Political campaigns now burn 30¢ of every dollar raised just fundraising for more dollars (up from 9¢ in 2004). In 2024, $3 Billion was spent on fundraising. In 2026, fundraising costs are on track to exceed advertising spending for the first time.

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

welcome to late stage capitalism, baybeeeeeeee

I’d expect a 1000 more retweets on this post from the liberals so adamantly against free speech restrictions…

generally yes. I still maintain that there's more to it sometimes, but i'm gonna let it go for now.

Not to be the “THAT’S WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING” guy, but that’s what I’ve been saying.

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sinning even harder now to make it a nice, even 10 🤞😇

OOOOOOO SOMEBODY BROUGHT THE RECEIPTS

lmao holy shit alright guess he’s going full trad Christian antisemite mode

Waaaaaayyyyy too many of you losers are following blue grifter accounts that you shouldn't be following.

Can someone who is more familiar with how foundations work explain to me how/why a foundation will send money to several other foundations?

Please also note that after the Annunciation shooting, the Star Tribune decided to run a thinly veiled, "The problem is there's not enough God in our schools" culture war op ed

🗣️ CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS 🗣️

Like I said, the Star Tribune is part of the problem.

The story of this election is downtown business owners and suburban landlords trying to meddle in a majority renter city in order to be allowed to exploit us for more money. Fuck that.

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.

What do the political scientists call it when simply talking about political violence and extremism is self-censored for fear of political reprisal? Asking for a country

"When nearly one-third of all political contributions get recycled back into asking for more contributions, we've created a system that exists primarily to perpetuate itself while enriching fundraising consultants." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-fundra...

“Nick Fuentes, please enter my uncle’s body and fill him”

Just say “hostage”. They held her hostage.

I think it’s fair both to say “corporations shouldn’t be little shits about our democracy” AND recognize that they’re definitely gonna be spineless little shits anyways

“’What we are seeing is a blunt and alarming escalation in an effort to chip away at and weaken #DACA—not in one fell swoop, but piece by piece in hopes that the American ppl aren’t paying attention,’ Aldana said Thursday in a Zoom call w/reporters.” www.borderreport.com/immigration/... #HomeIsHere

Some possibly overlooked side effects of this - Becka Thompson is currently the Park Board member serving on the Planning Commission and the Audit Committee, so she will need to be replaced on both.

Shelley Madore is still living in Ward 5 while running in Ward 2 and Brian Strahan is living in Ward 3 while running in Ward 1. Will the Strib cover those stories????? Doubtful.

Paper and pen still work

LOL that does not establish residency in the new location.

NEW: White House officials are "ecstatic" at their long winning run at the Supreme Court. Details on their aggressive legal strategy here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

it's jonathan bailey, and i'm not secretive about it

I just know someone's gonna say, "wow, how rude and uncivil of Caplan" and I think people who say that should fuck off.

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

my goddddd

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Again already? That's awesome. I have prepared a complete history of the Rapture leading up to Tuesday's Rapture:

It was a really productive hopeful meeting. I'm especially grateful for the presence of @quentinocama.bsky.social tonight - his work within the party as O&I Officer is having real positive impacts and the party is lucky to have someone like him in leadership.

Angie Craig making the world safe for money laundering and Ponzi schemes. Anti-corruption will be a key message next fall and next fall and none of this helps

Craig "told the audience that inviting digital assets into the financial system should be apolitical. Her presence on the cusp of an expensive campaign suggested otherwise.”

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

When does the rapturing happen? Like at midnight local time zone, or at dawn, or…? I just wanna make sure I’m outside so that I don’t hit the ceiling of my apartment. Also, will my dog get to come with me? What if I carry him?

like i was saying

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Heard a podcast about Charlie Kirk and one of the guests claimed Kirk was a "centrist" and another guest said that his death will inspire a new generation to believe in free speech... which, according to this same person, means no longer allowing people to let people use preferred pronouns. 🤔

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the City is insisting on a status quo which mean Sabri takes no action until the end of the year, well past the election, and almost to the beginning of a new mayoral term

About 90 minutes ago, the City of Minneapolis filed a letter with the court in the Hamoudi Sabri case, stating that because Sabri wouldn't agree to a 90-day extension in the stay of the case, they won't be negotiating any further with him

VT just closed its religious studies department.

Real story: even with our marriage license, someone in the Nebraska DMV claimed that it was fake, and my wife was denied a driver's license. It took an irate phone call from the probate court judge in GA to sort it out. Of course, I had no issue.