Yes, do an anti-corruption message. Yes, try to own the issue. Yes, campaign just about everywhere and try to reach just about everyone. Yes to all that. But please, finally, after all this, recognize that partisanship is a core identity for some people, rather than based on rhetoric or policy.

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

When I first heard about the nascent conceptions of augmented reality, this was one of THE exciting use cases presented (the other being ad hoc visual text translation). I was actually VERY excited to see what other applications the industry could get people to come up. People more clever than me.

The President is telling the IRS to give him $10 billion rn

“And if my agents can find a little extra time to shoot an American in the head, we’re going to continue to do that, too.”

We could have just not done any of this.

To be clear, that means YOU AND I are subsidizing billionaires. We're paying the taxes they don't to provide the social services that allow their exploited workers to survive. Tax tax tax tax tax the billionaires.

like, "this genre I like has more marketshare and therefore my politics is winning" is such stupid shit.

It remains astonishing to me that Duggan’s political machine has not yet observed that Up North voters see “former Mayor of Detroit” and become immediately less interested in who he is as a candidate.

Hey, what do scholars say about political movements that claim a sort of National Rebirth?

The discourse this has created positively REEKS of “high school class song” debates, which means 2 things. (1) There IS not definitive choice, and (2) EVERYBODY thinks they have the definitive choice picked out. I want no part in this.

The most obscene thing about the screaming and crying of the wealthy is like, it's not enough for you to be able to easily afford luxuries and own multi-million dollar properties and pay no taxes: no, the peasants who create that wealth and pay the taxes also have to love you Pick one, mfs

I was in high school when Scorpion King came out. I don’t remember if we saw it in theaters, but we watched it at a party once and it immediately became one of my favorite stupid movies. Just a dumbass’s idea of what would make a cool action flick. A glorious piece of cinema. 100% recommended.

This NEEDS to be a big deal! AI tools CANNOT do original journalism, they can only make guesses based on things ALREADY written. NEWS requires original journalism. NEW WRITING! Even lazy “stenography” journalism is more useful than AI slop, as this instance clearly demonstrates.

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them.

Platner and I are essentially the same age. His prep school cost more than 4x my room and board for my first year of UNIVERSITY. I want to point out that at orientation, we were informed that my school was the most expensive public university in the country at the time.

Well, they decided to run primarily with John James: an obvious carpet bagger who puts secret swastikas in campaign ads and is prominently endorsed by Michigans most famously unrepentant pediphile.

It's easier to imagine that evil people are completely devoid of humanity. It's a lot more frightening to realize that people who do evil things love and are loved in return, that they in fact look and act an awful lot like you in many ways.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there's no mention of far-right terrorism (neither white supremacist nor anti-government) in the Trump administration’s new national counterterrorism strategy. Instead, the domestic focus is on "violent left-wing extremists" and "cartels and gangs."

We're in the Ranking Pedophiles phase of rationalization.

I can think of at least 3 different ways this is inappropriate. In a functional administration, Patel would be gone over this.

It's so important to remember that when righwingers seem to be hypocritical, they are not being hypocritical. They are expressing what they believe: one set of rules for you, one for them, separate and unequal, with the advantage being theirs, always, according to their idea of God's plan.

And the fact that he was a key architect & supporter of many of the racist policies so many of us claim to oppose ought to make us more wary these sorts of unsavory characters.

Gotta love that they chose “red” as the color to indicate disapproval, so media illiterate Trump supporters will look quickly at this and immediately infer that Trump is immensely popular everywhere, even in socialist California.

Farmers vote against workers' interest bc most of us aren't working class. Farmers are business owners. With inherited wealth & property. It's not that hard to figure out! It's not folksy, & it's not "economic anxiety." Most *small family farmers* in the US are millionaires w 6-figure incomes.

Nobody thinks less of Trumpers than the Republican Party.

The thing that irks me about the “black people used to vote republican” stuff is that the context of Republicans abandoning black people post disenfranchisement is never given bc the point is to inflame white resentment against black people for being ingrates

I don’t know if the president can do basic math but that’s not the point here. The point is that pretending this is how percent change works has become the party line, a challenge to ‘norms’, and so he’s going to stick to it & underlings will have to as well to signal loyalty

“Voting is a privilege, not a right” is maybe the most axiomatically perverted thing someone can say in the context of a representative democracy. It’s not just a matter of degree, it’s that it completely inverts the source and recipient of power in a democracy.

"the state has a constitutionally protected interest in protecting incumbents from electoral challenge" is the ultimate example of something you have to go to law school in order to have your brain broken enough to even hear. a normal person would hear that as unintelligible gibberish. an antimeme

Company towns. I harp on company towns constantly wherever I can. They want to go back to the time when capital could own everything in your life, treat you like a discarded tool, and segregate as they please.

It’s cool that practically every unavoidable business and service in the US is now owned by rightwing freaks who both ideologically and financially support politicians with views that could best be described as Nazi Lite.

They are NEVER beating the “weird” allegations.

I dunno if I trust the assessment of a guy who lays a monthly fee for a special app that immediately tells his son every time he cranks his hog.

One of the worst post-9/11 trends is the widespread use of "first responder" as a category to lump together cops with doctors, nurses, EMTs, and firefighters— as if they're all the same thing.

I was in EE school about 20 years ago, and the “100W light bulb” was the conventional touchstone for students to understand relative scale of power consumption. I wonder if current engineering students are taught with a different comparison nowadays?

you are creating a culture of violence against us by accurately reporting on the culture of violence we're gleefully inflicting on others

I don’t begrudge PolitiFact for doing proper fact-checking on stuff like this. But holy shit it’s wild how much time we have to spend talking about obvious bullshit anymore. The MAGA movement is fundamentally a net negative on America, and every stalwart Maga is, at best, going to waste your time.

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

If you’re skeptical, think of it this way: Suppose you have 5,000 ballots and 50 staffers. What is faster and more accurate? (1) Give each staffer a block of 10 ballots to tally at a time; or (2) Have each staffer tally each individual ballot? Which one results in more “ballot drops?”

creators get better by finishing projects no project ever comes out as good as it is in your imagination but that’s ok, the next one will be better also it’s ok if projects fail, taking risks and big swings is an important part of growing as a creator

As someone else observed, they post exactly the same way when someone tries to break into the president's party with a gun and when they change the Cracker Barrel logo. It's just background noise now

Not to be pedantic, but the elimination of nearly the entire line of succession was a pretty major plot point in season 5 of The Expanse.

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

A constant message from fascist leaders: "our opponents have gone so far that we no longer need to restrain ourselves from violence." You could find a conservative saying roughly this every single day for the last 30 years, somewhere on RW media. It's a constant drumbeat & permission structure.

Guess I'll say something else out loud, too: Assassinating a fascist leader is not a shortcut to defeating fascism. It also has blowback effects: cults of martyrdom, crackdowns, retaliatory assassinations, etc. We need mass protests, strikes, election wins, and new governing structures.