Neither Zohran Mamdani nor Abigail Spanberger are the future of the Democratic Party. We won’t win by imitating either campaign, but we’ll win by doing what they both did: running local-first campaigns, giving people a vision for the future, and rebuilding the American Dream for Gen Z.

My thesis here was and continues to be that MTG’s weird spree of normal-sounding stuff is her angling to oust Johnson and be speaker

Thesis: MTG is acting weirdly reasonable because she wants to be Speaker and thinks she can rally people to vote for her by starting to lead the charge against Johnson now

Microsoft outlook is genuinely the worst piece of software with which I regularly interact

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

I think MTG is actually weirdly able to break with Johnson et. al. more so than most because she's so batshit insane that the voters who elected her will 100% believe it when she tells them that Mike Johnson or whoever is a corrupt deep state puppet or the like

ok so got around to watching A House of Dynamite - obviously there's lots to nitpick, primarily the pressure on POTUS to launch before absorbing an attack headed for a nonmilitary target, but overall pretty good and I'm happy to let this dominate the conversation instead of Jacobsen Nuke Book.

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

re: @hankgreen.bsky.social’s new video, my thoughts are: unlike crypto, I do think it’s possible that AI reshapes basically the entire world in the next few years. But like crypto, I’m not yet sure that this isn’t just Silicon Valley nerds saying that their niche interest is The Most Important Thing

It's 2022. Russia has claimed that the Sarmat will soon be placed on operational combat duty. It's 2023. Russia has claimed that the Sarmat has just been placed on operational combat duty. It's 2024. A Sarmat has exploded in its silo. It's 2025. Russia has claimed that the Sarmat has just be-

If you theoretically forced me into a case of somehow of Duffy vs Isaacman, I'd be forced to say Duffy, because I hate Isaacman that much.

I object to this usage of TACO because TACO is a principle - something can be an example of TACO or a TACO moment but TACO doesn’t refer to Trump the person

their ducks: not even in a row. in disarray. shambles our ducks: slowly arranging themselves into uncountable phalanxes

I've seen a dozen quotes of this saying "the cops aren't really woke, idiot, they just know which way the wind is blowing" and yeah, man, that's the point

not that relevant but how many charlie kirk memorials can there be

@hankgreen.bsky.social I regret to report that the name of your podcast is safe from Pete Buttigieg www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhq2...

At some point in the relatively near future people will be living in an area where Waymo and Zipline service overlap and those people are going to have crazy lives

Children around the world have died because Trump and Musk needlessly destroyed USAID. These are some of their stories. apnews.com/article/myan...

@torybruno.bsky.social any updates on when we can expect the first West Coast vulcan?

People on the other site are melting down about Leo saying that being pro-death penalty isn't pro-life as if this isn't incredibly well-established Catholic that was expressed far more forcefully than Leo just did by freaking John Paul II.

My shutdown take of the day is that while I think that the republicans are technically correct in their attempt to blame the shutdown on the democrats (regardless of how justified the democrats are in not voting for the CR), fortunately for us the median voter is too stupid to see that

It’s been said before but Wokeness 2 is going to have to include a total war on cranks

RIP Harold Camping, you would have loved RaptureTok

kurzgesagt is unbearably frustrating because they make videos about interesting topics and consult with genuine subject matter experts but the thing is despite that they still way over-sensationalize everything anyway

This is what’s getting me - Kimmel didn’t say anything remotely controversial about Kirk (not that this would be ok if it had). His criticism was purely of MAGA and Trump and that’s why they’re going after him.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

One big problem is that to truly understand what the internet is doing to people, you have to be on it too much to play any useful role in society

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

people are always all over .webp as a file but .heic does not get NEARLY enough hate

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

Newsom stepping up to remind us that despite the funny tweets he does in fact still suck. Kirk's memory is not one deserving of being honored, because his work consisted entirely of bad faith whinging to rile up hate and unrest. Just because he's dead doesn't mean we need to pretend that's not true.

This may be the stupidest headline ever

Absolutely GOATed display here of leveraging a murder for extremely crass political purposes from Hall of Fame bad tweeter Medvedev

Twitter has basically devolved into thousands of massive far-right accounts doing exactly one thing, which is exploiting every single event to try to create lynch mobs

Kirk didn't "engage" with others in "discourse" in any meaningful sense, and certainly not in a sense any of us should emulate. His every interaction was in bad faith. He viewed none of his interlocutors as moral equals in an exchange of ideas, but as mere means to advance is propagandistic ends.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

If he really is dead truly no great loss but I'm alarmed by the direction this puts us in

i gave the pro-palestine protests shit for not policing themselves against hamasniks and antisemites. what's good for the goose is good for the gander: if abundance won't police itself against freaks who don't believe in liberal democracy it ain't worth shit publiccomment.blog/p/when-is-a-...

This attitude blows up rockets and kills the crew. We *know* this because we've seen it happen. This is the consequence of letting a fool who understands nothing about NASA to lead it.

AI Safetyism is something that is honestly more of a cause for concern for me than the notion of an AI-induced apocalypse. When people are getting this radicalized over a premise this delusional that's a perfect recipe to create domestic terrorists.

CFD don’t annihilate my computer challenge (impossible)

That's the main thing. There are multiple terrible agendas going on. The only thing they have in common is that they were able to flatter a dumb guy enough to gain power.

There's an urge among many, I think, to assign deeper meaning to Trump et. al.'s chaos. That impulse is understandable but, in my view, incorrect. RFK Jr. is not crusading against vaccines as part of a grand plan to overthrow the country. He's crusading against vaccines because he's a fucking idiot.

Dawn booster reentry

These people are just evil

So regardless of whatever else is going on, am I the only one for whom this deranged Trump Truth is showing up? Is this like a weird promoted tweet or something?

I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.