Politicians like Blair, who have retreated entirely into the Davos bubble of wealthy oligarchs, are especially vulnerable to this phenomenon:

You need to accept that this is a struggle over cultural meanings & symbologies, mythologies & totems, subterranean fears & desires, not some straightforward factual dispute over The Science. You gotta play the game that's being played.

A gallon of gas was $1.11 the last time the Knicks made the NBA finals

Reminder that formerly enslaved Black people started Memorial Day. It was initially called Decoration Day as they decorated the graves of Union troops. “As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free”

China has developed a battery that is based on sea salt. Not lithium. It is now being used in Chinese vehicles. It’s more efficient, can hold 90% of its charge at -40c, provides a range of 500 kms, cheap to manufacture, and better for the environment. The US is being left in the dust.

Think of CO₂ removal like a time machine. How far back does planting 100 million trees take us? One mature tree takes up ~25 kg of CO₂/year, so 100 million trees will take up 2.5 MtCO₂. That's a time machine that takes us back ~33 minutes in a year. Nature will not save us from fossil fuel CO₂.

STATUS REPORT: Fraud kidfuckers control all levels of government. Also there’s this one posting site that’s not really my vibe so we gotta solve that first

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

They showed this version in schools for maybe 15 years and literally no one in my class had any reaction to a black woman being in it, someone yesterday said Eartha Kitt was Helen of Troy in 1950 and I looked it up and it was Orson Welles who cast her because she was a cabaret dancer and was hot!

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Just rampant unchecked corruption right out in the open. Our radical right wing government is insanely corrupt.

🎯🎯🎯 Phrasing is everything. You can easily design questions to get the answers you want. Especially with ambiguous terms like “the left” and “the center”. Everyone defines them differently.

Two months ago. [March 15]

If your byline sits atop a think-piece this morning about how Donald Trump is still a powerful political monolith because he can get GOP voters in deep red districts to heed his endorsement in primary contests, you need to go find an actual journalist and let him use you to wipe his ass clean.

Just lie after lie after lie. Billionaires are legitimately bad for society and inimical to life on earth. They should be taxed out of existence: let’s go back to Reagan era tax brackets & have a 100% tax on all wealth over 500 million. I think they can scrape out a meager existence on 500 million.

These RCT results (via Swayable) get at the big problem. The right wing immigration ads Dems ran both built public support for the ICE nightmare we are living now, AND were politically disastrous, showing clear backfire on candidate choice questions. They made voters want to vote for Trump.

There should be more screaming about all the corruption. And a corruption-watch/tally/list updated daily. Plus projections on DC federal buildings and airplanes trailing banners. Also Trump in jail.

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

I’ve never really been an Our Tax Dollars guy but all the blatant corruption, ballroom, slush fund for rioting pedophiles etc is really throwing me into a permanent state of rage and bloodlust. Something’s gotta give

Five hours later, this staggering, perverted act of gargantuan corruption is not even one of the top 10 news stories on the NYT homepage. NYT has normalized Trump’s degeneracy.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

kilmar abrego garcia's lawyers should publicly demand a chunk of this money, i'm dead serious

The man who bankrupted a casino has now also managed to produce the first football world cup nobody wants to attend, there has never been anyone else who ever possessed this level of ability at failing

Whoa! I wonder if the new luxury box optimizing design of arenas (and crazy expensive lower bowl seats) is diminishing the home crowd effect.

"For the third straight time, a Dem president handed a GOP president an economy that was at the least pretty good...for the third straight time, the GOPer made things worse." Essential @mjtoma.bsky.social: Trump's policies are directly to blame in a truly rare way: newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

Maybe a dumb question, but can DOJ just fork over $1.7 bn dollars to a slush fund without congress appropriating that money? Maybe it's already appropriated for some other purpose? Geninely not clear to me how they actually do it.

The same mindset drove the positioning at the convention. Basically from the moment she passed him after a couple weeks in, the people running her campaign started adding drag in big and little ways, every day. The whole thing became an exercise in weird tacks right to try to seem moderate.

Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. The President's corruption is a national security disaster.

The maker of jets that crashed and killed everyone onboard and the carmaker fined tens of millions for mishandled recalls have suddenly decided to sponsor their top regulator's reality show purely for the love of the open road www.wsj.com/business/boe...

Worth a read. This is insane. Trump sues his own government and negotiates a settlement with people he appointed and ends up with a $1.7 billion slush fund to dole out to whoever he wants. Wildly illegal, unconstitutional, and stupid in every possible way. America is so cooked.

In addition to fighting back against GOP gerrymandering, here’s another reason why state-level races so important in 2026: if Dems win trifectas in combo of MI, PA, WI, NV & AZ they can put National Popular Vote Interstate Compact over 270 electoral votes & elect next president with popular vote

Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff struck student protesters with his car. This is why.

The media pushed Biden out for confusing the names of Zelenskyy and Putin at a press conference just like this, they called every notable Democrat in their contacts to ask “should he drop out,” but when Trump does it they say the president has strong views on the success of his recent meeting

Nonsense. ~70% of Americans agree on all kinds of things. The problem is our deeply antidemocratic institutions, which empower the 30% to control the government & regularly block all of the many policies favored by the 70%. That, & the fact that the GOP is now a far right authoritarian party.

An emboldened Democratic majority must immediately pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, fight the far-right's redistricting scheme with every power we can summon, and expand the Supreme Court. We need Democrats who are ready for this battle. (2/2)

Don’t forget the basic research that made it all possible. Ozempuc originally comes from discoveries from Gila monster venom. Let’s stop the attacks on basic research, and enable the discoveries of the future. SamForNJ.org

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This week, instead of voting on bills to lower grocery, housing, health care, or energy costs, Speaker Johnson has chosen to focus on partisan, fear-driven legislation. That’s where things stand in Congress right now: no action to lower costs for working families, just more political theater.

The best part is Turley suggests that by posting the VA Bill of Rights I am disregarding the founders. The Virginia Bill of Rights was written by George Mason -- one of the most influential of the founders. It served as a model for another Virginian named Thomas Jefferson.

Make the rich pay their fair share!!

7/7 This entire building in the center of Manhattan was expected to have fewer than a dozen full-time residents. It was designed to provide the ultra-wealthy with palatial homes (often full floor) for the few weeks each year they spent in NYC.” These are the targets of Mamdani’s tax.

its just bizarre to me to say that bluesky is a siloed off bubble detached from real debate when everyone over here hates the president with a 30% approval and everyone over there thinks things are going so well that we have entered a 1000 year conservative reign

This is some great research on how algorithms shape us: 'Users who switched from the chronological feed to the “For You” feed were 4.7 percentage points more likely to prioritise policy issues favoured by US Republicans (for example, crime, inflation and immigration).' 🧪

What's happening here is that the Missouri secretary of state is stalling certifying these signatures even though they were submitted in DECEMBER, basically ignoring the constitutional process to make sure his party wins an extra seat.

By authorizing new Alabama gerrymander dismantling majority-Black district ONE WEEK before primary Roberts Court violated every norm & precedent it claims to follow Running out of ways to describe how partisan, hackish & corrupt this court is www.motherjones.com/politics/202...