Those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers DOWN, WAAAAY DOWN.

Attributed to the late, great, Betty White: “Why do people say, ‘Grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you really wanna get tough, grow a vagina. Those things really take a pounding!”

Unlike the current Democratic leaders, AOC has balls.

Why do so many people associate balls with strength? They're weak, squishy, and easily crushed. Women don't need balls

AOC FOR PRESIDENT! The days of weak leadership need to die off.

“We all need to play by the same set of rules” - @aoc.bsky.social

Free speech for me, but not for thee.

This... is apparently something DOJ thinks worthy of charging now.

He was found guilty with Jean Carroll. And come on - he got defensive. He gets defensive when things are true. So you know he did it.

Richard Nixon: I'm not a crook. Donald Trump: I'm not a pedophile. May this line be his legacy.

Norah O'Donnell reads from the attacker's manifesto — saying he's 'no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' Trump goes off: "Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. Excuse me, I'm not a pedophile."

BREAKING: White House did not impose highest security level for the White House Correspondents Dinner Trump is lashing out at 60 Minutes for reading the manifesto calling him a rapist. Democrats score victory in Virginia maps battle. Subscribe to support media that won’t normalize the President:

🚨BREAKING: A Virginia circuit court has refused to block the implementation of Democrats’ new congressional map, which voters approved in a statewide special election last week. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Worth noting that the criminal investigation into Powell was BULLSHIT to begin with.

There you go: Trump wants "sock puppet" Kevin Warsh as the next Fed Chair so he makes his DOJ "drop" the criminal investigation against Jerome Powell, which was the only thing keeping Tillis from voting Warsh through. The complicity is so brazen it's disgusting. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Incredibly so. Sociopathic.

these people are insane.

Yes. He is laughing. Hmmmm... I wonder why?

There should be a plan to seize all the assets of every traitor who is looting our country

But yes, do keep harping on about Sleepy Joe. As will all things with this regime, and the syphilitic baboon in particular, every accusation is a confession/projection.

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

PabloReports: What do you make of Stephen Miller and Tom Homan asking for all this money but then refusing to show up to the hearing today? Frost: That’s what happens when you have a lapdog as speaker.

As usual, gerrymandering is fine and dandy when the Rethuglicans do it, but O VEY if the Democrats try it. Same as it ever was.

3rd cabinet member shown the door. Not that the women of this regime aren't flaming trashbags as well, but it's indeed telling it's only MAGA women who get the boot.

BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has RESIGNED. Her exit follows a tenure rocked by multiple scandals—including an investigation into an alleged affair with a security staffer and accusations of drinking on the job. Keith Sonderling will serve as Acting Labor Secretary.

For all the deeply unsafe men in the comments getting big mad over statistics but not a rape academy

In moments like this, I almost wish the Christian God was real so that he could send this shitstain straight to Hell - him and his Dear Leader both.

Technocratic, Dark Enlightenment insanity straight from the deranged mind of Curtis Yarvin and coming to fruition via Peter Thiel whose plan for full implementation will come about using Thiel’s most favorite sugar baby, JD Vance. newrepublic.com/article/1839...

Points 19-22 of the Palantir plan include: 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. and 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism.

Points 12-18 of the Palantir plan include: 12. The atomic age is ending. and 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime.

Points 1-11 of the Palantir plan include: 5. The question is not whether A.l. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. and 6. National service should be a universal duty. and 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray.

Imagine the mindset required to put these ideas in print. Then remember that JD Vance, possibly weeks away from the presidency, is Peter Thiel's houseboy... Read the whole batshit crazy thread.

Yes, please share with everyone who doesn't yet understand that Palantir (and other companies like them) aren't just garden-variety profit-sucking vultures. They have an explicit authoritarian white supremacist agenda and don't care who they kill to pursue it.

Peter Thiel is obviously and demonstrably psychotic, and David Karp is twitchier than fucking Brundlefly. Enough.

And people wonder why I quit my job when I was assigned to a special project with palantir. Anyone need an ethical tech writer?

Yo these guys suck eject them into space already. Get off my planet, dont let the door hit yeah on the way out. Ps. societies are regressive bcuz palantir sustains itself on a war economy that is hindered by actual growth & advancment in civilization. U are glorified caveman with a beep boop.

It's quite telling how they list certain subcultures as regressive and harmful when the most regressive and harmful subculture in this country has been the conservative/white evangelical.

Imagine the Third Reich but with the surveillance capabilities of AI-enabled tech.

A society that runs on this stack doesn't stop holding elections, or debating, or running investigations. The forms stay, but what goes is their capacity to constrain power. The arc bends toward simulation, carried out in the language of defending democracy.

For the kind of work I do, verification that applies the same standards to allies and adversaries, that scrutinises power on whichever side it sits, this worldview is structurally hostile. Symmetric verification becomes part of the cultural pathology the document wants reined in.

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

Neither configuration can coexist with functional VDA. Verification gets reduced to selective fact-display. Deliberation runs as theatre while the questions that matter are ruled out of order. Accountability gets pointed at critics while leadership is left untouched. This is VDA as simulation.

Using moral-epistemic stacks, what's happening here is a blend. Authoritarian features (national identity as moral authority, accountability that only flows outward) sit alongside technocratic ones (Silicon Valley expertise presented as natural authority over security). bsky.app/profile/elio...

This is what verification looks like once national identity sits above method. Rigorous when it's pointed at adversaries, conveniently absent when it's pointed at us. Symmetric, evidence-led investigation of allied conduct, exactly what Bellingcat does, becomes the thing the worldview can't tolerate

Point 21 is the giveaway, some cultures produce "wonders," others are "regressive and harmful." Once you accept that hierarchy, you've quietly been given permission to apply different standards of verification to different actors. The form of verification stays, but the democratic function doesn't.

Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power, and happens in public. Disordered accountability protects insiders and aims its punishment outward. What the document does is argue for the second while calling it the first.

Points 9, 18 and 19 go after accountability directly. Scrutiny of public figures gets reframed as a kind of cultural sickness driving talent away from public life. The problem becomes the people doing the scrutinising, not the people being scrutinised.

The 'adversaries won't wait' statement doesn't reject deliberation outright, it just makes serious deliberation always feel premature. You can debate this or that war, but the underlying question, whether to build the systems at all, is treated as settled, & that's deliberation as performance.