Benj

"...all thanks to them being shitty little reactionary, pampered, unelected twat waffles with little to no integrity..."

Fuck 'em.
Let 'em go play HS bully with their own kind.

the exact mechanisms change...the white supremacy is still kind of the core problem...

The choices were not good.

bsky.app/profile/mike...

Shame over poverty is such that people reflexively hide it. I had one pair of pants for years, and we lost our house to bankruptcy. But my mother and stepfather in the same town (with whom I didn't live) had no idea. So many people, barely hanging on, keeping it to themselves, now without food.

You're a good man, Philip.
And a great read.

I appreciate your work, man. I really do.

This guy is a treasure...

I'm always learning new things or seeing them more objectively.

Good sense of humor, salty & sweet, genuine, curious, with a solid moral compass.

Great stuff all around.

(I'm not known for gratuitous compliments, so, take that for whatever it's worth)

It seems like so many people on the right should be aligned with so many people on the left over the doomsday existential threat of AI and robotics in the hands of a handful of greedy oligarchs. But they have succeeded in pitting us against each other with culture war drivel.

Trump arrives in FL for another weekend of parties and golf while his attorneys fight in the Supreme Court to deny food to SNAP beneficiaries despite a court order.

When Democrats lose an election, we beat ourselves up over it for months.

When Republicans lose an election, they convince themselves within 24 hours that they really won.

Wow: Trump is pardoning a convicted agent of the Chinese Communist Party

we really haven’t talked enough about how the ny post tried to make a major scandal out of Mamdani calling his father’s cousin aunt

The DOJ Lied Its Way to Victory in a Key Trump Case. It Just Got Caught in Court. The president’s Department of Justice keeps lying brazenly to judges, and more often than not, it refuses to correct the record.

Like much federal law enforcement under Trump's control, the Federal Protective Service has a serious problem with the truth, and keeps submitting false information to the courts. One major whopper clinched the government's (temporary) victory in the Portland case! slate.com/news-and-pol...

A long and comprehensive opinion, but this jumped out at me: The judge accused the Federal Protective Service—which was called in to suppress the protests—of lying under oath to slander the regular Portland police.😬

DOJ recently admitted that other FPS claims in this case were objectively false.

Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler

The father was a U.S. citizen.

But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

This is acting like a pure money laundering operation. They reported losing another $54 million last quarter. It has never made money. Investor money is just flying out the back door faster than in comes in to enrich a lot of shysters and grifters.

It’s amazing that Republicans are suddenly concerned with how much money insurance companies are making.

We would be happy to sit down with you to fix that problem. But I suspect that just might be a red herring to distract from the fact that they just want to kill the ACA.

The sense of entitlement from these people. Jesus.

🎣

The talking point they came up with is so lame and pathetic. Yes, insurance premiums are paid to insurance companies. Yes, the subsidies help low and low-middle income people afford to pay them. That’s how the ACA works. Just admit you want to raise premiums on 22 million people.

These are the same Republicans who repeatedly voted against & removed fraud controls for $4T in Covid spending, under trump...

Same people.
Same exact unprincipled, unscrupulous people.

The White House keeps unilaterally taking entirely voluntary actions which it openly says are intended to inflict more pain and then they're I guess surprised - along with most of the DC media - about why they seem to be taking the blame for the shutdown.

Crow approaching a cat with the caption: Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior Edgar Allan Poe?

Other one's in talks with Stephen King, who has some sway with the cows and chickens...

🐦 A crow
🐦🐦A conspiracy
🐦🐦🐦A murder of crows

The most corrupt America Last President in history. Every day a new pardon worse than one the day before.

I think also AI is a massive stock bubble which is basically keeping the entire economy afloat, so there's a lot more riding on it than panera lemonade in terms of interests on the side of letting the tech continue unregulated.

MAGA likes to throw out their “Chinese spy” bs line against Swalwell every time he is winning an argument, meanwhile Trump has been pardoning convicted Chinese spies every month for personal benefit.

This sure looks like purges as part of a larger effort to politicize the military.

Hard to overstate the seriousness. A professional, non-politicized, civilian-controlled military is one of those historically amazing things 2020s Americans take for granted.

The alternative is considerably worse.

Question Presented:

Can the President illegally withhold mandatory Congressional appropriations from States because he thinks it's politically advantageous to starve people?

The answer is plainly "no" but there are several guaranteed "yes" votes on SCOTUS, potentially even a majority.

Even right-wing propagandists think X has a right-wing propaganda problem that is poisoning people's brains.

That should cause concern among the many media / politics types who still use it and who consider their feeds to be representative of the public's views.

"If it pleases the court, our position is that the poor people should go hungry"

I was thinking maybe we could try taking out our phones at the grocery store checkout and ask for a discount from the current prices by playing them a clip of Trump saying they’ve all come down. He is the president, so they should honor that.