If you were born in the US, and your parents were citizens too, you've likely never even thought about not being a citizen. Your citizenship just ~is~. Now take that away. Would your citizenship be contingent on your race? Religion? Gender identity? "Good behavior?" Education? Income? Politics?

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

Not to be a "we used to build stuff in this country" guy but we used to build architectural marvels in (intending no undue disrespect to southern Ohio) southern Ohio

JD Vance hates his own wife and children.

The implicit assumption here is that trans girls don't deserve college scholarships to go to college.

Where’s the EPA dude from Ghostbusters when you need him?

Reminder: “energy is too cheap and abundant” is only a problem for investors, not for people. Renewable energy is a public good.

It is certainly not too much to ask for someone in Congressional leadership to say they are concerned this wasn't a 9-0 vote and that signals a lot of work to be done to counter this racist nativist ahistorical anti-American movement.

personally I think we should immediately impeach supreme court justices who are willing to lie about the plain meaning of the 14th amendment

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

the president can negotiate with congress. the president can offer proposals and suggestions. but the only direct control the president has over lawmaking is his ability to veto! once something is signed into law, he is constitutionally obligated to "faithfully execute" it!

Remember, these things were trained not just on all of GitHub and StackOverflow, but also on the scripts of every horribly written computer movie ever made.

next journalist who interviews vance about his faith should ask him about his role in ethnically cleansing his co religionists

Apparently, that was last year's race car. Here is this year's. I am delighted with this.

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.

This is complete madness.

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

Tax the Rich is a moderate position. Rule of Law is a moderate position. Abolish ICE is a moderate position. Impeach the President is a moderate position. What is radical is accepting fascism without a fight.

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...

democrats who don’t take loud and firm stances in favor of the regulation if AI and prediction markets are leaving votes on the table. also easy ways to demonstrate your independence from SV billionaires www.semafor.com/article/06/2...

*squints at thousands of years of literature*

“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV

I guess this wasn't news last year because Haberman & Swan needed to make money publishing books instead of doing their jobs.

U.S. government claiming Musk has the right to poison Memphis because xAI is "vital" to national security, because the Pentagon signed a contract with them. Elite immunity is a cancer that causes cancer, among countless other ills. www.wired.com/story/doj-la...

New York City is the most perfectly "American" place in the nation, just one wave of newcomers after another, gradually building up the culture, one remarkable cultural collision after another. MAGA chuds hate NYC not because it's awful but because it disproves every lie they tell about immigration

i really, truly, find this offensive

A gun in your home is much more likely to hurt someone you love vs. a stranger intent on doing you harm.

this is what "keeping a republic" means

The violent race riots in Belfast are exactly what Trump, JD Vance, and Fox News were trying to make happen to Haitians in Ohio during the campaign and what they wanted to happen to Somalis in Minneapolis as well

Markwayne Mullin is racist, cruel, and outright evil. This is a very bad person intent on destroying everything good about this country.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

When these people insist the mere presence of people unlike them is an attack on them, their country, or their rights, this is exactly the outcome they are seeking, and disappointment among far right Trumpists is largely that he failed to produce events like this here. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

kalshi and polymarket should, flatly, be regulated out of existence I'm generally not big on moral arguments for this stuff but they are tremendously destructive to civil society as a whole

Part of me is like, "wait, there are people in this field who don't think in terms of systems?" And then I realize that, of course, the vast majority of them don't, which entirely explains *gestures around*

this just feels like the perfect example of what is wrong with ALL OF THIS. it's a decently written letter full of words that feel almost true, supposedly from a person who is in fact an editor. and it is totally divorced from even the most obvious context of the world in which it exists.

We’re the bad guys.

I think that if you understand what’s happening here as “none of us have a clue what we’re doing but we’ve bought these magic beans off a wizard and we’re quite optimistic” then that will cover you for most of the ensuing outcomes.

At this point the term "NIMBY" has become a thought-terminating cliche. Sometimes a proposed development project... is bad. Sometimes people are justified in not wanting something in their local community. Adopting a default stance that all regulation over construction is bad is... extreme.

Honestly a lot of the data center counter-backlash on here is basically "I don't know why there's such animosity towards hog farms, my neighbor has a strawberry patch and I barely notice." The current build-out of hyperscale data centers is not particularly comparable to existing cloud DCs.

DragonLance Legends, the Musical? Yes, please! Unfortunately it’s in Russian. But still! @jowrotethis.bsky.social I assume you are aware of this?

I was like "yeah I guess bisexual people probably do have cool lighting" lol

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

How about… the professor?

“In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, all of us.” This 1940s film warning against bigotry and fascism is more relevant now than ever.

He’s literally taking the side of the Nazis with this metaphor.

Reframe the question and it becomes very clear. If you hire a manager to run your estate can that manager burn down the buildings on your estate or chop it and sell it off in parcels? Pretty obviously not. The president doesn't own the country. He's hired to administer it for four years.