underrated aspect of the whole "we must chase polls" discussion is that such people, almost by definition, will be cringing and timid

Officers coup, officers coup, OFFICERS COUP!

Equally horrifying: Democratic leadership (as illustrated by this Semafor piece) lets the right shape what they believe Dems stand for. Dems, in an effort to tack to center, have totally avoided trans issue and now they’re alleging the problem is too much talking about trans issues!

So, the Dodgers are just replaying the 2018 playoffs again. Interesting.

I’m sorry, but it’s unethical baseball to intentionally walk a guy three times in a row

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Leafs winning The Cup

So goddamn true

My Heisman front runners

These are the details Kojima notices that make him a genius

finally AI comes for my job, a guy who writes erotica containing heavy use of the phrase “as a result”

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Dodgers have officially stolen the Chief’s bullshit win mojo

Bringing in Treinen here is a good example of why Roberts has won only two World Series with the Dodgers insane payroll

I hope Kirby gives these refs a very nice swag bag

here's the problem: they're going up like crazy EVERYWHERE. on a private, non-union payroll? be prepared for material changes in your employer-procured plans as well this next open enrollment cycle

My employer says our rates are going up 40%.

This might be a half reasonable argument m if we were talking about an actual intelligence. We’re not though, so you sound ridiculous

It’s cause he’s watching AI videos

I think it’s beautiful when teams make Oregon and USC play proper Big Ten football

I think it’s cool that all of our shooters are so brain poisoned by the internet that they make everything look like a conspiracy on accident

Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.

I would expect a defender of the Biden administration’s Gaza policy to not understand the difference between this and Buchanan

What’s a movie that makes you want to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II at a Major League baseball game?

30 years in prison mininmum for anyone involved in this. Disgusting. Infuriating.

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

It feels like the Times shifted hard into “actually we will determine reality” mode after 10/7 and never came back. Luigi shit, mayor’s race, now this. Reporting from a world that doesn’t exist, for no one.

elected dems are falling all over themselves to publicly bemoan the deaths of kirk in a way they didn't for hortman because they are purely reactive creatures. the only incentive they respond to is "will hannity yell at me about this."

Has to be one of the three or four most likely motivations

i can't deal w criticism of "peformative reading" when this is how so many people are spending their time

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

WSJ reports RFK Jr has instructed HHS to link autism with Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiency.

Trump II never even tried to build the mass consent necessary for authoritarian consolidation, they just assumed it was there because they won the popular vote

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

The future of drug manufacturing is going to be outside the United States, Bobby Jr. is going to put America behind the eight ball for decades

I have no idea what an efficacious message is or isn't, but I will say that if we're at the point where the use of the military to occupy opposition cities can't be opposed directly because of anti-crime politics, we're probably fucked in the long run, whatever else happens.

We didn’t bully Bari enough. There isn’t an enough

That’s quite literally what an election is.

He doesn’t talk about it because it was one of his own schizo groypers and he’s mad about that.

Absolutely brutal and unwarranted arrest by DHS in front of the detention center just now

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Find someone who loves you as much as elected democrats hate their own voters

Mom dieu 😱

this is a good thread but I might actually take it further -- I don't think manosphere shit is actually about getting laid, I think it's literally about male loneliness, by which I mean, men addressing their loneliness via homosocial bonding through misogyny