Apropo of Twitter turning out to be full of fake Americans: For decades people have held up @ycombinator.com.web.brid.gy’s Hacker’s News as an example of how toxic and awful American startup culture is. I’d bet dollars to donuts the results would be the same.

How come the GOP gets to use SAT words like “ideology” and no one calls them out for being the pathetic nerds that they are

Make like a tree and grow.

So much of the worst leftist policy ideas are just revenge fantasies with the thinnest veneer of intellectualism pasted on top. It is easy to see how so many leftist “revolutions” resulted in genocides, just like rightist ones. A political movement that justifies revenge is a bad political movement

It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends. We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over. We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.

Elon Musk fired the team that was dealing with coordinated bot farms because he wants foreign actors to undermine our democracy

Zohran is currently Trump’s Good Object. It isn’t the mysterious powers of socialism: it is how narcissists attract sources.

Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist? Mamdani: I've spoken about -- Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.

Walmart sales are a reliable recession indicator.

Seth Moulton is going to be so mad he didn’t make the cut to be a “top Dem”, despite alienating all the young people his agism was supposed to appeal to 🤣

Oh look, Will Stancil is back to being mad at statistics and voters alike because his Minneapolis rent hasn’t gone up & he feels left out

Anyone else on the North Shore get Kyrsten Sinema vibes from Jamie Belsito?

Any Democratic primary candidate who says “affordability” should instantly have to justify not having a DSA endorsement

The reason people associate with Larry Summers is because he brings in money to these institutions that let him hang around. If we “metaphorically” eat the rich, the problem goes away.

As funny as it is to see the tankies fall over themselves to justify China and Russia’s actions at the UN with regard to Palestine, this should all be a reminder how genuine solidarity will never come from states but can only come from people

Imagine choosing to be an evil piece of shit. Cruel profiteers like this should be shamed into oblivion.

The Uglies movie fucked up by not casting conservative influencers as the Pretties.

While doing absolutely NOTHING to lower costs, Trump’s administration is accepting expensive gifts and firing ethics officers who tell them not to. The most corrupt presidency in American history. www.thedailybeast.com/doj-employee...

It is interesting that the arguments against inheritance tax are rooted in a narcissism that sees a child not as their own individual person, but as an extension of the parent.

“Rich people admit they are rich” challenge level: impossible

I appreciate when rich people are honest that they are rewriting the laws so they don’t have to contribute to society because they think their grandchildren are more important than normal people. I think it’s bad when policy is based on that, but it is honest.

This is why emoluments are unconstitutional

Imagine having watched Trump win twice and having learned nothing. The second one of those is not because it wins you votes: it is because it is wildly unethical to do other wise. The first one of those doesn’t even have that going for it.

This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.

He should have been fired and driven out of public life in 2005. Harvard is a force of classism & sexism, laundering the dumbest children of the rich like they were subprime mortgages. I know our state constitution promises its independence, but it is a net evil to the world.

The government should be forced to pay for any damage its officers do.

This is the strength of our city. We’ll honor the trust these families put in us by making this a place where they can thrive.

I don’t understand how people who say “ideology” like it is a normal word are calling us nerds.

@reuters.com published the photo in 2016, but they cropped out the part where Trump was literally grabbing Clinton’s dick. Not only had this President committed sexual assault, he committed sexual assault of another President and the media chose to hide that from us.

My options for the House so far: the insecure mouthpiece of the national party, the centrist with no opinions of her own, the progressive with no money, the bowtie who thinks fascists will stop being fascists if you fix their parking tickets, a former Republican and a maybe-currently-a-Republican.

They reported on how Podesta’s risotto recipe rather than on Trump’s supporters doing Watergate-in-cyberspace, but sure: a convicted pedophile with photos of a presidential candidate with his victims is just a reason for a reporter to conspire on how best to do a blackmail.

Ever since The New York Times fired its public editor, it has become an anti-democratic propaganda outfit and instead of admitting that its journalists are mad we noticed. In the meantime it has brought fascism to America & is waging an anti-trans crusade.

If Senators can just decide to give themselves $500,000, they should just cash out America and take the money somewhere warm. It was a nice run, but America is obviously done. Whichever Senate is the last one gets to keep all the profits.

Beatings. Sexual assault. Psychological abuse. These are some of the horrors endured by the more than 250 men the US sent to El Salvador on flimsy evidence of gang membership, according to a new comprehensive report.

My liberal friends were so mad when I said the Nazi tattoo would help more than it hurt.

The Democratic Party and Communists both think the only reason they aren’t in charge is because they haven’t yelled at people enough.

This is why they got people who aren’t up for reelection next year. They knew they were doing bad, so they recruited the least-accountable to take the fall.

I don’t think people’s dislike of homelessness is irrational or just a lack of empathy or false consciousness. Pretending it is doesn’t help us get to actual solutions. There is only so far you can shame people into ignoring their amygdala.

it is very amusing that the DC abundance bros are mad about Lina Khan being one of Zohran’s transition co-chairs even though the other co-chair is Maria Torres Springer, NYC’s ultimate abundance YIMBY technocrat

"He wants to lock up Netanyahu" is funny ignorant criticism when the Israeli justice system also wants to lock up Netanyahu.

This trial is going to end in a hung(ry) jury

Trump is just jealous because Maduro is a more successful and popular dictator than he is.

The #DecidingToWin report mis-represents the papers it cites. None of the four papers support their conclusion. One is explicitly about how their assertion does not work in practice & tries to come up with a convoluted model of why that might be. They were counting on no one checking the citations.

I love #Ireland so much. I wish I lived in a country where racists had to stage a ballot-spoiling campaign because none of the political parties will give them the time of day & they were only 13% 🤣 “Don’t be like those English bastards” remains a great moral code

Sure: my shortcomings are that I’m poor and I have access to way fewer social support programs than my parents did.

Bernie Sanders once again showing that socialist (or social-democratic) economics are worthless without social liberalism, just as people like Nick Clegg show that social liberalism without socialist (or at least Keynesian) economics is worthless. You need both.

That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group. Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.

When we didn’t put Nixon in prison, that was the beginning of the end of America.