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Also "80,000 million Americans" would be 80 billion Americans.

Everyone in my family, myself included, voted for Harris too, and you don't see me afraid to protest. It turns out most people, even most Trump voters, don't act anything like loud chronically online MAGAs

And I'm not capable of doubling down on tribalistic schadenfreude like you are here.

I think the difference is that the real Lovecraft started out as a raging bigot and slowly got less bigoted until his death.

I don't think this guy is following the same arc.

I just don't think the move is to frame it like this. Like it's some fait accompli. They're dodo-headed dumbdumbs and we should treat them as such, not as scary evil geniuses. Threaten to, and then actually severely punish them when we get the chance. Don't doom about them.

I refuse to be shaken to my core

Bondi could be feigning confidence, which is a skill lawyers develop: you can't just half-ass a case you know your client will lose. She could also be stupid and/or delusional, like a lot of Trump's inner circle is, and genuinely not be considering the consequences.

The "they look confident, therefore that confidence must be real and grounded in reality" argument is stupid, and I'm getting quite sick of running into people using it instead of the evidence we *do* have for what this administration is doing.

That scaled Y axis is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

"I don't care".
That tells us all we need to know. No conscious, no soul, no respect, no humanity.

Off to a fucking strong start

We have American problems which require American solutions. Some will be trivial, some will require us to remember the great undertakings of our past. We can, we have – we will – do great things. It takes but a leader to arouse the patriotic spirit.

Hopefully the 2045 equivalent will play out outside the US.

Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'.

Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy.

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Nvidia is not 16% of the US of economy. This is nonsense.

AI capex is powering GDP growth right now but it's still like <1% of the US GDP according to GS.

Lots of ways to make the argument that AI poses a risk to growth but this isn't it.

Schumer folding pissed off donors

From back in March:

www.notus.org/democrats/ch...

Aaaaand I just heard Brooks dismissed No Kings.

Can we just write off The Atlantic at this point?

Science 🤝 Democracy.
The Trump admin's fight against science harms our 1st Amendment rights.
Flipping a complicit Congress is critical in the fight against unpatriotic anti-science, and where the Science Fight Club comes in.

Find out how to join the fight here: zurl.co/fa315
#standupforscience

And most of all, pitch in and get to work.

When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900 The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

V-Dem data

I think when Trump dies, MAGA will splinter. They are a cult and no one will take that mantle. And his successor will have to come to terms with the damage he did because the spell will be broken.

What a weird moment in time.

Brooks gives a method and gives examples for how it has worked. In fact, said method is arguably happening given the effect constituent and donor pressure has had in getting Schumer and Jeffries to do what they need to do, and given the recent change in the tide over the past couple weeks.

At best Applebaum falls into the trap of thinking that telling people about the bad future ahead is sufficient to get people to avoid it, without telling people how to avoid it.

At worst she's saying the bad future inevitable, which is even more irresponsible at this current time.

Brooks' essay is better than Applebaum's in the same issue, and I can't believe I'm saying that

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

Then ignore them and call them out as hollow.

Note that KTLA Los Angeles is Nexstar owned. Make your voice heard.

Fair enough. I will say that I greatly prefer talking on Discord over talking on BlueSky, X, Reddit, etc. The whole "let's have one giant place with millions of people shouting at each other" format is inherently shit IMHO.

As a person who is extremely familiar with online culture, Discord, and video gaming, those engravings were inexpressibly batshit insane in just how inconsistent and incongruous it was for them to be on bullet casings.