This is not in fact the definition of the “working class.”

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

NYT opinion page bringing the heat

A rare accurate use of “stuns.”

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

it’s a real “oops all nazis” situation with every random person in this administration

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

in anything even remotely approaching meritocracy nobody would have any idea who this person is.

if you really think trans folks, homeless people, and their allies should be supporting gavin, you shouldn’t be pressuring them to support a guy who doesn’t want them. pressure him to court their vote!

It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives

Trump perceives basically all independent institutions as a threat to himself, including economic institutions like the BLS and the Fed, he won't stop trying to wreck them until he's out of office, and it's everyday Americans who are going to feel the consequences

PSA: Strange Days is on Hulu/Disney+ right now in the US

Joker (2019)

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

“Hey quick follow up for the History Respecter — what aspect of the Confederacy are you *most* proud of? The treason against the United States? The defense of slavery? All the losing? I bet it’s the losing.”

I think Philip Baker Hall might be giving the single greatest acting performance of all time in SECRET HONOR.

once again, it is a core belief of people on the american right that it should be illegal for you not to like them or want to be around them or work with them

AI is not a magic wand and so many people are going to die in the next 10 years because companies and agencies believe it will make them more money.

That ship has sailed, bro.

Happy beans day to those who celebrate

Perfect quote. No notes.

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes. The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere. The site is a textbook concentration camp.

(That said, I'd love to see them do all this a lot more.)

I'm often critical of Senate Democrats for not doing more, but in this instance they did everything we could've asked for.

I cannot stress enough: you cannot give an inch on this issue. The moment you start accepting media using genAI for "small" things or just tiny aspects of production, they will only start outsourcing more of the process to AI This is how the smallest end of the wedge is driven in against laborers

Remember how all the rich people and politicians said that people should learn stem and work in technology? Well human product, the needs of capital have shifted and we need you to learn the exciting field of Chimney Sweep

This is scandalous. Our broadcast media is probably beyond redemption given the limited runway of relevance they have remaining. Disgraceful of them to go out like this though.

shame on you, @ericswalwell.bsky.social. this is both a moral and a strategic miss

TIRED: “learn to code!” WIRED:

and a merry christmas to us all

not a single person's job, not a single grant, will be saved by surrendering instead of fighting. ask columbia.

two democrats were subjects of an assassination attempt less than two weeks ago, and one of them and her husband is lying in state and it's treated like a natural disaster, Mamdani refuses to swear fealty to Israel and it's the only thing people talk about

9 of my 10 ended up on the Top 100.

A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza. That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed. Genocide. medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...

I did it and of course there are 10 more I could put on here.

SAY IT LOUDER

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

and people say this website is dying

Judge: And so given all those factual findings, I'm going to exercise the discretion I have to ORDER THE RELEASE of Mahmoud Khalil

As someone who would heat up a bucket of popcorn and watch Tucker Carlson be mauled by two-dozen rabid wolverines with great delight, it pains me beyond words to do this but...

This one goes out to all the people asking me what I have against Andrew Cuomo. This has been his M.O. for literally 48 years, except that in the 1977 (losing) mayoral campaign for his father, it was homosexuality, not antisemitism, that was the target of his last-ditch demonization campaign.

You think you’ve got a read on what’s going on here and then a M Night Shyamalan twist gets dropped on you out of nowhere

Publishers don’t pay for nonfiction books to be fact-checked, the author does out of their advance.

The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

It's pretty telling that the second part of the "Mamdani is a danger to Jewish new yorkers" pitch is always "so vote for sexual harasser shitbag Italian Catholic Andrew Cuomo" and not "so vote for Jewish Progressive Brad Lander"

This is a United States Senator mocking the assassination of a Minnesota legislator and her husband. He pretends to be a good Mormon. He’s a sick fuck.