MikeasaService

Motivated reasoning is a hell of a drug.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

These people are all out of the “bad salesman” mode. They are convinced they can create reality by bold claims, at least for long enough to get something they want.
Then they count on people not remembering that the next time, which is the real problem in the media today.

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

nyt website currently resembles one of those mock covers people made before 2016 election: economy floundering, war in the middle east, scandal-plagued cabinet sec, brazen corruption....

There are three paths to restoring fusion voting:

1️⃣ Challenge bans in court under state constitutions (free speech & association)
2️⃣ Pass legislation through state lawmakers
3️⃣ Win a ballot initiative or referendum

The roadmap exists. The question is whether states will reopen the door to fusion.

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Blakeman echoes conspiracy theory that motivated Buffalo mass shooter It’s not a new claim in the context of immigration but it’s an idea that’s entered mainstream political rhetoric over the last decade.

Blakeman states plainly his belief in the “Great Replacement Theory,” a fave of white supremacists including a significant number of mass shooters. Dan Clark reports.

Same. I'm going to be somewhat period appropriate, though...I'm at an all day pinball tournament! #AT40

First reaction: Could he possibly be that stupid?
Second reaction: Well.....yes.

If only there were some lessons from history about the outcome of deciding that some people aren't really human....

This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich

No, just naturally greedy assholes. No AI needed.

Anti-Trans Democrats Blown Out In North Carolina Primary Election Anti-trans Democrat Nasif Majeed lost to Veleria Levy, who ran on a pro-LGBTQ+ platform. Other conservative Democrats lost as well on primary day.

1. In yesterday's primary elections, anti-transgender Democrats found out the hard way why you don't throw transgender people under the bus.

Two anti-trans dems lost their primaries, including one that cast the deciding veto override vote, in blowouts.

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This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

Fusion voting powered the abolitionist strategy of the 1840s and 1850s — allowing parties to unite behind the same nominee while keeping their own ballot line.

It freed smaller parties from the “spoiler” trap and made opposition to the Slave Power electorally visible. More voice. Real leverage.

If you’ve arrived at the “doctors do medicine for money and therefore can’t be trusted” stage of your theory, they should take the sharp objects out of your house

Elton Glock

47? Why not since we deposed Mossadegh in 1953?

As usual, the cruelty is the point.

The peace president makes the case for forever wars

I mean, it’s not like the lies haven’t been thoroughly documented.

“Most fans want a system where the team they cheer for has a similar starting point as other teams.”

You left out “and they’re gullible enough to believe that a salary cap will make that happen.”

I’m thinking 80% the first and 60% the second (non-trivial amount of “both”).

Premillennialism is a death cult heresy, and it is the height of arrogance to think God would advance an eschatological timetable based on decisions made by man.

Once again, these people make me wish I believed in hell.
I note also that this is more than he's done to act against anyone from Texas who's implicated in *actual* child abuse in the Epstein files.

Donald Trump IS a multiyear conflict with no end in sight.

When has the owners’ goal ever been competitive balance? What most people think of as the “golden age” of baseball was a period of Yankees/Dodgers World Series.

Come on, "The Doomsday Bitch" was *right there*.

"In the end, the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to all persons born in the United States. The President cannot ignore, rewrite, or abandon that promise by executive order." Read Cato's amicus brief in the birthright citizenship case. [Thomas Berry, Daniel Greenberg, & Kimberly Coleman] /1