There's a huge difference between "america first" and "we need to get our act together, think about what we've done, and what we need to do to fix it."

It is fully irresponsible to argue for an American return to global leadership. This country is deeply unwell and has no business leading anything until that's no longer the case. There's a whole world out there capable of tending to the world's problems. We must tend to ours.

something we've underestimated about the 40-year arc of conservative media in the united states is how relentlessly and unendingly xenophobic it is. the red menace didn't go away when the soviet union fell. the potential inoculant is now just a vague antiamericanism, and it's everywhere.

The trouble with Austrian Economics is that eventually you run out of other people's money

he probably had a beef with someone

good gravy, it really is just about debate club stuff for people who don't think that regular people experience stakes.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

This pilot experiment PAID FOR ITSELF. Ireland spent $105 million on artists providing them basic income, and saw that drop to $72 million after accounting for economic impacts, then with $80 million in psychological wellbeing impacts, that dropped to -$8 million.

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impressive that they got art this coherent from inside a locker

the bengals can be bad this year that’s fine, especially if the reds win the world series.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's really galling that members of Congress are telling regular citizens with jobs and bills and stuff that it's their duty to Save The Republic because they're all out of ideas.

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

i can’t believe i’m saying this but the hoosiers are terrifying

going to the replay monitor for a targeting review but asking to see the video for "triumph" over and over

they look like they’re playing northwestern in basketball.

you could blame the mayor of another suburb for having the wherewithal to bring a cameraperson along with him or you could blame the people working at the ice facility within your own suburb. but of course that's up to you.

“Four days after Russia started a war in Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA suspended Russia. We are now 716 days into a genocide – and yet Israel continue to be allowed to participate. Why, why is it double standards? FIFA and UEFA must suspend Israel.” - Eric Cantona

to be fair no one would want to make or watch a doc about james dobson or lee atwater either. dude was a money mover who cultivated future hitlers and had a thing for yelling at teenagers.

that's fucked up. only regular powerless people whose identities don't align with christian white supremacy are supposed to get death threats

Dems advertising that they are capitulating to threats of violence is not an especially smart plan even on narrow selfpreservation concerns

this exists it is called thinking

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dudes rock

as a wise person said five whole years ago: "bernie sanders sold my phone number to joe biden, he can eat shit."

the national guard isn't ambling around the loop but the alphabet boys are running buckwild in the suburbs.

asking chatgpt how to curtail my wife's snoring

this is the keir starmer playbook: use this one cudgel to stymie all the left-wing momentum in your party and then surely everything will be just fine

We're dealing with the knock-ons of a decade where a few people have driven themselves furiously insane because not enough people liked their posts and validated their tastes.

me: Tesla, activate pond mode TESLA: pond mode activated. filling vehicle with water me: thank you tesla

that would require them to try, and besides they're so tired.

you can also write me a letter to my work and tell me how good i’m doing

No no, let's be very clear on what Carlson and Karl Rove are doing, which is the sequel to David Frum & Bill Kristol & whoever else: they're using Trump as their once in a lifetime reputation launderer, as he truly goes off the rails. John Yoo also making this play today.

what the fuck man

maga's main policy planks @ this point are: 1. we won, which means 2. you have to be nice me 3. you have to admit that i’m right 4. you have to agree with me 5. you have to be happy about that fact 6. say nice things about me 7. if anything bad happens it's your fault for not being nice enough to me

this is me and my 100%-ile height son

grindset

paul volcker sending jerome powell a telegram from a ouija board calling him a wimp and a loser

once again hearing word that the banks are out of money

Louis CK’s full name is Louis Charlie Kirk

There have been exactly two national politicians in my voting lifetime who have suggested that Democrats should do something else besides become Republicans. One of them immediately started doing Republican stuff anyway after winning the election and the other got ratfucked beyond belief.

the hasty pudding’s pentatonix parody is here to tell you that abortion rights aren’t worth fighting for

back to the future ii hypebeast-ass fascist chic going on here. pitchfork's shine on review would be too kind.

tax vacancies in triplicate

A recent @trashfuture.bsky.social episode articulated a point that we're seeing all over: The people who've made the world we have now in order to accomplish the disenfranchisement and stochastic terror of vulnerable groups are doubly offended when that terror/threat thereof is turned upon them.

let's go