Social media has turned otherwise normal people into this. Ten toes down on shit you know is wrong. You're allowed to learn new information and course correct. That 'I'm not owned' Dril tweet describes way too many people who worry more about embarrassment in front of faceless nobodies than reality
It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!
He's yelling at the dumbass Fox News guy. Definitely starting to feel the heat. Will it matter? Who knows, but he's not comfy right now and that makes me feel good.
This thread is not about whether Platner is a Nazi. It’s about how he lies like a toddler when he’s cornered. And that’s enough. He’s not electable, and Susan Collins knows it. You can too, if you can read this thread, or this 18-page document. 2/
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
The celebs who had so much "Fuck Trump" fire in their veins when it came to the murders of white Americans are strangely lukewarm about killing foreign kids.
But they'll still be livid if you call any of their outrage performative.
"A U.S. diplomat who was in the embassy when McGurk arrived found his steady advance astonishing. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”"
Most americans who travel abroad have never actually applied for a visa before and if they start having to they are not gonna like it
The woman who told FBI agents that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was as young as 13 recalled that she and her mother received death threats afterward, with callers saying “we know where you’re at, you need to keep your mouth shut."
Here's a Miami Herald gift link.
I want you all to guess how much Graham Platner’s grandpa’s chair costs
Trump take gas
This little thesis of yours that you lifted from a right wing white supremacist blogger has been disproven by actual evidence by multiple accounts. Why haven’t you deleted it?
This is almost comically off base.
Here's some actual reporting to go with Ryan's reflexive Platner defense: "Gertner sat at her mother’s dining table in the house she’d grown up in, next to a roaring fire, admiring the Christmas tree." www.midcoastvillager.com/news/health/...
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Not that it matters, but I have traced her ancestry extensively going through multiple generations and centuries. This is not true and appears to simply be echoing false claims made by prominent white supremacist Peter Brimelow.
Okay. I'm finally blocking Ryan Grim.
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The Trump Administration can’t even impose its will on Minneapolis when the full force of the federal government was focused on it, but surely they will be able to pacify and remake Iran, a nation of 90 million people halfway around the world.
Israel wants "Greater Israel"; article with links: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-world-order
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there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).
the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.
As L.A. feds find new ways to prosecute alleged 'doxxing' in court, anti-ICE protesters fear chilling effect on rapid response networks. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...
MS NOW confirms Corey Lewandowski is also out at DHS.
Claude is more worried about ending up in the Hague than the people running it
We're at war in Iran, the president is already talking about another war with Cuba, and the White House and secretary of state are spending their time doing a roundtable on Name, Image, and Likeness rights in college sports?
tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety.
venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars.
child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me.
mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed.
mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.
This is the tech equivalent of painting a picture of a lion, then fleeing in terror.
A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”
Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity
CNN's Dana Bash reports on a conversation she just had with Trump: "He quickly turned to Cuba. He said without being asked, 'Cuba is going to fall pretty soon.'"
A firestorm of infighting in MAGA media over the war in Iran; Also, some pundits try to bridge the divide by pushing Trump to deport Muslim Americans.
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