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The psychopaths in charge of America believe violence and savagery are how you prove you’re strong, and every problem is solved through the application of strength, and if problems weren’t solved you weren’t strong enough, and thus problems are met with perpetual escalation of violence and savagery

“…I know it is in Swindon, probably in Stoke-on-Trent—that says, ‘knick me mobile, shame on… shame on you.’ knick me—you can’t get knicked again.”

Look I know it’s impossible to prove because it’s so diabolical and upstream but every time Mike Johnson walks past a Build-A-Bear Workshop his son’s phone buzzes

Thank God the USA sent thousands of better men than Pete Hegseth to Europe in 1944.

I know when we’ll see a lot of ‘em.

"No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another" U.S. Const. Art 1, s. 9, cl. 6

m.media-amazon.com/images/S/ass... This stuff from Whole Foods is cheap and delicious

This sentence is suitable for the Vince McMahon meme

Clam pizza from Zuppardi's in West Haven

Controversial take: It is perfectly reasonable for the White House compound to include event space and Trump should go through the regular process of requesting funding from Congress to build something.

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

What's making me happy right now is thinking of Trump sitting/sleeping there, with ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how hard he's losing.

gonna get through this whole thing without ever learning what the blockchain is

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

My impression is that Putin has outlined a vision to Trump where the U.S. withdraws from Europe and Asia, and in return is given a free hand to focus on dominating the Americas. This is where the Greenland and Canada annexation talk comes from.

I have a message for Donald Trump: Your past sexual abuse of teenagers has not lowered the price of eggs! by Chuck Schumer

a reminder that this is Tyler Cowen

is that dude seriously walking around $50k richer in taxpayer money bc the doj was seeing if he would take a giant bribe and then he took a giant bribe and he just gets to keep it?!?!? please tell me this is not the case

a lot of legacy news outlets are used to leaning on government sources. but now those sources are all radicalized freaks, and there's been no adjustment for that.

In absolute earnest, I think terror of “elitism” has put a powerful vocabulary for describing what’s going on here out of play. These people are vulgar, thuggish, unsophisticated, crass, unschooled, unreflective. They are low in a sense that has nothing to do with income, & it’s fine to say so.

"I prefer not to have to move in court to stop you or your client from leaking." What court, my man? The court of Guy Code? There's no filed case yet!

However annoying you find me, to win a presidential election Democrats need the support of people who are more conservative than Yglesias and to win a senate majority they need an even bigger tent than that.

The tiny saving grace here is that these asshats are so captured by their own delusions that they can’t (yet) bring themselves to just demand the AI lie, which is what it will take to get the thing to validate their worldview.

Maybe instead of 30 dolls she gets one. And maybe it costs a few dollars more. And maybe it contains the transferred soul of Charles Lee Ray. And maybe it's always yelling "Ade due Damballa. Give me the power, I beg of you." It's fine.

I think we get so used to using words like “marginalized” with the subtext “unjustly” that we need to periodically remind ourselves that some people and ideas are marginalized for excellent reasons, and have little value to add except possibly as object lessons in pathology.

This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Tesla’s PE ratio is 128x, and Musk thinks he’s a victim.

someone just tried to scold me for calling musk a "foreigner" since he's actually a US citizen and it might be offensive to other immigrants so my apologies to all foreign-born nazis who also cheated their way into citizenship

Kind of inappropriate for the top law enforcement official to appear at an explicitly partisan political event

You begin to appreciate the pace of events: Hitler became Chancellor on January 30. The Reichstag burned on February 27. The Enabling Act was signed on March 23. Dachau opened the day before.

Merrick Garland emphasizing the importance of swift justice

They voted for Trump. Now they hope he won’t send them to detention camps.

Step #1 - visit local Starbucks or McDonalds until you find somebody working on their laptop (who will be there a while) that looks like you Step #2 - drop you backpack right behind them Step #3 - call local police and claim there's somebody that looks like the shooter Step #4 - leave