the OTHER thing is that no filibuster defender has yet to articulate why it is that people who happen to live in low density states not only deserve additional representation but also deserve to exercise a veto *on top of that*

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

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i made people big mad with this one. good.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

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bro are you fucking kidding me

phrenology is back baby!!!!

I am a kind, understanding, open-minded person who tries to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. But so help me I will salt the ground where Azeen Ghorayshi walked for what she did to families of trans youth in St. Louis.

your daily reminder to never talk to the NYT about anything regarding trans issues.

trying my best not to use the word “deconstruction” when i mean “extremely dark satire”

I get what you mean, though I don’t even know if I would even call it “seemingly” a solution, it’s more like it skips to the end-results of a solution it doesn’t know how to portray beyond the literal sci-plot elements. It’s like the author didn’t know how to solve the knot of their own emotional-

Please give Shinya Iino better material to work with—I wanted to like it so bad because goddamn was it well directed!

Honestly this series and the largely rapturous reactions to it (from viewers who maybe haven't seen a lot of stories on this subject matter before) gave me strong DDLC flashbacks

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

This is sort of perfect distillation of a certain perspective: The Free Press is deeply worried about an election ushering in someone who would put individual rights at risks, to the point people have to hide their identity, while also profiting massively from a President doing exactly that.

always love being an “other.” disaggregating Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims I actually do think would be interesting in this case!

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

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no longer waiting for the asteroid

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

The Senate Democrats are late to their own press conference. It’s been an hour and 20 minutes. Is Chuck Schumer that afraid of taking a question about Zohran Mamdani?

685,000 NYPD stops on the predicate of collecting guns. Only 2% produced weapons. 85% of stops involved Black & Latino men. 3 terms with Bloomberg. Now these same wealthy New Yorkers insist that young & working class voters defer to the alleged “superior” judgment of the millionaires & billionaires.

The hundreds of thousands of Black & Latino men who were subjected to stop-and-frisk did not have the option to “leave NYC.” They endured the reign of Bloomberg - the beloved choice of elite New Yorkers - who even supported changing the law to give Bloomberg a 3rd term.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

Okay, so what if we did the mortgage-backed securities collapse again but this time the specious collateral was a business forecast of imaginary robots that plagiarize things instead of, like, houses.

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

Quite a juxtaposition

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another win for the "destroy anything good" wing of the american media

ngl this reads as partially a backlash to Teen Vogue doing relatively left-leaning journalism that built the brand around inclusiveness, intersectional feminism, and thoughtful writing in accessible language. deeply concerning

I’m against wealthy people thinking they’re entitled to public office. And that’s why I’m voting for Andrew Cuomo.

lmao of course he likes Bari Weiss

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

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This is meant to stop stores from charging more not less. This is such a perversion of what this rule is meant to do.

what else is there to say really

i will never understand the recuperation of anthropology in allegedly liberationist educational research. so much reification of things that are essentializing language as uplifting

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

East Asian cultures believe profoundly in luck and the power of ghosts too, so you bet your ass this was intentional

You can't make this up.

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