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My cats, because reasons.

I’m telling you that the extreme exposure to scams is a big part of the reason so many people are negative about our economic future.

news outlets look dumb af when they use things like "the r-word" and "the n-word" when reporting on what politicians say. the NEWS is that they used these words. you are misinforming your readers/viewers if you dont say wtf the important leaders said.

“That’s so racist even CBS won’t let you say it” actually sums up how far CBS has fallen.

It’s taking a long time for people to wake up to the fact that these platforms are not public forums but privately owned companies with terrible agendas and total control. If you lay down with these dogs…

We're all acting like this is such an egregious thing to hear an American military commander say when we just lived through 20 years of them swearing they were "turning a corner" in Afghanistan and the Taliban were totally defeated year after year.

Something very important to figure out before Jan 20, 2029 is whether, when a new President is inaugurated, they will control the computer system at GSA (i.e. doors to federal buildings) and Treasury payments system or if those systems will be somehow in the hands of DOGE cronies

IMHO, free-riding by the capitalist class. Musk is far more exposed than most to civil/criminal liability if the rule of law returns; he has no choice but to defend GOP rule. The rest are hedging bets. If GOP rule ends, they'll worm back into civil society and claim their Trumpism was under duress.

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity

there is an entire chapter about SNL, specifically centered on Lorne Michaels, in my 2023 book Burn It Down. Because the echoing silence about the man has always bothered me too. Sure there are profiles of him, but they are puffery & follow a formula. Anyway, fyi: bookshop.org/p/books/burn...

This is why campus rape is never taken seriously, and until we unfuck how higher ed is funded it will *never* get better. Tapping the Upton Sinclair sign; university admins do not understand the problem because their salaries depend on their not understanding it.

This right here. Republicans intend to impose their rule on regardless of the outcome of elections; SCOTUS is their key lever for accomplishing this. Unless that changes we're all trapped in Trumpism for the rest of our lives and/or it collapses the US as a nation-state.

Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"

The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.

💯 We don't have a technology problem. We have a psychotic billionaire problem and a craven leadership problem. Its impossible to have a real discussion about the limits or utility of technology when the people controlling it are depraved and the people supposed to be checking them are corrupt.

💯 An underappreciated factor in the mass proliferation of AI slop is the degree to which it's built around middle managers gaming internal metrics and bullshitting clueless bosses.

Everything is a crypto rug pull scam, from the meme coin bullshit to the AI bubble and fake apocalyptic panic and the entire stock market. One lie after another to grab as much money as possible before the bottom falls out.

Holy shit

the clintons have a lot to answer for for the shitty people they put in positions of influence throughout the democratic party. it has significantly hobbled progress for over 35 years now.

Fuck Gavin Newsom.

people like bret stephens simply cant comprehend of a world where straight white men like them aren't the main character of every facet of human existence all the time. its fucking exhausting. they have to be the guy in the movies, in academia, in books, in music. every fucking thing has to be them

As a supposedly healthy guy in his mid 40's, seeing this notification for this post made me reflexively clench. Well played @terminal7.bsky.social

This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass!

This is a dry run and learning experience before the midterms

yes, and unfailingly predictive of absolute cowardice. If someone waffles on trans rights, they're wrong and gross, but also, you know they're just spineless losers who don't care about anything. nope, bye, next.

A reminder that people who know anything about politics -- what the parties are, what they stand for, their record, who they've elected, how government works -- are a freakish minority. Most people know *nothing at all* past the vague mythologies that sift down through pop culture.

The feral rich are backing it to the hilt. Period.

Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.

Calling it now: a "compromise" will be reached on this for only hormone testing, which will be a giveaway to the usual suspects in the medical-industrial complex. With bipartisan support in both chambers because of course. Bigotry is, among other things, a very useful smokescreen for graft.

💯 What's worse, this unkempt wankstain isn't going away after Monday. 100% he uses this to launch some kind of manosphere podcast which the MSM will use as an excuse to keep him in the news cycle. Joe Rogan probably already has him booked. This chucklefuck is gonna milk this for as long as he can.

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

Candace is the expert on kids and social media that politicians and the media pretend Jonathan Haidt is. And here she is debunking his whole schtick.

yes, yes, the guy that dogwalked you & is delivering on his promises & makes you look exactly as bad at your job as you are -- yes, that guy "has work to do!" I bet Mamdani is *shaking* they are so bad at thissss 🤡

People would probably like the Democratic Party more if those at the top didn't act like whiny piss babies when incumbents were challenged/defeated

The gobsmacklingly entitled attitude this belies of Dem leadership is why the party has been slowly dying for decades. "Vote blue no matter who" is entirely incompatible with this level of institutional hostility to primary challengers unless you WANT a corrupt sclerotic gerontocracy.

(Not so) fun fact: UFC and WWE are both functionally owned by WME group, whose CEO is one Ari Emmanuel, brother of one Rahm Emmanuel, and who has had a long-standing relationship with Donald Trump. It really is just a big club and we ain't in it.

Joe Rogan is what'd happen if Sylvester Stallone and Elmer Fudd got into a transporter accident.

While its tempting to dunk on this like so many are (dat ratio tho), it illustrates how unserious our financial press is. We're in a fascist-caused recession which could easily snowball into the 2nd Great Depression and they choose this low-grade concern trolling for a cover story. Absolute 🤡💩.

One must be particularly cynical, tone-deaf, and/or contemptful of LGBTQ+ voters to vote away trans rights and then post something like this less than 2 weeks later. Welcome to a perfect case study in how clueless and tone deaf the centrist, consultant-driven Democrats are. Enjoy the ratio.