Matthew Federman

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

Estimated cost of housing the homeless:
$ 20 to 30 billion

“We can’t afford it!”

Estimated cost of feeding the hungry:
$ 33 billion.

“We can’t afford it!”

Amount of money ICE IS SPENDING on cages:

$ 38 billion.

“We need to have a serious conversation about Superbowl halftime shows!”

Dems should be hammering this stuff the way the Right did with Solyndra. I want to hear Doodie Calls on the floor of the House.

I say this as someone who loves technology but hates the tech industry - why do we have to love technology? why do we have to give something like AI clemency for its errors? It's a product we are being sold, it should have to earn our money or attention.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

We’re ruled by people who are trying to cure mortality for themselves while ensuring that death doesn’t stop the rest of us from being content farms.

If Republicans are going to shred our laws and constitution to do whatever they want, Dems are going to at least need to start exercising their power to do the obvious right things. Post Trump, hiding behind a vague notion of what norms will allow won't save you.

Or they are very serious about grifting.

My kid, who hates math, has taken to using the phrase “according to my calculations” and it just feels like stolen valor.

Thank you so much to @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social / ALSC for including STORY SPINNERS: A SISTERLY TALE OF DANGER, A PRINCESS, AND HER CREW OF LADY PIRATES in their 2026 notable children’s book list!

What an honor! 🥰
#graphicnovel #kidsbooks

Hell, the word America comes from an Italian name. We didn't invent anything out of whole cloth.

Apple pie is a foreign creation from multiple cultures using a fruit non-native to America. Blue Jeans were created and patented by two Jewish immigrants. Rock n' Roll derived from black cultural influences. American culture is about fusion. That is, and has always been, its strength. 2/2

To add to the many great points of why this is absurd, stupid and racist. What is American culture? For years it was embodied by 3 things: Apple pie, blue jeans and rock n' roll. 1/

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

They hate virtue signaling but love virtue entrapment.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

As @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social will attest, I have been shouting from the rooftops about the lack of Previouslys, which is particularly frustrating between long seasons and on streaming where there's no time constraints. Make it 5 minutes long, we won't be angry to be reminded of too much.

Absolutely. My trick is to try to hide as much exposition in an argument as possible. People seem less stupid when they are weaponizing it.

It creates this attention death spiral where shows need exposition because viewers don’t pay attention so viewers stop paying attention because shows have too much exposition.

There are some shows I have given up on because of the constant constant re-stating of exposition. Exposition is a thing that is definitely needed in normal amounts. The amounts being demanded right now by executives at some streamers is excessive & annoying & has killed my interest in some shows

If we can proposition this out of existence we should.

The idea of a bill rendering people deportable for following religious law should make every Jew ill

Trump's tariffs cost American households $1,000 last year: Research group President Donald Trump’s tariffs cost the average American household $1,000 last year, according to new research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation.

This is a tax on you.

You paid $1,000 more in a tax because of Trump.

Important point: this happened because his union backed him up. Just one more reason why every worker needs a #union ✊

That would seem like an argument for them not needing to advertise at all. I'd flip it and say anybody that can afford to put an ad on the Super Bowl can afford to make one with real people that doesn't harm their brand.

Even if people don't specifically boycott companies that use AI in their ads, the whole point of branding is how you get an emotion to attach to a corporation, and do they really want "Ick" to be that emotion?

In the old days I'd watch the Super Bowl for the ads if not for the game, but even the ads aren't worth it now. If I wanted to sit through an AI slopfest I'd still be on Facebook.

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.