Blue Geaugan

It's pretty cool that the US economy is propped up entirely by continuing work on software thats only real functional uses are eroding consensus reality, spreading often politically motivated misinformation, and for various scams like impersonating your grandma and saying she's been kidnapped

tbh if Trump comes out against the filibuster and forces republicans to pass the kill grandma bill on a party line vote in a massively public way, I think you do in this case gotta hand it to Chuck.

"Dear Sir, Your good name has been bought to my attention as a trustworthy man and a believer in God. I am the son of the late Queen Elizabeth II, ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. My mother left me forty-five million pounds and the city of York but I am unable ..."

More and more people are saying it's the Gilded Age 2

We’re putting Pete Hegseth in charge of nuclear weapons testing. Tell your family you love them

That’s how you do it

Nice let’s take funding away from our already aging navy and use it to pay our troops because Der Führer refuses to pass an already agreed upon budget

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

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A minor reform that needs to be undertaken by the next admin is requiring by law that all states name their Medicaid and SNAP programs after the federal program so that voters actually understand what handouts they get

“I don’t like to talk politics. Left, right, they’re equally bad. Why can’t we just come together and [thing only right-wingers support].”

“This person” oh she knows what she’s doing

I think a pseudo-niche political opinion that I’m developing is judge-maxing. Both the United States and the world generally need far greater number of judges. I think we need legal-abundance: an oversupplied court system able to both clear simple cases quickly and devote more time to complex ones.

Also as I understand it the Reagan ad was run by Ontario Province, not by Canada’s federal government or privy council or whatever. Imagine if countries cut off trade with us because of shit Alabama or Vermont did.

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

Crockett: The First Lady, a model— when I say model I’m not talking about Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford, or Naomi Campbell level— applied for an Einstein visa. You’re supposed to have some sort of significant achievement… She had none of those. It doesn’t take an Einstein to see the math ain’t mathin

Literally said this on my Twitter account, it’s RCV in NYC. They didn’t even have to force cuomo to drop out, and the city is overflowing with famous Dems/libs you could’ve easily recruited

was really hoping they would keep trying to square up with Illinois like the start, imagine the absolute scenes of however many ICE agents it'd take to arrest Pritzker

i just want democrats to hate republicans as much I hate them and as much as they hate us

Bring back Democratic city machines hosting soup kitchens or connecting workers with jobs or delivering turkeys on Christmas

One thing that really gets me about “well the people voted for this, they gave Trump a mandate” is that’s a uniquely poor argument for Trump 2. He ran disavowing Project 2025 and had few unchanging policy positions

This is my problem with Schumer. Ok sure the government needs funding, but you’re no hero for simply passing the CR. You should’ve held Thune at gunpoint and gotten a hell of a deal before voting for it

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i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

Our 42nd and first black President, DeClinton Williams, and our 44th President, Barraugh O’Bama

Kind of like the Secret Service being both protection for politicians and also a currency fraud detective agency