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it's a very libertarian faith in corporations will just do the right thing, and only need to be incentivized, never punished.

and... i have seen nothing in america to make me have faith in this approach.

since ezra klein is on my mind now: it's funny that in all the debates about Abundance, there never seems to be any dealing with the fact that it has no defense mechanism. what the plan when - not if - developers jerk their chain, use loopholes, renege on agreements?

just "they'd never do that."

Every single journalist with expertise in extremism I know has been fired or their publication has folded.

Not a coincidence, of course. Grateful for their work, but unfortunately for almost all of us, this work will now have to be the side hustle.

Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation.

They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

Teen Vogue and WIRED are both part of Conde Nast. If they've cut the politics coverage at Teen Vogue... it makes me worried they'll cut Wired as well. I hope not, but...

Abbott's joke about putting a tariff on people makes sense if you read it in the context of hoping to be able to own people again.

PANEL 1: MATTIE and a FRIEND are talking. MATTIE: Okay, so I go into the store and then…he's in there, too! FRIEND: This really reminds me of that video I sent you the other day. PANEL 2: MATTIE, incredulous. MATTIE: Wait. I'm supposed to watch the ten things a day you send me? MATTIE: When do you have the TIME for this? PANEL 3: The FRIEND, motioning over at a cloned version of him, hooked up to some horrible contraption. FRIEND: Oh, I got a clone of myself and he's just kind of hooked up to it and it sends out what he likes, which is based on what I like. FRIEND: This is like, really common. PANEL 4: The FRIEND, running over to the CLONE. FRIEND: You've never heard of this? FRIENDL I actually saw a good video about it…hold on, let him send it to you.

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Instead of asking the Speaker of the House if he has a view on <critical separation-of-powers QOTD>, maybe reporters should start asking him if he reads any newspapers or otherwise informs himself on those matters to which we might think the Speaker of the House ought to be paying attention?

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

If you’re upset about this (as you should be), pick up the phone and call

stop-paypros.neocities.org

Wait, did they edit an interview? Did they not air every second?

I heard that’s grounds for a multimillion lawsuit

Is this the long-awaited, much-ballyhooed replacement for Obamacare?

You message the president on social media and hope he intervenes?

Unmmm, isn’t this worse?

It’s been FIFTEEN YEARS and the media is still letting Republicans pretend they have some super-secret concept of a hidden plan to maybe consider a covert proposal that could theoretically be implemented in a hypothetical simulation of a Congress run by people who are not actually clowns.

The thing about Johnson not swearing in Grijalva is that’s it a test for 2026.

If you think they will accept an outcome they don’t like, they will just Grijalva it.

So what’s the plan when the GOP says “we ain’t leaving, fuck you, make us.”

Because that IS what they are going to say.

I'm a couple days late on this one, but Olivia Trusty's speech on content regulation by the FCC could have started an armed revolution by media organizations had it been voiced by a Dem-leaning commissioner when I was in radio back in the day.

docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

it's really something to be somebody who got fired up by '08 obama, moved further left after being burned by him, but hasn't forgotten - despite him backtracking on all the shit i got excited for - how much venom the party had for him in '08 and how much the senior members still have venom now

I legit wonder if digital ads have any value whatsoever for Dems. I’d be unsurprised by a near-zero ROI there.

Like, the problem is clearly that Democrats’ messaging isn’t getting through. It doesn’t fucking matter what the message is in that case. Or at least, that’s plainly a secondary concern.

It’s very strange to repeatedly see Democratic “strategists” observe that the party is widely seen as focusing on identity politics—in spite of the Harris campaign largely avoiding them —and concluding this is a problem with party priorities and not with losing voters to misinformation.

Trump: On it! Scott Adams O @ScottAdamsSays On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it. As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer. My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a newly FDA-approved drug called Pluvicto. But they have dropped the ball in scheduling the brief IV to administer it and I can't seem to fix that. I am declining fast. I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday. That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer. It is not a cure, but it does give good results to manv people.

Trump posts that he’s going to help Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, who made an appeal to the president on Twitter because his insurer has been too slow to schedule a drug treatment for his cancer.

The simplest reason why the Trump administration is cutting off SNAP, despite adequate reserves, is that they hate the program and don't care about the people who depend upon it.
They are breaking the law not to provide SNAP while also enforcing the "equal treatment rules" to hurt SNAP users.

When Republicans say they have a secret plan to fix Obamacare, you should assume that this is the plan:

Assuming every poll respondent pictures the same thing when they respond to an ambiguous question is a social science error.

When someone says “too divisive” or “I don’t trust institutions,” that doesn’t tell us who, what, or why.

Not data analysis. The pundit’s fallacy, dressed up with numbers.

Poll: Americans say “too divided”
Pundit: Dems are being too divisive

Poll: Legal system unfair
Pundit: The public thinks Trump should get away with crimes

Poll: Low trust in media
Pundits: MSM is too far left

Every time they see a nonspecific term and assume everyone thinks like a Republican.

Remember when a bunch of savvy Beltway pundits tried to depict Glenn Youngkin as this happy-go-lucky positive suburban dad Republican alternative to Trump and Trumpism? How is this any different from Trump rallies where they said "Send her back?"

Who has a better approach to transgender rights? NEW JERSEY 🔵 Sherill 52% 🔴 Ciattareli 32% VIRGINIA 🔵 Spanberger 53% 🔴 Sears 41% Atlasintel #A+ - LV - 10/30

every news outlet and journalist who calls trans rights a losing issue should be forcefed soap and their own regrets

Anger Over ICE Raids Is Driving Some Latino Voters to the Polls

Important NYT reporting wrecking the dimwitted pundit claim that Trump's ICE raids aren't a problem for Trump/GOP. Shockingly, it turns out raising the "salience" of immigration via attention to Trump's lawlessness appears to actually benefit Dems:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...

Ezra Klein This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism

I saw a poll a few weeks ago that struck me. It was from The New York Times and Siena University. It asked Americans what they thought the top problem facing the country was. No. 1 was the economy. That was what I expected. But No. 2 wasn’t immigration or inflation or democracy or climate change or even Trump. It was political division. In that same poll, 64 percent of the country said we’re too divided to solve our problems. They’re not wrong.

I hear it when Trump says, “I hate my opponent and I don’t want the best for them.” When I hear that, I hear something scary, but I also hear an opening, an opportunity: In the end, most Americans want America to work. They know we disagree with one another. They don’t want us to hate one another.

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division."

Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.