Patrick Abdalla

@bderw.bsky.social I’m sure you’ll love this.

think our state is uniquely blessed, honestly, relative to the rest of the country, for this moment,” McCormick said. “If a Martian landed in America and could pick any state in the country to be the AI energy mecca, I think it’d be Pennsylvania. The reason for that is we’re the fourth largest natural gas reserves in the world. “We have a huge pool of building trades and skilled workmen, welders, pipe fitters, steam fitters, electricians, and you need that to build all this energy infrastructure.” He added that the number of universities — including Lehigh, Carnegie Mellon, Penn and Penn State — along with the state’s location near the Atlantic Ocean and within 500 miles of 60% of the U.S. population also are advantages.

How are our Senators in Pennsylvania this stupid

If Democrats were smart, they'd find ways to give ICE the USAID treatment while putting CBP under the jurisdiction of DOJ instead of DHS since it technically is law enforcement. Also, potentially spinning of ICE-HSI versus ICE-ERO.

can we please turn “guac wrap” into an urban dictionary thing that means “a nice thing i did for myself after i fucked up big time”

In the late 1800s, a bunch of dudes sewed goat testicles into their nuts.

Just thinking about how fucked up mega-rich people must be, because they can't even enjoy their money properly, because the most enjoyable thing to do with money is to use it to fix people's problems.

I said this elsewhere, but I don’t care what athletes do to their bodies, I care when they push this. I have been anti steroid not for the sanctity of the game but because it made steroids popular to those who weren’t pro athletes. These guys get a shit ton of money, some of that is to be an example

Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.

Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.

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This is incredible.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.

i think people took the wrong thing away from how the 409 button hurt terry's candidacy. the thing that hurt him, imo, is pat kraft wants this to be *his* search. *he* wants to be in charge to show he's the man. terry trying to change the narrative was insubordination, and therefore unacceptable.

Catholic military archbishop calls 'intentional killing of noncombatants' illegal and immoral Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who heads the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, said in a statement Wednesday (Dec. 3) that an order to kill survivors of an attack by U.S. forces on a b...

Catholic military archbishop calls 'intentional killing of noncombatants' illegal and immoral
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Jeffries says not to expect Democrats to pursue Hegseth impeachment over boat strikes "Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.

For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.

If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.

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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer

With her siblings out with friends, Mary came with us to the Peckville Christmas House.

I will not give up that which I have tasted Promotion of the myth

In which Zack Budryk perfectly captures the feeling many #ActuallyAutistic people feel in this particular moment of RFK Jr.'s resurgence: We felt like we were turning the corner on autism acceptance. And now we are seeing that door closed off.
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-not-g...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Our cultural decline wasn’t because of jeans and ball caps.
It was decades of whiny people complaining about having to be nice to others, fetishizing the individual over the community, and every single person involved with “A Nation at Risk” and the reaction to it.

If the Republican position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" and the Democrat position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" then the result will be that Republicans keep getting away with committing crimes in public office

him: you will be my gremlin and i will be your water

her: im so turned on

Remember how just months ago we were reading from political reporters how Democrats were lost and in a terrible position as a party? Political scientists like me said that was wrong & it reflected reporters' lack of contextual & historical understanding of politics. We were right.

Pope Leo to young people just now: The Church doesn't belong to any political party. Rather, She helps form your conscience.

A needed message for young people, who are too often being falsely told by conservatives, like white evangelicals were, that if you're Catholic you must be a Republican.

This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control.

by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers

Paramount CEO David Ellison is set to attend tonight's East Room dinner with President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, per a source.

Wut

Warren urges Trump administration to 'immediately cease' student loan selloff plans Sen. Elizabeth Warren is attempting to stop the reported selloff of the $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to private companies.

The Trump administration is trying to sell federal student loans to private companies.

This sale would be a giveaway to wealthy insiders at the expense of working-class borrowers and taxpayers.

It’s a tremendous mistake, and I’m fighting back.

If I have to read about a Nuzzi, Lizza Cilizza throuple, I’m going to march into the sea.

collecting failed Republican presidential candidates like horcruxes and infinity stones!