Matt Spiegler

Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

When we talk about former leftists who are now solidly MAGA but still self identify as leftists these tweets called out by Post-Left Watch are textbook 🤌🏻

I was really hoping we'd have a woman as president before we had one from South Africa, but here we are.

I love it! I just wish the example was followed by more publications

How sad is it that I repeatedly find myself turning to (checks notes) TEEN VOGUE for thoughtful and no punchea pulled political reporting, while WaPo, the LA Times & Co turn into stenographers for Trump

Full moon over round barn

Full moon over the Round Barn at Churchtown Dairy

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

At least…

Coperthwaite wheels (and a wagon wheel of Coperthwaite) 🧀 at Churchtown Dairy

Ok. So…he’s gonna vote AGAINST his batsh*t cabinet nominees…riiiight?

Wait so now they’re AGAINST the flag and the pledge of allegiance? I can’t even keep track anymore.

On the plus side they’ll all be clocking a bunch of Overtime pay for that hard work.

The “Free Speech Absolutist” wants to shut down the org that has defended free speech absolutely for its entire history eh?

Torn Apart | Patricia J. Williams Errol Morris’s new documentary looks unflinchingly at the horrors of Donald Trump's policy of separating families at the border.

this is excellent, informed & informative on Trump-1’s grotesquely barbaric “child separation” policy & the prospect of Trump-2 exceeding its grotesquery & barbarism by many orders of magnitude — and also on the difficulty of saying any of these things effectively:

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Response to coups by elected leaders:

- South Korea: blocked by mass mobilization of citizens

- Brazil: coup leader indicted, barred from politics

- United States: coup leader re-elected with majorities in the legislature and a compliant Supreme Court

😂

And after Jan 20, when the GOP is in full control of the government, it will be something to watch Ritter, Dore et al somehow find a way to blame everything on the DNC still

That’s assuming Musk even cares about EV’s anymore. My guess is he’s far more interested in the absolutely massive military and space contracts he will be getting thanks to his being the Shadow President of the USA. Tesla is how he got here, not where he’s going.

Nancy Mace, now targeting transgender lawmaker, called herself ‘pro-transgender rights’ in 2023 | CNN Politics Republican Rep. Nancy Mace as recently as last year called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she supported children exploring gender identities with different hairstyles, clothing and preferre...

NEW: Nancy Mace as recently as 2023 called herself “pro-transgender rights” and said she supported children exploring gender identities with different hairstyles, clothing and pronouns — Mace is now calling trans people “mentally ill” and targeting Rep. Sarah McBride. www.cnn.com/2024/11/25/p...

The man wrote a check

Meet Trump’s new Secretary of Education nominee Linda McMahon

Canada knows what we’re all googling and is hitting us with the ads in Insta 🍁

It's 'Blame Trans People' Season Once Again DC insiders are rushing to scapegoat trans people rather than take responsibility for their own failures.

Wrote for @discourseblog.com about how it's always marginalized communities like trans people who get blamed for Democratic failures, rather than the highly-paid DC insiders who actually control the party discourseblog.com/p/its-blame-...

Two women testified that Matt Gaetz paid them for sex, lawyer says An attorney representing two witnesses in the House Ethics Committee investigation is going public with allegations against Trump’s pick for attorney general

A woman testified to the House Ethics Committee that former congressman Matt Gaetz paid her for sex and that she witnessed President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general having sex with a 17-year-old at a party, her lawyer said over the weekend.

Probably a (doomed but well-meaning) attempt to prevent him from getting confirmed?

Many members of the Kennedy family spoke out repeatedly during the election.

Trump Signals a ‘Seismic Shift,’ Shocking the Washington Establishment The president-elect’s early transition moves amount to a generational test of a system as he seeks to rewrite the balance of power and install lieutenants to blow up key parts of government.

Wow: Latest Times tabulation has Trump at 50.1%. Cook Report says <50. NYT says wherever it falls will wind up being one of the smallest margins in history, and shifting just 237K votes across 3 states woulda changed the outcome

Turns out that landslide is razor thin
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...

A wheel of cheese with geometric rind growth

A wheel of cheese with geometric rind growth

Cheese rind hieroglyphics. Geotrichum Candidum and B.Linen cultures being the primary with other yeasts and a dust of Penicillium Candidum

We Need to Talk More<em> </em>About Trans People, Not Less Trump's campaign spent millions spreading lies about the trans community. Now, it's on us to correct the record.

WE NEED TO TALK MORE ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE, NOT LESS

Trump's campaign spent millions spreading lies about the trans community. Now, it's on us to correct the record

#TomorrowsPapersToday
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...