Sean Duffy should be impeached and removed from his cabinet post.

I don't think this is the case, nor do I think this conclusion is anything other than what our opponents want us to draw. They don't have the people, but authoritarians do have the ability to build fear, and you have to fight that fear if you want to not become overwhelmed by the enemy.

Ms. Rachel 2028 bsky.app/profile/igal...

At some point I'm going to get my AI policy out but it starts with "any company wanting to build a data center has to also make it energy neutral on the Grid by building carbon free capacity so the rest of us don't get screwed in the process".

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

the president lying about high level peace talks taking place with the country were at war with, all to juice the stock market, is a gigantic scandal but also its just kinda another monday

At this point the market makers want to be lied to

Chris Murphy: "The treasury secretary just said 'we're gonna escalate in order to deescalate.' It's like they've never read a history book. That's exactly what our leaders said in the middle of Vietnam, in the 20 years of mismanagement in Afghanistan. We need to end this war."

I think she's happy she made the decision to become an indoor cat.

Long weekend of events & petitioning capped off with a quick homemade carbonara.

The antibiotic one is a really good example of American decadence these days b/c undergirding all of this, is the belief that there’s not really gonna be any consequence for a choice or if there is, someone can bail me out out of it (I can go to the hospital and they’ll make it all magically better)

We're approaching the Crazification Limit

um no there's not

so if i have this correctly: we've substantially increased the value of Iran's primary export we've made it legal to buy that export for the first time in 30 years and we've made it such that only safe way through the strait is to make a deal with iran masterful gambit

It’s quite simple in that an R is doing it lol

invasion of Iraq was 23 years ago today. A colossal failure of judgement that led to a million Iraqi deaths, and 4418 US forces deaths, for no goddamn reason at all

The criminality of Nixon! The moral void of Ford! The senility of Reagan! The dubious post-conspiracy pardons of Bush I! The Middle Eastern quagmire and economic crisis of Bush II! The Trump of Trump I! Through our powers combined we become POTUS-47, the ultimate Republican administration!

I think I come down to the "you put your name on it, you vouch for it unconditionally, every word, regardless of LLM use" side of the debate rather than the "you should explicitly say if you used an LLM always" side. Too much potential to use the machine to dodge accountability

So... the actual story reported here is that the administration set up a dedicated task force to document EU censorship and THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY. Not that you'd know that from the headline. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

the Nazi and Soviet files are full of stuff like this.

Damn you're telling me that if you cut two hours of commuting out of people's days, that they suddenly have time to reallocate to childcare and leisure and thus are more willing to have children, the world's largest and more adorable time suck?

It's interesting to watch Trump's support crumble with people who are losing their minds over Cluster B Personality disorder symptoms/characteristics that the Mental Health field have been warning about for a decade. 1/

imo the theme of the second trump administration (and the COVID year of the first one!) is super rich guys being genuinely surprised when they can’t buy their way out of physical, material reality

The problem is drinking. He has a drinking problem.

Normally the Democrats have to point out that we're starving the social safety net to feed an insatiable war machine, but Mike Johnson just went right out and said it.

thinking you’re going to get $200B of offsets from medicare, medicaid and the ACA after the OBBBA and in a midterm year is utter delusion

So obviously everything is on fire and things are tough, but the macro functions on modern smartphone cameras really are something else.

Yes...ha ha ha...yes!

We’re quickly learning that our checks, balances, and separation of powers were always dependent good faith, and therefore incapable of preventing destruction wrought by the very sort of shameless, arrogant, mad president they were designed to contain.

As someone who's also been a history teacher, gonna point out that definitely isn't how that term is defined, hope that helps Florida Man.

increasingly feel very old fashioned for my "all slurs are bad" beliefs

people don't realize how concentrated GOP fundraising is. more than half of all money that they got in 2024 was from donations over $1mn. it's like 200-300 rich cranks that keep the party operating. underrated explanation in why they've gone so insane.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

This is a hate crime in the making, pure and simple, and we need to bring the full hammer of federal power on states that do this in 2029 just like we did to desegregate the schools.

Titanic chair organization committee “certain they’ve got it this time”

Ex: Delia Ramirez (who’s Methodist) and Daniel Biss (who’s Jewish) both took money from J-Street employees and neither took money from AIPAC. Guess which one gets the red background with flames and a black & white photo, and which gets the green background with normal colors.

Where was this “interesting story” idea when the DOD illegally rebranded to DOW lol

But Legacy didn't involve any od the TNG cast as regulars? Like the whole point was it was the Next Next Generation with Captain Seven?

"If we continue down this path, prices will need to rise to such a level as to actually force a physical, volumetric reduction in demand."

The tendency with stuff like The Metaverse is for the people who championed it to tell a story when it fails about how it seemed like a good idea at the time, nobody foresaw how badly it would fail, etc. It's important to remember none of that is true. Everyone saw in real time how stupid this was.

this is particularly egregious because first and foremost, mullin really *is* dangerously unqualified for this job, but also because fetterman was the deciding vote, rand paul wanted to nuke mullin from orbit and would have done it

Dems must, when in power, use hearings to generate endless content of the following:

Took California less than a day to begin the process of holding people accountable and making efforts to right wrongs. And Chavez was a revered figure! He wasn't some random finance bro pedo from NYC. Funny how the Ivys/prestige universities and the GOP protect Epstein and his buddies at all costs

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus. You want to know what insults Jesus? Kicking the sick off their healthcare. Bombing schoolchildren in Iran. Deporting moms and babies. Covering up the Epstein files.

This is the trust trap, and we have seen it play out again and again in institutions like media, higher ed and govt. The right feeds distrust, use that distrust as a justification to take control, and then undermine the core competencies that everyone else actually values, further eroding trust.

when dads see “dinosaurs” “sports” or “WWII” as the Jeopardy! category

if you heard someone use this slur in this way in person at a bar, you would assume they were a nazi, or, at the very least, see nazis as acceptable coalition partners

At this point, it’s pretty obvious that the Venezuelan vice president basically had the US do a coup for her