The power of Ian Wright

This sucks dude. EVEN if Thune isn’t lying to you about the vote, the House won’t hold a vote.

You got nothing, and just proved to the public that the shutdown was your fault.

And you proved to Republicans that they can weaponize hunger. You negotiated with terrorists

ICE officers stopped a family at gunpoint and smashed the car window on top of the newborn baby. “I was screaming that there was a baby,” cried the mother. “But they didn’t care,” and covered the baby with their bodies, fearing that the glass would hurt him.

Trump: we will do project 2025
Harris: he will do project 2025
Public: oh that’s bad
Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it
Harris: he’s still gonna do it
Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios

It is incredibly simple to acknowledge that violence in any form is awful and erodes society.

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers

You just described my last three weeks

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

These are the very worst people the US has ever produced: Trump, Miller, DeSantis.

No one deserves this and especially not the people ICE is sweeping up.

this isn't hyperbole or caricature! It's a straightforwad, accurate characterization of what he said.

This is offensive to my people, the people who attend and speak at such riveting occasions.

The real scandal in 1930s German politics was Kaiser Wilhelm’s cognitive decline

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...

“She’s not yours to pity. She’s mine to marvel at.”

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

Broken Record: You *cannot sustain* a functioning constitutional order if the general population is blasé about open violation of the Constitution. If voters don't care, your job is to make them care. This is not optional. If you don't, you lose even if you pick up seats in the next election.

totally unsurprising stuff, but drives home how much of the Andressen-style worldview is just “oppression is when people are allowed to disagree with me and tyranny is when more people disagree with me than agree with me and can say it out loud”

Oh you sweet summer child

Republicans passed and defended a law making it illegal to provide water to people waiting in line to vote.

Mediocre? That’s generous.

What is @schatz.bsky.social doing?

NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s

What should we make of this?

www.ft.com/content/a801...

Republicans: [hands giant piece of their constitutional authority and dignity to Trump]

Trump: [cackling, starts to walk off]

A DOOR SLAMS OPEN. The DEMOCRATS are standing tall in the door, their shadows cast long and defiant.

Chuck Schumer: STOP!

Trump: ?

Schumer: you forgot this piece

If you're wondering why you haven't seen more organized disruptive action from Democrats at the speech tonight, I've heard from multiple people on Capitol Hill that House Dem leadership actively organized against any strong actions tonight. They are leading, but in the wrong direction.

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

Wear a flag pin upside down

My country is doing a fascism and my football team can’t score goals. Please send help.

This is my first game at the Emirates. Are you telling me it’s not always like this?

At least they would fight on the right side here.

I’m in London for my first Arsenal game and now I’m plotting on how to live here forever. London is magnificent.