I point to this movie all the time as an example of the best use of stylized subtitles (when Denzel and other characters speak in Spanish throughout the film)–which is too often lost when streaming platforms strip that styling in favor of their default subtitle typeface (see also: John Wick)

Nothing precludes you from believing that all workers should get fair wages and a generous social safety net and also that gutter racism toward a customer should get you fired. I swear to god they are making up this author to make leftists look stupid.

The key question in American politics now is whether public disapproval of Trump will grow fast enough to save our democracy before Trump builds such a crushing dictatorship that public opinion no longer matters.

Congratulations you fucking morons

The Heritage Foundation is an authoritarian Christian Nationalist organization. Treat their people accordingly.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

If you're ever wondering whether an email from me is actually a scam, your first clue will be that you received an email from me.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

That last play, summarized

Style guide: Alina Habba is not STEPPING DOWN. She is ending her unlawful charade that she is US Attorney.

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

"more children should die" is a cornerstone tenet of American conservatism

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

I guess the future of American politics was always going to be Instagram models in Texas spouting ethnic cleansing rhetoric

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Aaaaaand…this is exactly why the six lawmakers needed to remind servicemembers about not obeying unlawful orders (this will get driven home when Hegseth gets a pardon but no one else does)

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

I think we can safely say that the Leavitt's brother called ICE on his ex, the mother of his child, and I have to say: I have no desire to respect, find common ground or share the country with these monsters.

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.

genuinely says so much about what twitter has become that the biggest rightwing grift accounts pushing US fascist narratives aren’t real people and not even close to the united states

Trump is being nicer to Mamdani than Democratic leadership was lol

fuego

this is the world's most confusing day for centrist Democrats who just voted to condemn socialism and tried to sink Mamdani's campaign for months

Not going to read too much into it, obviously Trump is the worst man alive, and is going to revert to saying the most odious shit imaginable in like an hour, but it's funny that this is coming a couple hours after 90 democrat losers voted to say "socialism is bad" for no reason.

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

mr president!! what do you say to critics who think your pedophilia shouldn’t result in their murders

Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families." Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.

“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”

I am well versed in American racism and I can tell you that Greene, Mace, and Boebert have neither tired of white supremacy nor the patriarchy and are simply bitter that they are no longer young enough, white enough, attractive enough or useful enough to reap the rewards of Bondi, Noem, and Kirk.

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Anyone else notice when Dave's standing up he can barely see over the fence?

Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject

Turning up the War With Venezuela For Some Reason dial until people stop asking me about Jeffrey Epstein

Between this and flipping the last Dem holdouts against the government reopening, hell of a week for the commercial airline lobby

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Don't worry, if this trend holds for another 15 years the median age of homeowners by then will just be "dead"

lmao

It'll be called trumpcare because you'll also be forced to learn how to file for bankruptcy

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

I wrote about the "Appeasement Eight" Senate Democrats getting the party to fold to Trump in the government shutdown, and why it shows that pro-democracy Americans badly need a real opposition party, full of leaders who recognize the United States isn't a normal rule of law democracy anymore.

Denny with a banger aimed squarely at the stench of stodgy cowardice emanating from Capitol Hill 👇

the press should ask Johnson about this just to watch him try to dodge the question with his usual bad faith "haven't seen it" nonsense without admitting he never enters or leaves his office

A St Louis Fed paper analyzed the Silicon Valley Bank bailout and analyzed the assets and found it would have been better to let it fail because 90% of the assets were crypto and VC bets and would have had little to no effect on the broader economy.

Focus group behind two-way glass. Pete watches as the moderator asks, "Would it upset you if someone congratulated Mamdani in a tweet?"

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

The footage of this plane crashing on takeoff at the Louisville airport / UPS Worldport is horrific. I don't know how anyone could survive that, and also can't imagine being in a store or building near the end of that runway when it happened.

I'm super lucky to have seen Radiohead 6 times in as many cities, so as they begin their European tour today after an 8-year hiatus, instead of being consumed with FOMO I'm actually hyped for people who will be seeing them for the first time, especially when it wasn't certain they'd ever tour again.