I just re-read the New Yorker’s list and, uh, I don’t see this book in there. It was a book they reviewed this year but not one of their 24 Essential Reads on the year-end list

Was just talking with relatives that typically vote GOP. Many are sick of Trump but they are already warming to Vance as the more “stable” alternative. Non-online folks really don’t know anything about his beliefs and mainstream media won’t discuss them. It’s up to us to nip Vance talk in the bud

@andykimnj.bsky.social wtf

What an indictment of this country that we elected this asshole president, TWICE!

Trump is a product of three things: (1) a Congress that, at a basic level, does not want to legislate; (2) a SCOTUS dominated by ideologues and (3) a tech oligarchy that knows that at some point the music is going to stop.

This is the highest anyone has ever been on their own supply

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I don’t think there is ever any grand strategy going on in Trumpworld, but I do think he knows that “I am a gutter racist and I will make it ok for you to be a gutter racist” is his strongest political message

They have station wagons in Europe. They don’t bother to import them here because no one wants to buy them.

Sean Duffy on slashing fuel economy standards: "This rule will actually allow you to bring back the 1970s station wagon. Maybe a little wood paneling on the side. We can bring back choice to consumers."

This is a good message. GOP should campaign on this next year.

How does anyone respond to that with anything but “fuck off, man”?

If I could send one post back in time 10 years as a warning, this might be it.

Not only is everyone in this administration an asshole bigot, they never stop braying for approval about being an asshole bigot

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This is a grotesque country

“Hey, look ... you knew when you married me that I was a nonworking breed.”

@booker.senate.gov Agree?

The calls to primary senate dems are correct but seems the best current course of action is to call your Dem senator (if you have one) and demand they call for Schumer’s resignation

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

This guy’s hard drive must be insane

I think it’s clear that when Cass Sunstein talks about liberalism it really just means “me and my tenured friends should be able to say what we want without too much pushback from hoi polloi.” It’s utterly divorced from the real world consequences of ideas.

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In retrospect the end of Grantland and the Dissolve, and Microsoft’s Tay fiasco, were clear harbingers of where we were headed culturally.

In retrospect the end of Grantland and the Dissolve, and Microsoft’s Tay fiasco, were clear harbingers of where we were headed culturally.

Humanity was not meant for social media

Probably not going to get to see much art in the future? There’s already more art out there than I can enjoy in a lifetime.

Trump is attempting a kind of regime change or political revolution. The constitution is, at best, only partially operative right now. We live in a new system which is not a democracy. It’s not fully consolidated, but it’s so far along that there is likely no going back to the status quo ante.

NYC, Paris, Tokyo, Miami, Berlin

Make Pete a Met for life

Drafters of the Constitution: we’re adding all these protections to make sure accused criminals are protected from abuse by the state. “Constitutional scholar”: Have you considered that some people might see upsetting things?

The fetishization of centrism is a product of media, government, big law, academia, etc types all talking to each other all the time. Voters actually want politicians who do things. That’s always been a key part of the Trump coalition, people who like him just because he “does stuff.”

Eliminate “distraction” from your vocabulary. This is just what happens when you hand a senile, vindictive pervert, who has never experienced a consequence in his entire life, the vastest security state ever created. Just one awful decision after another. There’s no coordination, just chaos.

My hot takes on speed limit discourse: 1. Speed limits on local roads should be rigorously enforced. Cameras, automated tickets, whatever. 2. Most highways should have no speed limits. 3. There should be devices that prevent any car from going over 85 mph in any situation.

This ethos is baked into the legal system, which treats fine print in contracts or terms of service that everyone acknowledges are either unseen or not understood and treats them as sacrosanct bargains, instead of the obvious cons they are.

I think there is a very large cohort, including me, who are just sick of social media generally, especially social media that puts politics at its center. And younger cohorts seem to be eschewing text based social media entirely.

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Lol financial markets are just vibes prediction markets now.

That jobs report is a total disaster. Almost all the growth is coming in health and home care. Massive downward revisions in previous months. Combine that with reports on Americans’ debt situations, good luck in Q3 and beyond.

This Trump administration is like if someone got a four-year Make-a-Wish day.

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Pee tape is real

Kind of wild that it has taken Democrats this long to realize that the fact that Trump has been a complete reprobate for the entirety of his life is a weapon you can use against him.

Seen this reshared a lot. Redacting personal identifying information is a requirement and refers to things like social security numbers, bank account numbers, etc. Whenever a party files a publicly available document it is a requirement that “personal identifying information” be redacted.

Was looking at Nielsen data after the Colbert news and even with the understanding that it’s summer, this media chart is dystopian. ustvdb.com/ratings/shows/

Literally the Mandate of Heaven

You could make a pretty strong argument I think that the biggest problem facing the country is the Supreme Court rather than Trump.

My money is on this all simmering down, not because this is all 4-D chess, but because these are the two biggest cowards in history.

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