Mike W

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Saturday is the last day you can register to vote. Go to vote.nyc to register and learn about what's on your ballot.

Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up!

it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end

As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst

I cannot overemphasize how important it is to read this and ignore pretty much every breaking news headline to get a sense of what’s going on here.

That’s every conspiracy theory. That’s the POINT of conspiracy theory.

RFK Jr will be the most consequential Kennedy and his destruction of public health will be the Kennedy family legacy.

The US press is going to hide this from you but the reason there are "strikes on Lebanon" and "confusion over the strait" is that TRUMP RANDOMLY AGREED TO THE CEASEFIRE TO ESCAPE HIS OWN BLUFF WITHOUT WORKING OUT ANY OF THESE DETAILS

“Hegseth has been a central player in Trump’s signal foreign policy failure, the war on Iran. He’s not been fired. He’s doing a lot of firing at Trump’s behest, continuing to remove senior military officers who are not sufficiently compliant with Trump’s wishes.” www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Sean Penn's characters really bookend this phenomenon perfectly.

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

"LLMs have exposed a vast pre-existing cultural appetite for false profundity, and gave everyone a machine that can produce it on demand." Interesting take! It works with a lot of airport literature too, I guess.

For a long time I have been saying that the real danger of AI-controlled drones is not that they will go haywire and disobey orders, but that they will work correctly and obey them.

Need to line up the next toy for the toddler to play with lest he have a meltdown.

Raided the camps to confiscate the letters from the kidnapped kids. Classic Good Guy behavior.

imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?

FBI Announces They Have Located Savannah Guthrie

for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations

My god, her testimony. It’s just infuriating. youtu.be/E5-m5u0qzDU?...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

At this point, even by the strictest Hobbesian standards, this government has abandoned its duty to serve the public, and is illegitimate.

The type of people who can engage in this behavior need to be kept away from society

America has a housing shortage. Every single housing proposal you see that is not "build more housing" will have the primary effect of pushing up the prices of existing housing, and is therefore, in reality, a plan to enrich current homeowners. In conclusion, build more housing.

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Bari Weiss’ rebrand of CBS News as “Fox News but way less successful!” is coming along apace.

Uhhhh….

This is a good cause.

tfw the guy who made this chart is going to be in charge of the fed

EVERYONE should watch this jaw-dropping exchange. Bennie Thompson asks simple questions and receives stammering answers, highlighting the political BS like nothing I’ve ever seen. Astonishing.

It is tragic that this person was put in a position where she lost her life for no reason other than to serve the vanity of a man determined to establish dominance over a city that hates him

Trumpism and Trumpists are incompatible with American culture and traditions and should be purged.

Everyone does know what's going on here, right? Should the Epstein evidence bill pass both the House and Senate, these criminals will say it can't be released because there is an active investigation. Never mind that a thorough investigation was completed, and the DOJ was prepared to try Epstein.