BREAKING: Late last night, a federal court overturned a restrictive New Hampshire voter registration law that could have disenfranchised thousands. We challenged this law in court and won, because these unnecessary laws don't safeguard our elections — they just make it harder for people to vote.

It's hard to overstate how much BS this whole 'panic' was from the very start. Gaines was just a decent-but-not-great mediocrity who decided to blame everyone but herself for her poor outcomes in life. In that respect, she fits right in with all the other conservative grifters out there.

Sometimes when the vibes are bad it's because things are fucking bad. Before Stancil fans show up, I'm not saying things are *as bad as they've ever been before OMG*. But a disaster doesn't need to be the worst in history to wipe you, personally, out.

Hearing alarming shit out of Oracle. Sounds like they arbitrarily cut people running important parts of the firm. People aren’t getting expenses approved because nobody knows who runs particular departments. this company is trying to build one of most ambitious infrastructure projects ever btw

"Why are people so negative about the economy?" Consider this. There are two possibilities: 1) He's right and my livelihood is screwed. Maybe not 18 months but soon. 2) He's full of shit, it won't happen, and AI is a giant bubble that will crash the economy. Why would I feel good about either?

Reminder that Ian attempted to have his business partner murdered and ran cover for a woman who held a ten year-old as a sex slave for months because she was a fellow gamergater.

Yes, it's true, the median household net worth is around $193k. But it's not a normal slope below that, there's yet more skew, just like at the top. You'd think the 33rd percentile would be around $125k. They're not, it's more like $67k. 10th percentile is around $0. Below that, it's negative.

This is the man so many people are afraid of somehow taking over the MAGA cult after Trump kicks it. The man is juiceless. To lead a personality cult you need a personality.

Want to see a magic trick? By focusing on a singular metric which, on paper, looks alright, you get to avoid confronting the reality that a significant percentage of Americans don't have meaningful liquid savings: www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscom...

Notice how Stancil uses the phrase "mental health crisis" here to mean "whiny hysteria that comes from no actual material cause" ...as if that's what a mental health crisis is.

COBRA price quoted for my family is 3600/month guess what i don't have

I make six figures a year and when my paid medical leave was denied and I had to take unpaid leave for health issues it sent me into a financial spiral between the loss of wages and medical bills that I’m still in the process of climbing out of.

This captures the attitude a lot of "my graph says things are good, actually" liberals have. When someone explains their anxieties and own experiences, they read it in the most uncharitable way possible to go "wow, these insane poor people think this is the worst it's ever been."

Going to be using this one a lot

1. A staffer for Reza Pahlavi’s organization compares President Trump to the late Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Things were always going to head in this direction once the monarchists finally understood Trump was never going to give them what they wanted.

Mamdani is out there proving that, actually, politics *is* as simple as "vote for people who want to do good things and don't want to do bad things" instead of trying to play 12-D chess around how hypothetical voters might react to every micro-position in elections that haven't happened yet.

The Popehat Rule of Goats: "It doesn't matter if you fucked that goat ironically, you're still a goatfucker."

As an example of how the push to erase transgender people is elite-driven: The captains of Oxford's rowing clubs opposed the ban. It was imposed against their wishes. That's how elite-driven it is: it's not even "Oxford student"-level elite. It comes from "Oxford University admin"-level elite.

People like Will have to pretend not to understand how losing your job, even a very good job, can leave you broke in record time in America because if they admitted this is the case they'd have to deal with the fact that it can't be blamed entirely on MAGA.

american conservatives when spending 40 years desensitizing americans to violence means americans are also desensitized to violence when it's targeted at them

Tried to get into X for the first time in a while to see unverified info on the guy who got nowhere close to Trump, as one does, and was greeted with this full-page pop-in making it look like a subscription was required. Seems confirmation X's horrible numbers are weighing down SpaceX's IPO.

