Worthwhile thread.

First he incites his followers to hang Mike Pence and then he places a tariff on couches? Man this guy hates his vice presidents.

I don't like living in a country where people assassinate people based on their politics. I don't like living in a country where gun violence is an expectation, not a remote worry. I personally don't like jokes about this stuff, or schadenfreude posts, but I don't judge those who do too much.

Without comment:

The chances of Musk achieving this are the same of the chances of him sending a manned mission to Mars by 2024. www.nbcnews.com/business/aut...

It's because the first rule of Foot Club is you don't talk about Foot Club.

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

The Dems aren't interested in finding someone who isn't deeply tied to global finance capital because the Dems are deeply tied to global finance capital. The best we can hope for is Dem voters make their voices heard during primaries, and the DNC won't completely ignore primary results.

The person who invented the video game joystick has disappeared, they down right up and left.

DATE: So what do you do? ME: I race cars. HER: That’s so cool. Have you won many races? ME: No, the cars are much faster.

Amazing thread

Notice how Super Mario and all his supposed “enemies” are happy to get together and go go-kart racing? Wake up. It’s all kayfabe

Besides the obvious inequity and human rights issues... I just can't understand why people want to open the door to the government regulating decisions between patients and doctors when doctors are following the (practically) consensus medical opinion.

🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.

President Trump was up at 1:30am rage tweeting about Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Bono, and Oprah Winfrey, raising serious concerns about Biden's mental state during his last year in office.

Rare for a public poll, we did a survey experiment to test whether priming respondents about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia impacts support for Trump's broader immigration agenda. It does. Support for blanket deportations fell 20 points after hearing about Garcia's case.

Zuck: The average American has three friends.

The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.

What could Schumer do? Here's what I'd do: Get every Dem in front of the Capitol today and say this: "Every single one of us will vote for a clean one-month funding bill right now. What we will not do is cave to Republican threats to shut down the government unless we give a blank check to Musk."

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants." In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

It really is so similar to the way that antis try to ask pro-abortion advocates about abortions on the margin. They always want to talk about later abortions or abortions that are really just palliative care because those are the margins.

roses are red violets are blue if you ignore the first line this is a haiku

How ppl still don't understand "meeting expectations" is wild to me. If your town has a serial killer & the police aren't doing enough to stop it, do you yell at the serial killer? No! The serial killer is doing what you expect him to do; the police are not meeting your expectations to stop him.

The story of my 3-year nightmare as a trans woman at a New York Times-owned company (CW: suicide, suicidal ideation, anti-trans hate): www.carlyjdubois.com/new-york-tim...

Is it just me, or is the fact that this social media website is one word and not two, make me want to constantly pronounce it BLUE-ski like it's a Polish last name?

Maybe it's just me, but I think most people's reactions to the UHC killer are projections. People who hate our healthcare system think it was understandable, even justified. People who want to be on the opposite side of those people on completely different issues want to admonish their condoning.

Police knocking out Waluigi, before eventual invesitgation finds that Luigi was actually the evil one of the twins.

If you care about trans rights and the "journalism" of Jesse Singal, you should read this. It's long, but well written and well documented. And unlike the obvious bad actors in the mass media coverage, Singal gets a pass from some major media when he's as illegitimate as any of them.