Nick Katsinas

A great way for Senate Democrats to protest what’s going on is to not have almost 40% of the caucus keep voting to advance a money laundering bill.

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.”

--Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

reading the phrase "the bleach community" and feeling my brain shrink

There's a lot of things that are talked about in terms of frogs and boiling water today, but if you time traveled back to the year 2000 and Congress believed you about the overall impact of tech on the US, they'd probably legislatively burn Silicon Valley to the ground and salt the ashes.

more broadly you can't lean into 'things young men like' when those things - crypto, gambling, AI porn, online misogyny - are *bad*. you have to identify the good or at least neutral things - self-improvement, team sports - and lean into them.

I'm genuinely sorry that Fetterman had a stroke and suffers from depression. But arguing that he has a free pass not to do his job in the name of destigmatizing brain injury and mental health struggles is offensive. If he can't do it, he should resign. If he doesn't want to, he should resign faster.

it’s so funny when people on social media feel like they have to make A Statement. why do you have to be condemning anything you’re a dental hygienist

You mean not enough praise

An (extremely half baked) idea I’ve had for a while now is that a huge swath of people do not want to do any of the actual work of being a human being and computers in general and AI in particular gives them an excuse to do so, and it’s ripping our society apart because it’s explicitly antisocial

Ashli Babbitt's family to receive $5 million in settlement with Trump administration: Sources The Trump administration is set to pay out nearly $5 million brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt,.

Donald Trump is stealing your money to pay the family of his supporter that he killed.

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The Bidens have no humility whatsoever.

Texas House advances bill that would prohibit land sales to people and entities from certain countries The legislation had only pertained to countries the government deemed national security threats. A last-minute change would let the governor add more countries to the ban.

It is insane that company that relies on any sort of high-skilled labor whatsoever can still be based in Texas. Blue states have a golden opportunity to pick that state clean of all its high-paying jobs, but they're too worried about upsetting geriatrics who think God promised them a parking space.

Blackthorne: You tell him that the prevalence of administrative burdens is simply too high!! It benefits no one, the paperwork, the redeterminations, it's the very government inefficiency you claim to despise!!

Mariko: The Ajin is displeased about the GOP medicaid plan.

I've honestly just started blocking people who post "the cruelty is the point" in my replies. It's mindless. It's self-defeating. It's obnoxious.

Everything about this saga has been so stupid lmao

Hogg being given a DNC position in the first place for no reason. Now this. All of it. So very stupid.

yet another example of why not to get your history from an anthropologist

It's about time

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

>reading the David Brooks Op Ed about mass strikes and seeing him quote the communist manifesto at the end

I *just* stopped posting about this, bc I don't want to be a jerk to Andrew, but people need to stop seeing a blind quote from a Dem and saying "that's what every Democrat thinks."

It's what a diaper-filling wimp who won't use his name thinks! Meanwhile a bunch of Dems are going to El Salvador.

*explaining to my kids why there’s a Toyota-BYD duopoly on cars* so the writers strike over DVDV residuals made NBC focus more on reality TV

the doge teens destroying the general services administration's magnetic tape backups because they think it's like a vhs of aladdin 2: the return of jafar might be the niche thing that kills me

It’s pretty wild watching people self-radicalize themselves against protests in real time and the best metaphor I have for it is oppositional defiance disorder combined with a tumblr version of q anon

00' Bush/Cheney campaign on creating a free trade agreement with all Latin America and... wins?

Right.

Like no one gives a fuck about *theoretical* tariffs. No one cares about the imaginary tariffs in your head. All they care about are the very real tariffs Trump is implementing right now which will cause a recession.

All you have to do is attack them, it can not be simpler!

Really really really loving this trend of Democratic politicians being like "I support pressing the stagflation button, but not this way!" We will never do well with materialist voters lmfao.

I think there are a lot of broad, pro-labor policies Dems can pursue that will benefit unions (e.g. full employment, building housing). I do not think there is much political case for supporting union rent seeking at this point.

i love seeing a million posts like "it's funny that he is suffering" and not only do we all know who he is but we all want the same thing. like who's the pronoun now dipshit

The Atlantic editors room hearing everyone claim under oath that there was nothing classified in that chat: