@altmadison.bsky.social Talk Show Host where?

I refuse to join Bluesky - I don't want to be part of an Eco chamber

"I am once again asking you to zoom out just a smidge"

If you reversed the positions of Harris and Trump, everything from fundraising to early vote numbers to the polling itself, we would basically be writing her campaign obituary rn

Must. Resist. Urge. To. Jump. Into. Stancil. Discourse.

@ass.golf I don't think I've ever identified with anything in QC as much as I did Claire's boat puns today.

How are we, as a country, going to deal with the fact that a substantial percentage of our population supports a raving lunatic not in spite of his overtly fascist rhetoric, but because of it? Especially when most of our institutions won't even acknowledge this fact?

To use the great "Endless growth is the strategy of the cancer cell, and eventually even that kills the host" metaphor, we're now in ... oncolocapitalsm? A society struggles when it focuses on building wealth, but can it survive when the economy is designed around building nothing *but* wealth?

Harris and Walz should sit down for serious interviews (e.g., beat reporters, podcasters with expertise in a policy area) as well as unserious interviews (e.g., Hot Ones, fun Tiktok accounts) but absolutely avoid unserious interviewers who think they are serious (e.g., political reporters).

Yes - elections are chess, not Tinder. Vote accordingly.

Markos makes lots of good points here: www.dailykos.com/story/2024/8...

If I knew when I was a kid that my life would revolve around secret passwords and biometric scanning I would've pictured something much cooler than this.

How many different ways can this article communicate that the democratic consultant class is as terrible as their harshest critics say? www.cnn.com/2024/08/18/p...

I have been doing a lot of posts trying to get conversation going on BlueSky and to bring people here from Twitter. I haven't had a chance to talk to you all about the TPM journalism fund and why it matters. We are in the middle of our annual drive! accounts.talkingpointsmemo.com/contribute

Don't forget to do one today!

I like how, if you know what a triathlon is, you may think you can guess what a biathlon or pentathlon is. but oh, buddy. you can not

BREAKING: Welders Who Were Born In November And Love The Giants For Harris zoom call reports 90,000 participants, raises $1.7 million

What really gets me is when these people decry attempting incremental wins as so difficult as to be impossible... but apparently consider ushering in systemic revolution to be trivial, contingent "only" on winning the hearts of a critical mass of the populace?

www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/t... This reaffirms the point I've made several times that the jobs LLMs seem best suited to are the ones we least need.

All conservatives ever wanted was permission to act the same in public as they do behind closed doors.

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I really try to not make any assumptions about strangers online. But sometimes the most charitable explanation I can come up with for the leftists I engage with is that they are basically this person.

Me. Absolutely a revolutionary socialist. Biden did the right thing there.

One thing I'm coming to appreciate in my attempt to engage in good faith with leftists on this platform is that they are not actually very collectivist. They don't act like they appreciate that they will need to build a huge - and therefore diverse - coalition to actually make the changes they want.

@scalzi.com happy birthday to us

@scalzi.com Really enjoying the Starter Villain audiobook. Wil is such a perfect choice for reading your stuff. Do you ever write with him in mind?

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I've been thinking about this post a lot and, while I think Michael makes a strong case, I have some problems that I didn't see other people raise: 1. This is the big one -- lots of good people live in red states and punishing them for the sins of the assholes in Congress is bad.

Although Florida's six-week abortion ban will soon take effect, Florida residents should remember that providers in blue states can prescribe and mail medication abortion straight to your door, typically in 1-5 days, at no legal risk to you. aidaccess.org

Help Us Build Journalism To Confront Authoritarianism And Withstand The Media Apocalypse talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/hunte...

RFK's VP picks WERE surprising. #RFK

An aspect of this I haven't seen others point out is that Trump claiming these videos are AI-generated is an admission that they are damaging. If he wasn't worried about their impact, he'd ignore it or brush it off.

@allusionistshow.bsky.social I'm sorry but I feel compelled to share this portmanteu with you

Traylor was right there.

Funniest response yet to the "Trump smells like a butt" story.

Republicans have this bizarre quadruple-think where they minimize the role of slavery in the Civil War, while taking credit for ending slavery, while comparing everything they dislike to slavery, while insisting slavery wasn’t really all that bad.

I've said it before but if someone asks why you're saying so much Hitler stuff, telling them that you came up with it on your own is not exculpatory