I've been an impeachment 3.0 skeptic, but I think there's a fair argument here that the slush fund is so bad it's worth pulling that trigger for

A tangent here, but I'm not a huge fan of the growing anti-tax sentiment from Democrats at a time when municipal budgets around the country (including here in Massachusetts) are getting absolutely crushed by the one-two punch of falling federal/state aid and rising healthcare and retirement costs.

America’s great innovation is the abolition of the landed gentry. Aggressive taxation of the rich, including confiscatory estate taxes, is the best cure for this new oligarchic infestation.

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

another great example of how short-form video is perfectly calibrated for advancing arguments that have great emotional appeal but fall apart under serious scrutiny

Raising taxes to pay for expanded and improved government services is literally the opposite of austerity politics. Anti-tax leftism has got to be strangled in the crib before it destroys what scant hope we have of ever implementing a social democratic system in America.

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

Glad everyone is stoked with the numbers but boy... This is one of the most game designers games I've played in a while. Don't sleep on it, even if it's a slow burn. Well worth it.

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

1. it has been, GP is sailing to a party nomination with literally no qualifications so yes it has been excused 2. Platner also excused and victim blamed sexual assault and people got yelled at for pointing that out. fuck whatever weird fantasy version of this election you got.

Looking at the conspiracy laden discourse I really can't get on board with the idea that knowing basic physics, chemistry, and math aren't every bit as necessary for self government as civics

I don't you can really separate the two of these in K-12--not well, at least. You can't have an aware citizenry without substantial STEM (and humanities) skills. And the practical skills ppl need for their adult life are essential to public participation.

Omg… the way these studies have been done.. we need proper studies.

Sally Ride, beloved astronaut.

Honestly, full expropriation of the assets of any individual or company getting a slush fund payment — and I mean *full,* from their truck to their grandma’s china to their toothbrush — feels like the MINIMUM here.

Donald Trump bought this guy a new pick up with your tax dollars. Seems like a decent talking point to me.

this continues to be the dumbest point, because it's basically 'yes, this is genocide, but what about what people who don't know anything about genocide think genocide has to be?'

Simply displacing Trump from power in the next two elections is insufficient. We must undo the incredible damage he has done to democracy -- including voiding and expropriating all of the corrupt deals Trump has made.

Stealing tax payer money to empower traitors. This is remarkably disturbing.

One thing many folks don’t know is that gas and diesel taxes haven’t been enough to cover highway costs for nearly 20 years, and the government uses regular old tax revenue to make up the shortfalls. t4america.org/2025/05/22/t...

Here’s another thing folks might not know, a truck does about 10,000 times the damage to a road than a car does. blog.ucs.org/dave-cooke/t...

They are raising taxes on electric vehicles but not on gasoline vehicles. It’s bad policy during an energy crisis but also during any other time too.

I hate the question "A society functions better when most people share a common set of cultural values and traditions rather than each person defining their own" - it slides in an assumption that Sadiq Khan and Cem Özdemir don't share society's traditions but Tommy Robinson and Björn Höcke do.

anyway yet again I am begging anyone who wants to know the basics about China to learn what a 'hukou' is

I don't know where this bizarre idea that China has universal health care comes from, but it very much does not by any normal standard. It has a highly tiered system that brutally discriminates against rural patients and imposes often crippling financial costs.

Yeah so I think any ambiguity with "degrowth" mostly boils down to growthers trying to frame the notion of ecological limits as intrinsically ridiculous and reactionary

I cannot count the number of times I have had people insist that something like this is not antisemitic because it objects to “Zionists” not Jews, that indeed it is antisemitism on my part when I object because I am equating “Zionists” with all Jews

this is why, when we win, we gotta win all the way.

The real wreckers are neither DSA nor centrists but members of either faction who care more about winning intra-party factional struggles than they do about defeating fascism.

Third Way inadvertently demonstrating the real problem, which is the failure of such groups to behave like part of a real political party

honestly it does feel like the entirely logical outcome of years of leaning into shit about how the top 1% can pay for all social spending and only the billionaires need to be taxed and only these ten companies cause climate change etc

Anyway, the right is winning on eroding trans rights right now because - there aren't a lot of trans people - most trans people are poor - no one is getting rich off of trans healthcare That's the kind of battle where they are most dangerous and most successful.

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

"could be" IT WILL IT FUCKING WILL SAY THE FUCKING WORDS, YOU USELESS BASTARDS! SAY THE WORDS!

every extra dollar you pay in groceries this summer is the fault of donald trump specifically and the republican party generally and if you don’t understand that, you’re the sucker

I have been reading Sarah Caudwell's novels (British murder mysteries about tax law and gender performance) aloud to my partners in the car lately. Everyone is delighted by this.

whomst could hath predicted

The biggest problem Biden had is that he ALSO presided over the (unsurprisingly) contraction of the tech and journalism sectors after COVID ended. And guess which two industries have the largest, loudest presence on social media? They turned their shitty economy into THE economy.

The bucket of water is on the idea that it is *cool* and *fun* and above all *harmless* to believe whatever you want. It is a responsibility. And we can't escape our responsibilities to actual reality, history, and our relationships to other people and things without producing a pseudo-reality.

Excited about the potential of this solution but skeptical of the claim of full biodegradability. It can be hard to tell "biodegradability" from mere fragmentation into microplastic, and while the visual inspection results are impressive I don't think they can distinguish the two.

funny how we all managed to hold these kinds of things till he had in the bag and not when it would make a difference, by design of course.

People are on this site defending watering lawns and non-native plants in their efforts to complain about data centers, and come on, if you're defending wildly environmentally destructive horticulture practices that waste massive amounts of water, your data center complaints are purely aesthetic.

This gets the problem wrong. Voters don't connect policies to jobs and savings because 1) the media ecosystem is broken 2) Dems don't do enough to provoke conflict and attention around their messaging frames. But you can't get an oped published with that argument. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

Cenk doesn't give a fuck about dead Iranians if the Iranian government killed them. He's always been a real piece of shit but it's become even more evident in recent years.

the Years of Lead are not something you want to live through regardless of your politics, I promise you that

False citations are so bizarre to me. I do use AI as a research assistant, but having it pull real papers to Zotero after doing an extensive search, remind me what paper in my library had X fact, etc is tbh far easier than correcting mistakes after the fact (even leaving intellectual honesty aside.)

4GB is roughly five hours of browsing TikTok, fwiw.