In a world where many democrats have embraced pie-in-the-sky middle class tax cuts, leave it to a democratic socialist like Mamdani to seriously engage with budgeting tradeoffs and embrace an efficient broad based property tax increase

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“I AM PLEASED TO REPORT THAT OVER THE LAST TWO DAYS AN ANGEL HAS VISITED ME IN MY SLEEP AND I HAVE HAD VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE SEX WITH IT,” read the lengthy, all-caps post

it really be like this sometimes

she's literally funneling the cash from all her various media ventures into a money gun and pointing it directly at whichever institution promises to hurt trans people the most. she's not even lying about it. she's just telling you that's what she's going to do if you give her more money

Everytime Donald Trump uses insider trading to make billions from crypto, oil or war it is not a victimless crime. Everyone with a 401k, on social security or who uses Dollars loses. Because these are all the things devalued by it. He's robbing YOU.

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"ageism" is hiring a 30 year old instead of a better qualified 50 year old, not observing there are differences between 90 year olds and 50 year olds. An 88 year old elected to Congress is about *30 TIMES* more likely to die in office than a 50 year old

I hate that they're even called apps in Windows and macOS. They're programs. Grow the fuck up. Apps are chicken tenders.

we probably shouldn't be growing alfalfa in the middle of the fucking desert using dangerously scarce water resources! It seems like it'd be a layup to buy these economically unviable farms from these farmers, shutter them and recover the water rights to stop the Great Salt Lake from drying up?

Of course you’d put big lasers on the roof to shoot down bad guys buddy. You’re 12.

A Snow Leopard caught on a trail cam.

“The United States contributes far more to worldwide suffering than any of our so-called ‘allies’ in NATO, and it’s high time these other countries started stepping up to the plate,” said the commander-in-chief

designing my fighting game by just making the Memes first and working backwards from there

A lot of diagnoses are made through elimination of alternatives, and in some cases, are still sort of "this is our best understanding of this issue for now." - I mean, more so than is average for a science where a medical discovery can change the understanding of how an issue is being caused.

A frustrating aspect is that a lot of conditions, even physical ones, are notoriously difficult to diagnose through "objective metrics" (ask anyone with lupus...). Medicine is not a precise discipline in a lot of ways, bodies are weird and complicated! That ambiguity is just a vehicle for prejudice.

Ultimately, Helen has joined a conspiracy movement that believes — that *must* believe — doctors are incapable of diagnosing patients with conditions that can't be "proven" through objective metrics. This belief has become the lens through which she views all other political issues.

This article is darkly fascinating as an example of how transphobia infects your entire ideology. The core argument is that we should not believe people when they say they are trans, were sexully abused or have a mental disorder.

Not all of the problems in the world were caused by early 20 something feminist bloggers in 2014 but for a certain set of terminally online reactionary centrists, they are. It's like gamergate but with the veneer of respectability offered by publishing in the Atlantic.

Literally the entire field of psychiatry rests on believing patients

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

Democrats should always take every opportunity to ask republicans to speak in length about their family lives and parenting. There are 'normal' republicans, but no republican who runs for office is normal, they are all weird at home hitlers.

straight up just like...international friends, outside the US, dont travel here, from abroad, for fighting games. at all. dont go to evo ( for numerous reasons ), dont go to combo breaker, genesis, especially not ceo, texas showdown. theyre not even processing visas now if you *did* want to so. dont

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

People forget this but Chuck Norris jokes were originally Mr. T jokes. I don't know why that changed but clearly the world would have been better if it hadn't

just a thought: no movement should ever depend so completely on the reputation of its chosen figurehead that one of its founders is forced to make a calculation like this on behalf of its survival

My newsletter today is about @katmabu.bsky.social's campaign. Democrats keep asking how to reach voters who've given up on the party. Kat Abughazaleh spent a year trying to answer that question. She lost, but the answer is still right. www.readtpa.com/p/what-if-we...

That’s funny, because Nate Swanson, who used to be the point guy on Iran at the NSC but got fired because of Laura Loomer, warned of this in an article written four days before the war started. It was called “Why Iran Will Escalate.”

it really was the pinnacle of lazy "CEO said a thing!" pseudo-journalism where you just parrot executive claims with absolutely no historical context, challenge, or objective third party expert analysis

I don't really feel like the press coverage of the metaverse implosion honestly captures the access tech press' role in propping up Mark Zuckerberg's fake innovation mythology if you go back and read "journalism" from this era, 97% was indistinguishable from advertorial

We're only 3 weeks into this. If this keeps up, a substantial portion of the world's fossil fuel supply will effectively be wiped out permanently. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

now that we don't have any oil we have no choice but to accelerate woke energy. you will put up the wind turbines. you will harness the power of the sun. you want treats? say the pronouns bitch

Love when Chotiner includes these little bracketed bits

Bow before the machine. ⚙️ Unleash Ultron's Odinforce Ultron costume and bring divine judgment to the battlefield. When cold intelligence ascends to godlike power, even the multiverse has reason to tremble. youtube.com/shorts/YZWkX... #MarvelRivals

what a saga... do you think they're going to do him justice in Avengers Doomsday

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

As you use AI to simplify easy yet mundane tasks, like writing emails, you get increasingly dependent on it. You get lazy, less skilled, use your brain less, and (you may not want to hear this) get stupider as a result. Don’t let them take away your ability to think. Stop using it. Now.

It’s easy to look at Kafka and go “what was that guy thinking with the bug thing?” but then you’ll have a rough week and go “that Kafka guy was cooking with that because I feel like a dang bug!”

I hate how math is forced to continuously justify itself by its uses and it can't just be allowed to stand on its own. Humans have done art for thousands of years because that's what humans do. It's the same with math. Humans reason about pretend things that don't matter, and that's okay.

You know what tho

Ubiquitously advertised betting available through the computer you carry in your pocket via apps designed and managed by ruthlessly efficient data scientists and programmers seems like a mistake. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Explaining your neurodivergent quirks is like explaining your stand ability.

do you think Mamdani got elected because his actual lifelong dream was to shotgun a whole bunch of government jobs Dirty Jobs-style

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to 🎂🏝️🤠 #marioday