Anna Marshall

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

you know, i think this guy might be bad at the law bsky.app/profile/atru...

Maybe you should focus on what your VP’s real name is.

so we learned the russians and the dutch hacked jared kushners phone i am sure we have heard the end of this

It's cool how The Economy is like six of the worst companies run by the weirdest, most cooked people in the world giving each other billions of dollars until the bubble bursts

Wow. This is a fantastic ad.

Troy Jackson: "This whole thing that she doesn't regret [voting for Kavanaugh] now -- I don't really think that Sen. Collins is actually pro-choice at all. I think she did that knowing damn well what was going to happen, and now we're living with it."

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

david axelrod busy taking a democrat to task for civility

I’m glad alito put in writing that originalism has nothing to do with rigorous historical research and is in fact just him talking to his imaginary friends bsky.app/profile/audr...

I’d like to correct an earlier post. I am a one-issue voter, and that issue is renaming New Mexico as “New America.” Nothing matters more to me and my family. (“Ornate ballroom cushions” is a close second issue, of course.)

This is a pretty funny chart

It's too bad Katie Zacharia was fired because she was well on her way to successfully completing a full sentence.

I feel like we’re about 10 minutes away from learning that Katie Zacharia isn’t her real name.

every sycophantic senator who brought up the national security aspect of the arch and ballroom should be publicly shamed and shunned for the rest of their lives never a moments peace for this

dude is a natural

The other day, Talarico leaned hard into the case for immigration as a positive good for our country in a way you rarely hear from Dems. He has a real theory of the case: Trump's cruelty and barbarism have opened space for new moral arguments, a new consensus. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2160...

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Impotentlittlemanbabysayswhat?

Dear John Roberts: eat shit.

Putin told Iran the locations of our warships. Today, Trump rewarded him by lifting sanctions and allowing American dollars to fuel Russia’s war machine. Our troops are in harm’s way, and the President cut a deal with the adversary putting a target on their backs.

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Fuck Vance. Everyone who voted to supported Hegseth or voted to confirm him should *have* to watch the execution. You can't enable this violence and get to claim delicate sensibilities. If it feels wrong to watch, it's probably wrong to do and you should do you best to keep it off the air.

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AI evangelists might do better at converting skeptical people if every bit of news out of the small handful of companies doing all of it doesn't make the people in charge seem like absolute lunatics

Counterpoint: Bring me your fatties, your weirdos, your radicals yearning to breathe free.

In re: the Hegseth presentation today. bsky.app/profile/pbum...

Guys, I made the TIME100 Next list (?????????)

Now we have to listen to every tech CEO dipshit who has the money to end poverty, but won’t because “woke” or whatever, use the term “super intelligence” because they think kissing a janky real-estate huckster’s ass will heal the psychic wounds from never getting picked to play dodgeball.

finally?????!????

Trumpers, famous opponents of border walls

Bulwark coming thru to remind us — as they periodically do — that they have amnesia about the darker parts of the Bush Administration.

No, we substituted for a different dark vision of humanity. What is she drinking?

yeah, you've kicked millions off food stamps and half our food is poisoned, so we're shitting our brains out

I know the answers to this question but why is there comparatively so much less media conversation about Did Woke 1 Go Too Far compared to another 2020 explosion of political thought in the vein of: Did Anti-Vax Hysteria Go Too Far, only one of those things commands HHS rn

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Amen!

I find the discourse around "wokeness" to be dishonest and tedious, but this is what I wrote about it a couple of years ago and I think it remains correct: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Of all the enormous range of human emotions, it is possible that grief, as generally understood, might be the least likely for the president to have ever, even once, accessed

You actually can fight it. That is absolutely something you can do.

Tillis prodded a rape survivor to go public with allegations against Hegseth, promising her that it would sink the nomination of a dangerous man to a powerful position. She did, at significant risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote in favor of Hegseth. He has always been a coward.

Poll Time!

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Genuinely baffling who those statements are for. Like are you just trying to avoid awkward workplace interactions? Because then maybe just get a different job.

“I really care about A.I. in this contract and getting really strong guardrails to protect our work,” says grants coordinator Eli Oberman. Management has said they want to have responsible A.I. policies – but we need them to put those policies in a contract!

“It's time for management to come to the table with some real movement so we can close out this contract and get back to focusing on that work that we love doing,” says interactive story designer Anna Donlan. We need management to agree to a reasonable wage proposal now.