Michael M

“The Matthew Yglesias of 1963 would have been telling [JFK and LBJ] don’t touch this civil rights bill. It’s unpopular.” I thought this was one of the more fascinating exchanges with @mattyglesias.bsky.social, on how far politicians defer to public opinion. Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-ygles...

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Man them Brewers. Closing in on a sweep.

Damn that worm-for-brains just doesn’t care anymore does he?

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this is a perfectly reasonable list, imo these four are all monumentally awful on trans issues and this is a more than fair place to draw the line, especially given how the elections currently look - three of them are in the house, where dems will romp regardless, and iowa can do better than turek

Precisely one of the biggest mistakes Americans have made: thoughtlessly accepting the value of one as inherently good for governing the other.

Another data point for ”leave X, you’re not actually helping by being there”

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

The Russian drone operators call this "human safari."

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Phillips screwdrivers are still eminently short of adequate. 🫡

A lot of Trumpism is the sheer joy of telling completely made-up, unapologetic lies to watch people who care about the truth squirm.

This is what I see and what my younger son tells me as well. Kids want to make stuff! If this was such a great tool it would not be this hard to convince people they should use it.

My man looks like knows how to “my man”

I need people to understand this selective good ole boy justice — the kind that protects abusers, rewards impunity, and openly flouts rule of law and equal protection under it — is Jim Crow shit, practically speaking. It's how Jim Crow terrorism FLOURISHED. Trump broadened the acceptable targets.

What. And I use the term with feeling. The fuck?

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Fell into a what now!?

The thing about this is we don’t have competition to punish Nvidia with; that’s a big part of the problem. AMD? They just ape whatever Nvidia does, never really trying. Intel? We hoped but they left the discrete market. Consumers need relief from real competition.

Yglesias says re: Minneapolis, as a defense against the idea that oppostion was wrong, that "I mean, what it took in Minnesota to turn that around, they killed multiple U.S. citizens." That's true! But it also took Bloody Sunday and similar incidents to galvanize national support for civil rights.

Samuel is Ghanaian, who saw a complete Visa ban this year. He is going for a green card through marriage, which saw an almost 50% reduction this year. This is exactly what people voted for. This is what Stephen Miller is doing.

a good metaphor for politics is when you have a drill for boring holes in a board, and you find a hard board, and you immediately give up

Every question from now on should be whether he supports child r*pe. Every. One.

Unspoken implied corollary is that people who reckoned with Trump with lengthy reasoning and rationalization have baked their brains.

Still absolutely galling that nobody ever says "you can't fucking talk to her like that" when he does this stuff.

There. Were. Republicans. On. The. DNC. Convention. Stage. 2024. How did that work out?

Probably 90% of my colleagues are Muslim and the way they bear up under this stupidity driven by absolute muppets has been a driving factor in me rejecting the conservative evangelical church. I’ve had far too many instances of fools picking on them past any reasonable theological separation.

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

You’re supposed to reveal the fascist takeover afterward, chancellor Palpatine.

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

I know it's a meme but, I'll admit, this one got me. 😔

It's bleak that Serious News Outlets will tie themselves into knots writing headlines that obscure the horrors of a story while @people.com just waltzes in and calls it like it is.

The moral rot is top-to-bottom in the GOP. But let’s focus on the more specific issue here: Trump and his party like rape. Whether it’s child abuse or campus sexual assault, they think rape is ok. Maybe they even think it’s funny.

I've understood this a long time as an academic, but I think it's important to say that the party of the culture wars is now definitively the party of depravity.

Monopoly capitalism ruining studio after studio while reactionary gamers complained about black people and women in games, if you put it in a novel it would get trashed as didactic and heavy handed

He is remarkably consistent in supporting alleged perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence and attacking their victims

Republicans sure do love them some pedophiles.