GrouchyMarkx

4-panel comic by War and Peas Panel 1: A woman conducts a job interview. She asks the candidate, “So last question: Where do you see yourself in five years?” Panel 2: The candidate imagines a post-apocalyptic world with fire, wrecked cars, and ruined buildings. He’s dressed like a survivalist and holding a rifle. Panel 3: Still in his imagined future, he’s crouched in a desert landscape, aiming a sniper rifle. Panel 4: His crosshairs are locked on a killer robot attacking a terrified woman.

The Mystery of the Strong Economy Has Finally Been Solved Turns out it wasn’t actually that strong.

www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”

apnews.com/article/ap-p...

My hot take on young men not getting laid is they’ve always never been able to get laid. But they had a classic rock universe of bands like KISS doing music for young men who couldn’t get laid and that was a better outlet for their frustrations than listening to right wing podcasts.

Grok is growing on me.

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We don't need a 'Democratic Stephen Miller.' We need Democrats who will unapologetically fight for our values.

We don't need a 'Joe Rogan of the Left.' We need a progressive media ecosystem that will unapologetically fight for our values.

We don't need their playbook. We need to believe in us.

Mother Jones illustration; Daniel Torok/White House/ZUMA; Unsplash

Great article

link.motherjones.com/public/40962...

a girl in a blue dress is holding a mushroom in her hand ALT: a girl in a blue dress is holding a mushroom in her hand

We all know what he fantasizes about those lips

Drought in Utah.

Nothing says climate policy like skipping brunch and hoping the sky notices.

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I have nothing to add.

The “revised down” numbers are just an admission of lies that they carried to pass the most destructive bill in recent history. Energy prices climbing, student loan processing up, healthcare cost increasing, and food. Now new tariffs. He builds a $200M tacky ballroom. This is the New Gilded Age.

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Just to be clear this is absolutely North Korea style stuff that will crater the dollar and start snowballing into failed state territory.

guys I just got an advance copy of next month’s BLS jobs report

If you don’t count covid victims people won’t die.
If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise.
If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar.

Our fool is building his paradise

As I lay me down to sleep
I pray a blood clot does him in
If he should die before I wake
I've chilled champagne for breakfast.

And we're officially at the end of being able to trust the jobs numbers in this country ever again.