

important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out

Talk to em!

Silkk the Shocker making history by the first rapper to rap off beat on the backing track that’s he’s already rapping off beat. I’m hearing 3 different tempos every time it’s his turn. #Verzuz

Excellent quick read about a new paper detailing basically no one is using AI, and the few that are suck as people lmao. Idk why but I laughed very hard at "Science proving only 99% of what you assumed" haha pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/15/a...