Biden didn’t do enough sit downs with the press and they fucking hated him. Hegseth literally ejected the press from the Pentagon and they’re like “come on sir you are so handsome we just want to hang out with you.” Debased people.

our online lives have really warped the way we act in public, especially post-COVID

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

Matthew Yglesia and his shitbrained ill will see aggressive, popular action like this and immediately think the only way to win the election is by sucking the dicks of 200 oil and gas execs

"the big tent has failed" 1% of dem congressmen are dipshit dinosaurs from south texas. I don't think that means the big tent has failed

not everyone has to be business casual personified but it's also okay to be normal and want normal things. I just want to get a job and get married and have kids and go to shul.

Like you could open a factory that does nothing except fill swimming pools with water and vaporize them with a high powered laser and it would still somehow be a net water savings if the land you built it on replaced an almond farm.

All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses

very funny that we may be fully in an era of negative incumbency bias for the foreseeable future because voters Want Their 2019 And They Want It Now, marked by a new ineffectual trifecta every other Congress

The story here is concerns about the accuracy of these data. I have been resistant to concerns about how political pressure may affect federal statistics, but this is not a great look.

also there's a lot of... concerning items in the subcategories. Apparel basically flat YoY? despite tariffs on imported clothes? that's, uh, suggestive of demand flatlining [and apparel is a key discretionary consumption category!!] same with sports/rec equipment (pdf: www.bls.gov/news.release...)

US coffee bean prices continue to hit new highs in inflation data released today, up 19% over the last year and 47% since pre-COVID

What the fuck was the point of that.

the key to understanding this is the SV technocapitalists all went insane during COVID

Puka Nacua embarrassing himself on a dipshit livestream should serve as fair warning for athletes to, for the love of god, stop spending so much time with Online Content Creators and, yanno, just go be a rich athlete somewhere ... it won't, but it should

Cannot believe folks are trying to do a "Is it ignorance?" discourse around a guy Puka liked enough to invite to the team facility two days before a game.

Bro did this just days after a horrific antisemitic mass murder in Australia too. He's a piece of shit and needs to be fined and suspended

Fuck Puka. Sorry, a weekend after a bunch of people were gunned down for happening to be Jewish in Australia, I don't have the patience for this piece of shit doing this. Fucking phony ass mother fucker.

THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE THING RIGHT HERE THAT IS BREAKING SOCIETY. The internet lets you pick your own truth, by selecting your way into a community where you are allowed to believe whatever feels right to you. People have come to expect that. A society of totally permissive belief.

Unlike Sanders, of course

very interesting that the guy who wrote the “i can’t find a job because i’m white” piece zeroed in on me as responsible for the negative response on bluesky, despite the fact that i wrote a single post about the piece well after the discourse had started.

Lawler doing everything in his power to not get nuked during the next midterm cycle

Seeing as we’re ten minutes to midnight from a shooting war with Venezuela I think it’s worth reflecting on how Democratic presidents get blamed for military actions much more than Republican presidents do, regardless of who is actually responsible. Hence why people fell for “the pro peace ticket.”

They also seem to reflect Silver's apparent belief that to be a true genius in any field, you must be a degenerate gambler.

Acting like No Kings is some kind of detriment to the Democratic Party is such a bizarre take.

Bro wrote a screed that essentially boils down to "women are uppity and need to shut up about politics, where me, Nate Silver, am the true expert"

“You don’t owe anyone anything” has done apocalyptic damage to society

american hegemony was the worst thing you could imagine, save the alternative, of course

this isn't Israel and Gaza. no one is protecting the RSF. there is simply no power that has both the means and will to intervene.

Normalize being late to things because you forgot to leave on time but stayed under the speed limit anyway

In grad school, in a cost benefits class, had to read a paper on a meta analysis of various car-related safety improvements. Turns out, best way to lower number of fatal car accidents is to set a highway speed limit of 55 and enforce it.

Speed limits are arbitrarily high. They’re set based on how fast people go, not based on speeds that lower fatalities.

I want you to get a ticket for driving 70 on a highway. You don’t wanna do a fucking goddamn thing that might save live But sure I’m the menace

But have you considered how little my life would be affected if I got to my destination 2 minutes later than I would have if I sped the whole way?

not to underrate the seriousness of chomsky palling around with epstein, but bannon's a fucking out and out fascist and has been for a very long time, something chomsky knows and knew when this was taken

seriously though, there is very clearly pent up demand for rail options and every reason to build out as much new rail as possible.

the people of this great republic yearn for locomotive transport

Leftists love handing it to trump and giving him backing for policies that Biden actually started

there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”

In the last few weeks, I’ve become increasingly convinced that Trump and his regime are totally cooked. They can only stay in power by stealing elections—but they can only do that if enough people are willing to help them. They’re in a downward spiral and can’t pull themselves out of it.

I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.

Trump administration vincible.

I just want Republicans, and the right generally, to be treated as real adults with agency instead of forces of nature that must be appeased or managed. Is that too much to ask?

lol wut. dropping from 42 percent approval to 36 percent approval seems pretty significant. apnews.com/article/trum...

"Republicans once again blocked healthcare subsidies. Here is why I--a deeply unwell person with terminal internet brain rot--blame Democrats for that"

Getting dunked on by a man with sciatica and arthritis is crazy btw lmao

Posters in good standing who write for the Times, the Nation, the American Prospect, Mother Jones, the Bulwark, Jacobin, Baffler, and even the Onion who are not now, at the present time (present time being 2024-Present) vociferous, vocal, active Democrats are explicitly pro-Trump.