in 2024, online sports betting made $14bil, which means that mostly young men lost $14bil. There are about 45 mil men between 18-30, with estimates that 1/4 make online bets. Back of the envelope, we're talking about probably ~$500-$1k in losses each for those 11mil dudes.

It's crazy how much better the GOP is at attacking their enemies. GWB oversaw the second great depression and not once did Democrats say shit like this. BLAME THEM.

I actually feel a little bad for Bazelon because he seems like a bright guy who, thanks to his charmed upbringing and all the positive reinforcement he's getting, will never encounter the friction that would push him to become a serious thinker. Sometimes being a nepo baby is a curse.

I can’t believe someone would participate in this farce and come away thinking they learned something. Why not just mail yourself a letter that says “you were right about everything all along”

I see people sharing this interview today. Never heard of the interviewee, but he appears to be a 22-year-old who has never worked in politics? Why do we keep elevating and listening to unqualified people?

I'm usually a "prioritize winning elections over winning factional fights" guy but that goes out the window with anything these group chat psychos touch. We have to crush them or they'll turn the Democratic Party into Labour

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

Jesus, just stop. Democrats are winning now. And if some voters feel this way about Democrats, a major reason is that THE FUCKING CONSULTANTS KEEP SAYING THE PARTY IS TOO LIBERAL AND OUT OF TOUCH. They incessantly reinforce the stereotype. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/12/10/t...

Here’s the other thing — The answers to all this exist. The actual MRI images they’ve taken of his brain would give the answer pretty straightforwardly. He’ll continue to decline publicly, but the up or down answer to what’s going on is already knowable.

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

"Masculinity," as practiced by the manosphere, is indistinguishable from a simple lack of adequate social & emotional development. It is, in a sense, the explicit *rejection* of social & emotional development.

Obviously this is not a defense of Greene, but it's clear that the secret sauce of Trump 2 is death threats and it's good when people who are receiving them start talking about it. That's the only way we get through this time.

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...

If a stranger told you they were raising their newborn on advice from the chat robot you'd rightfully contact child services

It's wild that they're still in the dormroom brainstorming phase of healthcare planning. 1. Costco does not offer health insurance to its customers. 2. Getting a larger risk pool and lowering costs is literally the whole point of the ACA exchanges, it already exists.

You could not torture an admission this shameful out of me.

Honestly think an under examined aspect of the country’s maga heel turn is the fact that millions of dudes are now constantly feel shame/rage because they lost another bet. When you feel like that it is natural to look for scape goats

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

The Constitution says that there must be a Supreme Court with a Chief Justice. Fair enough. But Congress can set its appellate jurisdiction with simple legislation Under the Third Reconstruction, John Roberts will hear every single parking dispute in the Northern Mariana Islands

He’s redistributing money from the urban cores that they’re terrorizing with ethnic pogroms to pay off his base for their loyalty

Cities and states are choosing to tolerate masked, barely-literate bandits terrorizing their communities. They don't have to.

We’re mad because we’ve spent nearly a decade shouting at you people that this was precisely where it was all leading and you ignored us and forged ahead anyway.

The current SCOTUS majority is a bunch of sophists who like to dismiss evidence in favor of hypotheticals. They are spending enormous political capital trying to empower a guy that tried to overthrow the US government. If any good comes of this, hopefully it will radicalize people about SCOTUS.

I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.

hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.

example 1million of how the plan is to pay off loyalists by looting the rest of the country

Polis seems like a prime example of “dumb rich guy with groupchats/toxic TL disease” Getting elected democrats off X should be a legitimate goal of some activist orgs imo.

Trump state capitalism update, as the nation drifts further and further away from free markets.

It’s horseshoe theory in policy form. The Trump regime is the closest thing to Maoism the US has ever seen, and it’s not close.

if democrats should steal anything from the trump playbook its the constant use of media availabilities. trump wastes his by ranting about bullshit but its very useful to have cameras on for wh meetings, "special announcements" etc. steal the enemy's playbook and beat him with it.

They're going to destroy public education in the United States - part of their plot to enslave us - and they don't care how many of our kids need to die to make that happen. This is explicitly what all the people who helped Trump win were trying to achieve.

"Stop this nonsense. No one wants this."

If they had an actual argument, they wouldn’t lean on this strong arm shit

It’s pretty funny that this is almost the exact same amount of money Netflix paid for Warner Bros and HBO and CNN, all that for this

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

I'm Amish now

Thanks a lot, Olivia. kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.

Turning the Supreme Court into a 27-member body with panels like a regular court of appeals is easier to pitch if you're attacking the rogue supreme court that doesn't respect the law or its own lower judicial officers rather than the judiciary as a whole.

rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

Unironically yes, build a sexbot AI that pushes people into feminism and emotional depth

looking forward to the next supreme court case: affirmative action is mandatory, but only for conservative white men

At some point you have to stop doing 3D-chess and playing pundit-brained games and say "this is a crime and the Constitution tells us what Congress is obligated to do about that."

This really is a perfect GOP snapshot: talking down to you, while being completely incorrect, in an attempt to cover up murder.

Beyond the fact a 70s wagon was a huge piece of shit compared to modern cars and no one would buy it, it’s wild that the secretary of transportation has no idea how cars are made. It’s not a playdoh factory Sean. It would take billions to retool factories to produce a single one.

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