4,000 sq ft with 3 car garage = salt of the earth 750 sq ft with some newer appliances = luxury

Nobody ever refers to a detached single family house with a garage and a yard as “luxury,” despite it being an order of magnitude more luxurious than ~98% of apartments.

“In Michigan, the oldest daughter of four reportedly scrapped plans to attend college in the fall so she could raise her three younger siblings after their widowed father was detained.”

The entire legal profession is to blame for it getting to this point. They have tolerated these conservative legal groups and given them respect and professional opportunities they didn't deserve.

TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty” -Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)

there’s a party that will empower people in their thirties on condition they wreck the country, and a party that commands everyone to line up behind septuagenarians because it’s still their turn

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

I think there needs to be a rule in journalism in this era that publishing any “people are outraged” stories should require the journalist to actual walk outside and find at least, like 3 living breathing people who give a hoot about the story.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

honestly cannot imagine doing everything required to rise to the very top of the US military brass and then having to fly halfway across the globe to listen to this dipshit lecture you on “the warrior ethos” or whatever the fuck

maybe the single most “could have been an email” meeting in the history of meetings given the logistics involved

Why even have a congress

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

this woman has been working at Nintendo for almost 20 years and nearly a decade longer than the guy she is replacing how much more qualified does she have to be lol

Well don't I feel stupid

While getting my influenza and COVID vaccine last week at a major national pharmacy, THE PHARMACIST advised me against getting my infant vaccinated, due to autism “risk.” Like you, I chose not to make a scene.

Mom at the park just told me she wasn’t going to finish her baby’s vaccine schedule because “of the new information that has come out from the CDC”. Robert Kennedy is a fucking monster.

My mom’s elderly friend says she’s not getting flu or COVID boosters anymore because RFK recommended against them, this country is fucked

There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it” It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.

feeling a little silly

See also: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

(sitting on the computer for 18 hours a day) i’m such a rugged individual haha

Have you guys seen this

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

Scoop: Trump lost the legal battle over halting the offshore Revolution Wind project after Orsted, its developer, brought reams of evidence to court alleging the government was lying about military security concerns. It’s a sign truth can empower companies Trump targets. Via @heatmap.news

This quote is literally a textbook example of a bubble. Like, I should be able to open up an economics textbook, find the chapter on Economic Bubbles, and this should be the quote in Figure A with a footnote giving context.

I cannot express how wild this quote is. This is a top tech analyst at a well-regarded firm saying that there is not enough capital to actually pay for all the stuff that NVIDIA and OpenAI has promised. It is so important that everybody realizes that *there is not enough money to do this*

Elon Musk went to Pedophile Island www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Really laughing at the exec who green lights a show but is like "I'll allow it...but only until someone in America gets shot."

Gov. Newsom has made lowering utility bills a top priority. One thing that he can do that would help both immediately and over time: sign AB 1167, now sitting on his desk, which protects Californians from having to pay for utilities' lobbying and advertising! energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

Always curious as to what people think Hamas surrendering would mean given that the PLO abandoned armed struggle in the 1990s and was met with continued occupation and settlement

Can I just say how funny it is for one of the world’s richest most powerful people to introduce a new thing from his trillion dollar company and get people hype for it and to end up with 1,600 likes after a day

It’s good when the guy that controls the guns is more worried about giving a speech that makes him feel like a big boy than anything else

This is, of course, one of the characteristic features of fascism: they are allowed to lie and impose violence. You are not allowed to complain about it. You are not even allowed to say it out loud or write it down!

The US conservative movement has organized & funded a massive anti-wind power campaign, based on lies & bullying. Researchers at Brown University have been investigating & revealing that campaign. Now cons are pressuring the university to shut the investigators down.

Personally I think it’s great that senior military leadership will all be able to chat in person about how little they respect this man and his boss.

The real thing that kills the staff here, I am reliably informed, is that it’s the end of the damned fiscal year and they are drowning in shit to do lol

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Pete Hegseth orders all the military brass positioned around the world to convene at one location because he wants to show them something. They arrive there and he's pointing next to the jungle gym at kind of a cool bug

“Their place in history is settled,” he said in a way that would surely never look ironic in retrospect

Here's a fascinating wrinkle in the Charlie Kirk martyrdom process. This is a totally made up story about a mural in Serbia honoring Charlie Kirk's time playing on an all-white basketball team in Chicago. None of this seems to be true, but there's a whole imaginary world out there in which it is.

i do think it's bad that some people don't read all my tweets

slipping a tylenol into my wife's drink so my next kid will like baseball

It is just a lie to say this is beneath this administration’s professional standards

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