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Amazing how few of these guys can go down with even a shred of dignity left

Cornyn was three votes away from being majority leader He voted against Trump’s impeachment and spent the past year groveling and trying to rename highways with Trump’s name, just for it to end like this

The GOP is going to implode around Trump like a dying star

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Decided to write about it The Cowardice of Political Incuriosity www.wideleft.football/p/the-coward...

Me, a week ago www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-ex...

i have no idea whether talarico can beat paxton if paxton wins tonight, but i know paxton can’t raise the same kind of money for the party that cornyn does and holding that seat if cornyn loses it is going to be nightmarishly expensive for the party, which is to say, i hope cornyn loses

If you read these two pieces side by side it's impossible to come to any conclusion other than that the Biden administration were complete chumps to release visitor logs. Press punished Biden for his transparency with erroneous speculation and reward Trump for his secrecy by repeating his lies

The farther Trump sinks in polling, the more the entire media apparatus will be trembling, poised, ready to leap at any even remotely plausible "Trump comeback" story. We are currently hip-deep in a "the hippies were right about everything" moment and they fucking *hate* it.

at the risk of oversimplifying, i do not find it especially surprising that a full ten years into the era of donald trump dominating our politics, americans find ourselves angry, bitter, cynical and resentful no matter our material conditions.

again, these people are pigs and a society of decent people would not tolerate them

These fucking demons told me that my neighbor wanted to eat my dog and now they want to talk about social trust evaporating

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

“Please have 2+ years of experience with an engine we announced on Friday” really sums up the state of the games industry.

Shoutout the GOAT.

Seems like it would be really easy to figure out a way to pay influencers to attack candidates in a multi-candidate primary field without those influencers knowing on whose behalf the money was coming from. 2028 gonna be a shitshow. www.semafor.com/article/05/2...

It's absolutely insane how the Nasdaq changed rules around its exchange to include SpaceX just 15 days of trading, allow less than 5% of free float, and require a weighting of multiple its float in the index. This is the largest wealth transfer in history from everyone's retirement to Elon.

“a political orientation of apathy prioritizes the status quo, an ultimately conservative instinct”

TIRED: "Obama’s Hip-Hop BBQ Didn’t Create Jobs," 2011 WIRED:

This observation serves to illustrate how two things are true: the high end of the wealth distribution is grotesquely under-taxed, and even super-confiscatory schemes directed at that wealth can't replace a broad tax base.

because the Republican platform is simple: the want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it

is it not deeply disturbing that elected politicians are able to talk about citizens, the people they’re elected and paid to represent, like this

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

Remember this the next time a Republican congressman from Oklahoma waves around a government report and says in his most affected redneck accent "they're using taxpayer money to study guinea pigs?"

When conservatives talk about representation in academia, this is what they’re arguing for. Hiring people who hold the established practices and methods of their fields in such contempt. No one objects to a conservative law professor or anthropologist or historian if they do the job in good faith.

rules out any 2028 bid. we can't afford someone too dim to realize they're deflating their own powerbase with this kind of crap

As a Serious Objective Scholarly Person I want to disagree with this but I can't. Ten years into the Trump era & this is basically correct.

i am sure his constituents are relieved to hear he is not missing out on the recent stock market upswing

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

The US will rightly be called a banana republic unless those in power/access to power,who have committed multiple crimes whilst in power,are not prosecuted and held to the standards the rest of her citizens are. Us Europeans watch on aghast at the blatant corruption. Excellent pod again from Greg.

Swift boating worked because democrats did the “we won’t dignify this with a response” thing and looked to the mainstream media to debunk it. It’s one of the dumbest things the party has ever done and it’s still how they operate today.

I made this meme some years ago and it just popped up in my phone photo memories and… welp.

lmfao

You can show me all the charts you want saying the economy is fine but if Serpentor is selling his throne because it won't fit into his new studio apartment, shit is not fine

The largest IPO raise ever was Saudi Aramco, $29.4 billion. If SpaceX raises merely $30 billion, it runs out of cash before Q4 2027. (Not least because the first $20B is contractually obligated to pay off a bridge loan.) If it raises the full $75 billion, it's still out of cash by Q1 2029.

Every so often the head of a do-gooder nonprofit or journalist reaches out, wanting to hear my thoughts on [farm topic] And they're always floored & taken aback that I say "mean" things about farmers. Like "They're adults, they chose this, & they should live with the consequences of their actions."

Prioritizing AI answers is gonna turn out great

They took his law license for five years. I wonder what he’ll do for work?

Are you all familiar with this guy? He's... a lot. Weirdly, despite being every bit as toxic as centrist Dems claim the left can be, this guy gets a bunch of access and clout because he functions as an establishment Democratic bouncer.

It shouldn't come as a surprise to learn that a company that uses dishonest tactics to spy on you for profit will also use dishonest tactics to sell the resulting surveillance data. 1/

TRUMP: *Delirious stream of consciousnesses wall of text* NYT:

Yes, I do have a palpable desire to be ensconced in a bubble where I can make posts online without being inundated with slurs and death threats from Nazis on a website owned by a guy who’s gleefully murdered millions I will confess to this character flaw

that's kind of a lot of words to say you think your relationship with your transphobic friend is more important than your child. 1

I’ve been convinced of this for some time now

The anti trans movement is such a cruel movement and, while calling all trans allies and trans women “woman haters” , will actually help usher in more misogyny , homophobia , and destruction of reproductive rights - utterly topsy turvy skepchick.org/2026/01/the-...

I'm old enough to remember when politicians and pundits would freak out if someone said "happy Memorial Day," suggest people enjoy the long weekend, etc. Meanwhile, Trump's doing his "happy Memorial Day to all, including the Dumocrats" nonsense, and it'll be met with silence.