(((John))) is mad on the Internet

looked at in longer perspective, it's striking how much this resembles the premodern system of exclusion, rents, and personalist connections, which was--and this part's important--radically worse than the modern system of impersonal rules and general taxation

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

me listening to your "podcast"

exchange between a right wing Brazilian congressman and a left wing congressman is pretty brutal for the former

Trabalhadores e trabalhadoras do Brasil, uni-vos. Nós merecemos respeito.

The “parent estrangement” panic should be understood as part of the same complex as anger at social media “censorship,” and demands for affirmative action for conservatives in academia. Conservatives simply think you should be forced to listen to their dogshit ideas, no matter how cruel.

every now & then someone on the anti-trans side will get cold feet about how openly ugly it's all getting—they want to keep the image of a nice, sensible centrist but it's never enough for them to get off the train

Since that Pemberton Mayor story made national news, don't think that nearby Pinelands towns aren't just as wild. www.pinebarrenstribune.com/articles/fea...

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

As it turns out, SoCal Strategies is also a fake pollster as well. Probably the same people involved too. This is becoming an epidemic

That latest internal showing Mullock only a few points down finally got some investment put into the district. Keep watch, if Van Drew survives it'll be by the skin of his teeth. newjerseyglobe.com/congress/sup...

Hardest working guy at NJT is @customeradvocate.bsky.social and this is what he has to deal with

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson?

The story of the Republican party during Obama was the rubes taking over from the patricians who pandered to the rubes

The use of inherent contempt is going to be very funny.

El-Sayed: "People like Vance think America is too small for some of us. I think America is big enough. America has been big enough include people whose families came, were here before anybody else showed up, or who were brought here despite themselves. His view of America is small -- small like him"

Good, it's been a zombie studio for almost 2 decades.

MUST READ: Neil Bush, brother of one President Bush and son of another President Bush, explains why he voted for James Talarico. In part: “My vote was motivated by two things: deep concern about Ken Paxton's record and genuine admiration for the character and principles I see in James Talarico.”

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

You know who I feel sorry for in Star Wars? Sebulba. Imagine you had a chance to kill baby Hitler, but WW2 happened because you came second in a NASCAR race.

holy smokes, conan strikes up a chat with a random lady on the subway and she immediately starts riffing on his level, no problem.

I will always remember Vivek Ramaswami as the freak whose vibes were too off to hang with the DOGE guys, and that group included Musk and a guy who ran a Satanist hacker group that extorted CSAM from minors.

Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.

“Does Ukraine think the successor CEO in the event of Musk’s sudden and untimely death will behave this erratically” is not something I’d want anyone in Ukraine to be thinking if I were Musk

grok what would a smart guy say

the Titanic: famously a story about the importance of avoiding obvious disaster that results from hubris and error, rather than a story about how things have to get worse before they get better

actually this is a savvy move out of Vivek's campaign he's appealing to the fastest growing pillar of the GOP voter base: estranged, resentful parents and child predators

One of the central problems in the American cost crisis is that knowledge of costs, or lack thereof, is treated as a rhetorical weapon rather than verifiable objective truth