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Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Please please correct her name, it's Cottom not Cotton

Substack should be the name of a domme's polycule, not a newsletter platform.

Molly Shannon's memoir

Why aren't all Dems just showing up & declaring the session open, voting on shit, swearing in who needs to be sworn in, that's how government works now! You just say something unconstitutional is constitutional, something illegal is legal. If all Dems 👍 a bill, say it passed unanimously!

A huge factor was Bernie's immediate endorsement, leaving no space for Mainers to get a feel for the guy before he was just a Bernie proxy. That inspired a kind of frantic excitement that was threatened by Schumer's meddling with Mills, so on both counts nat'l interference made this inevitable.

Natl involvement is fucking everything up, Bernie threw his whole weight behind Platner like 5mins into his run & ME thought omg he's The One, & now w/o him think Mills is a foregone conclusion w/Schumer help. When a phony lovebombs you for a month you drop him & move on! Let the primary play out!

"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

Hey what happens when somebody barfs in a Waymo

When someone uses this emoji 🤣 they are more mad than they have ever been in their entire life

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

Turns out it took schadenfreude to finally motivate me to subscribe😎

Klein: I think, from your perspective and from my perspective, we probably don’t believe hugely different things. But a huge amount of the country, a majority of the country, believes things about [edit: the jews], about what policy should be toward [edit: the jews], about what language is acceptable to [edit: the jews], that we would see as fundamentally and morally wrong. And what politically — not in a column or something, but politically — should our relationship with those people be? Do we win them over? Do we compromise with them? This feels like a very salient question. The Republican Party is going to make sure this is a relentlessly salient question.

i took a stab at editing ezra klein’s most recent comments about trans people and electoral politics to make a point often lost by the american liberal commentariat

@senangusking.bsky.social @pingree.house.gov @golden.house.gov will you instruct local law enforcement to protect Maine residents from ICE violating our constitutional rights & committing assault & kidnapping? They're escalating violence against civilians, we need elected officials' dramatic action.

I stg if any WNBA players get raptured tomorrow I'm gonna lose it

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way.

by Ezra Klein

If it was possible to pick up Republican voters at scale by being more moderate and representing the center of politics, we would've won 2016 & 2024, and 2020 would've been a massive blowout creating a Congressional supermajority.

It doesn't work in a polarized electorate!

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The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.

Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

Wild seeing Adolescence - a show about how every adult in a meme-radicalized killer's orbit is oblivious to the radicalizing material, as news media hasn't taken an interest - win every Emmy tonight just as news media has proven oblivious to the meme-radicalization of a far right assassin

By only ever printing one side of the story, the New York Times has created the cultural conditions where "everyone knows" there are problems with trans care.

What problems? Anyone being more specific has to lie, because none have actually been documented outside of normal US medical system bs.

I will die on this hill:

it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

It's hard to tamp down on cynicism and be unabashedly excited about a candidate for national office, but Graham's seemingly got the goods for real, beautifully profiled by @anamariecox.bsky.social

It’s crazy that all this fascism is happening in a country that brought over every high-ranking Nazi that didn’t die in WWII & gave them free houses and lucrative government jobs

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

I said eat my hat to a friend this morning🤣🤣🤣 such a perfect go-to

It really is just like 2003 again except now I’m older, my back hurts, and I have way, way less hope that things will ever get better.

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.