The messages were bad but honestly what do these folks expect? "I can't imagine why you are upset with me, all I did was support sending masked, armed men into your communities to abduct your neighbors and brutalize your children." Yeah, people are going to be really angry.

Honestly I would pay a small premium for an S&P499 (S&P500 minus Tesla) index fund

It’s going to be crazy when this guy gets the woke day of the rope

regarding Jay Jones, it's not just that Trump talks about killing and assaulting people and that every GOP staffer is in a chat called Hitler's Bunker. it's that Trump is actually murdering people: illegal USAID cuts killing poor kids, people gunned down in the street by masked ICE thugs, etc

Thinking of this one again today. Puranaanooru 192, 6th c. BCE

this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference

Genug Zeit ist vergangen dass ich meine Wahrheit aussprechen kann ich hasse Moo Deng diese dönerspieß förmige kreatur kann mir komplett gestohlen bleiben

Remember all the ‘just release the hostages & Israel will stop starving people’ comments you used to get if you said something like ‘Israel should stop starving people’ ?

The last time New York had a decent mayor was Giuliani, over two decades ago. Say what you will about him (you younger people only know what's become of him after leaving office), but he really did clean up the city. He oversaw the removal of its two biggest eyesores.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Andrew Cuomo has put out a statement: "Best three out of five?"

Fortune 500 companies waking up to the election results

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

JD VANCE: American citizenship must have meaning, and must mean belonging to a nation that guards the sovereignty of its people, especially from a modern world that’s hellbent on dissolving borders and differences in national character! MAGA X.COM INFLUENCER: denaturalise all coloured paedophiles

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections? in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.

your cowardly equivocation will only disgust voters, who yearn for the unfiltered light of Allah

National Security Risks. per current precedent you can drone strike all these guys. nationalizing their assets would be an astounding act of mercy

Fourteen years later, I *still* think one of the best ways for us to repudiate Cheney's legacy of torture would be to recognize and honor the courageous soldiers and public servants who exposed the torture policies and tried to end them. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/o...

I think Sudan might shoot up the news agenda somewhat if two US Presidents and two British PMs e.g. announced we were sending the RSF more machine guns and missiles to kill more civilians, then told the press everyone protesting against it was a traitor extremist and sent the cops to arrest them.

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

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I like how the conservative consensus on Africa is that we must compete with the CHINESE RED MENACE for influence on the continent without either investment or knowledge.

Me and the homie sharing a catheter call that foley a deux

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

I look forward to Sliwa's long tenure as the Special Parade Assistant in the Mamdani administration, where he can affirm each and every parade's right to exist

To me, New York City will always be the Yemeni bodega I saw once with a cardboard and handwritten "Happy Rosh Hashanah!" sign taped to the door. That's what we're fighting for. 💜💜💜

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago. He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.

The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.

To give some credit there is a growing chorus of dissent on this issue in Congress, lead by Van Hollen, Sara Jacobs, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar among others.

Yeah this seems fair, food should be a human right

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did it hurt? when you fell from hell to hell 2

what happened my queen… “The KMT is fundamentally a party that doesn’t see Taiwanese people as people. At its root, it is an evil, brutal regime.” -Chun Li-wun 30 years ago

It’s hard dating white men, I don’t know enough about Japanese culture

There's this common wisdom that all the veto points in the US system blocks wild policy swings, when it actually has the opposite effect: parties stew for years over everything they'll rapidly ram through by any means possible in their brief window of full power before it's gridlock for years again.

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

one thing we’ve got to accept in the Chinese Century is that their soup spoons are simply better than ours

Interestingly the Japanese actually have a concept known as 不誠実 or 'dishonesty', where someone says something that doesn't reflect reality, or is perhaps intended to mislead the audience to believe something that is not 真善美 or 'true'. There is much to learn from these enigmatic people.

I am the very model of an ancient trunkless leg of stone, My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown, The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things, My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!

the worst era for pop music was (UserProfile: BirthYear+13) to (UserProfile: BirthYear+21). that was total dogshit. everything else pretty much fine

we should jail most of them, problem solved

they'll do anything to avoid living in the hell they've built for us

I keep saying this but the reason members of congress want to stay in office until they die is they can't buy that kind of elder care anywhere else, even if they are rich

I’d rather live next to a Spanish-speaker than a MAGA, I can tell you that much you freak.

Food stamps remind me of vaccines, we basically eliminated hunger like we eliminated measles, both incredible human accomplishments the GOP is determined to reverse.