If you can’t tax billionaires & trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity. If it’s not real enough to tax—it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage. Abolish billionaires—Protect working people.

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

Talarico can win but I don't think it'll be because GOP voters cross party lines; it'll be based on getting independents/"moderates" (whatever that means!) and turning out first-time voters. And the good news is that's very doable. Especially when you have $40m dollars in the bank.

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

Today Republicans are going to go on television and lie their ass off about protesters being paid with zero evidence and they will get no pushback and I’m already furious about it.

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

it's not even about the ridiculous things they keep saying, and it would really be great if any journalist would ever remind them of this, because the list of things they say you need an ID to do are not rights guaranteed to you by the U.S. Constitution, while voting is.

We apparently have planes to fly Kash Patel & other Trump cabinet members & their pals via private jet. Yet we cant rescue Americans stranded in areas that are now war zones?

The MSM presumption is that leading with faith must mean you're trying to win over Republicans. But lots of Democrats are religious. They just tend to focus their exercise of faith in the political realm more on the plight of the poor and oppressed rather than on abortion and anti-LGBTQ beliefs.

If the US has set a precedent of deposing or killing leaders of sovereign nations because they are "bad people," why could some decent-minded force elsewhere in the world not see the opening to depose the current head of the US because he's awful? Where's the line?

To all those who are saying "I did not vote for this, this is not what I voted for when I voted for him!" - Yes, you did. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. We told you. We warned you. You didn't listen.

🇺🇸 🏒 Captain hilary knight : “The joke was distasteful & unfortunate— Now I have to sit in front of you and explain someone else's behavior. It's not my responsibility… It’s a great teaching point to really shine light on how women should be championed for their amazing feats.”

Sanders: The other day, Trump said, “We are living in the best economy in the history of the world.” Well, he’s right — for him and his billionaire friends, he’s exactly right. But not for ordinary Americans.

Gun Owners of America is lobbying Congress to pass the SAVE Act, which would require a majority of Americans to show a passport to register to vote. But GOA opposes any law that requires showing a drivers license to buy a gun. These are not serious people.

Tech companies: If I want to use AI, I will open up an LLM or other AI tool. I do not need you forcing it on me in every single application and website I use. It's tiring and it's almost never useful.

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

why can't any AI ad find a useful application for AI?

Only JD Vance would visit Milan and bring his own food with him.

Why do people report that Trump has shut down the Kennedy Center “for two years”? What has he DONE: Shut it down. What has he PROMISED: To reopen it in 2 years. What is REPORTED: The promise. What do we KNOW: Trump always lies.

Why take the trouble to *act* like a genuine follower of Christ when you can simply wear jewelry to advertise it?

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

This is happening a lot to female journalists. So here is a modest proposal for the White House press corps: Stand together. No one should ask another question until the President answers the question that was ignored.

Prime Minister Carney is killing it here: "I greenlit this thing!"

The only reason Homan replaced Bovino as the face of the occupation is because his lies are more polished and he doesn’t dress like a member of the Third Reich in public. But the policies and the state instigated violence remain unchanged.

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

A stark moment in this morning's hearing in Minnesota when an attorney for the state is staying this:

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm via hearts530

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Journalists aren’t supposed to report “both sides.” They are supposed to report the truth. DHS is not telling the truth. Stop reporting their lies.

Hey MAGA and GOP Republicans - you probably haven’t seen a demonstration of true religious faith before - so here you go:

As with all things Trump, wait until you see a signed agreement with specifics, and wait until you see who signs it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

At her estimate of $15.64 per person per day, a family of three would need $1407.60 to feed the family, yet the maximum monthly SNAP benefit for that family is only $785 and the average benefit is $588. She's unwittingly making the case to raise SNAP benefits.

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

Jacob Frey told ICE agents to get the fuck out of Minneapolis, a hugely popular viral moment, and the media has been browbeating him over it ever since. Trump flipped a guy off and told him fuck you and it’s barely acknowledged.

They’re investigating the victim, not the killer

Why are people assuming US troops and not Eric Prince employees will enforce US order in Venezuela?

If every other tech company had focused on being responsible with developing quality AI tools/LLMs instead of rushing garbage out so as not to "fall behind," there would be so much consumer backlash to all the "AI tools" we're being inundated with from all sides. This tech wasn't and isn't ready.

Strange takes on Mayor Zamdani swearing his oath on the Qu’ran. It has nothing to do with church & state. The point of the oath is for the person swearing in to do so upon some text that is sacred TO THEM. Some Presidents swore in w/o any book. John Quincy Adams was sworn on a law book. His choice.

He has always been the author of his own legend, and too much of the media for decades have helped him launder those fictions.

— They consider Epstein’s associates victims — They already failed to protect the real victims in the initial release

"No mainstream reporter has the stomach to say, 'By the way, this administration lies all the time and we should assume this is a lie too' after every unsupported statement." They should, because it's true.

What oil, what land, what assets did Venezuela steal from the US? And when? A social media post from an alternative reality.

the thing they don’t seem to get is that outside the right-wing ecosystem, no one even knows who they are. after charlie kirk’s death my normie friends were all “christ who IS this guy,” so yeah, i’m not surprised there isn’t much audience for the wife of that guy they’d never heard of.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

AP on Trump now, and Biden in June 2022. For Trump, declining to 36 percent approval is “good news.” For Biden, holding steady at 41% is “a source of concern.”

Seems a little wild that DHS would call me out by name and say that this scene is offensive to Christians. I like seperation in my church and state. Moreover, what's offensive to Christians is the dehumanization that DHS and ICE are practicing. That is evil and an offense to God - not my nativity.

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?