a reminder that a primary cause of the brutally tight housing market in the biden boom labor market years of 21-23 was roomates and people living with parents moving in their own places due to rapidly rising low-end wages.
Nearly six months behind bars. No bail. When they finally dismissed the charges they released her in North Dakota with no winter clothes & no means of getting back home to Tennessee. They upended this woman's life.
I don't see any reason why government officials should be protected from reputational damage for their actions while working in an official capacity.
Mitch McConnell made a strategic choice that preserving the unity of the republican party was preferable to a modest increase in domestic spending in the medium term and we're all paying for it
"Never put your enemy on death ground" is military advice that is literally thousands of years old, but of course Trump and the unlettered courtiers he surrounds himself with don't know that because they don't read.
They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage
A great thing about this is how Mamdani is subtly but effectively undermining the commonly accepted idea among American elites that reactionaries like Weiss don't have agency. Weiss is a grown ass woman. She made choices and now has to live with the consequence of those choices.
Who called it "psychosis" when "abreality" was right there?
I think an unforeseen consequence of Trump's second term will be a substantial increase in the number of Americans who support prison abolition and identify publicly as prison abolitionists.
In Biden's defense he executed a marvelous and needed experiment in whether deliverism works.
It doesn't.
“At the same time, Trump’s team is privately trying to reassure the president that conservatives aren’t abandoning him. They have provided him with polling data in recent days that they say shows the war is popular with his supporters, people familiar with the matter said. Some Trump allies who have grown skeptical of the operation have coordinated behind the scenes to schedule appearances on Fox News and other TV networks watched by the president to sound a note of caution and warn against a deeper U.S. commitment. ” Excerpt From “Trump Knew the Risk of Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He Still Went to War.” Alexander Ward, Lara Seligman, Alex Leary, Vera Bergengruen The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/AQpg4rm9_SKif_iKf6Pbzqw This material may be protected by copyright.
this is just covid II; a small, closed circle are feeding him constant horseshit and other conservatives are trying to get on fox news to warn him that he's in political danger
I still think Trump is the luckiest motherfucker alive. But his one true superpower is his utter lack of shame.
Donald Trump is notorious for filing lawsuits at the drop of a hat. He's filed over 4,000 of them. Many for defamation.
But Donald *will not* sue Ted Lieu for defamation. Why? He's been told by lawyers that in defamation actions, truth is an absolute defense.
good thing no one ever saves anything on the internet, where people are always willing to ignore things others don't want them to see
Also I think I would be less annoyed about this if we talked about Islamophobia as a cancer in the U.S. in the same we did other forms of bigotry. There are too many people who will unequivocally condemn anti semitism and anti Christian sentiment (inasmuch as there is any) but shut up re Muslims
WSJ: The likelihood of Iran closing the strait was discussed, Gen Caine predicted it, and Trump decided “Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait — and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it.”
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Over 400 women have been arrested since they overturned Roe v Wade— yet not a SINGLE man has been arrested for raping children with Epstein.
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
Israel is a tiny country that absolutely has to obey the US and the idea that it has somehow tricked America into attacking Iran is both horribly antisemitic and, I have to say, a very foreseeable consequence of American liberals insisting the Gaza genocide was carried out over American objections
The Iran war is showing that renewable energy is a national security imperative, and that fighting renewables tooth and nail as the White House has been doing since day one deeply undermines national security, as @ryanlcooper.com writes.
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everyone gangsta until they actions have consequences
If only a college professor could condescendingly yell at her that AI is useful, I bet she’d feel so much better about all this
This is spot on. In America in 2026, strong political views are invariably downstream of personal values and morality. I currently have to work with many right-wing people and the more I talk with them, the more I find the value system that undergirds their political views utterly contemptible.
Corruption. Soliciting cash on the backs of the power built and created by the American people www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...
He voted for Kristi Noem to give her a chance. How did that work out?
If US democracy was functional, this would have led to an immediate impeachment and removal from office.
A woman in a light purple wig sits in passenger seat of zamboni, holding a banner which states "no ICE, no more, no kings, no fear" in same font and colors as Minnesota Frost team iconography.
Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game.
No ICE
No War
No Kings
No Fear.
The elementary school crossing guards broke into a spontaneous “Ewwww!!” when a Cybertruck drove by. It’s so over. For Elon, but also for me, as they followed up their assertion that it’s a “Car for old men” with a quickly-blurted “No offense.”
It is so hard to be trans right now, y’all. Like, I can’t speak for everyone but I’m white-knuckling it pretty much constantly at this point. I hope cis people are understanding how much is at stake for us in this moment: It’s literally our right to exist as ourselves that is being stripped away.
Trump has always been a eugenicist, obsessed with "good" and "bad" genes, but the media largely ignores or sanewashes it.
