trump has only ever been capable of larping as president and its something very clear if you are dialed in enough to pay attention to the daily stream of his posts, television call ins, staged events etc. it takes a lot to have what has been clear since 2017 bubble into mainstream analysis/coverage.

this is a “got a push notification that his son is watching porn” kind of night for him

Has this been posted yet

good explanation for how conservative politics works

We can get these lower

i think we should separate the terms: AI: science fiction stuff Machine Learning: niche useful stuff done by scientists LLM: obsequious chatbots built on mass scraping Reddit threads

Continues to amaze me that Trump can say whatever he wants and the media selectively filters it as either an authoritative declaration or just meaningless bluster depending on which interpretation best suits his administrations goals and virtually no other president has gotten this treatment

oy. having a go at the loo innit? let’s have a peep of the ol todger mate. go on mate, off with your trousers

I have always pronounced “Nuzzi” like “Newsy” and I’m not stopping now cause she sure seems to be considered newsy to all you people!

Now we can bond over the weird curves in all of our quality of life statistics that happen at a specific point in time. For us it is 1980, for the UK it is 2016.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

A friend of mine explained why some Democratic voters find Democratic elected officials so grating these days and why Republicans step on every rake: “Republicans don’t know how to be in the majority and Democrats don’t know how to be in the minority.”

Waiting for Godot postcredit sequence where you see the outline of Godot.

You’d think anyone totally in the bubble would see this and it would cause some reflection but idk I don’t think brains work like that

The filibuster exists for one reason only and it’s to make the senate not work. Republicans understand this, and that’s why there are specific carve outs for their priorities (tax cuts that expire after 8 years, FedSoc nominees) and not for Democrats (a new regulation or program that helps people)

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

Journalists have this trick I see a lot in longform articles and podcasts where they essentially tell a straightforward story backward to make the narrative more interesting and compelling. That might have been the intention here but really you should never do this when the story is about sex crimes

It doesn’t help the Democratic agenda but it does help individual moderate democrats take shelter from the politically treacherous task of governing

We used to be a proper country

I think about this all of the time and about every topic.

Clippy will be right there, eyebrows raised, ready to help like he never left

This will be one of the only fun aspects of the second administration. Watching republicans defend the strength and vigor of this man while more and more of these photos come out

To be right wing on the internet in 2025 is just playing some deranged alternate reality game for internet points. I am 100% he doesn’t believe any of this, it’s just his entry in the game he and everyone around him are playing.

kpop bargain hunters

It’s really interesting watching the reviews trickle in all having to contend with the fact that the song about her finances penis is the catchiest song she’s written in half a decade. Some grudgingly admit it and others deny it a little too forcefully to be convincing.

Was reading this expecting something pithy and ironic but this is basically just… a literal description of what is going on lol

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Care of Cell 44

Same actually

Does the treasury department know something we don’t know? 🧐

Yes yes yes

Not enough people are talking about this imo. Not sure about 2021-2023 cause I made sure never to look at his face but it blew me away in 2024 and has gotten markedly worse since then. It seems trivial given everything else but I mean come on, look at it!

is this good?

a historically low amount of things should be happening in world history as we raise our children just as it was when we were growing up. we don’t need the extra distraction and stress!

The internet should be more like MySpace. Bring back MySpace without the top 8

I think it should be required in any media appearance for a Republican to ask them “what does woke mean”?

why would liberal arts college students do this?

This is right. People are whipped up in a nihilistic fervor right now and when the lights come on at the end of the night we won’t be raptured or have an AI utopia or an authoritarian ethnostate. He’ll just be a failed, unpopular ex president who made everything a bit worse. And that’s embarrassing.

"Why aren't the people happy, we're doing what we said we would!" It turns out, when stupid people vote to get kicked in the dick, they're not actually all that happy when the kicking starts.

This gets to my annoyance with the lionizing of Kirk perfectly. He wasn’t elevating political discourse on college campuses. He was humiliating college kids using his massive dark money funded propaganda apparatus.

Why does Ezra Klein confidently assert that the shooter was politically radicalized?

the only soda is grape soda. everything else is pop

I think baked in to a lot of these anti-Bluesky pieces is the seemingly sincere assumption that people on Bluesky are only on Bluesky and don’t get information or interaction from any other source.

Kind of a weird bait and switch argument here where graf 1 you think he’s talking about the exodus from Twitter to a more niche microblogging site and then graf 2 he implies we should all be logging off completely which is… not at all what anyone is doing regardless of whether they’re on Bluesky

Texting the white supremacist senior advisor to the president to dismantle organizations of the political opposition: practicing politics the right way ™️

The Nazi contingent that runs Twitter, especially Captive Dreamer, the open Nazi that is followed by VP of the United States, are currently trying to get prominent liberals murdered (myself included). They are posting our full addresses and saying "Hope nothing bad happens to them!"

He’s saying this precisely because he knows he won’t get in trouble

I love Ezra Klein and disagree with him on some things but generally consider him a reasonable voice and deep thinker. This is a miss so wide it makes me question his judgement. It also makes me wonder if he’s doing this partly out of fear for himself or the left writ large. It feels a bit chilling.