Elder millennials watching a bumbling Republican president cheer on and deregulate speculative assets as big firms start dropping hints about bailouts

"sympathy for some of the GOP's voters but contempt for their elected and appointed leaders" is the proper position for dem electeds, and instead we get "sympathy for GOP elected and appointed leaders, but contempt for ~Dem~ voters" it's truly insane fuck all these assholes

Existence of equitable relief implies the existence of diverse relief and inclusive relief

The Trump administration took down a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the Department of Justice’s website nearly 300 days ago to comply with an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion. oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...

Shameful that DHS is trying to co-opt Norman Rockwell's images as part of its anti-brown-people, cleansing-of-America propaganda campaign. In the 1960s Rockwell created some of the most iconic paintings of the Civil Rights movement. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...

A knock-on effect of Trump suddenly looking weak is people feel emboldened to push back against his flunkies too. Turns out the media knows exactly how to do this when they want to

one of my "counterintuitive facts that explains everything" facts is that without new construction cities get less dense as they gentrify, bc wealthier households have fewer kids and fewer people per bedroom

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

too much of the economy now is not built around solving a problem or meeting a need

can the party of dennis hastert recover from this latest blow

Big problem: The current bench of Democratic lawmakers recently signaled continued commitment to the filibuster, as @fleerultra.bsky.social pointed out.

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

AGI doomerism was — (A) An elaborate viral marketing ploy (B) A shared mythology conjured by Silicon Valley elites to cast them as the Main Characters in a great historical drama (C) A clever trick to distract people and siphon money from actual, complex crises (D) All of the above ✅

I think it goes further back in terms of accountability. Starting with our failure to hold the Confederacy accountable after they lost the Civil War. Systematically, we do not hold the rich and powerful accountable.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

The “women ruined the workplace” podcast episode is actually worse than you think. One guest spends half the interview trying to get the other to say something good about women in the labor force (she never does) and Ross fails to provide any real direction to the conversation throughout.

It’s so funny how the ONE thing that was actually pretty cool about the Roman Empire - their public works projects like the aqueducts and cloaca maxima- is also something the marble statue crowd has zero interest in, and consistently, vitriolically oppose in the present.

I do think we all owe a tremendous apology to Suetonius in general.

a “Space Force”, if you will

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Merrick Garland reading today's news and thinking "gosh, I hope somebody does something about this guy," before going back to the wordle

(Tom Lehrer voice) Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun… 🎶

This is really something. Trump/GOP efforts to rig midterms running into serious trouble

(1) Boasting about your ideological commitment to stunting your child’s growth is stunningly evil (2) Is everyone at A16Z so deeply broken? Is it a job requirement?

We need a vocabulary for what’s happened to the internet, something that goes beyond enshittification to touch on the pervasive, in-your-face way advertising apparently works now. Digital pollution?

I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world? Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)

an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic

Agh!! Outplayed again!!! Well the important thing is nobody could’ve seen this one coming, good game everyone.

What a thread here:

Setting aside everything else going on here, “illegals” is a vile and dehumanizing way to refer to any group of people, and it’s a mark of our fallen society that we’ve just let this casual cruelty slide.

Hey guys - does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? Haha happy Edmund Fitzgerald Day, you maniacs!

Incredible metaphor for the economy’s increasing reliance on speculative assets with no real value to society

I believe it was George W. Bush who famously said, “well if ya fool me, I can’t get fooled again”

Exactly. MAGA is a high-stakes bet that Reagan was right and government really is useless. They were losing that bet — painfully, in full view of the public. Caving helps people who depend on government, today. But in the long term it lets the MAGA keep the gamble and the experiment going.

My guess is some Democrats think premium spikes will finally be the “touch the hot stove” moment that turns the public against GOP misrule. Maybe? But wasn’t that what the shutdown was supposed to be, and was very quickly becoming?

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

If our constitutional system survives this moment, abolishing the Senate really needs to be one of the reforms on the table.

i suspect there’s some truth to this and also why we should be EXTREMELY skeptical that senate dems as currently constituted would ditch the filibuster should they ever have a trifecta again

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

There are a handful of cases in WW1 where trench assaults *worked* and attacking soldiers broke through into undefended country and a war-altering opportunity. But they all still failed. Why? The victorious soldiers realized they had no idea what to do. There were no plans for how to exploit a win.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

The GOP offer, which Senate Democrats seem poised to accept, is a *vote* on ACA subsidies — in December, subject to the 60-vote threshold. No way that passes. How many times can Lucy pull the football before Charlie Brown finally learns?

Don’t put people who hate government in charge of governing

Yeah :D

it is darkly humorous that after all these years, the Republican health insurance plan ends up being to end health insurance

This would be a stunning rebuke to everyone who ever said America needs a “businessman president,” if those people could read

OpenAI knows LLMs can be harmful. Yet they insist on rushing a dimly-understood tech to market to satisfy the impatience and ideological projects of the Silicon Valley VC class. At this rate they’re risking a backlash that could turn the public against them and whatever value the tech could bring.