Sean Maiwald

CRIME ROBOT: a con artist gets a personal robot instead of prison time. He figures out a loophole in increasingly convoluted scenarios, where the bot only stops him from doing crimes--not for him. Soon they’re robbing banks, stealing art, and rewriting the laws of AI.

Coming to theaters in 2026.

It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.

A wealthy safe streets advocate could do the most good by paying a team of maybe a half dozen journalists to aggressively and comprehensively report every single traffic death in every major city. Depicting the horrifying human cost, FOIing PDs and DOTS, contextualizing it in policy choices, etc.

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

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One way to do this is to redraw state boundaries every 10 years to align with the census. 50 areas of equal populations or something like this Reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/...

"Wife mad at you? DEI." is phenomenal work.

It's the West Wing problem: pundits believe that politics operates like The West Wing, where a few witty zingers written by Sorkin and delivered by Martin Sheen in a traditional setting are enough to sway voters.

It's propaganda. Biden delivered for Americans, but no conservative voter thinks so

My point from earlier is that even if it did increase or decrease, it doesn't matter in terms of voting, because voters and Americans are fed propaganda that favors conservatives, 24/7

As a policy guy, the answer isn’t policy or luck. It’s simply propaganda. Fox News and the right wing media (even CNN, WaPo) have complete control over conservatives. Meaning, even when liberals/Dems do good things it doesn’t even cross the mind of the rest of America

there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

dems: we need a joe rogan of the left

[zohran sets records for young voter turnout with a campaign around working class issues and affordability]

dems: destroy this man

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

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You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:

If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Training the military to “quell civil disturbances” is another step toward authoritarianism.

Linking it to “the enemy from within” is absolutely terrifying since that was the phrase Hitler used for Jews & others considered undesirable.

He doesn’t even hide what he’s doing.

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

Not a bad idea! I'm a huge fan of what they did in Nevada City & Grass Valley with the National Exchange and Holbrooke hotels so something similar would be very cool

When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.

If Democrats ever get power again there needs to be a proper reckoning. Criminals need to be indicted, prosecuted and convicted for trying to subvert our democracy and rights for Trump.

There is no room for Merrick Garlands and milquetoast centrists anymore.

You need accountability.

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

"“We’ve become a party that too often trims its sails. Too cautious, too rudderless. Too attached to poll-washed, pundit-rinsed, and donor-dried messages,” he said. “What comes out of the wash is all bleached and blow-dried.”

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

Move over Tokyo, the Bay Area is coming for you