acting like newsom is already the nominee allows people to spend the next 2.5 years shouting about “the dnc” and further sink public perception of the democrats and voter morale in general. lifting up causes and candidates seems like a far more productive use of one’s time, at the very least.

“If Trump wants boots on the ground in Iran, he should deploy the ICE agents. They've spent months in American cities strutting around like elite military forces. Let's see how brave and courageous they really are. They can even wear their masks. Now is the time.” #MilitaryDeployment #ICE #meme

Also seeing this, but doing the exact opposite thing they did with Joe Biden: Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson

What a difference an Epstein makes. If Joe Biden were still president, this guy would still be dominating every major news platform & still constantly bashing Joe's economic policies & still lying about how they caused all of the inflation.

same as the people in urbanism groups who won't shut up about how it's cool/based to skip turnstiles. yeah okay buddy, it would be cool if the subway was free. in the meantime, it's $2 & almost all of you can afford it easily (still way cheaper than driving). if you love transit, support transit.

sorry to be an old-fashioned scold but there is something deeply pathetic about being an adult and shoplifting just because you kinda feel like the rules don't apply to you

Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing. "But I don't think they make that much!" Halve that. Halve it again.

So it’s an interesting question - to some extent Reconstruction failed because most northerners did not care what the south did. I think to make reconstruction electorally viable you needed either a better 1870s economy or you at least needed a more nationally connected one (like Clay hoped for)

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yep, i am 1. extremely passionate about pushing back on the insane and deadly ways in which horrible people are trying to use LLMs to harm and impoverish vast numbers of innocents. and 2. 'LLMs are useless' is a bad argument which will not help us effectively fight the forces of big tech evil.

The disgusting Islamophobia & antisemitism that we are now going to see in 🇺🇸 in the wake of this wildly illegal & unconstitutional war & murdering spree (bsky.app/profile/mcop...) is going to make the already now-normalized disgusting levels of Islamophobia & antisemitism look like nothing.

Lot of truth here.

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I don’t care what anyone says, the Black lady wouldn’t have done this.

And when the missiles breach U.S. water & airways and come crashing down in U.S. cities, his words will be used against the U.S. Racist assh😮le!!!

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i see the media class has decided the problem with Kamala Harris is that she wasn't... jingoistic enough

Passing the ACA was good, and also it wasn’t the design of the bill or the rhetoric around it that helped Republicans characterize it as an overreach and win a wave election in its wake.

Power is for using, not for hoarding, and yes, sometimes they cut against each other. Passing the civil rights act was good and it wasn’t a failure to describe it as good in the right words that made it an electoral disaster for democrats.

I somehow missed this a day or so ago. I had heard reports previously of playing of ice cream truck music but not of actual trucks but it doesn't surprise me as much as it should. So much rage. The horrors continue here in Minnesota and some of it is so cartoonishly evil it sounds made up.

Thread. The damage that evangelical Christianity has done to America and the world cannot be overstated. Thread about mechanisms that maintain and increase the damage while benefitting no one.

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Truth.

there are definitely a lot of people out there like me who have watched with dismay as it’s become increasingly impossible to get any kind of livable-wage paying job in policy unless you’re willing to become ontologically evil

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You can't dangle your vote in front of people and expect them to chase it. This strategy has never worked and will never work. Decisions are made by the people who show up.

To paraphrase Le Guin: fantasy is escapist, and we must take as many with us as possible. There is no greater feeling than knowing something I wrote helped another soul escape during difficulties. I’ve been through many hospital visits with many books, myself. 💙💚💜

This is absolute nonsense. This is Christian Reconstructionist (the folks behind Project 2025) propaganda. Their goal is to dismantle those institutions and replace them w a theocracy.

New ME Dem Senate candidate!

these guys all intend to be retired by the time the check comes due, the costs (cultural and financial) will all be thrown in the lap of the Democratic party as per tradition though I'm sure Politico points that out

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Turns out lawlessness is not a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

every one of those "get out of your echo chamber" artists is someone who is very upset that you are not in their echo chamber fawning over them

Every time some right wing fucker talks about migrants who commit crimes, I go ask them why they're not commenting on the crimes that Jan6ers have gone onto commit (two have been arrested this week). This guy features prominently.

As a writer of fiction who reads a whole hell of a lot of history nonfiction, I have pulled an incomprehensibly large number of ideas out of even casual layperson research. These AI bros have no idea how absurd they sound: But where will you get ideas? derp derp

If these prosecutors aren't busy how about they go after some pedophiles

Magnificent story! Check it out.

One of the few time in his blessed position Schumer does exactly what he needs to and they want make him the face of Republican nonsense

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There need to be the same hard lines drawn in 2028 about this current war that there was in 2008, when a vote for the AUMF was disqualifying for anyone seeking the Democratic nomination. We need to extend that more generally across the party. Ask hard questions. Operate accordingly.

Any group that discourages you developing critical thinking skills is a group you should side-eye.

The revelations from the Epstein files have also shown how much the behavior of rich people who hang out together really does resemble conspiracy theory stuff **except** that it’s not as elaborate and secretive as conspiracy types tend to imagine.

The work is hard (but yes, creative work is rewarding and honestly if you're a creative...you kinda have to create, it's a sickness lol) But the lazy aspect is why AI appeals to so many, they think the AI will be made to do the 'work' part while they just shit out 'ideas'

This is so needed. Thank you for the post.

Somebody here wrote that there's no good Indian restaurants in the U.S. which is beyond stupid. If you live in a town with an I.T. economy of any size, there are *terrific* Indian places. But don't go to *that* one, Satya's brother works there and the naan is drier than sand...