because it reinforces blaming *HR* - overwhelmingly female - over higher management or other policies.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

impressive to watch a huge industry go very swiftly from “widely popular and largely trusted” to “widely considered to be as or even more evil than the oil companies that occasionally spill tons of toxic cute-animal-killing goo into crucial waterways” though

the mob, the military-industrial complex, the commies, maybe even the illuminati — —all too motivated by self preservation to bring the heat down. But one disordered man with a retail rifle is another story. You cannot understand many political assassins without grasping how intoxicating that is

The FBI requesting fiber-optic drones is incredibly dumb and also very funny Yall think your threat model is “jamming with electronic warfare weapons” and not “your barely-trained pilot wraps your way over-priced American made fiber optic drone cable around a Chick-Fil-A drive through sign??”

Every 2-4 years, a bunch of left-wing populists have the brilliant thought “Hey, what if people’s resentment of social minorities is actually just sublimated resentment for capitalist elites?” and then we get to spend 2-4 years once again learning that no, it’s very much the reverse

This but “all crime is a result of society not meeting people’s material needs” and very much no.

sometimes I wonder if the reason there isn't more right-wing violence is that a lot of people who might do it are so ensconced in their alternative media realities to think it's worth it when they are so clearly winning

unfortunately it won’t be “woke” if it is “aggressively pro science and medicine.” because such sentiments run smack dab into armies of educated people with paens to “alternative ways of knowing” and racist beliefs that non-white people don’t appreciate science and medicine

sometimes i genuinely don't know whether neoliberalism or socialism is more meaningless as a word

Yup. Usually something the media is ruthless on - they know punishing candidates for skipping debates is the thing that creates incentives for candidates to actually do them - but they completely let Trump slide bsky.app/profile/eman...

Yes. Take careful note of how many early "Biden must drop out" electeds have close ties to the tech industry, especially crypto. bsky.app/profile/zach...

Ya that's pretty much my interpretation. bsky.app/profile/spic...

The polls of people who actually watched the debate showed Biden losing badly... by the exact same margin that Trump lost the Harris debate. But Trump by contrast didn't have weeks of drumbeat, full-court-press news afterwards about his debate failure - media instead dropped the story

On one side of my family we have zero knowledge of our lineage before my grandpa. There was just nobody left to ask. He wasn’t even sure if his last name was real or made up. And there’s a story like this in almost every Ukrainian household. Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day

Footage has surfaced online showing unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war executed while lying face down, accompanied by the approving shouts of those filming the scene. This is not an isolated atrocity, it is russia’s pattern. Execution. Torture. Destruction.

Polycules? Is that some obscure hero from Greek mythology?

that Twitter screenshot allegedly revealing the DHS account is operated from Tel Aviv is probably fake because 1) it originated from an anime shitposter on Twitter, 2) the formatting does not align with other accounts subject to the feature [it revealed only countries, not specific cities]

Does Witkoff rely on a Kremlin supplied translator because no State Department employee familiar enougth with Russia to be fluent would buy Russia's BS?

January 2021 was probably the most important month in our lifetimes to lib out but we decided to act like we needed to apologize for winning the election instead

A shocking number of people seem to believe racism didn't exist until 1948

mtg spent like ten years making enemies on the left and that seemed fine with her. she spent ten days making enemies on the right, had to hire security, and then had to quit altogether.

Trump literally coming out of this meeting with Zohran flirting with him is so funny after he’s been fighting the gay allegations with Bill all week

I don't think any of the Very Serious People in our society who helped Trump become President understand how dangerous he and his incompetent people will be to the entire world in an actual war

at the bottom are bitcoin guys who watch UFC. at the top is a they/them barista with blue hair.

imagine “i mean to flow throw you” spoken in a voice that sounds like your keys getting stuck in the dryer

Perhaps not wanting to fuck the people in power makes someone better suited to report on them.

what’s funny (it’s not funny) is how many indie journalists, who—with next to none of the infrastructure propping up the zz’s of the business—not only report incisively on political power but do so without leaving years of embarrassing receipts about their relationships with subjects and sources

just a reminder: No Democratic candidate is getting over 40% in GA14, now or ever, so if you're not a Democratic voter currently residing in that district do not make donations there, think strategically and send money to races where it will make a difference

Unfortunately, you need to win a majority

It's not often this is true both literally and metaphorically, but: "drop" is doing a lot of work there.

If the current SCOTUS majority is going to repeal not one, but two amendments, there needs to be a new majority. There will be hand wringing, wailing, moaning, etc., but if those people were serious, they'd be writing op-eds encouraging a different path now.

Hitler kept his generals in line with massive bribes. This is not bright.

Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!

Who remembers those early Palantir trades

As previously stated, the problem with Nuzzi is she forms relationships with her subject -and does not tell her audience or employer- not that she fucks

Yeah but you and I have shame and they don't, which complicates the social sanction thing

Why isn’t RFK getting any shit for this gross affair with a reporter half his age? He’s married. It’s torrid. Gross. And this asshole is telling us what’s good for us? No.

watching your husband’s phone light up like a Christmas tree and knowing it’s President Donald J Trump

[hammering a nail through a bat] hey guys i found out whose tulpa this is

there are people who think i am upset by Zohran's meeting or criticizing him in this tweet mfs just don't even read the words on screen they just imagine what they think you said and roll with it

there's a solidarity in this. we're all shoulder to shoulder getting our brains blasted by this hell of our elites making. stand with me, brothers

i've said this before but i 100% do not understand why you would quit a job as a legislator mid-term. if you're not running for re-election you could immediately stop doing any work, collect a paycheck, fly in to vote on any bills you cared about and ignore everything else

pope throwing a rave and usha not wearing a wedding ring and this whole mamdani/trump thing he’s probably having a very upsetting day

honestly biggest sign that this is personalist authoritarianism with a New Right wing attached versus the other way around

What’s happening in Tehran with the water supply is absolutely going to come for some places in the American Southwest

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.