those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

You know I used to insist on still calling it Twitter but I'm honestly ok calling it X now. Twitter is dead. X is puppeting the corpse.

$10 for a fast food milkshake and fries, WTF

Hey ChatGPT, what's a midwife?

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

Beautiful lichen thriving in the cold.

I love this boy.

The boss is back. youtu.be/hdUXDhIBxis?...

I was going to reply to this with "deficits into dominance" and a pic of the SpaceX rocket that just blew up, and I can't even find a pic of it on an image search, the company has had SO MANY other rocket explosions. Just unreal.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

This series lived and died with Metroid Prime 1 and 2. No other games in the series were released, or will be released. I will be taking no further questions at this time.

Bari Weiss not understanding what standards are for is a little too on the nose.

My feed has decided that I should see multiple posts a day about people taking their pets to the vet for health emergencies and I'm gonna need that to stop, please.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Common darters having a rest in the autumn sunshine. #invertebrates #photography

Big part of the trouble with politics these days is that "we disagree on the right solution to this problem" and "we disagree on the material reality of what the problem is and how it functions on a fundamental level" are treated as equally legitimate

My 14yr old cat with no teeth just carried a sparrow upstairs and dropped it at my feet so that's cool. Little thing was intact but stunned and hyperventilating. I set him out on a soft bed of sedum and after a few minutes he caught his breath and flew off 👌

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

13 hrs later, and instead of replying to you, he spent those hours mocking - and never actually addressing in a serious way - like 15 other people with the same concern. Has it clicked yet that Nichols is just a grifter who really doesn't deserve your respect?

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

the death of charlie kirk is unmasking the propagandists among us in the media. this is a positive

In the most generous reading, there are members of legacy media who are willfully downplaying or ignoring the extremely violent rhetoric of the rightwing because they believe drawing attention to it will escalate violence. Even in good faith, I find this hopelessly naive and irresponsible.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

Be careful out there. Be patient, be kind.

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

Cinnamon Chex is drugs. Pure, uncut. It should be a controlled substance.

Republicans keep telling us not to "politicize" these shootings, but that's only because they understand that these shootings were entirely motivated by the political arguments they themselves have been making and entirely facilitated by the political campaign against gun control that they have led.

Here’s what I see: A) The vast majority of Dems have coalesced around a morally clear platform. B) The vast majority of elected Dems have coalesced around protecting and pleasing their donors. C) Those two encampments are miles apart.

I unironically think about this almost every day.

DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.

We have to get comfortable telling people they’ve been acting like suckers and the things they believe are cultivated for suckers. Radical honesty.

Superman was great, would have been even better if there were real Supes villains alongside Lex. The Masked Stupid and Ms. Permanently Pissed-Off - we swear she's not from a Zack Snyder film, promise - weren't doing it for me. Solomon Grundy would have fit well.

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

It really is incredible how despite a half-century of expanding executive power, ballooning the debt, bloating the government, and policing private behavior, the GOP is still discussed as the party of small government libertarianism and fiscal responsibility. Just no relation to reality at all.

Someone posted a cranefly, and there are people saying "kill it." Please... like give nature a break and not react to every weird thing with violence. Bugs are important get over your childish fear. We can't live without them. Even the ones you don't think are cute.

the mamdani thing is showing you how limited the range of acceptable opinions actually is in america. republicans can be a stone's throw away from endorsing genocide and thats fine but one guy goes slightly to the left of dem party orthodoxy and we're right in the middle of soviet russia