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I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

There should be zero financial incentive to become a politician. It should be codified.

I just did seven years. You won’t let it go that long because you have actual responsibilities, but the answer to your question is an unequivocal yes.

it's really bad for the world that half of the American political system has convinced itself that the concept of diplomacy is fake and gay

Whatever it takes to keep dear leader out of prison for all the child rape and murder. 🫡

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

It is horriying to think that an entire generation is coming of age knowing nothing but Donald Trump and the nastiness that is our political culture. I shutter to think about what the implications of this will be for an already weakened democracy.

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

“At the end of the day, she didn’t sound any better than some of these ultra-conservative people who were demeaning Black and Brown folk on a regular basis,” said Rev. Rodney Sadler, a Bible scholar and longtime community activist in Charlotte. “It felt like a betrayal of the utmost.” Cunningham’s comments proved so problematic for Sadler that he said he realized that she was “no longer worthy of being our representative” and he had to run against her. “It drove me to a point of saying, ‘She needs to go, and she needs to go now,’” the 58-year-old pastor, who works at Charlotte’s Union Presbyterian Seminary, told Bolts.

this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%.

boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

It is really hard sometimes to keep the big picture in mind but whereas it was noteworthy that just two people were elected to Congress in 2018 who were openly and hyper critical of Israel, in 2026 it will be more than two dozen.

Hear me out: If the US is not aligned with NATO and the US is not aligned with the USSR, then the ignorant poster may indeed be correct.

I can see using LLMs to do pre code reviews. They’ll catch some things that human reviewers would miss. But the danger of review spam may be ungovernably high.

A friend of a friend claimed to have replaced his business lawyers with LLMs two or three years ago. I can only imagine amazing outcomes from this decision. I hope I get a chance to follow up with him.

It’s a problem that the president is a world-class imbecile with zero capacity to think strategically, understand the basic context of his decisions, and who makes those decisions in chaotic spasms.

It’s a much bigger problem that our political system finds it impossible to say this out loud.

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

I think the truly damning thing about the Dem comms response is that they had months to prepare for today and there's zero coordination, no unified message. Just every D leader responding like they quickly hammered out a statement in a panic at 6 am this morning

Every time Trump starts another war, people go: "oh these pro-peace Trump voters look so dumb" but they really dont. I know its hard for some liberals to understand but people, even normal people, just lie. Not one Trump voter thought he was the anti-war candidate. Notta one.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

The Economist is deeply Libertarian in the American sense. Which is to say they accept the conservative project and the advancement of bigotry and tyranny except when it’s overtly unseemly. Libertarians’ fundamental request of their allies is to be able to deny they’re fascists in polite company.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

In October 2024, the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched an investigation after receiving numerous reports from residents across several counties saying they’d received partially prefilled absentee ballot applications from Musk’s America PAC. trib.al/n6hAZOC

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

I genuinely hate how many Trumpisms have worked their way into my daily speech. He operates at the perfect level of buffoonery.