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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people
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if you're okay with the war in Gaza or think Biden's domestic accomplishments somehow outweigh its moral atrocity, fine. you can think that. but don't you fucking dare tell me that I'm just not *suitably appreciative* of him.
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hi, i just want to say if you can say this with a straight face given the world historical cowardice this man has shown in the face of ethnic cleansing then we aren't, in fact, part of the same "left-wing" political project
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respectfully I don't think you need to live in MN to know prince talked a lot about his bazooka
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i (genius) have observed that like 90% of this discourse could be improved by saying *what people want to accomplish* getting him outta there
like, better president? can't argue
better chance of winning? maybe but I don't think anyone knows for sure
for democracy? fuck off tom friedman
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this is getting fucked up
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oh and honestly if someone wants to play the games idgaf. i unsubbed myself but playing that shame game is (ofc) what they'd prefer you focus on instead of, you know, the use of their enormous power to serve the interests of capital and revanchist social conservatism
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okay I actually laughed, not bad
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i did not make it: though, weirdly enough, i did also just celebrate a milestone birthday so I accept it
this was the brainchild of boarder i**bic who, against his will, is stuck in a friendship with me
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it is the person who created this's milestone birthday for another two hours, if you would believe it. #islife
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at a certain point, and I'm not saying we're there but we might be, people need to seriously consider deplatforming the Times. don't read it. don't write about it. don't link to it.
"but it's the paper of record" ... ok? so is fox, for a lot of people. you giving them any attention lately?
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unfortunately they are the only competent set of Wizards based in washington
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when half the (cowardly! you're right about this) mainstream democratic apparatus thinks the nominee should drop out i do think one should adjust one's priors re: the fit from past debate data. this is sui generis.
probably still not as impactful as folks think! but I wouldn't be confident
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former Biden/Clinton/Obama people trying to find someone to blame today
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going to allow myself 10 seconds of wistfulness thinking about Bernie destroying this guy
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if you think elden ring is good for that let me tell you about a little thing called 'major depression disorder, recurrent, moderate'
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i am so interested in the funders. they are clearly driving the timing of this, bc there's no way PP et al. wouldn't have taken the money earlier if it were on the table. but anyone with a pulse knew Dobbs was coming. so why now and not then. are they just very stupid or what's the deal there
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obviously this would never be published but I'm still annoyed at the typo
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it was not very kind or forgiving to write this but something in my head just fucking snapped
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Women in states with the most restrictive abortion laws have also become less likely to access prescription birth control, a new study suggests.
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remembering the time she spoke at this event my employer was hosting and it was deemed so important to mark the occasion that they put me on a train to new york *while i had the flu* to livetweet it
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death of the ball turret gunner was so anthologized that Randall Jarrell kind of hated it. pubbed 1945.
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"Since Texasβ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period."
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should we be trying to move the overton window on American co-conspiracy with settlers? of course.
but if you are going to do it, you need *infinitely* more message discipline, at every level, than anyone involved with this showed. this was an idiotic and completely preventable own goal.
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They're not even bothering with the feeble noises anymore bsky.app/profile/edbu...
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Our tech overlords would like to make clear that your fantasies of universal health care and affordable housing are childish while their fantasies of infinite energy to power their AI girlfriends are reasonable expectations and will come true imminently. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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muting "Latimer" "Torres" and "Bowman" is self care
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the muted reaction to this is like if jessup yelled that he ordered the code red and tom cruise was just like 'yeah that checks out ig'
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extremely so. nevertheless
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i learned what the seadogs were from learnedleague and almost quit on the spot
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It's increasingly clear that the people who make generative AI don't like films, don't like books, don't like art of any kind, and don't understand why anyone else does.
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It's so telling when journalists decide something can 'raise questions' on its own and when they have to cite the person raising the questions
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ME: is the carbon footprint of driving my kids to go camping morally permissible if experiencing nature leads them to act more sustainably throughout their lives
GOOGLE: we're draining freshwater lakes to tell people to drink bleach
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well if bump stocks are gonna be legal I can think of six people who we can start with
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[david foster wallace on the titanic] ah shit ... ah fuck ... this is water
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i (second-gen italian american) just got done telling my wife how italian this story is
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yes. for voter registration! which is literally the least cost effective way to run a campaign (not that it isn't important, ofc it is, but it's a long term project not a for-November thing)
ironically they have the same theory of the electorate as Bernie and we all know how that fuckin went
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if Democratic donors continue to insist on funding things that Democratic staffers and political scientists have already figured out don't work, Democrats will continue to lose elections
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maybe everyone feels this way when they read a silly article about their profession, but this is one of the most credulous pieces i've ever read, full stop www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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sure it is. for example, my opinion in reading these comments is that you're a self-righteous, tendentious prick. i don't have to communicate with you about this, because i am about to block you. it is really all quite simple
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Theyβre coming for abortion and contraception coverage.
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these people have a dichotomy in their heads of 'israel' and 'the terrorists' and if you are committed to that worldview it immediately becomes very very difficult to place any moral or practical blame on anything the IDF does
it really is just 9/11 all over again
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The death toll from an Israeli raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp has risen to 274 Palestinians, Gazaβs Health Ministry said Sunday. Israelβs Saturday raid, one of the bloodiest in the war, on the central Gazan camp freed four hostages.
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"The White House commends Israel for the operation, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement."
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