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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.

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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.

I doubt this was about MAGA, conservatism, liberalism, or leftism. I doubt the reasons here were internally consistent anymore than they were with the Minnesota shooter. Any reasons will be bizarre, veiled by irony and endless memes, and possibly the result of unaddressed mental illness.

That being said...that's not my issue here. As far as I can tell, there is no evidence that Tyler was in an antifa Discord server. Furthermore, as a user's server membership is private and this wasn't in the press conference, I don't see how Tim Pool/etc. could have obtained that information.

The statement goes on ... "The messages referenced in recent reporting about planning details do not appear to be Discord messages. These were communications between the suspect's roommate and a friend after the shooting, where the roommate was recounting the contents of a note the suspect had left elsewhere." Authorities say Robinson's roommate showed them Robinson had made "a joke" on Discord and then showed investigators the messages, which included "'Tyler' stating a need to retrieve a rifle from a drop point, leaving the rifle in a bush ... and a message referring to having left the rifle wrapped in a towel." Discord seems to be saying these communications were not on its platform ... rather on a note that Robinson had written, off the site, to his roommate.

Ah.
There is something in the statement Discord made to TMZ about that as well. Discord claims the messages between Tyler and his roommate were not on Discord, but that the roommate discussed those messages with a third party after the shooting.

A Discord spokesperson tells TMZ ... "In the course of our investigation, we identified a Discord account associated with the suspect, but have found no evidence that the suspect planned this incident or promoted violence on Discord."

I never said anything about the roommate. I was saying that the Discord statement implies that he wasn't promoting violence on Discord, which implies he wasn't in an Antifa group. The only source I have found for the Antifa group claim is Tim Pool, and he is as unreliable as Taylor Lorenz.

This doesn't scream "committed antifascist". This screams "insane memelord freak", much like the Minnesota Catholic school shooter.

@prettyinpink05.bsky.social Find something else to do with your time. How about hiking? Gets you away from the news.

While "bella ciao" thing is a reference to a song sung by anti-Mussolini WW2 partisans, the other two casings are "notices bulges OwO what's this?" (an online meme used to tease others in chat with a derisive reference to furries) and "If you read this you are gay LMAO".

Per the FBI press conference, there were five arrows --- ⬆️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️ --- on that bullet. This is the key sequence for calling in the 500-kilogram bomb in Helldivers 2. That game is an over-the-top satire where you *play* as a fascist regime soldier killing enemies in an endless war.

Discord Says Tyler Robinson Didn't Use Platform in Charlie Kirk Murder Plan Discord was not used by Tyler Robinson to either plan the murder of Charlie Kirk or to hide the evidence ... TMZ has learned.

This is from TMZ sourcing a official statement from #discord. It appears the shooter was not planning or promoting violence on Discord. The source for the "Antifa Discord" claim seems to be Tim Pool, who is not reputable.

www.tmz.com/2025/09/12/d...

ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.

hell yeah it does , the people saved a couple of workers in Rochester, NY a couple days ago.
www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

Nepal blocks Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X over rule breach, amid censorship concerns | TechCrunch Nepal has moved to block 26 social media platforms for failing to comply with its registration requirements.

Nepal has moved to block 26 social media platforms for failing to comply with its registration requirements.

The goal of Social Security is to mitigate economic risk, particularly the risk of poverty when someone loses their ability to receive market-based income through employment. All people age, and no one can foresee with absolute certainty when death or disability may occur. Because these events are inevitable, yet the timing is unpredictable, it makes sense to protect against them.

In outlining his reason for a national program of social insurance, FDR stated:

"It is our plain duty to provide for that security upon which welfare depends."

We lay out why that goal is as essential today: #ProtectSocialSecurity 1/3 🧵
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-do...

Duty! Toward one's fellows! A Rooseveltian vision the US could stand to reembrace.