never underestimate the sheer electoral power of publicly debating why people don’t like you enough

really not discussed enough how AI basically lets middle managers and vulture capitalists live out their consent violating extraction dreams

I never forget a compliment because I am very vain but one that will always stick with me is a good ol’ Southern gal with a pack-a-day voice saying “oh, he’s handsome, isn’t he” about me and in front of me

They’re claiming fraud was committed because SPLC used paid informants to collect intel on extremist groups. Claims they used donor funds without disclosing that, used shell companies for dispensing said funds.

SPLC broke the news yesterday: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

I’m also holding US-Iran peace talks at my apartment tonight. I don’t know if anyone’s going to show but I’m still having the talks

if the right is successful, it must be because the liberals possess some fatal shortcoming or overreached in a way that mechanically produced backlash. the idea that the political right is its own thing with its own aims, can harness discontent and take advantage of contingency is verboten i guess

I am a middle aged cishet male but I audibly gasped the first time I saw him without a shirt in Creed

this is it

Acknowledging the stark, ugly truth that the Republicans basically had no good reason to do what they have done for the last 11 years and have lapsed into vast collective psychosis over totally immaterial and utterly depraved delusions is terrifying, and as such most commentators simply do not do it

a Congressional hearing where you subpoena Karp, play this video so he can watch, say “how can we trust your judgement if you think this looks cool?”, give him one minute to sputter, gavel the hearing into adjournment

“How can we do this to people who helped us in war?” Hell, people did this to people who nursed their children, shit, they did it to their own children. There’s no honor in white supremacy.

Trump doesn’t have a lot of connection to the real world or any interest in it so “yell louder about it” is the only button he knows how to push and you can tell he doesn’t understand why it doesn’t work

the trouble with promising “I’m the only one who can fix this but it’ll be easy for me” is that it’s very easy to promise but pretty hard to hide in practice that it’s all bullshit

I’m going to be thinking about this at least once a month for the rest of my life

This is the broader pattern with surveillance technology in general. It doesn’t work nearly as well as advertised, but it does provide a pretext to make constitutional protections pretty much null and void.

my now-roommate has been looking for a job for nearly a year since her federal-funding-supported nonprofit job got axed

"Former U.S.A.I.D. workers who have done informal surveys estimate that less than half have found full-time work, with many making less than before. An estimated third are unemployed.... Jobs are also gone at the many nonprofits and partner agencies once funded by U.S.A.I.D."

while the rest of you were developing empathy and a sense of perspective, he Studied The Blade, poorly

a flip comparison, but this is kinda like a farcical version of the time Islamist radicals failed to seize the Tunisian Parliament building so they shot up a museum next door instead

Lori Chavez-DeRemer @LChavezDeRemer X.com No one fights harder for the American Worker than President Trump and I am honored to have served under the most pro-worker president in US history. The allegations against me, my family, and my team have been peddled by high-ranked deep state actors who have been coordinating with the one-sided news media and continue to undermine President Trump's mission. I look forward to continuing to fight the good fight from the outside and always advocating for the American worker. 5:50 PM • 4/20/26 • 59K Views

It seems that the hard right can only ever be happy out of power. Once they control all three branches of government, fire all the civil servants and install partisans, and are unconstrained by the rule of law, they still have to blame “the deep state.” Sister you are the state

relatedly, the absolute best polling Harris-Walz ever got was during the 2-ish weeks they seemed to be happy to be there and having fun

can you pin someone else's post

Let me RE-UP THIS LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK!!!!!!

the foundational belief of Trump, Miller, Vought and Vance (and Chief Justice Roberts) is that anti-discrimination rules are an unacceptable denial of the freedom of people and institutions that exercise discrimination, while *experiencing discrimination* is probably not even real, but fine anyway

yes and yes and yes. i think Obama was in a basically impossible situation from the standpoint of both politics and policy but the administration's sincere concern for the good opinion of the finance industry (and finance industry-affiliated politicians and media) was toxic

Going undersized and making so much of ARRA tax cuts really didn't help the cause. Nor did declining to prosecute the derivative profiteers and mortgage fraudsters.

real torment nexus logic. "we must highlight the main character of the day, as described in the classic tweet, 'don't be the main character of the day'"

Raspberry Beret
I Wanna Be Your Lover
Little Red Corvette
Let's Go Crazy
Kiss

basic list and i'm leaving out a lot that i love, what can i say, the man could write a song

more than this, the superficial similarity in price tag between the bailout packages (which went to banks) and the ARRA (generally good redistribution and investments) allowed the GOP and allied press to call ARRA a "bailout" and mislead people about exactly who paid what to whom

DC is doing a bunch of lead testing and pipe replacement across the city and that's wonderful for public health and long overdue but it was a little unsettling to look out of my window this morning and see a man up to his shoulder in a hole in my yard