We let banking industry association leader determine how profitable banking is because anything else is deemed "too political" lmfaooooo

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

Manhattan project for synthetic meat

Meh. I don't think it'll take all that but I also don't feel we're terribly far from there either. What's expensive and what is cheap is often more question of govt policy than actual complexity involved

HOW VOTERS PICK A CANDIDATE: -they observe the social environment (largely through media) -they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?) -they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role -they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick

Hey Feds I’m going to be at the protests on Saturday!

Between this and the news networks refusing the Pentagon deal, are we seeing the first murmurings of solidaristic opposition to Trump? Has his popularity fallen low enough that institutions have actually started to think strategically about protecting their interests?

There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

"Our country is at grave risk under a commander-in-chief and defense secretary who sow division within the ranks," writes an anonymous U.S. service member. "If this continues, the military will not fall from outside attack; it will collapse from within, hollowed out by mistrust and division."

people who talk about going to No Kings protests in terms of how to avoid getting kettled or black-bagged are Blue Sky’s version of men who talk about how they won’t go to a large city without a handgun and seventeen personal defense items

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

Can you fucking believe how The Washington Post frames what SCOTUS did today? Compare to how Democracy Docket describes and sign-up to support independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Now remember how many Democratic consultants and advisors treated public opinion on immigration as immutable, and told Democrats that they couldn’t directly oppose Trump’s brutal nativism because it wasn’t a kitchen-table issue

🧵Fact check: The Constitution applies to LGBTQ people too.

JD Vance, who was proud of the political assassinations his family participated in, would be a very bad president

Palestinian journalist remembered by Iowa relatives for relentless pursuit of truth

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

An actual child could do a better job of describing politics in the US right now than our most sophisticated pundits are doing, because a child wouldn't be concerned whether or not he sounds like a sophisticated pundit.

A lot of people can't seem to accept that what is happening in the US is not complicated. Stopping it is complicated. The psychology that's letting it continue is complicated. But the thing itself is incredibly simple.

“They’re going to kill me here,” Neri Alvarado thought. Alvarado was allegedly targeted by the Trump administration because of his tattoo of an autism awareness ribbon. Now, free from El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, Alvarado wants the world to know what they lived through.

been at the eric adams scavenger hunt all day. mostly we were in a crawlspace under a house in howard beach learning “how to out-hustle the rats.” not sure what this does for the campaign

BIG WIN: A court ordered the Trump Education Department to reinstate the civil rights workers they fired. I taught kids with disabilities––the kind of students helped by these workers. Every child deserves to be treated fairly. I’m staying in this fight for our kids.

Nothing quite screams "Project 2025 Stalled" like Palantir stock price crumbling

I mean it's literally the stuff of 1000 sci-fi stories where scientists discover an alien species or whatever and then The Big Evil Corporation comes in and says "okay whatever, scientific breakthrough yadda yadda, but how can we sell them? Maybe food? Maybe weapons?" That's what's happening

We've built these deeply alien algorithmic entities that we don't fully understand; we don't really know what they're doing or fully how they work; we don't really know what they should or could be doing. But the companies selling them really want to make them into Bob from Accounting

There's a left-wing narrative on AI there for the taking: it's a bizarre, miraculous creation, math somehow replicating things we thought were intrinsically human, more pure science than applied science. Meanwhile capital is desperately trying to hammer it into profitable robot butlers and failing

"AI IS THE FUTURE" they say, as they introduce a spell and grammar checker that's worse than tools that have been around for decades

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

barf and the infinite nausea

The thing about the "good jeans" Sydney Sweeney ad is three-fold for me: - it is literally a reference to eugenics - I do not know how to convince normies that it is a reference to eugenics - I am not 100% sure that a single person at the ad agency consciously chose to allude to eugenics

What if… instead of dealing with toxic air every other week for the rest of our lives… we did something about this whole climate change thing? I hate that my kids are growing up in a world literally & figuratively on fire. They, and we, deserve better. #MSPCycleCast

I think we've hit the mark now where the rest of the country is just pissing off New Yorkers with their incessant opinions about our business, so a lot of people here are just going to support this guy out of spite. www.newsweek.com/zohran-mamda...

“Taking over campus buildings” is one of the most time-honored forms of protest in the US. It’s literally a throwback to Vietnam protests that are mostly seen as correct today. The way people act like it’s an extreme tactic - as if the protestors were throwing pipe bombs or something - is so silly.

Rare sight in 2025: Republicans and Democrats standing together. When AG Brenna Bird tried to compel a sheriff to apologize for saying he'll uphold the Constitution, Winneshiek County residents - both parties - defended their elected sheriff. And she dropped the suit.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia and DOJ have agreed to a 30-day delay in his release from pretrial incarceration so he can evaluate his legal options against an anticipated effort to deport him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Bondi reportedly put 1,000 people in 24-hour shifts for two weeks in March to review the Epstein files. She made them flag mentions of Trump. And then ... She decided she couldn't release anything. 😯

Who’s going to be the first congressperson to use the word “ephebophilia” in their impassioned defense of Trump?

JD Vance was a creation of American liberal institutions that went on to destroy those same American liberal institutions. Liberals who wanted to empathize with the noble savages of the White Heartland. Real Greek tragedy level story

I feel like we owe Kojima an apology because he’s like “This is my villain, Corrupto Moneyguy. He controls the media and eats children.” As it turns out, this is a nuanced and accurate view of global politics.

someone should invent a trans / queer subreddit that believes in transfeminism, empowers and uplifts femininity, and is kind to trans women. just one. unfortunately all we can do is a sitewide MRA surge because one mod was a little mean :( why do i still check that male supremacist hellsite

Trump is trying to tank Brazil's economy because they prosecuted his ally Jair Bolsonaro for organizing a coup. He's trying to make the world safe for dictatorship.

Yes please follow @democracydocket.com

Almost as if economists predicted this would happen.

All the reactionary centrists attacking Mamdami every day will deny -- to us, even to themselves I think -- that they play a key role in enabling this kind of shit. But that is literally their function in the current US political structure.

lol even the twitter neo-nazis that constantly stalk my mentions over there are like, wait, this trump bill seems pretty bad