Anti-Bezos poster spotted in San Francisco, California

I think one of the main problems with our reaction to the right wing's mobilization is that, terminally online as they are, they're doing this shit in the real physical world and lots of people are primarily reacting to it in digital spaces

In his house in the burbs, cute Cthulhu waits dreaming

This Eagles Chargers game feels like a college game (complementary)

From the guys who brought you "watch your baby die of a preventable disease", comes their newest hit "get sweaty before you get on the airplane"

Anyway, we need publicly financed elections

they should invent a law that rich people have to follow

I'm basically a single issue voter in the next presidential primary: whichever candidate will take court reform the most seriously. You won't be able to govern without it.

"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

Trump pardoning Cuello & Blagojevich while trying to prosecute Latisha James & Mark Kelly shows that Trump’s real goal is a complete inversion of justice where the guilty walk free while the innocent get jailed.

Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things

It’s kinda funny watching Kansas City deal with not having every marginal call go their way - sorry Mahomes, the League has made a Decision, it seems

The same people who support this also thought it was fascism when they had to wear a mask into a hospital

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

This is what it’s coming to: if the 4th amendment is vapor, so is the 1st, right? Not to mention the 2nd. And the foundational Constitution? If nothing exists, neither does the Union.

this gets to the fundamental lawlessness. the difference between law as a game and law as a tool of government. birthright citizenship is the law. nothing has changed. the documents are the same. if that can change based on *nothing*, you don't have a real constitution in the first place.

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

In response to Musk calling to “abolish” the European Union, the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, wrote in Musk’s replies on X: “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship of Nazi salutes there.”

we are ruled by the most thin skinned dullards, eager to dish out cruelty but furiously aggrieved when anyone dares to so much as accurately describe any of their actions

it's not enough that they are the unelected rulers of the United States. It's not enough that there is a real chance they will make a decision here that no coherent legal theory could support. It's that they will then go to private donor events and whine that people are being too mean to them

same with Elon and Andreessen babbling incoherently on Rogan. love being ruled by guys you'd cross the street to avoid walking past

Hell ya, Make America Busy Town

listen I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

He should try staying awake then

I’m not gonna watch the snuff film. But I can imagine myself, my cousin, my child. Fighting for breath. Treading water. Exhausted. Fighting to live for 41 minutes. Forty. One. Evil is at the helm of this country, and I fear for our future.

American fascism has now transitioned the military to being fully comfortable with extrajudicial murder abroad and it will be coming home fast

The lesson that Peacock TV learned from the mass cancellation of Disney+ earlier this year was that they needed to change their terms and conditions so they get to keep the whole of your subscription money if you cancel before the term is up.

The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”

Again, adding a few seats to SCOTUS is now the baseline "moderate" position in the face of this authoritarian nonsense. The real, serious reforms need to go much, much further:

The entirety of what is left of American democracy cannot rest solely on the grand jury process, or it will eventually fail in fundamental ways. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Congress should be profitable before the usps - because the usps DOES provide a public good. Whereas congress…

I will be honest. I didn't think we'd get to the "Arguing About Whether Murder Is Wrong" stage quite this fast

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever

It goes into that weird thing that genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism but everybody is getting trained to be such a cynical unfeeling asshole nowadays that I find the smartest people often are the “hell yeah cool song/drawing/story/video” people

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.

We gotta bring back meaningful rituals of adulthood man just a whole generation of dipshits who havent processed that they bear responsibilities now

in pretty much every case, the cost of means testing >>>>> the savings from finding "cheaters." The American Ethos (white right wing evangelical christianity) to care more about punishing theoretical people than actually saving money/doing good is fucking exausting

new york democrats shouldn't be let anywhere near power. the ideal democratic leader is a guy who won by 2 percent and actually thinks of the GOP, rather than other Democrats, as the enemy.

a thing to ask yourself re: the GOP's electoral position is what could happen over the next year that could *improve* its position? and what could trump do, plausibly, that might *boost* his numbers with the public?

I hope the very good candidate in Tennessee wins but I’m gonna be real and say I wish we lived in a country where the results of the seventh district of Tennessee weren’t a pivot point for humankind that we all had to stress about

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

I just keep thinking there are people who know how far gone Trump is. Who know what Hegseth did. Who know what’s in the Epstein files. But in the Trump era the success rate for whistleblowers having a real impact is close to zero.

Delirium Tremens ≠ Fog of War

Boys need more friends who are girls, not girlfriends.

91.2% of cars sold in Denmark to private individuals this year so far are fully electric. If Ford, GM go along with his crap, they are basically not going to sell any cars overseas by the end of the decade.