Sadly this did not end up being what I'd hoped

Imagine if instead of funneling 20% of our money into "AI" that convinces people to off themselves we built things that actually helped people

20 years after the term "Streisand effect" was coined we still have people who don't get it. amazing

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MAGA was never going to vote for these subsidies because they’re cruel. The Dems who caved on this in the first place couldn’t see it because they’re feckless. Bottom line: your healthcare shouldn’t be caught between cruelty and fecklessness. We need Medicare for All.

illegal bend #aftereffects

Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors

only thing trump and me have in common is fuckin w kei cars. the little guys. small friends. bug cars like richard scarry. i just wanna drive in a little car like this guy. unbothered, moisturized, etc

let‘s not ignore the fact that this was coined by a venture capitalist. the most hated profession in the country what better way to say “i love the rich assholes who plunder companies for everything that isn’t nailed down” than to use one of their book titles as your slogan?

if mamdani gets this in every interview, republicans should always be asked to respond to the 76% of Black voters who think their party is "very" racsist

not to sound like a goldwaterite, but voters want a choice and not an echo.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Moderate Democrats saw that voters were energized and might expect something from them, so they needed to put a stop to that ASAP

Interesting how some dems want to cave now that the shutdown is affecting flights. They can handle not paying workers, letting people on SNAP starve, letting institutions collapse, etc. but the minute someone reasonably well-off starts getting impacted they'll throw in the towel.

best ending of all time, let's be real

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Even the nyt is twisting the knife

What times we live in, folks

this is such a great encapsulation of why this race feels existential even to people outside NYC. Cuomo as the final boss of everything wrong with the current Democratic Party, Mamdani happily grabbing the third rails everyone’s told are too dangerous to touch (trans people, Muslims, socialism)

imagine seeing how popular Mamdani is by being authentic and having genuine values that support his policy proposals and then producing a guidebook telling dems where to turn the racism dial to

whenever a team of highly-paid lawyers defends a massive corporation against charges of child slavery, poisoning a town, killing workers, etc. the excuse is always "everyone deserves good representation" where is that representation now?

remember when people said trump was too rich to be bribed lol

amazing that the switch has been out for over 8 years, the steam deck for 3, and microsoft can't even come close to making a half-decent competitor to them

@mrnuclear.monster new sandwich just dropped

Ben is a cool guy and good at adventure game making

I've seen this so many times and it never fails to make me laugh. Curry's smile breaking through as he knows how he's about to deliver the final word and then his delivery is just 10/10

This is what happens when you set arbitrary quotas for a number of arrests and tell agents to grab anyone who looks latino

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally. Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

Just give people money.

the only way they can be mad at you making jokes about charlie kirk’s death while making jokes about killing south americans is because they’re racists

We're airstiking random boats because this administration loves killing brown people, not because they actually care about illegal drugs.

I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk. First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it. /1

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

It’s cool that after a right wing wacko gets shot every media organization forgets what they stood for www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

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How do we get third way to write an article scolding democrats for using “distraction” for everything trump is doing?

Challenge for democrats: maybe don’t post about everything you agree with the fascists on

“His name rhymes with Mike Cock, You could call him live wire, eye sockets, Frylock”

Don’t claim to speak for homeless people while advocating for keeping a parking lot instead of building more affordable housing.

so frustrating that all of this trump/epstein stuff has been known for years but it wasn't a news story until after he's already created concentration camps and destroyed the federal government

life-saving vaccines that have been in use for years with minuscule adverse effects: too dangerous, we need further study, they should be pulled new drugs with totally unknown efficacy or adverse effects: yeah we’ll have the tool that can’t say how many ‘r’s are in “strawberry” evaluate them

Immigrants being rounded up and sent to the worst prisons in the world forever: a distraction Trans people being cut off from health care: a distraction trump and the supreme court being openly corrupt: a distraction A young leftist Muslim man might become mayor of NYC?! QUICK! RAISE HELL!!!

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somebody should draw up articles of impeachment over this immediately. I don’t think it’ll happen because we’re too worried about a rally-round-the-flag effect that won’t happen and it’d be a coalition splitter for that reason. but it should

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

what would have been possible, what could we each have made, and done, and been, if it hadn’t been taken from us by these wretched men

We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

I'll never forgive the mainstream press for any of this I'll ridicule these feckless brunchlords until I die at my keyboard