Anyone think that it might be starting to sink in for some of these "elite journalists" that many, if not most, Americans couldn't care less if they lived or died? I wonder if that will shake their self-image enough to stop carrying water for fascists who hate them.

Indeed. A person rushed at POTUS's security perimeter and was stopped there. A person whose plan is to do a one-man charge through POTUS's security perimeter is, ipso facto, irrational. To the extent anything can be done to prevent this, it's universal free healthcare including mental healthcare.

I feel so, so badly for the poor White House Correspondents who had to come face to face with the same threat that your average 5th grader faces when walking to Reading class

Like any other emotional response, anger has a shelf-life. You try to overdose the public on it the way MAGA does and eventually you get nothing but apathy instead. They've already squeezed all the juice out a long time ago but they keep trying anyway because they have no plan B.

I don't think this was staged. I don't think they're competent enough to do so, for one thing. But I do think they engage in violent rhetoric knowing the likely outcome and with plans to twist any eventuality in their favor. Luckily, they seem remarkably terrible at that last bit.

JEWISH RUTGERS U STUDENT PROTESTS IDF SOLDIER: “When grandmother told me about the Holocaust and about ‘Never Again’. This is not ‘Never Again’. ‘Never Again’ means ‘Never Again’ for everybody.”

Nah, people around the world asked a specific question about the shooting, got told “no,” and then stopped caring

it wasn't even above the fold in my local paper today

Another point in favor of the idea this event won't change anything is that Trump immediately jumped to push his most out-of-touch and alienating agenda (the ballroom) rather than doing anything that might effectively elicit sympathy.

The usual suspects are trying to drum up a rally-around-the-flag effect over this. Nothing will happen. Our institutions are too hollowed out and self-absorbed to meaningfully react and the public is too polarized and numb to view this as anything other than more Business As Usual.

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

Amen. Never a solution, and in this case would only make him a martyr for his cultists. I'm still holding out hope that he shits himself to death on stage.

Thinking back to that time in the fall of 2016 when candidate Donald Trump said that some "2nd Amendment people" might have to do something about Hillary Clinton. I remember being shocked and appalled that anyone would vote for someone who said that.

Shoutout to the bluesky team for winning "most consecutive fumbled bags." All you have to do was be better than a sinking ship lmao embarassing

Here’s the very simple truth. We should ban all Gerrymandering. Until then, to unilaterally disarm is political suicide and malpractice.

Not to deny that the American electorate is fucked up. But it always amazes *me* how establishment dems seem to think that someone can be the face of the party for four+ years and not have any particular responsibility for that party's electoral outcomes.

At least back then people had the excuse that formal military education wasn't a thing and the idea of "writing down basic shit and handing it to every officer candidate who walks in the door" was legitimately revolutionary. Hegseth, meanwhile, went to Princeton and then officer training.

there’s actually never been a better time to be a professional software engineer. we are in the midst of a Cambrian explosion of weird and stupid bugs you get to go and fix!

The Moon is tidally locked so one side always faces us. From that side, Earth is a permanent fixture in the sky 13 times larger and 43 times brighter than the Moon appears from Earth. Four humans photographed this. Every crater in this frame is older than any life on land. Artemis II

This whole screed is dumb-guy-trying-to-sound-smart gibberish. It's not even the "serious" version, such as it is, of these post-liberal techno-feudalist dystopian ideas. It's the garbled ramblings of a guy who's heard of that stuff before and is now babbling about it at 3am on a ketamine bender.

Wilson is not only the worst president of the 20th C., he is rather uniquely the worst president of the 20th C. from the perspective of anywhere you like on today's political spectrum. Just endlessly something for everyone to hate. He's the 'eyes follow you around the room' of evil American history.

Gotta give credit where credit is due. Donald Trump is doing an absolutely terrific job appearing unstable. No one can do it better.

I'm just saying, it should have been a huge red flag when he started autographing Bibles.

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

It was 90 degrees 2 days ago

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen