sam altman is just a sales guy with one goal: getting obscenely rich in silicon valley. his big thing previously was an app where you can find your friends on a map and after he sold it it turned out to have 500 users. he's not a stemlord he's just a run of the mill song and dance flim flam man

It was very much on the table coming into this year. Yes, it's a low bar. Fascism has consolidated a massive amount of power. We do ourselves no favors by telling ourselves otherwise. But it hasn't taken all that it wanted, and that's even more important to remember.

I’ve seen a million media stories about how sad Republican voters in CA are about losing their Republican representatives. But I don’t think I’ve seen a single one talking about Demoratic voters in Texas, or North Carolina, or Missouri losing their representatives.

Like we need to occupy some of this ‘Israel is not the U.S. and our interests are not congruent’ rhetorical space and not concede it entirely to Nick Fuentes

It’s pretty crazy that Cindy McCain got appointed to the World Food Program and has since done genuine advocacy for Palestinians in Gaza while her useless daughter is always saying shit like “if my father were alive today he would say the 14 words.”

the bones of what's needed are there; they just are starved for funding compared to the right and mainstream capitulators like NYT, Atlantic, WaPo.

if someone wanted to start rectifying the media landscape, it's not complicated. give a shit ton of money to ProPublica, Bolts, Liberal Currents, The New Republic, alt weeklies. like, not some sort of sexy new start up. just fund the fuck out of current liberal/left media. 1

Ah yes, this will make the technology that is burning money hand and fist and struggling to get enough paying customers to stay afloat more marketable.

Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.

It's not about immigration, never has been. Immigration is just the acceptable way into a debate about far darker policies. Just look at how remigration is seeping into acceptable discourse. Labour needs to stop chasing these voters, they're gone, no way to satisfy them that isn't monstrous

this is right on the merits but Gen Z is going to be permanently republican lol

I am being gradually converted to British style unwritten constitutionalism because "it works how we all think it works" is a much more sensible system than this "if you read the constitution backwards while standing on one leg and divide every third word by the number of vowels" bullshit.

Like I know I know this is an obvious statement it’s just that every proper noun and verb in a news story about Trump feels like war crimes mad libs and sometimes that just catches me off guard

that's a lot of gender affirming care Nick is looking for, there.

It would be nice if Congress decided to exist and rein in this blatantly illegal activity. www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

This is the very essence of Twitter under Musk. Did you know that the biggest Medicare fraudster in Minnesota—Philip Esformes—is a well known MAGA activist who was pardoned by Trump? He then moved to Florida, where he was arrested again for fraud activities. Medicare fraudsters should be prosecuted

why are my trans friends still on x saying “passoid” why are political pundits saying “lookmaxxing” why are people sharing AI mewing videos thinking they’re just “random ridiculous viral trends” this is so bizarre and deeply rooted and a tot it’s just a rot my god

everyone i love who still uses x dot com now uses far right lingo thinking its just cute funny memes because all these fashies infiltrated their bar and AHH its just so bad its so bad its so bad

I didn't want to have to delete these sites but I can see I must.

can you imagine a bunch of trannies (affectionate) singing "Doll Parts." C'MON, WE'RE COOKING HERE

wait this fucks. who wants to be in this band with me (we're called "he/him/hole")

I've started getting fertility/pregnancy treatment ads aimed at ciswomen which I believe is the transfemme version of this.

Bari Weiss actually *is* being held to a very different standard: a much lower one. Because she tells slop-brained right-wing elites whatever validates their cultural insecurities, she might be the only example of a bisexual woman being promoted despite being completely mediocre.

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Absolutely going to evangelize about it: working to get out of the cardio mindset I was taught (suffer as hard as possible to 'earn' calories to eat) into the cardio mindset I wanted (a lovely slow nature run to help my brain and my heart) was one of the best things I've ever done. Good luck!

100% agree and co-sign. My parents could not understand why I kept bringing it up but Chicago Pope killed me.

I'm an outlier on this because I'm only sockless in the shower.

my father was born in 1945 and i guess i'm very fortunate for all this to still be in living memory for him. there were plenty of cases of "just childhood diseases" of people on his street in the early 50s who wouldn't be able to come to play anymore because they had fuckking died.

young people have always looked for a safe place to put their secrets that can’t judge their feelings! it’s why kids like to keep diaries. the difference is that a notebook will never actively encourage mental illness or explicitly validate suicidal ideation

It is a recurring frustration that mainstream coverage adopts the framing of these people as pushing for more free speech against people who support some stronger limits. It should be made plain they are the censors. They are the ones who constantly want the state to punish speech they don't like.

“Corridors without cameras” are the new “unlocked back doors”

Police in the US do their best to kill and maim protesters on a regular basis. Those who aren't maimed or killed, prosecutors do their best to bury under the jail. And cops work with armed right-wing vigilantes to kill even more. And yet people are still coming out. It takes immense courage.

The US legal regime at the local and federal level often uses criminal conspiracy statutes to lock people away for protests involving *property damage*. Not to mention right wing counter-protesters in the US are armed with guns. Two of my friends have been murdered by armed right-wing activists.

Western European countries are accustomed to visible political conflict. Farmers blocking streets with tractors. Yellow-vests pushing and shoving with police. These protests enjoy a degree of popular tolerance if not support. US protesters face terrorism charges and decades in prison for this.

In 2019, the rate of fatal police shootings in the US was 3.1 per million residents. By contrast, the rate in France was 0.14 per million, and in Germany, it was lower. In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.

And yet American protesters, young people, elderly people, came out in 2020 in the face of all that brutality and sophisticated targeting and vigilante violence, and really people didn't stop. The kids at the campus protests last year were 14 or 15 when MPLS burned down a cop shop.

I'm not saying that the pigs in Western European countries can't be brutal or corrupt, or that protesters in other countries aren't also brave. But protesting and direct action in the US is a routine exercise in extraordinary, life-ending or life-altering danger - with no social safety net.

Good thread:

For example it is true that Blinken sat on Leahy reports but my understanding is he was supportive of sanctioning Ben Gvir and Smotrich whereas Jack Lew was very adamantly against— and who did Biden side with?

A lot of people love the good tsar bad boyars shtick, especially as of late when it comes to blaming Blinken, and Blinken deserves a lot of blame, but my understanding is that Blinken actually advocated for tougher measures and Biden rejected them repeatedly.

Immigration is incredible because it's one of the few policy areas where people are willing to suffer real, concrete consequences in order to solve completely imaginary problems.

There’s some threats and cajoling and shallowly disguised bribes I’m sure but most Dem politicians & officials genuinely believe in what they are doing vis a vis Israel

Yeah AIPAC et al deserve some blame but at the core the problem is that pro-Israel activists took key positions in the party and made careers as Democratic operatives and pro-Palestinian activists were relegated to the sidelines & this was a decades-long process

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

I think this is called a robbery.

A leaked DoJ memo calls for prosecutors to charge people who film ICE with “domestic terrorism” They don’t want their atrocities documented. They don’t want a historical record. They don’t want the world to know. That’s why we have to keep filming. Keep speaking out.

Anyway the single best check on your espoused prescriptions for social change is whether you yourself are doing what you say others need to do. It's extremely clarifying and usually very humbling.

on some level you have to stand in awe of the gall it takes to use this tone about someone people are angry at for suppressing a story about a concentration camp

What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome

I do not fear the Menswear Guy. what's he going to tell me about myself that I am not already acutely aware of. "you dress like you don't respect yourself" good eye ace