DoorDash Grandma isn't a paid plant. (For that, you need to be paid!) Instead, her story is far worse.
She's a depressing example of how MAGA cultists have internalized the lies that justify their own oppression.
An analysis.
www.salon.com/2026/04/17/t...
But someone with a NYT subscription is still going to debate whether it is inflammatory to describe RFK Jr. as a eugenicist.
My latest, for @techpolicypress.bsky.social
When I read Alex Karp’s book last year, I thought it should’ve been a tweet. Now Palantir has turned it into a tweet-length manifesto, which could’ve just been a picture of a MAGA hat.
Karp is… not a subtle thinker.
www.techpolicy.press/palantirs-ma...
Elon Musk basically accused Trump of being a pedophile and then got dinner with him again a few months later. Joe Rogan acted shocked and dismayed about ICE and Iran and now he’s standing behind Trump in the Oval Office. These guys only care about holding onto power through any means necessary
I will die on the hill that U.S. culture suffered a grievous and potentially mortal injury when we retired the concept of "selling out"
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.
I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
Every time a Democrat mentions how to talk to "ordinary people" they mean "how I was told to talk by a handful of weirdo consultants in DC with gross fixations on throwing certain groups under the bus and who would not last a day in an ordinary job interacting with ordinary people."
Kash and Hegseth strategy meeting
CA voters, I encourage you to look at Xavier Beccera for Governor
Becerra is an attorney who served as the 25th U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services
He currently served as the AG of California from January 2017 until March 2021
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In other words, the stock market isn’t measuring the health of our democracy or even the health of our economy. It’s measuring the optimism of values-free investors.
rich sociopaths don't like any of the ACTUAL solutions the problems they cause (functional regulators, democratic good faith governance, equitable taxation reform, universal basic income) so they propose a bunch of dogshit and our soggy ass corporatist press just laps it up and barfs it back out
TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo:
“weak on crime”
“terrible for foreign policy”
“catering to the Radical Left”
“owes his position to me”
“sit down and mind your own business”
POPE LEO, unbothered:
“We are called to love.”
LA! These kitties’ human passed away, and they need a new home! Please help them find one! Spread the word!
Last month in The Onion:
Wrote about this today: Statements like this, from Cowen, betray a child’s understanding of politics (and/or a high level of disingenuousness).
Don’t waste time listening to people who can’t conceive of the political conflict beyond a simplistic binary of perfect democracy vs full-on dictatorship.
People are insisting that Cowen and Ross Douthat, who's peddling the same nonsense, are not stupid.
Well, the only other option is that they're deliberately pushing this mendacious, ignorant nonsense. Either way, this "Orbán is no authoritarian / democracy was never in danger" shit is disqualifying
The thing about Ross Douthat is that he's just a liar. He is being paid money to lie to you about what he believes. He is not telling the truth. There is no point in engaging or arguing with him, because his job is to mislead you.
Let me be clear---Ross Douthat is full of shit.
I continue to maintain that “JD Vance, antipope” is the funniest possible ending to all of this
Their understanding of this stuff is all wikipedia skimming and ai summaries. They're not actually that interested! bsky.app/profile/sara...
When the American Right says the Pope should stay out of politics, remember that the American Right is contemptibly dishonest and hypocritical.
www.hoover.org/research/ron...
It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...
Cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social
Re: vibecession one factor for me is feeling cheated paying federal taxes. I'm paying a higher rate than every billionaire to fund a gov't that does far less good, and far more harm, than it used to—while running a bigger deficit. I'll pay for USAID, make the billionaires pay for their fascist shit.
More evidence submissions for Section 4, 25th Amendment
"Imagine if Biden insulted the Pope and compared himself to Christ."
The exercise becomes absurd after a while, does it not?
I doubt that Pope Leo XIV will lose any sleep over this, before he begins his pilgrimage to Africa tomorrow. But the rest of us should. Because it is unhinged, uncharitable and unchristian. Is there no bottom to this moral squalor?
i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan
if it were 10 years ago this would be a wall to wall story. but the media is afraid of him. and his friends in the white house.
