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When one understands that the Republicans are no longer the party of buisness but of rent seeking, things make way more sense.

This is the way

Look at this guy. There’s a reason he’s posing with his microphone in his propic. Take away the mic and nobody takes seriously or listens to this guy at all (not that they do now…)

“I shouldn’t have to hide the mediocrity of my thinking as an author”

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

He finally did the meme

Lula of the nine fingers 🎵 And the ring of dooooooom… 🎶

Lula Goes HARD

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Every animal Trump correctly identified on his dementia exam as a character from Game of Thrones. by Chris Cillizza

Amon-Ra joining him

Tragically, there are millions of people who get sucked into hate radio without realizing it. All they wanted was traffic or weather updates as they drove. @brainwashingdad.bsky.social is an incredible film by a daughter whose father was sucked in. Trailer 👇

I have an article appearing in the coming year that traces the origins of technological progressivism to Christian eschatological thought and its attendant racialization in 1218 England when badges in the shape of the Ten Commandments were imposed on Jews. Here’s the conclusion to my article.

As Elon Musk throttles Starlink and Starshield to help Putin, Europe turns to Nokia and Iceye to provide a European alternative to Musk's services. www.satellitetoday.com/government-m...

I think it’s time to post The Flag again

They’re putting litter boxes in the polling stations!!!!

Current* conditions near Sebewaing, MI:

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When you’re lower class, you go to jail on purpose *because* of your kids (because the county pays the family’s heat and water bills when the sole breadwinner is in jail for getting in his annual December bar fight)

Far from the worst aspect of this story, but it is true that the world must now realize that buying security services from the US govt or US tech industry is simply paying for leverage to be extorted by the providers. The country ain’t coming back from that

“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.

Not even the torment nexus was conceived as a terrible idea to give tech bros an excuse for having non-consensual sex with dogs

This is spot on and, and she notes in the next post, not a new extreme of depravity but consistent with a long trend of dehumanization

We desperately need a journalism that understands that balance is useless if maintaining it requires sacrificing interrogation and observation; that what people *claim* must be mediated through the facts about what *is*; that its 1st mission is not to fairness but to accurately informing the public.

Stephen’s on deck for Nuremberg 2.0?

The world’s richest man, a vast recipient of our tax dollars, is personally intervening in a war on behalf of Russia’s murderous dictatorship. Every public contract with firms he controls should be severed on national security grounds. This is legal & easy to do—> www.congress.gov/crs_external...

I spent last night writing about Trump's waterfront land grab in DC. Things are crazier than I thought, and MAGA has the National Park Service seriously gaslighting the public over it. 🧵

What happens when Republicans stray from their familiar territory of fraud and financial crime? Inevitably grift!

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“Can we allow a drug addict from South Africa to run US military assets” Is the right question to ask

Is Branko Milanovic a rapist? Many people are asking!

This thread reads like the president’s agenda has been vibe-coded

Republican messaging has taken some really dark turns. I’m old enough to remember when conservatives were in favor of releasing the Epstein files, and supported Ukraine’s fight against Russian imperialism.

It's a key part of conservative ideology: "I have no obligations to you and I can treat you however I like, but you are required to love me."

Trump, Musk, and the rest of the Republican Party appear to be taking Russia’s side in their war of aggression, terrorism, and mass murder. This is unspeakable depravity and corruption; a new low of shameless villainy. What a disgrace.

gonna always think of Marco Animorphs this way now

I don't understand why the right wing is trying to fight this guy in the media. Like, you found the *one* democrat who can automatically refuse the premise of a question, call out the bullshit behind it, and score his own point in the process, And you try to give him *more* attention?

Honestly that kid prob got paid to walk into a rhetorical buzz saw and I’m not sorry for him at all

Yes @democrats.org

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“The law is finally catching up with the technology ag producers are using." The Nebraska Agricultural Data Privacy Act passed unanimously in April and took effect in July. Similar proposals emerging across the country reflect a wider fight about who controls and profits from agricultural data.