The irony that the time Conservatives want to go back to is also the time that rich people paid the most taxes should not be lost on people

this is so weird

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

A recent study found that AI-assisted police reports are less accurate than ones drafted by real people. This is unacceptably dangerous. We cannot allow law enforcement's insatiable desire for new technologies endanger our rights.

this one for sure, the og hardcover, with this art

NEW: U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's office reacts to Thursday's "Broadview Six" revelations. The former lead prosecutor in the case had serving as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now Durbin's office says her detail from the Justice Department "has been terminated."

have you taken time to appreciate the irony of the fact that the song that made Pink Floyd rich was a song about how money ruins everyone

Almost like every version of "Harris lost because she didn't do/say exactly what I personally wanted" was total bullshit!

Reality bath from @gelliottmorris.com: Given Biden approval rating & inflation/consumer sentiment, "the surprise of the [2024] election is that Harris did as well as she did...the Dem nominee was on track to lose the popular vote by 4 points. She lost by 1.5." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-au...

a thing I occasionally keep in mind is that the own-party dam broke on Nixon in August of a midterm year

Please stop saying Trump is responsible for all the horrible things that are happening. He’s too stupid to think of these things. This is Vought and the Heritage Foundation Nazis. Go after them.

it's the Trump-McConnell slush fund afaic Mitch, you did this and you know it

“America has always been like this” responses to “Orange Man Bad” posts annoy me. Obama didn’t post a video of him dumping his own fecal matter from a F-18 on his critics, then threaten to go to war with Denmark. That isn’t true.

Good get fucked.

this is true and the problem is that a discredited DoJ is a goal of Trumpism

to use cars as a metaphor for our infotech environment: we all take taxis everywhere. even car experts. everyone dependent on cars but nobody you know actually owns one. because to own a car still means you have to know how to fix it - all of it, at any moment - and it breaks all the time.

I don't like the middleman. the internet was created to be decentralized. a normal person should be able to host at home, plus an optional scaling layer that can be added independently. I'm talking mail, blog, commerce, you name it.

How the case of the "Broadview Six" ends: With jaw-dropping revelations — days before trial — that could haunt the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s office for years. My UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story on the permanent dismissal of their criminal charges: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

These prosecutors who made my family’s life hell for a year are criminals. I want justice and we’ll seek it. This can’t happen again.

shareware is what everyone wants but it's literally incompatible with capitalism

Finally switched to DuckDuckGo and it’s nice to not have LLM summaries anymore

Worldbuilding beyond the scope of the story you say?

it is amazing that Ds can win election after election by enormous swings and people just keep repeating "Ds can't win" as if they are stuck in november 2024 forever.

The New York Times editorial board: “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals.”

it's probably gonna take a lot more data centers to solve global warming

there is one word every Democratic politician needs to be saying right now and that is CLAWBACK

things are dumber than ever

there is one word every Democratic politician needs to be saying right now and that is CLAWBACK

There does not exist a single Nazi who’s like…socially progressive, fiscally fascist. That’s not a thing. To a man, they believe in their soul of souls that some people are genetically superior to others, and those others are drains on society. (This is why I dislike “degenerate”.)

If data centres are so beneficial, they should only be built in high end neighbourhoods or on 18 hole golf courses.

Democrats have the ability to campaign on messaging like THEY ARE GIVING YOUR MONEY TO TERRORISTS and they wouldn't be lying. Now will they capitalize on that? We shall see.

sure is a lot of chatter on main about raising taxes in a country that has a trillion dollar war budget

Cornyn could absolutely have his revenge on the way out, but he won't, because he's a feeble piece of shit.

This is not a sane world.

"everyone uses ai" is the new "replace trolleys with street parking" but it's brains

all anyone hears about is the enormous relative energy use of every prompt *and they're still giving them away for free with every search* people treat these solutions as efficient because they're *subsidized* if you had to pay the real cost of each prompt almost nobody would be using it!

everyone gets the first parking spot now

the wildest part is all the other Republicans stand around watching as Trump destroys one after the other, when it would take so few of them to be rid of him

Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.

pretty sweet that we give tax breaks to billionaires and corporations so they can build AI to find a cancer cure they can sell to us for outrageous profits

the united states is being groomed as a captive cash cow market for the final thirty years of the fossil fuel industry as the rest of the world moves on without us

you would think polymarket would be able to predict this outcome

shot / chaser

BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.

where is the apartment with only a microwave and no other way to make food and no electrical outlets this seems maybe illegal?

When talking about Trump's slush fund, please make sure to mention that Jan 6ers were convicted by juries of their peers. Neither Biden nor Merrick Garland convicted them. Ordinary citizens found them guilty. This is a huge distinction that must be highlighted to refute the weaponization charge.

a lot of people in government acting like there cannot possibly be consequences