Yates McBain

Yates McBain

@mckee.bsky.social

Air conditioning. Cereal. I like to get the daily news.

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In their perfect world, Donald Trump will continue raping girls and young women and republicans across the board will make sure the victims have to birth those babies. This is their vision for America above all else.

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Alito and Thomas gonna retire to turn out the GOP voters, and even if GOP loses the senate, they’ll rush two people through during the lame duck.

Rachel Bitecofer@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨Trump just made another comment about how his “two big monsters” will make history next week. “So, I wonder if I should say this. I’d like a little advice from my two people, my two big monsters. My two monsters are going to be the biggest stars in the country in a week.”

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Still covering Elon Musk as a business mogul and not foregrounding his murderous white nationalist politics is like doing a piece on only the clown career of John Wayne Gacy.

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Replying to @lolgop.bsky.social

Tangential but it totally feels like the mom in this story has to be one of the “my kid randomly cut me off idk why” kind of parents we’ve been hearing about lately

Not be a middle aged dad but Honda Fit is my dream car

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

An older woman stopped me in the Target parking lot: “I just saw your Honda Fit. I’m a Fit driver too and I always try to talk to people who drive them, we’ve gotta stick together.”

If you are angry about 13 Iowa voters having no coherent political ideology and voting behavior, boy do I have bad news about almost everybody who votes. People literally walk into the booth not knowing who they’re gonna vote for and decide the second they cast their vote.

Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰@urbanlandrent.bsky.social

No reason to get mad imo. These people literally have not thought about any of this. The answers they give are on the spot post-hoc justifications for a vibes based vote that they believe sounds plausible. They’re trying to answer questions on a test, not explaining a thought process.

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ill be fucking their little tri-corn hat wearing asses up. founding fathers never saw brazilian jui jitsu. Never saw muy thai. im putting ben franklin in a kimura.

As always it’s a shame he’s such a piece of shit bc he is inadvertently hilarious

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social

Trump is interrupted by a 3rd and 4th protester at his rally in South Carolina: "It's always at my punchlines"

Not sure one dude should be soooo rich and consequential that he can personally intervene in a literal war

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social

He should not be allowed to have any government contracts--he is operating like a rogue state.

“these things are you birthright as white Americans but you can’t have them bc of black immigrants are getting them”

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

I'm not sure how much more blatant it can get that these guys are looting the federal government and then pointing over there and saying "look what THOSE BLACK PEOPLE ARE GETTING AWAY WITH!!!" bsky.app/profile/atru...

Like Dink and Doink tbh

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com

wait wait wait. the Republican ratfucking dad and son are named "Tommy and Timmy Teepell." are you fuggin kidding me with this shit

I used to teach argumentation in college writing (typically using Aristotle’s Rhetoric) and never once did I encourage lying. In fact discouraged it as part of establishing good character! If rhetoric is not “manipulation” idk what is.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

I think the question of lying versus manipulating in the context of politics is interesting. In particular, what seems to have collapsed our country is the elimination of the stigma against LYING, specifically. And not just because it helps manipulate - often everyone seems to know it’s a lie!

If I don’t understand half the words in this, am I probably good?

ceej@ceej.online

rare non-shitpost from your pal ceej: if you self-host plex you’re gonna wanna update asap. crypto miner malware started hitting installs yesterday, it got me and I’m usually pretty up on this stuff

I’m all right with this tbh. Freedom etc

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court agrees to review Reconstruction-era ban on distilling spirits in private homes.

Also breaking: my conservative uncle told my wife that the gender indoctrination students are getting in schools is “just as bad” as school shootings

the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

BREAKING: my conservative republican nebraskan dad has seen the tommy/el-sayed video and says he abdul “handled that so intelligently” and now believes “it wouldn’t be a bad thing if he won.”

Guilty of it myself w an IG account but really there is no ethical way to remain on FB or other Meta platforms. Again, guilty myself.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

Worth noting this, in light of Meta's temporary ban on the 'No Kings' Instagram account

There is an alarming number of people who view yesterday’s school shooting as further proof we need more citizens with guns. It’s like a triumphant “see????” tone. I don’t even know, man.

Forgot UM was the wolverines and was kinda confused by the choice of animal for a sec

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

El-Sayed: JD Vance called me a little weasel today. No, what you’re talking about is a fucking wolverine.

Number 1 would be a good thing.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Calls for expanding #SCOTUS are entirely (and increasingly) understandable. But as today's "One First" explains, there are at least four difficult questions that those who support expansion should have to answer—especially as compared to other possible reforms: www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-257-...

Definitely seems like there are two conversations happening that are running alongside each other and (I’d argue) being weirdly treated as one: 1.) does AI have *whatever thing* that makes it capable of being tortured, which is diff than 2.) the weird behavior of “torturing” AI as a proxy

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

It doesn’t really matter so much if the AI actually lacks a mind, at least in terms of what it tells you about the person engaging in sadism. They’re absolutely IMAGINING it does, so they can derive pleasure from inflicting pain on it. Otherwise they’re literally just wasting time on nothing.

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Slavery was and is a real thing that has brutalized hundreds of millions of people over the course of human history, if someone tells me a fucking chatbot is enslaved I'm immediately throwing hands. It's not cute, it's not intriguing, it's an insult to real people who suffered and suffer now.

I have been *haunted* by someone on here saying this to me yesterday. I cannot stop thinking about what this must be like.

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Never forget that Gladwell did an ep of his podcast imploring folks to consider how devastating police shootings are for cops too and the main expert he had on was a dude who wrote this book, which Gladwell doesn’t mention at all.

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Counterpoint: the people who think The Lincoln Project got Joe Biden elected love the Newsom goofy meme shit

Ed@notdred.bsky.social

I think Ossoff captures something that Newsom never did: the Dem base wants you to fight but they want real shit not goofy memes and too-online riffs

The Today show asked the Chick Fil A CEO about the company’s history with LGBTQ rights and his response was: “Well, for anybody that hasn't tried us, we'd love for you to come try and have our great-tasting food and the hospitality that we're known for.” Fuck this company forever and always.

Lmao didn’t he start out trying to be a screenwriter?

Forbes@forbes.com

The Daily Wire’s new movie, written by Ben Shapiro, features a cast including Rob Lowe, James Franco and Jennifer Jason Leigh, as the conservative media company ramps up its filmmaking efforts.