“Chipotle will give you Oregon Trail-level diarrhea” was a stock joke of the time, they were fighting for their lives in public perception.

I think this is much better than the previous status quo of not even talking about removing Trump. "Trump is clinically insane/demented" is also going to be useful in a looming legitimacy crisis. This offers a glide path to talking jittery Dem Congresscritters into voting for impeachment.

Hmm, whatever you think of him, I don’t think Bernie Sanders is antisemitic.

Gravel race tomorrow, time to start freaking out about tire pressure.

Hard agree with rimidar on this. In fact, nothing has discredited wistful conservativism more to me than seeing people start to do it about times I lived through. Yeah the n64 was pretty dope when I was 10 years old, I guess; don't really think that should drive our immigration policy tho you loser.

Very much not trying to call out this specific person so PLEASE do not pile on, but this is a good example of how this very common false belief that people can get status if they try hard enough often leads to a kind of presumption that if someone HASN'T gotten status, they are somehow at fault.

There is a very common, if false belief that pretty much anyone can get citizenship if they're in the country for long enough. Unfortunately, most people who are undocumented have NO path to permanent legal status. And in her case, the old removal order (which was withheld) makes it even harder.

Without saying your age, post your favorite film that released the year you turned 18.

I’m a UMASS alum but have many friends who went to Hampshire. The Hampshire campus and connections were an important part of my college experience. This is very sad. Hard to imagine the Pioneer Valley university consortium as the Four Colleges instead of Five.

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

You gotta remember that the rise of Chapo coincided with the rise of anti-work and this idea that Marx’s whole thing was that having to have a job is oppression.

Thinking about this, specifically cars - part of it is due to safety tech, obviously other parts changing tastes, but surely it’s also a kind of lagging indicator of ever-increasing material prosperity? We just have a lot more shit to throw in the back of our cars.

Mamdani came here with his family at the age of 7, legally. This kind of attitude is just vicious and un-American. It could easily be aimed at my family, or yours, if we dare to disobey our betters.

Actually getting a decent tax return this year, thank goodness.

The confluence of Zohran Mamdani riding a Citibike and bike helmets is world-class Poasters Bait and I’m not gonna fall for it.

This is something Dems need to take to heart: you have to focus on the corruption. It angers the treatlers. It angers the pro-democracy idealists. It demoralizes the regime's base. And there is so much goddamn corruption going on. And after you take power you can use it to break the GOP.

Peter Magyar solved this problem by focusing constantly on concrete examples of corruption. You want to show how morally corrupt Trump is? Focus on the insane thieving, focus on the Epstein coverup, focus on the moral depravity of specific regime figures and allies.

it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth

2 things. 1) People really do like IPAs. Unfortunately for people who don’t, the people who like them happen to be the most habitual beer buyers so that was the $$$. 2) Peak IPA was pre-pandemic, availability of non-IPA options has improved dramatically over the last 5-6 years.

I have cancer. mRNA technology is already being used to develop some of the next cancer cures. He’s condemning some current and many, many, many future cancer patients to early, preventable deaths.

Extremely bad but stop doing their fucking PR for them! RFK Jr. hasn’t “killed” mRNA technology and “no new projects will ever be initiated” is nonsense. He’s got at most 2.5 years left in this office.

I really can’t say enough how thrilling Artemis II is and was though. This morning while waiting for the bus my 6 yo daughter was telling me that people had gone past the moon further than anyone had before. I’m amazed and grateful she gets to see this happen.

The “Starship is a flaming pile of shit, therefore SLS/Orion development is a beautiful demonstration of government competence” discourse is exquisitely designed to drive me completely insane.

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

The thing about modern precision munitions is that, with surprisingly modest resources, you can turn almost any waterway into a murderous gauntlet for ships that don't pay the toll. There's a reason pirates are traditionally considered hostes humani generis. This shit has to be punished painfully.

(I do think it’s one of the main points, it is very troubling)

Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet. What are we doing here?

Am I misunderstanding or did our government issue diplomatic threats to the Vatican because they want the Pope to make more pro-Trump posts? Is that accurate?

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Orion spacecraft Integrity shining in the sun above the service module decorated with NASA's worm logo.

I gotta be honest the number one stressor for me when it comes to riding my bike on the road is weather. But I’ve gotten pretty good over the years at knowing which roads in the area to avoid, and when to avoid them.

Like I am looking at headlines right now and not one of them reads, "Oh shit, we might have just killed freedom of navigation, the foundation of the global economic order." They are all variations on 'both sides declare victory, ceasefire is fragile.'

This whole crisis really brings out quite strongly to me how Trump thrives in the fact that he focuses on things the median voter can see (gas prices), but also in the fact that much of the media is unwilling or unprepared to explain the more fundamental things that have broken here.

Fourth. This is a fascinating window into how much WORSE — more expensive and with US assistance?! — the future shipping picture might be post-war. An astounding setback for the oil industry and shipping industry, which will be built into the price of gas going forward. bsky.app/profile/prch...

Of course we would elect the kind of moron who will just blow up the international right of free shipping for no reason and brag about doing it.

The president is just posting his negotiating position on main. None of this is agreed to, and the fact that this is all he is asking for is a startling admission of U.S. strategic defeat. He is HOPING Iran will let him get back to a position worse than JCPOA.

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

You ever have the kind of bike crash where you hit a bump or something and your hands slip off the handlebars and you land on them with your chest? You haven’t crashed yet but you know you’re going to and there’s nothing you can do except wonder exactly how bad it’s going to suck? Well.

Begging the sys admins at work to treat me like a big boy and give me my sql edit access back 🥺🙏.

After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:

If Trump bombs power plants in Iran, the humanitarian crisis will be horrific. Experts tell me to expect water shortages, closed hospitals, many deaths. “We’ve never had a US president so proudly promise to commit war crimes," Sen Chris Murphy says. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2087...

My predictions: 1. The auto companies scrambling to cancel EV development programs are going to look like idiots. 2. The famously slack used EV market is going to tighten up a lot this summer. No more 2 year old Ioniq 5s for $25k.

Man, it really bugs me that everyone's yelling about nukes when Trump's already laid out what he's threatening to do - attack civilian infrastructure

it's really so beside the point by now, but i cannot believe people gave this psychotic motherfucker a second chance.

I think it’s an odd that people are interpreting Trump’s genocidal ranting specifically as a nuclear threat. The US military has the firepower to cause vast death and suffering by conventional destruction of civilian infrastructure. It’s very bad to have them under the command of a depraved lunatic.

Would like to again congratulate John Roberts & co. for making this lunatic immune to criminal prosecution, immune to (mandatory!) electoral disqualification, and immune to Congressional limitations on his control over executive branch agencies. Going absolutely splendidly!

If only the United States Senate had the constitutional authority to check a psychotic, out of control executive.

Death cultists.

Yesterday I saw someone say, basically, the Saturn V could’ve gone straight to the moon in a day but the astronauts wanted to remain intact. This didn’t seem right to me so I did a quick check. The context was a joke thread about ICBMs on the moon btw. Classic BSky.