Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”

A bit of transparency into the impossible nature of trust & safety at scale. I hope people will recognize that one reason why other platforms never talk about this stuff is it often leads to people yelling at the trust & safety team. But this kind of transparency is good and useful.

"They're calling it the cool zone, folks, you've never seen anything like it, some even say it might be the coolest ever, from the perspective of zones"

in the same sense is that Nazism was an attempt to construct a universe in which the war propaganda of WWI was true, Trumpism can be understood as an attempt to construct the reality which Fox describes. in that reality, every recipient of food stamps is a jobless Black woman with nine kids & a Dem.

James Talarico is going to be the junior Senator from Texas

I do think senate republicans believe they're untouchable and can facetank the ACA crisis they created without really changing much and boy that is a gamble

I have a hard time with this train of thought because we, you know, literally just had elections.

MFers are about to elect Nigel Farage, want to hunt trans people for sport, and outside of London are some of the ruddiest and most xenophobic people alive. Give me a break

The idea that he would be treated as completely normal in Continental Europe... Just tune into right-wing French media (and even to some extent mainstream media) and you'll hear the same racialized panic about Mamdani that you hear in the US: "islamiste," "islamogauchiste," "Marxiste-Léniniste," etc

Sadly, I think too many of the actually existing socialists are a strange hybrid of normal European policies and roots in the worst of left politics, which causes them to react badly when, for instance, Russia invades Ukraine.

Also many of the social safety programs we admire were established after the ruling class and economic institutions in Europe were destroyed twice in a 3 decade span after massive amounts of ethnic cleansing. England isn't setting up the NHS now.

Barack Obama governed further to the left of almost every single state leader Europe has ever had.

90's pop-culture was so notably vacuous that 90's nostalgia barely has a specific property to it, it's all just vague misty vibes, and its youth culture and counterculture were *overwhelmingly* defined by a sense of apathy, cynicism, and nihilistic resignment.

The 1990's was an era, and this is not me blowing smoke out of my ass, this is the broad historico-sociological consensus that will become history in a couple of decades, defined in America by a feeling that the country had gotten everything it could ever want and none of it meant anything.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, there is this belief that the malaise took ahold after 9/11, and- no! No it didn't! If anything, 9/11 provided people a brief respite from the malaise because it gave the US an existential enemy for a few years!

that’s the bluesky difference ™

That's unfair. It's only part of who James Watson was. He was also incredibly sexist. Proper old-fashioned male academic S-Rank level grubby sexism. You know. Saying that Rosalind Franklin could have been pretty if she'd tried. Calling her 'Rosy' even though she never used that name. That level.

Nobody who spouts this position on European politics has had a single solitary conversation with a center left European about immigration.

i think we do actually need to force this issue. "we", collectively, as humans i think that we have had a window of internet driven activism that has notably elevated people with emotionally satisfying but practically disastrous policies and positions if we want to succeed it has to end

It's genuinely funny how the wealthiest man alive is so deeply and profoundly pathetic

If Pope Leo wanted to march on ICE in Chicago (or on the White House in DC or whatever) my Catholic turned atheist ass would make the trip to join him

It says something about the dismal state of Christianity in America that it's genuinely shocking when a public figure says something that's actually Christ-like.

Ed Martin has the impulse control of a toddler but far worse judgment. I bet Todd Blanche forced him at (figurative) gunpoint to delete those tweets. Very interesting that the replacement tweet from his account refers to him in the third person.

UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview. “They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

"Asked why people were not coming to the Kennedy Center as much anymore, Ms. Daravi, the head of communications, replied with two words. 'Liberal intolerance.'" It's the Trump model: wreck something, then blame the failure on your enemies. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

I do not believe that anti-Zionism is antisemitic, and I have consistently argued against those who say it is, but if you see the act of condemning anti-Diaspora antisemitism as inherently Zionist and pro-Israel, you are really telling on yourself.

most divorced man in existence

Of all the letthemfight.gifs that ever letthemfight.gifed, this is among the letthemfight.gifest.

Huh. Sounds like the feds may be trying for a time/place/manner restriction, but they forgot those have to be content neutral, narrowly tailored to effect a significant government interest, and leave alternative channels open. firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/time....

Also: bsky.app/profile/jack...

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

That ghastly whiteness it is which imparts such an abhorrent mildness, even more loathsome than terrific, to the dumb gloating

things that arent the future of civilization - chatbots - crypto - robot butlers - cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people things that actually are the future of civilization - free clean energy

Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/u... It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C <- by me on @theregister.com

His former teacher “said that, because of his affection for Mr. Drew, he didn’t campaign aggressively.” Can an election story be…adorable?

One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists. The government shutdown was invented in 1980 The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal

I like that "Republicans caving" would literally just mean continue meager funding for things they've funded for the past forever. The Democrats aren't even asking for anything new!

Yep. I know people can't hold inflation in their head coherently because I'm an autistic man with a Econ degree and near perfect recall who acted as single parent with a budget for nearly ten years and *I* have no way of tracking this shit without just relying on the news. We flatter ourselves.

just a reminder that yesterday ICE tried to probe northwest portland and got shut down by blocks worth of people roving the streets looking for them. they didn't return today.

I mean, politically, all to the good here. Dems are trying to end it and GOP senators are like “I dunno maybe like another two months?”

Whose idea was it at CNN to broadcast from the Food Network set as people are in the background feasting at a buffet while the panel discusses Americans not being able to eat because of the hold on SNAP benefits???

Turns out I don’t mind the death penalty after all, I just disagree with most people on when it should be used.

If you’re going to yell at me, you have to explain what you think she should have done instead and how it would have gotten a better result, keeping in mind the factors Chris kindly lays out here.

Even now, I don't think Republicans have truly grasped that they're drunkenly stumbling at the edge of an abyss that could swallow the nation. Whereas Democrats are all too aware, but their faces are becoming masks of cold, grim determination.

/shakes the tin furiously