never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

"the Domino theory but in reverse" "yeah exactly" is killing me 😭😂

shot & chaser because lmfao

The US-UK coup (1953) was much closer in time to the embassy takeover (1979) than that takeover is to this week’s US attack on Iran en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ir...

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

wise thread. AI hype is full of a lot of nonsense but these tools, Claude in particular, can do some very impressive stuff

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Remember when George W. Bush blurted out that Saddam tried to kill his dad and the war in Iraq was justified on those grounds? Too soon to say who'll have the last laugh, dimwit.

The level of motivated reasoning required for some pundits to convince themselves that Netanyahu, Adelson, et al. did not actually understand their own interests when they strongly favored Trump to win is beyond my comprehension

Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.

This

one of the most confronting things to happen to wordcels is the realisation that the gift of language is in fact to most people a chore that they will outsource at the first opportunity.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

“If you want to know how it feels to have slaves, in the modern world – and not be blamed openly for this desire – visit Dubai.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

You know the Republican Party is filled with extremely stupid people when this fucking guy is all over the media as a Republican spokesman.

This kind of thing has been standard policing since Marsha P Johnson's dead body was found in the Hudson River following an argument with some transphobes and was immediately ruled a suicide and left uninvestigated by police

When you're a star, they let you do it.

10/10 No notes.

and there just no middle ground on any of these things. why do i have to give tax cuts to billionaires just because a large portion of the country is dumb enough to believe its stimulative? we all know its bull shit, im sick of wasting our goddam time arguing about settled truths

trickle down economics is bull shit and if you believe it then you are stupid. great replacement is bull shit and if you believe it then you are racist. vaccines are safe and effective and if you believe otherwise you should be shunned from society

"Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory." bsky.app/profile/atru...

Seeing Matt discovering in real time that Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia is a sight to behold.

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

Progressive government spending oversaw the development of technology and innovation that completely changed the world, it put people on the moon. The Universe gave us fire & we're letting a small amount of people capture and control it for themselves, it will never be used for the public's benefit.

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

The migrant workers/slaves who built the city is geopolitics. The dirty money, the sanctions evasion, the uneasy relationships with neighbours, the war UAE funds in Sudan... Anyone living there is exposed to geopolitics. Just now they can't pretend otherwise.

This is in every facet of life. So many people "don't pay attention to politics" are going to find themselves increasingly in these types of situations without knowing how to deal with it.

Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran

Oh God, Harrison Ford 😭 #actorsawards

That level of selfishness is how a temporary spike in egg prices Gave cover for people to vote for an adjudicated rapist and 34 count felon The inability of people to admit it, is something I find extremely frustrating

I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

I hate how accurate this tweet is.

Continually baffles me that people try and attribute anything but this for his behavior after all these years

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

This will age as well as when @brianstelter.bsky.social wrote that tweet saying women shouldn’t be worried about Republicans going full Handmaiden’s Tale. Then they banned abortion. And he deleted the tweet and never referenced it.

I mean this sincerely, what the fuck are we doing here, truly.

I am reminded that a startling number of people believe that if you’re a member of the military and you don’t like something your government did, you can just throw up your hands and quit the next day like any other job. It Does Not Work That Way

Like, the culmination of Strange Days in a very real way fundamentally embodies the twinned elements of premillennial tension & deep down *hope* which together characterized the mid-late 1990s— more as a progression to a resolution than the mélange we felt it as at the time, but still revolutionary.

Weird that *this* is me coining "stillborn millennium," as it wraps around an idea I've long discussed: that every piece of pre- & peri-millennial possibility, technological hope, or mythic future potentiality was inverted *Right* at its moment of highest vulnerability, & that we've never recovered.

My heart grieves. We have learned nothing about our imperialist wars. Get ready for them to prop up the Shah’s son like we are in the Middle Ages. If you don’t think that Islamophobia is playing a big role in this Christian nationalist government’s foreign policy, you are asleep at the wheel.

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Context: "Today's Iran crisis didn't start with just the mullahs. It started with a secret deal that Republican operatives made with them— a deal that changed history and may now lead to war." craigunger.substack.com/p/they-built...

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

MY FRIEND JUST TOLD ME THIS WAS LITERALLY WHAT HE DID AS A SKIT IN CLOWN SCHOOL HELLO?????? he brought a skit to SNL and they did it