I mean, maybe this is something about knowing your audience? I have 15k followers and in the last week I’ve had one post get 18,000 likes and 3300 shares, and another with 2100 likes and just shy of 400 shares. And I’m not trying, I’m just posting things that occasionally resonate for people

Yeah, I really only understand how these things work at the surface level, but conceptually it’s so weird and I think that’s neat. Good thread!

can I make a suggestion

Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted

This is not in fact the definition of the “working class.”

I have a pin with crossed NATO and trans flags that I got from @philo.gay on my hat and apparently it's now a very topical one

The phrasing of the question is a dead give away that it’s asked in bad faith and they’re right to duck it

Liberal internationalism is American in the best sense. To support it is to support the ideal of America. (Fully acknowledging that both America and liberal internationalism frequently fail to live up to their ideal selves.)

"Long Angeles"

You know, this is only vaguely related, but I'm very curious if there are societies which make the transition to middle-income / high-income countries in such a way that they largely skip widespread adoption of the ICE. I suppose you could argue China has already done that.

I myself am partial to Long Chile

the goal is for twitter, palantir, anduril, and maybe a few others to become like IG Farben under Nazi Germany and to fuse directly with the government, which will provide them access to government money and probably slave labor in return for assistance with propaganda and violence

big ol' maglev to Chicago

Something I'm struggling with articulating well is the following: I'm patriotic in the sense that I believe in the ideal of America, but I'm also a liberal internationalist to the core and if I were to chose my loyalties in this moment, it's to internationalism.

To be clear: *we* mutilated that reputation and trust by electing him. That we chose this is on us as a collective even if as individuals we voted against it.

“Catholic personnel in the US military could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland, according to the bishop responsible for their pastoral care.” www.thetablet.co.uk/news/broglio...

yes, just requiring Americans to submit to a visa application process to visit the EU would be a good move.

Oh yeah this is the stuff. Catholic clergy singing from the Internationale.

Students of history will realize that the lesson here here is for California and Massachusetts to rapidly develop breakout capacity and establish trade agreements with Canada.

It is not Europe's job to protect us from the consequences of our elections. They've got a responsibility to defend Greenland from imperialist aggression.

Relatedly, Paprika should embrace a single AI feature: Be damn smart enough to figure out that these are the same ingredient and consolidate my shopping list.

It's a mild and common complaint, but as much as I like cooking, I hate meal planning when Faine is away. It's challenging to scale meals down to one person and I can only eat leftovers so many days in a row.

i support The BIgger Dig

NEOM USA

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows. “Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”

We really need actual political parties that can withdraw the whip from members that don’t toe the party line

I'm watching literal Nazis register to run as Democrats because they want to either (a) trick people not paying attention (b) take advantage of the good natured people believing you can change and that's why we're here now.

Or better would be to call that greater Chicagoland. As Chicago is the center of that. We're better at dealing with the Boston and LA people anyway.

Me, logging on and checking the news, every day

Okay is there context I’m missing here because my read of this is Miller saying that Walz and Frey have ordered the police to stand down and thus the Feds are the only ones standing preventing a slide into lawlessness. Which is you know, also a complete lie, but in a wildly different way

Employers, hear Zoe out on this. As a bonus, they'll work for you too. (prior repost deleted due to me needing to update my brain on Zoe's behalf)

Me, logging on and checking the news, every day

You've heard of Megachussets, but hear me out: The Greater Los Angeles Linear City

Me, logging on and checking the news, every day

The idea of “LGB without the T” was that turning on trans people would save gay people but I don’t think that’s how this works

Just here to add "Life, so far, etc." like everyone else

This is a hell of a thing to be under the editorial board byline

Just read this for 1st time and liked it a lot! I think the settlement described here is just the American instantiation of what I'd have called neoliberalism (tbc Samantha is aware of the overlap and gives her reasons for preferring a different term) and I agree that it's broken down in these ways.

In the run up to WWI, socialists talked a big game about international solidarity, but largely fell in line when war broke out. Contra them, the international right, at its core, is constructed around herrenvolk nationalism, so this seems utterly predictable.

The issue is, will it break our global alliances in the process, and I think in order for it to break the Trump presidency it has to do that. The damage will be done even if the medium term outcome is a relative value of good

Heck, Trump PNG'd South Africa's ambassador because he rightly called out his and Musk's racist white genocide lie. bsky.app/profile/bung...

it's a good day to leave a message in your elected officials' voicemail box!

NEW: Joint Statement by Cardinals Cupich, McElroy, and Tobin on “Morality of US Foreign Policy”: “We renounce war as an instrument for narrow national interests and proclaim that military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy.”

We just published an internship project titled "No Lone Wolves," which covers connections between terrorists who are typically viewed as acting alone. I'm thrilled we're able to work with interns to make projects like this happen, and so proud of the work completed. revontulet.co/insights/no-...

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

this doesnt end before we all listen to kpop

Call your congressperson and demand they point out Trump has no funding to do this.

We need to invent this position and I can't even think of the mechanism by which we could select it, let alone get anyone to take it seriously.