It is worse for a regular people when a company goes down that it is for the investors in that company.

can we talk about how there's literally no good africa reporting in the west

The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that

When Tekashi 6ix9ine, the rapper and former gang member, finished serving a three-month sentence at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, he left carrying a peculiar souvenir. He showed it off to two friends who were waiting outside the jail to collect him: it was a homemade SpongeBob SquarePants figurine with a jagged series of lines—not unlike a heartbeat monitor, or a mountain range—scribbled on it. This was, 6ix9ine explained, the autograph of Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela. The signature was also dated, in Spanish, “2.º Abril.” “Look, one of one,” 6ix9ine said, holding up the SpongeBob, which, he later explained, another inmate had meticulously crafted, folding six hundred pieces of paper and sewing them together, over the course of two weeks. “Maduro signed it,” he said, proudly, before adding, “Venezuela forever.”

well *that* is a lede www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

In case you didn’t notice, Dems successfully killed the SAVE act and protected millions and millions of Americans’ right to vote.

The people constantly attacking us on here apparently don’t want to talk about that.

The deeply frustrating thing about the housing shortage is that we could solve most of it by simply letting capitalists make a lot of money building homes for people who would like to buy or rent them.

parents my age are learning. The black couples, anyway, prioritize sending their kids to schools with black teachers and students. The interracial couples on the other hand.…😬

of Black and other kids and more importantly Black teachers! You cannot send your kids to these all white schools and not teach them nothing about themselves! That is why these New Folks are so goofy now!

why we werent in private school or the suburban schools. Lower Merion HS was in the same area as our school and Cheltenham HS was right up the road from where I grew up. But the answer was the same for all three of us, our parents were intentional about making sure we went to a school with a lot

Me, my friend Kristin and my friend Bernard out of the Black kids at my school probably were the best off. Bernard’s father was a well known Philly lawyer (Denzel Washington model his character in “Philadelphia” of off his dad). Kristin’s dad was a PA State Trooper. We all three were asked a LOT

People have her a lot of country off of Paper Planes but she is looney tunes

I think the problem for US media is that if you admit Hormuz is an almost irresolvable conundrum you also are implicitly arrayed against the president and his power-of-positive-thinking approach that it’ll magically open, placing you in the forbidden realm of Taking A Side

The two other times I remember watching the media with the same confusion about why they weren’t treating the onrushing train as an onrushing train were the levee situation in NOLA post-Katrina and late February 2020

The Hormuz situation seems so so bad, like gonna-destabilize-half-the-globe-and-tank-the-economy bad, with no obvious resolution even plausible, and it’s still getting the “distant crisis mostly of interest to nerds that will work itself out” treatment in American press

honestly think most men of that era who didn't want their wives to work white collar jobs were motivated more by "i work there and we are actively predatory towards women" than some sort of RETVRN-style mindset of idealized values

my grandma worked as a secretary in the 60's/70's, and let's just say the workplace culture then makes the mad men lawnmower scene look downright benign

I stole this from Facebook, but it's a good illustration of how rape used to be considered cute, even at a time when consensual premarital sex was much more stigmatized.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Take it personal. At this age, people are 100% aware.

They wouldnt be starving under the Harris Administration.

“The MAGA crowd is made of dumb people — like, SUPER dumb people. And they fall for it.”

For my @wired.com feature debut, I talked to Sam, a guy who made thousands of dollars on Instagram by scamming MAGA men with Emily Hart, an AI generated, Trump-loving influencer. www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

People that don't know how to talk about nothing but sex

many days in the future some twerp, possibly my own child, having just learned about America's mass of nonvoters, will quip in my earshot what could be possible if a politician could reach them.

whereupon I will immediately slap them and shout "no, leave them be. leave them the fuck be."

its probably better for all of us that these people remain disengaged from US politics because the collective impact of their participation has traumatized, immiserated, or killed large numbers of people in america and abroad

many americans demonstrated repeatedly that the thing that would get them to participate in politics was to be told by a television celebrity that they could be rich and it was good to abuse the weak

indeed, “when you are a star they let you do it” proved to be truly prophetic words

the commonality to a lot of anti-Dem, anti-lib comments here is “ there is a great mass of untapped voters
for left of center politics — if only we did ____. “ well, there is a politician that is good at bringing out irregular voters…so good that he’s a virtuoso. his name is donald j. trump

I think we've moved past the need for opinion writers as a society

"MY SOUL IS PREPARED, PERSIAN. WHAT ABOUT YOURS?"