A great thing to have would be less flagrantly racist leadership in the Democratic Party

It might have been helpful to mention that just before the 2024 election, many observers, including the Economist, thought America’s “economic trajectory” looked exceptionally strong relative to the rest of the post-pandemic, post-supply chain crisis world.

The Physicians for Measles Caucus in the US Senate is losing its most prominent member, as Republican Bill Cassidy, MD and RFK Jr. confirmer, has lost the primary. Many Republican Senators have violated their oath of office. Bill Cassidy was one of the few to violate the Hippocratic oath as well.

People who think Democrats are too woke and radical now control all three branches of government, the institutional apparatus of the Democratic Party and all major media outlets. Stop fucking congratulating each other for saying it!

Every single show in this 25-year-old promo has either been recently revived or never stopped airing

I'm going to be talking to seniors at my old HS tomorrow and realizing they don't remember anything before the Obama Administration made me feel some feels, lemme tell ya.

I'm begging for one article--just one--that is "Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These urban voters in Harlem say `We told you he'd screw everything up, why didn't you listen to us?'" Just one. Just one "diner" interview in a place w a density above 1 per 1000 sq mi and < 95% white.

This is great, but you're still $97 million short of the funding you campaigned on (at 0.5% of the City budget), Mayor Mamdani. Please keep your promise to the people's libraries! @nycplan.org

Long detailed thread on the Biden Administration's public health failures. Yes, Trump was and is worse, but Biden was bad and it helps no one to pull punches talking about it.

Umm what? “They are not helping kids in general. They’re not even really helping all Jewish kids. They’re focusing on helping one specific kind of Jewish kid remain in the fold” This is a crazy story.

the way to think of this is that it is the judicial version of “you’re the real racist for noticing my racism or even thinking about race”

We take a moment to honor David Letterman & Stephen Colbert for their years of wit; silliness; & merciless mocking of thin-skinned suits, establishment tools, and blowhard politicians. David Letterman, Stephen Colbert Throw CBS Furniture on 'Late Show' www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s... 🇺🇸

One of the VERY FIRST things done after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 was to have the text of the new Constitution translated into Dutch and German, which were at the time the two largest non-English language spoken in the United States. Here's the National Archives making this point:

A surprising amount of what made the USA a functional country was put into place during the very brief period where white southerners didn't have the ability to veto it

This is why the only Biden legacy that matters will be the second Trump presidency.

We should use the correct term. Trump and his gang were trying to overthrow the government. We had a duly elected government that they were trying to dislodge. The election was secondary.

I'm working on a piece I'm slightly behind on for @liberalcurrents.com on reconstruction. And I'm always struck by the fact that we only needed the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and Fair Housing Act because the state and federal governments just ignored the Reconstruction Amendments.

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

I think one of the intractable problems of being a human is that you’re smart enough to imagine a life that worked out differently and foolish enough to dwell on it.

I think that what's breaking a lot of brains is that the ultrarich technofash are not only not facing legal consquences, they're also not facing financial ones, even when their business ventures are obviously failures.

"Settling the suit to preempt a judge throwing the case out for the lack of a controversy (which is obviously true) would be the most corrupt act in the history of the American presidency by a margin that’s hard to fathom..." www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/05/toda...

yes. correct.

Fixed it: "Trump regime is growing impatient that Cuban government exists"

I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.

This is a very good thing. Calling it a disruptive technology is almost unfair, because keeping farmhands out of unnecessary life-threatening situations ought to be cause for celebration. Disrupt away!

Democrats must always face reality and drop their foolish ideas, even if nobody is actually promoting those ideas Nobody knows why Republicans say or do anything, and we have to explore why, including interviewing every Republican voter

The story NOBODY is covering? USCIS is taking millions in processing fees from legal immigrants to renew DACA, DAPA & other programs but not processing. This makes them “out of status.” This in turn makes them “undocumented” & deportable. They’re stealing their money. Millions.

AI is a marketing term now.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

When Huey Long subjugated New Orleans like what Jeff Landry and his cronies are doing right now, it proved to be a leading indicator of widespread corruption and scandal that enveloped the state and eventually led to prison terms for dozens of members the Long machine.

I actually don’t think most people were radicalized right by covid measures. I actually think most people, even the ones that hated doing it, cared about dying and about other people. I think the ones with *power* hated Covid measures and have been throwing temper tantrums over it ever since.

Am I mistaken, or did the Founders create an entire branch of government that, among other responsibilities, was intended to perform oversight of and check the executive branch when it overstepped?

I'm worried China might kidnap all these people and demand that, unless America pays a trillion dollar ransom, they'll send them all back to us.

This whole thread is great, but I particularly appreciate this point about why pied a terre is a relevant category for tax purposes.

This reminds me of the old joke about the Habsburg monarchy: "The King of Hungary declared war on the King of Croatia, and the Emperor of Austria, who was both, remained benevolently neutral."

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

Harris/Walz would’ve won if those fucking establishment consultant hacks had just gotten out of the way and let them say “These freaks are weird!” every day for three months and you’ll never convince me otherwise

Literally all I can think about is “I’ll give you something to be traumatized about“.

I love how when Democrats propose a relatively boring and novel legal theory, corporate media frames it as a FURIOUS AND DESPERATE FAR-FETCHED BANK SHOT, but when Trump tries some crazy shit like overturning birthright citizenship, it's something to consider seriously.

One of the reasons outright confiscatory tax rates on the wealthy is important is that the conservative movement largely exists because millionaires and billionaires pay for it to There must be nobody wealthy enough to bend society around their preferences the way rich people can and always do

I mean of course the kids will recognize, and love the adventures of, the One True Batman.

It’s difficult to overstate just how disruptive and divisive restructures and potential redundancy situations are in any organisation. This probably isn’t properly acknowledged in cheerful discussions about public sector reform

(Gift Link) I remember reading about the interstitium - a newly discovered circulatory system in the human body which may be key to how acupuncture works - a couple of years ago. Here's a new article on what we know and its clinical possibilities. #ShareGoodNewsToo www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Dems and mainstream media are trapped in a doom loop. When objectively scandalous things happen, the media waits for Dems to treat them as scandals and Dems wait for the media to treat them as scandals. Eventually everyone just moves on.

politicians & press alike insist we can never tell anti-immigrant voters they're wrong—but they are, & we should! my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

If we all change our writing styles to avoid sounding like machines, that will reflect in the training data and the machines will simply change along with the times anyway. All LLMs do is pick up on already common punctuation choices made by humans—bots don’t make choices, they steal ours.

On the quarter-century anniversary of Douglas Adams' death, please remember that the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation were a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

I am increasingly frustrated with the endless D struggle session about messaging. Your voters are getting outright disenfranchised! Your messaging doesn't matter if you don't fix that! www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-your-vo...

The world is full of wonders.