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I think this is why so many business people and the editorial class got so completely brain poisoned from Twitter back in its heyday. It was literally the first time someone had ever told them to shut up or expressed anything other than admiration (or faux admiration) towards them.

They bought all of our choices, political, lifestyle and economic. But they did not wager the cost of our *refusal*. It is fascinating. Grim but fascinating.

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

I just wish the NAACP had a plan to support the student athletes they are asking to protest these universities...bc they are literal children.

They talmbout the kids acting up in Detroit and I hate to see how many of us have become the oppressors we hated as kids Woman asked 'Why is every 3rd space afraid of youth? We hung out at the mall, skating ring, movies. What am I missing? Is there no space or place for teens anymore?"

Victor Wembanyama takes a stand against ICE violence: Every day I wake up and see the news, and I'm horrified. It's crazy that some people make it seem like the murder of civilians is acceptable.

WATCH: Hayley Williams performs in front of an image of Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Salt Lake City

SEC boycott picking up steam… #Memphis #JimCrow @realdlhughley.bsky.social

The irony of sending the kid a bunch of Fox News articles, and then lecturing him about propaganda and not being able to think for himself. Also,that little boy did a good job reading that letter. Good for his teacher she's doing her job.

Just made a batch of gumbo to freeze so I eat lunch during the work day

Billionaires are divorced from society and completely operate outside of any tangible reality.

It is worth saying that it appears that the brave and principled actions of people of Minneapolis and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good seem to have been a legitimate inflection point in American politics. We should carry that forward with us.

Anyone who knowingly connects ChatGPT to their bank account deserves to get took for every penny

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

You can be the richest white guy in the world, but if you own one (1) truck, you’re actually a hard on your luck economically anxious person verging on poor

Spoke recently to a friend of mine who runs a lab. This administration is profoundly, maybe irreversibly, undermining the foundations of scientific research in the US. We won't feel the effects right away but they're coming

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Y’all diagnose everything as autism the way y’all diagnose everything as narcissism. The 2 disorders where you can have the traits and NOT the disorder itself.

A lot! The mental health professionals be telling them that but online one thing makes you suddenly diagnosed lol

Gerontocracy is how I still occasionally see people talk about AOC being too "young" and "inexperienced" for a presidential run despite the fact that in 2028 she will be 39 and have spent a quarter of that life as a US congressional member sitting on 5 different oversight and finance committees.

Minneapolis nights

I'm outside

I legit hate this man.

what is more washed than making kendall roy crash out music. just holding the public hostage at this point

Pennsylvania man detained by ICE for over 250 days speaks out: "Whatever anybody has seen on TV is true. You are in cages, and there are 32 people in each cage... Just because I wasn't born in this country doesn't mean that I don't love this country."

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Correct, this is our brand for SURE

A woman escaped to the U.S. from Togo to flee from torture and genital mutilation. ICE deported her back to Ghana, who then sent her back to Togo.

I keep saying that legislators are going to be able to get away with partisan gerrymandering because they're not stupid anymore and don't outright say "No ni-[clang]s Allowed." Then here comes this motherfucker.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

My lil sister just moved into her new place ✨ A few people asked if she had a wishlist, so I’m sharing it here for anyone who wants to help her get settled and make her new space feel like home 🤎 www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... Appreciate all the love, support, shares, and good energy for her

It's depressing to know that the best years of your life were likely in the 2010s and we'll all be looking back in a decade or two wondering how this country could be so stupid to throw it all away. We can't say they weren't warned because they were. Unfortunately, people only learn from disaster.

So realistically, we're just going to have to deal with Republicans having substantial structural advantages for decades while we watch everything around us degrade and crumble. Living standards, cost of living, education, healthcare, the environment, etc. will all just get immeasurably worse.

Most states in the deep south have had permanent republican rule since the 90s and there's no hope to change it for generations given the polarization along racial lines. This is despite rampant corruption, dysfunction, and disasters in all these states. It'll take near collapse to dislodge them.

People point to Hungary but it took 15 years to get Orban out and that's after he destroyed the country and made it the poorest in the EU with a massive brain drain. Unfortunately, that's the only way out. Republicans have to fuck up so badly that the voters finally say enough, and even then...

And now they're using that structural bias in the system to turn it into a permanent advantage that will make it nearly impossible to vote them out of power. It's turning us into an illiberal democracy with a permanent ruling class dominated by white men.

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

REP. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “This isn't coincidental or accidental. We're seeing the greatest purge of Black power since the era of Reconstruction.” (H/T @motherjones.com ) #Memphis #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

My sister is got her own place. Help her out www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

#FACTS😶 AND BLACK PEOPLE TOLD THEM, but instead, THEY listened to. . .the same white politicians who are now moving to strip voting rights away from Black people.

Never forget that the Supreme Court helped in establishing whiteness into law by deciding who was white by constantly doing cases on who wasn't white. They made being white and whiteness, effectively, a legalized property space defined by being "morally sound."🫩🫩

I'm not sorry I DO blame voters and Haris was NOT awful. You are making excuses for VOTERS placing a con man and rapist in power when it wasn't a hidden secret. This commentary is downright stupid when it boiled down to common sense.

Which is the ultimate sign of the times because Bob’s whole thing used to be you couldn’t pay your way into the Met. The guest list was exclusively her decision

Absolutely so proud of everyone who worked on this story. The unfortunate reality is school shootings are all too common and I do hope that the Strib never has to cover another one again.

Naomi Osaka slays 🔥 as she leaves The Mark Hotel heading to the #MetGala

why would you want SCOTUS term limits to kick in retroactively with a republican super majority in office?

SEN. OLIVER: “@GovBillLee called a special session next week to cheat. Let’s be real clear. Republicans in Tennessee are doing the bidding of that man in the White House because he wants to hold on to power. MEMPHIS is 1 of the Blackest cities… they’re about to take their seat.”

I know someone who personally confirmed Atlanta and Vegas as a testing ground for COVID reopens. Delta c suite was on that call. So yes. 100% correct