Leaders always manage but managers rarely lead.

It's going to take a combination of workers organizing and workers electing pro-worker politicians throughout the nation to fix this.

Mitch McConnell is one of the very worst Americans of this century, a force of selfishness and spite who laid waste to our political institutions and social stability like no foreign enemy ever could.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

Absolute must read for all, especially grunts, squid, flyboys, and jarheads.

@brokensymmetry.art Just sharing my thoughts.😏💖 youtu.be/ERXgL9hLuzQ?...

And that drug the doctor prescribes... The foundation of science was on this fact, failure teaches more than success.

...including Booth.

You blow up car dealers ... to ruin them as a political constituency! Think about it for a minute, do you, the local citizen, want to be governed by the local dealerships of Ford, Toyota, VW, et al? That is how it is going now. Is the current zeitgeist pleasant, do you want it to continue?

oops!

It is sad that Scott Atlas doesn’t understand basic economics. Paul Samuelson wrote about public goods—why NIH has been such a stunning success—more than 75 yrs ago. Also, to see why Atlas urges ending US success, just look at who elevates him: pro-privatization billionaires. 1/ (thread is above)

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, we can do better: we can support the public interest, freedom-including good health, equality for everyone, curbing the tyranny created by billionaires, and a free and fair marketplace of ideas. The opposite of what this is.

“It’s getting more and more difficult for the American public to access the science and the scientists that their tax dollars have supported for over half a century.”

The analysis is only as good as the data. The foundational material determines the quality and that's about it.

It's not at all surprising from the Citizens United SCOTUS, but this turbocharges outside money in politics. Not for the first time, this SCOTUS is signaling their fundamental hostility to (and fear of) democratic representation.

That it was 6-3 is disgusting. So three justices think the plain language of the 14th Amendment should be ignored. That's fucking frightening.

you can't find a tech journalist more directly responsible for creating gods out of the soggy husks of these amoral authoritarian tech nerds just three years ago she was writing columns about how you can't judge elon musk by his tweets

Thank you Stephen Miller for logging on to make sure everyone knows you're behind this racist effort. Shame on you, the President, and your klan of bigoted henchmen. America has always, and will continue to be, a nation of immigrants long after you and your cronies are gone.

Oh we already know. 🧐

That chyron doesn't indicate that Wakefield's credentials were revoked.

Tech companies, huh? You know Fox News had to pay $787.5 million for their version of that allegation? You have some new evidence? A different company? Give us some specifics here.

Which is why attaining majority status in November is important.

that's well put. eg, Thaddeus Stevens aimed as high as possible but he'd always take whatever sized loaf he could get when it came time to count votes. a guy like Rahm Emanuel negotiates with himself and then gets bargained down from there

Imagine if Obama and Biden had come in like Trump and project 2025. Just a blizzard of progressive stuff and orders undoing all the gop rot. Instead they both pursued way too much unity and bipartisanship. Voters gave them both a mandate and they made milquetoast.

The skeleton key to understanding California today is to understand the decisions made around the state in 1978/1979 and these two guys:

On May 5, military leaders asked Hegseth's office for permission to mandate flu vaccinations. On Jun 17, they finally got the OK. By that point the flu was racing through Air Force basic training. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/u...

And that something new will have to include retributive justice/judgement for all of those who enabled, allowed, &/or contributed to the wrecking of the United States & the constitutional order & what will replace it in a way that something like this can never happen again! 7/

They want you to Broom. The Fucking. Soup. You cannot be mad your centrist waiter who brought back "it's mostly the same soup but bette rnow I promise" got yelled at. 8/x

“Blowing up the Democratic Party” by supporting candidates that actually Democrats vote for because those candidates are listening to those voters.

You mean there's a cost that *I* must pay?

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

This is self-harm.

The biggest takeaway from this anti-Glonzo legislation is that when Republicans and Democrats can find agreement on policy, that policy is generally really, really stupid and ineffective.

FFA promotional?

Juneteenth is a good holiday that needs more civic religion behind it. The Civil War was America's 2nd founding and Juneteenth commemorates the victory that was gained: the end of slavery and the destruction of the evil empire that perpetuated it.

nothing in the US is getting better until we start start treating this kind of thing as what it is: a form of bribery

Long past time for US to stop taking orders from IDF--purchase orders for the weapons paid for with US money (baseline of almost $4 billion/year plus more supplemental every time they do another war). If they can't stop committing war crimes we need to stop giving them the means.

A group of multi-millionaires playing a game for an oligarch billionaire to distract the populace? A library, with one book, however interesting, is not a cause for celebration. Regardless how popular the sport is elsewhere, here it's an afterthought. We should be better, were not.

Irony is dead.

A stupid thing, no less! (I mean were you expecting something else, like a smart thing or a good thing? Because you need to temper your expectations.)

Well, I'll be damned. Mike DeWine has had, in effect, an execution moratorium in place in Ohio, but this is such an important progression on his part.

I find it fascinating that JD Vance - a man I have never, not once, not a single time, heard make an insightful or informed point on any topic - gets the presumption of "smart" despite ample evidence to the contrary.

When you start noticing it, it’s astonishing how many people who claim air conditioning is wasteful and extravagant would never, ever apply that logic to heating (which uses more resources than AC!)

Instead of talking about how much money this disreputable dork has, we should be talking about all the children this white supremacist starved to death in Africa because he didn't think dark-skinned people deserved money from the US government—even though he's taken billions.

America is back on a fascist track because Republicans have, via constant lying, successfully hardened certain impressions about Democrats (soft on crime, ineffective stewards of the economy). To return to a more democratic track, Dems must harden the impression that Republicans are trashy liars.

Best performed before an audience and the repartee, "I just returned from a fall trip."

This is such a perfect demonstration of how 99% of media works now: Republicans flood the country with lies and misinformation. Then, rather than pushing back, mainstream outlets and centrist politicians launder the lies into a storyline about "liabilities for Democrats."