agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
Didn’t even take 24 hours for billionaires to decide they aren’t leaving New York after all.
Incredible achievement that the one price that the Trump administration has brought down notably is "cocaine."
“The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.”
www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
This is the way (both working out and pizza)
And in an unexpected twist, it turns out the most punk rock things of all are supporting public broadcasting and patronizing your local library and not cheating on your homework with AI
Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
Tomorrow is May Day, when everyone in the world—except in the US—celebrates worker’s rights based on something that happened in the US.
Literally all your civil rights and freedoms exist because someone sometime said “fuck this shit” and fought to make it better.
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"If you can afford to send Katy Perry to space, you can afford to pay more taxes."
"If you can afford to send Katy Perry to space, you can afford to pay more taxes." #3E
The protests are not for Trump to see, they are so you can all see each other and grow. It's not the protest itself that tyrants are afraid of, but the networks and community you can grow from them. Your strength is your unity and that's why the enemy thrives by demoralizing and dividing you. #3E
“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.”
Is equivalent to asking
“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”
www.noaa.gov/about-our-ag...
the dog house on fire with an i voted sticker saying “they can’t do this it’s illegal”
"No one ever thought this would happen" is dishonest and journalists not pointing that out are doing you all a disservice. Many people said word for word this would happen. You just didn't respect those people. And you need to be honest instead of the feigned surprise for sympathy.
Mental gymnastics. Contorting to try to get around the cognitive dissonance.
I wanna say something to people who work in tech-related jobs in America: this is still a field where most people hate the rise of fascism and want to stop it. I know the media & amplification of the tycoons makes it seem like that’s the whole industry. But it’s not. And we still have power.
“progressive politics is making men angry” really isn’t the same as “right-wing media capture is telling those men to be angry.” it’s the second one. if we seize the levers of info power, a lot can change
Nailed it. Not sure I needed that reminded of just how awful it was. Shaking it off now.
we don’t talk enough about this. stop discussing our relationship i want to talk about this.
LOL, don’t tell Todd.
X: brilliant or stupid?
(LOL, we all know it’s stupid)
Body by Dre (Dre is short for day drinking)
It's going to be a wild few years of an absolutely unusable internet while the CEOs realize that trying to mug every user at every level while also having AI generate all their content isn't 100% feasible.
The most insidious myth that I was taught in American schools was that inequality and injustice are somehow artifacts of the past, and that America marches inexorably towards greater freedom and equality with every generation.
