川上信 (Shin Kawakami)🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸

the thing is, they hate the ACA, they don’t particularly care about replacing it with anything (let alone improving it) and they’ve so totally cocooned themselves in right wing news and groups that they think everyone else agrees

I get median voters (derogatory) eat this shit up but in Anglo countries the people in control absolutely are not experts in some lab somewhere. They’re law school professors with basically zero subject matter expertise lmfao.

I mean this genuinely, but this moment is a huge opportunity for generic backbenchers to make a name for themselves and gain more visibility, and I wish more Senators would see this and act more in their self-interest.

There’s also the TikTok fine anvil that can be dropped on Oracle

Nothing prevents a Dem Congress from line-item invalidating every single Oracle Corporation owned patent.

It'd destroy both one of Trump's biggest bribers, and one of the most abusive patent troll corporations in all of history.

I've said something to this extent before and noted how much that contrasted with the "stabbed in the back," grievance centered politics that Platner was very clearly centered as his ethos, even before the nazi tattoo shit.

@jamestalarico.bsky.social sent this video to his 10,000 volunteers:

“We will make the case for why we are best positioned to win this race — but we will always treat Congresswoman Crockett with the utmost respect. She is my colleague and she is a leader in our state. She deserves nothing less.”

The thing that bums me out about this is how much of the student loan debate centered around pushing for unilateral executive action on forgiveness rather than pushing for legislative change moving forward. Helping some people out of a burning building without doing anything to try to put it out.

woke 2 backlash boogaloo gonna go hard

New "luxury" buildings are good, not just for overall housing affordability but for a city's overall economic health.

Trump 2 really differentiating the true believers (Rand Paul) and the performative cowards (Tom Cotton)

Genuinely off-putting how little exposure to actual motherhood and child rearing these guys have.

The thing is that existing guidance also advises breast milk over formula where that’s possible and practical, it just manages to do so without being fucking creepy and off-putting and refusing to acknowledge factors that can make that unfeasible!

This gonna cost me a bye in the fantasy playoffs. RIP me if my team underperforms in the 1st round.

Pain (I’m on the right)

lol my least favorite social media post ever is big headlines making a claim and not a single citation in sight.

It'll be something like:

PILLOW CASES CAN MAKE YOUR TEETH FALL OUT
*16,000 likes

You get kicked out of your old home due to the notoriety. You don’t have real friends from when you’re not famous anymore. You’ll make some “friends” but none of them like you as you, your person, just your MAGA personality, and all of them incredibly shallow and unfulfilling relationships.

It must be so soul-sucking to be stuck in the RW grift. You can’t get out of it. You’re forced to double-down on it no matter what because it pays your bills and you have no other alternative.

And so you you’re just constantly selling yourself just to get by. Bleak.

tells Trump to go fuck himself 🤝 somehow he finds them charming anyway

zohran mamdani 🤝 kathy hochul, somehow

Man, I think being able to remotely control a robot with such sophisticated actuators is actually pretty dang cool.

Olivia Nuzzi is eligible to be elected as a United States senator, she is not a kid

Man walking his dogs fatally struck by car in Hopkinton, RI; driver arrested A man was walking his dog Saturday morning when he was hit and killed by an SUV in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, and the driver involved has been arrested

A man is dead after he was struck by an SUV while walking his dogs Saturday morning in Hopkinton, RI. Police say the driver was arrested. She had previously been arrested over 100 times. on.nbcboston.com/XEE5YAX

I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.

ok talarico must win

Ive seen this rodeo before. We’re gonna have hyper online people saying crypto is the most important issue facing black women and if you disagree you are a racist

Good thread. Fully agreed on the difference in two cultures.

The one other stuff I’d add is Japanese work culture is a lot more sexist than Chinese work culture. Sooooo much more.

Armchair historians try NOT to misunderstand the Maginot Line challenge: impossible

The French military in 1940 is the worst possible example of this. They did adapt. They built a conventional military force based on lessons of WWI. They incorporated new technologies. They built new doctrines.

They just learned all the wrong lessons and as a result they fucking sucked.

YOU CAN HAVE ONE ANY TIME LOSER