AmberWavesofFlame

My formative political experience was the Berlin Wall coming down, as my parents shared the stories of Germans daringly smuggled to freedom to be reunited with their families, to explain to me the joy bursting forth on the screen and why they were tearing up at crowds dancing and cheering at night.

How often do we see a truly enthusiastic post here about a candidate and what they’re going to get done? Not praising a comeback line or a poll result, but fanning out over their plans to help people?

marine corps boards crossing out their instructions "expel trans marines" and writing in "we keep this trans marine" is, frankly, a great example of what it means that a society is more than just its government

I think in fact that there is a very good “originalist” argument that the founders - who were breaking away from an actual king - did not, in fact, intend to imbue the presidency with the power to order people to do endless crimes on his behalf and then pardon them for it

I think this is key to why the R campaign ran that ad in the first place. It’s not bc you’ll directly find Acton’s mom credible. It’s to ignite this conversation about her trauma and activate our powerful misogyny towards female victims. Yes, they’re sympathetic, but ALSO seen as mentally damaged.

“‘There’s no way to sugarcoat this,’ Lau told them. Springer Nature felt that Scientific American’s criticism of Trump was threatening their broader business—selling subscriptions to their scientific journals. The federal government was a major client.”

elon told the ai to make mamdani scary and the ai was like "this is the best i can do, boss"

as everyone knows, it's great when you have a component of your military that is dependent on their superior officers not reporting them to command for the slightest infraction or personal slight, sort of a "nobody say or ask anything" situation. Leads to no abuse whatsoever.

There are a lot of good arguments about what the Dems should do if they get power, but job one needs to be a drastic reduction in the powers of the Presidency (and probably SECDEF too). If you don’t do that, the game is up. The next person to abuse that power will be better at it.

I still have to listen to people ranting about Benghazi, and I know this will never even reach them.

“The communications backbone for an entire country’s military has gone down and nobody knows who is responsible” Yeah we’re gonna need to send people to prison and start nationalizing things.

Now I'm picturing civil rights activists doing short-form video from a lunch counter sit-in. They absolutely would have! CRM folks were very media savvy!

🧵 Also that he jumped bail and fled across state lines to to risk a warrant over his head for the rest of his life rather than trying to clear his name tells us what he expected about the evidence against him.

This kind of thing just keeps happening because of hopelessly unqualified people reaching for symbols of greatness from history and story to dress up in, hoping to manifest reality through impressing others. Ike himself didn’t have to swipe anyone’s globe; his victories imbued the reverence to it.

Not just detached normies, but that a huge portion of the conspiracy addicts they drew in was through the Qanon funnel, and maintained by leveraging transphobia as the fight for the sexual safety of women and children. That’s why Epstein was one of the few actual longterm scandals for the GOP.

Excellent. 4/4

I’m 💀 at one of Adam Hamilton’s top donors being Hallmark cards.

This is a textbook case of how normalizing Trump and covering him on his terms turns a case of brazen corruption into a "bitter White House feud."

If you do not investigate and prosecute this level of corruption, corruption will become an institution in and of itself. And once corruption is institutionalized, good luck uprooting it.

The Saudi military is a decades long experiment that asks "can an enormous pile of money buy a competent military?" and the answer is "absolutely fucking not"

Again tapping my sign that I will never support mandatory voting.

A polling firm got caught faking data. They said it was not faked, or ok, it was faked, but it was all part of some broader social experiment. Two things about academic experiments: a) you get ethical approval to minimize harms - which were real (thread). b) you pre-register expectations. Did they?

jesus fucking christ imagine making content capable of making dinesh d'souza experience shame

Pulling the plug on this investigation also saved Susan Collins, who was one of the ones taking bribes from Navatek. Story is linked inside this one, Part I.

The staff involved in this choice should be in prison.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: nom nom nom gimme dat seed corn i have to eat all the seed corn bsky.app/profile/twil...

Adding to the early voting for Virginia!

Bruh

look have i thought Pritzker dropped the ball/could've been doing more in the last couple years at times? sure, absolutely dropping a $3.6 MILLION nuke specifically to reduce the violent abusive monster that is Max Miller to subatomic dust, however, is the kinda shit i wanna see though

i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

This is a pogrom, no different than what the Cossacks did to Jewish communities in the Pale of Settlement.

A reminder that Seymour is a GODDAMN PLANT.

I don’t know if I’m more confused by the entire concept of a single sex emergency ward or the reading that this was multisex and she was upset by a trans person being treated there *anyway*! Like is the idea she’s advancing that trans people should just be banned from emergency treatment?

So close, but still so tone deaf.

But giving water to voters waiting in long lines to vote is illegal

As I always say, you could, if you wanted, create a very demanding application system that would sound very stern but was actually a big liberalization of immigration. I'd just let a bunch more people in, but I get that's not where everyone else is.

In conclusion, words have meanings. Lines of code spitting out probabilistic responses to queries is not slavery. Telling people they have to pay taxes isn't slavery. Being told to wear a mask during a pandemic isn't slavery. People who endured slavery are PEOPLE. They suffered. I reiterate: hands.

"For so many years, there was a really strict line in the sand when it came to sports betting. Then the tide slowly began turning internally. It was very troubling for me to see the normalization of betting and ESPN’s complete acceptance of that, and finally, they just decided to go all in."

They can’t move off of it even when it’s clearly not working because MAGA has destroyed the conservative platform so thoroughly, and Trump is so mercurial, they literally have nothing else. What should the GOP run ads on? The economy? National security? Crime? Responsibility? Unity? The deficit?

The words you're looking for are "attempted murder charges" He intentionally drove his SUV into a pedestrian

Yet another issue where the only reasonable position is "everybody goes to jail." Anything less is incompatible with the rule of law.