Malter Wandale

<slaps the side of the 5th largest economy in the world> Dang, you can fit so many multi-story, single-stair residential buildings in this place.

This is the way. Jamie “Let’s go” Raskin. It’s #epstein #metoo all the way down. Fire walk with me. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

Real

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

lula

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Can’t wait.

Something I wish more people would realize.

The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!

Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

Movie villains pausing their evil plan to confess everything right before they kill the hero, inviting their own demise? Realism, apparently.

Nancy Reagan’s Village Pantry.

and his furtive communications with the Kremlin. WSJ now reports US officials say Musk ordered the Oct 14 StarShield slowdown _after_ speaking with Trump. The circumstances and factual background now make clear that this was a joint Trump/Musk decision, even as both pointed the finger at the other.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has spent the following seven months running the Navy’s carrier battle groups ragged and shooting off 30 years’ worth of stockpiles of precision-guided munitions and missile interceptors like a drunk with a pickup truck full of illegal fireworks."

we're going to need a long-term plan, with broad political appeal, for ending impunity & holding the trump administration accountable for its crimes, malfeasance & cruelties. not 'tit-for-tat' but an american version of transitional justice. my take in @slate.com 👇

Assigned Cop At Birth.

That’s right. Let’s go, Ventura! … lol sob.

This is not even slightly true! Texas has "cities" that are large collections of suburbs and a density profile where it's densest cities are lower density than the typical California suburb

What this piece says—and then derangedly refuses to hear itself saying!!—is that seniors spend less money because the American work force got its stable, guaranteed pensions taken away and replaced with personal investment savings. And then it wonders why they're risk-averse with the money!

Dang. Shohei gone fishing.

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Picked a hell of a time to stop sniffing glue.

To all who celebrate...

Here’s some Dora Abodi art to make your Sunday a little better.

raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)

one of the deepest sicknesses in the world are the people who feel personally attacked over other people getting the same rights as them

lol and lmao. Let’s go, Brandon!

In re: the Hegseth presentation today. bsky.app/profile/pbum...

I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI https://theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-she-hooked-up-with-10-years-ago-now-head-of-fbi/

One thing about being a business law professor with a PhD in political theory during These Times (tm) is that once you realize that Silicon Valley has become a vanguardist (fascist) political project, you see its fingerprints *everywhere.* From dual class shareholding to repealing 14a-8, from

I'm under no illusions about how things are or what the trajectory is. But I'm also excited for the future because that is where I will hang out with the people I care about and do the things I like doing, or haven't done before. Weird but telling that this holds less appeal for much richer people.