This is literally a sermon millions of progressive Christians across denominations hear regularly. Every day, I am reminded that nobody knows we exist, so I'm delighted to see the media actually listening for once.

Talarico is literally just riffing on Matthew 25 here. I’m sorry Senate Republicans are upset by the Gospel?

This is going to be a symbol of this era, I can already tell.

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I think we’ve gotta do something about payment processors.

My lawyer brain is stuck on the provision that allowing anthropomorphic characters is contingent on their knee orientation. Some dude at Visa is like “the fur is fine, and I agree Disney’s Maid Marian was hot, but knees are sacrosanct. The line must be drawn here, this far, no further”

It’s just hitting me now that this almost certainly got back burnered because it’s not ‘lethality’

MOOOOOOOOOM THE ENEMY IS VOTING AGAIN

BREAKING: Leaked Pentagon documents reveal highly classified CENTCOM war plans

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

I really just do not understand how this could be possible

i am being absolutely serious here: CENTCOM had one job and it was literally to prepare for an Iran contingency

Huh, it turns out US practice of continuing talks even as the bombing starts, without any explanation, maybe makes it difficult to accomplish further diplomatic ends? You’re telling me this for the first time.

doing this without attaching it to a war powers vote is political malpractice

i sort of think part of the problem here is that accurately portraying american sentiment about this war would shred a lot of other assumptions about the second trump admin that much of the political press have been running with since the start

In honor of a 78 degree March day, it’s time to re-up my annual favorite tweet

We should take people who say these things seriously and take their ideas seriously. This is actual no-shit eugenics if taken seriously. The implicit claim here is that things like MRI machines or pharmaceutical medications were a mistake. In the age of HHS Sec RFK Jr it’s not just harmless granola.

sharon take: gender is part of the reason decarbonization is so hard

The fact that we can, currently, produce exponentially more food than society actually needs using only 2-3% of the population is probably the most revolutionary development in the last few thousand years of human history, and basically nobody has come to terms with it yet.

we kicked starvation's ass so hard we had to burn billions of calories to invent a drug to help us starve a little bit! We accepted fire from prometheus and used it to build an armored division to conquer Olympus! we should be celebrating and distributing the loot, not romanticizing the cold!

AOC came out swinging against age verification legislation and somehow the entire tech press seems to not have noticed?

Man it’s so fucking obvious when the times hates a politician.

I don’t know how to explain how fucking stupid this is, but… no, Iran doesn’t have tomahawks and if they did do you think they would waste them on 180 of their own civilians???

I'm actually trying and failing to think of a lie this despicable and bald-faced. He is a constant stream of bullshit, but a lot is forward facing—future things won't happen. Or stuff slightly hard to verify. Here, if you know what a Tomahawk is, you know that: fuck no, Iran does not have them.

Pivot’s coming aaaannnnnyyyyy day now.

I'm going to become the joker

So like… this is a direct threat to commit war crimes, right?

Continuing on the theme of “the American capitalist class is too stupid for capitalism to work.”

When I applied for a position at my local Walmart, they wanted to see my vehicle registration to prove I owned my vehicle. They had an explicit policy of not hiring people who took the bus or had to borrow a car from someone other than a parent or spouse.

why, you could even say the mission was accomplished

For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.

The biggest and most obvious problem with capitalism remains that capitalists are very stupid.

I feel like any political scientist could have corrected them about 2 out of those 3.

Anakin: “You should care about your locality” Padme: “That includes the polyglot working class that actually lives there” Anakin: … Padme: “That includes the polyglot working class that actually lives there, right?”

Okay, but do you actually *win* those heartlands, or are your core voters actually socialist professionals and care givers with socially liberal views?

it's actually really funny he keeps going on about 'the warrior ethos', because the whole focus on lethality is antithetical to basic military honour as it has been conceptualised for thousands of years in every society except the nazis and imperial japan

Cosmically, there is something very darkly funny about spending an entire decade of American politics obsessed with repudiating the mistakes of the Iraq War, and then immediately doing it again at the first opportunity, but with even less justification, planning, strategy, or foresight.

I have a theory that because the American press exists in a world where they have zero responsibilities, they thought “Trump can get away with anything” because they failed to realize they were the folks who were supposed to make it cost him. They did not realize the Iranians would not be so supine.

you ever think about how 98% of the discourse about women’s sports would disappear overnight if you were not allowed to talk about them unless you have watched at least one WNBA game your entire life?

remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing or incompetent, the media just subs in a totally fake version of Trump who is rational and not fucking up? Great example here

CENTCOM keeps releasing statements saying thing like 'the US unlike Iran avoids civilian casualties' while Hegseth cannot get in front of a microphone without saying "rules of engagement are for cucks and dweebs"

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

Among the many infuriating things about these guys is their endless obscene macho posturing—to the point of admitting war crimes because it sounds tough—then instantly cowering at a select few dictators like Putin instead of remaining macho with something like "we're giving Ukraine nukes."

This is the Israeli playbook from Gaza (and Putin's in Ukraine for that matter) and it is ultra-disturbing to see the US carry out repeated attacks on civilian infrastructure. It simply does not serve a military purpose.

Plenty of that across industries, there’s this pervasive belief that President Trump could never make a catastrophic mistake, or if he did, it could be reversible by the omnipresent “adults in the room”. That is, American biz genuinely believes the WH could never break something they couldn’t fix.

Wondering if the media would've chosen "honored" as the verb if Obama had saluted fallen soldiers in a fucking baseball cap

We need to figure out why underground power costs in the US are so high. Lower-income countries in Europe do it, why can’t we? First place I’d look is what our standards are for it and whether they require more overdimensioning than in Europe www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet