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in 2008 I saw a couple in a late model SUV packed with their belongings pull up to a gas station AND START GOING THROUGH THE TRASH TO LOOK FOR RECYCLABLES.

at the record store I used to go to, the owner said he got over 100 applications one month *TO BE AN INTERN.* FOR FREE. AT THE RECORD STORE.

"I feel like I know him. And right now, l'm watching my government facilitate the destruction of his life," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on his favorite fitness influencer Mohammed Hatem. youtube.com/shorts/oWgLI...

trying and failing to understand the Overton window shift on coverage and statements on Gaza in the span of literally one week best i can tell it was from the right wing British newspaper of all places putting a starving baby on its cover — something that has long been undeniable front and center

I think the comments on this (very good, if I do say so myself) article are fascinating. If the AI industry has lost the Verge commenter, who do they have on their side? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Our current Director of National Intelligence:

Large majorities of Americans, including many Republican voters, oppose bombing Iran. They might want to weigh in with both the House and the Senate. US Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

a lot of the people who will chastise you for criticizing Dems instead of focusing on Trump are surprisingly willing to criticize protestors instead of focusing on Trump

uh...both?

This is an amazing article abt an amazing breakthrough use of an old and discredited drug and about how one company was able to raise the price without limit because it was the only treatment for a fatal disease and they cld basically raise it to as high a price as they wanted.

I think this article is wrong in part, specifically in its account of agency, and right in part, specifically about how Bernie framed most of his message. First, I will deal with what I think it gets right 1/: 🧵

I promise you the White Christian nationalist regime staffed by neo-Nazis doesn’t give a single shit about the safety of American Jews. Let’s not pretend they do.

I'm embarrassed for the New York Times that they published this piece on Ms. Rachel, in which they cite a ridiculous anonymous righwing website Stopantisemitism while indulging the mad, mad claim she may be funded by Hamas (!). This isn't journalism:

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

Your daily reminder of which party is more responsible for polarization: From www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"Ok how about, of the 18 people who own the country, women and BIPOC should be represented. The rest can eat shit and die. Also I respectfully acknowledge that I am on the land of the Nacotchtank people. She/her."

Ironically, you wrote one of the best refutations of this argument and one that I return to often. chrishayes.org/articles/dec...

There will be a lot of euphemisms about "voluntary migration" and "humanitarian zones" and whatnot, but this is ultimately a plan for ethnic cleansing www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

Fucking infuriating @democrats.senate.gov. You all are beyond pathetic. @booker.senate.gov @slotkin.senate.gov @gallego.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @amyklobuchar.com

...does the govt have access to period tracking apps? health apps? fitness apps? apps that track meds? sleep? I think US News buried the lede here. Who wants to follow up on this? @chrislhayes.bsky.social @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com ? anyone?

They're not fascists, they just think we're in a state of exception due to the pollution of the polity and citizen body by undesirable racial elements whose removal is of such paramount importance that it transcends the dictates of the law, justified by their embodiment of the Will of the People.

is there an entire set of cadet reporters at tier 1 newspapers who are trying to bang MAGettes or what is happening here

I love that @thebaffler.com review of the overhyped ABUNDANCE [®️] book politely and eloquently outs it as just the latest Third way style neo-neoliberalism rebrand ("less than the sum of its parts") and basically says skip the book and go read this cool paper from the 90's on solar communism. 😆

Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks. Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

I’ve always been an FDR Democrat. Now I am an AOC Democrat.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Can’t stress this enough! And obviously neither the SEC or the DOJ (at least at the highest levels) is going to seriously investigate and prosecute insider trading.

Seems he knows the difference, after all.

Joan Rivers had Anita Bryant all figured out. Fabulous.

Most succinct fact-check I've read of how LA Fire Dept's budget wasn't recently cut -- in fact, the opposite -- from @politico.com. But that misinformation spread anyway. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

“I’ve never felt like a foreigner until now.” His friends and family members in a Georgia town voted for Donald Trump in support of mass deportation. Now he is scrambling to stay in the country.

2/ Here's Fox & Friends in 2012 doing a segment where a guest said that provividing healthier school lunchs to kids was "just another example of a federal power grab." www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...

it's clear now that republican trolls are squatting here. i know it's tempting to engage, but i cannot stress enough that blocking is the only way to preserve this community. block and move on. block and move on. block and move on.

Woke up this morning remembering how, after Kerry's 2004 loss to W, the Democratic party and the press decided it was abortion's fault. When I tell you that this is not an exaggerated memory: