Brandon Borrman

Possibly! But we’ve also learned — again, the entire history of Twitter — that keeping it as a black box also makes it possible to work the refs.

I don’t think there’s a silver bullet but the lack of transparency feeds into conspiracy and reduces trust in the overall enterprise.

They need to learn from Twitter and build more of the comms into them product, something Twitter didn’t do nearly enough of.

Don’t just say “account not found,” provide some detail of why in the account page. Especially for a temp action like this.

Any time Dems get accused of being elitist just show this screen shot.

Healthcare for the GOP? Be a millionaire, and then get a millionaire and a billionaire to reach out to the President for you. Cancer solved.

This interview is the answer key to the last decade.

Well, there goes my kids’ hopes for running for office. We call my wife’s best friends their “aunts.”

I’m sorry for this terrible lie.

12 Monkeys or 28 Days Later?

Here we go!

Just sitting here in 2025 getting updates from our school district on whether or not the military will be showing up in town this weekend.

I think you actually turn it into a “never forget” kind of museum to the horrors of fascism. Let him build the reminder of his own failures.

Every fucking generation, the one that was labeled as “lazy” points at the next one and says, “no those guys are.”

Bring back shame. It’s the only thing that kept bands in the ‘90s in check.

Joke's on them, no one drinks chardonnay out here anymore!

Until the democratic apparatus understands how important theater is to the moment, they will never be able to win the debate.

It’s quite depressing to say so, but it’s reality. Politics has become entertainment and wish fulfillment and sometimes you have to hold your nose a play along to win.

Parental age — particularly paternal age. It blows my mind how few people understand that connection.

I forgot it was draft night and got stuck with an auto draft team. Quite a hole to dig out of.

Anyone who says the left has to abandon protecting the trans community in order to win votes is simply surrendering, and it immediately undercuts the legitimacy of any other “resistance” rhetoric they spew.

Trans right are human rights. It’s that simple.

So where are they?

Individual sub cancellations are gonna mean much. Multi-millionaire talent refusing to work with Disney and Paramount? That might.

I know that means having to be driven to the Hamptons rather than going by helicopter. But we all have to sacrifice.

Worry not, I’m sure Taibbi, Weiss, and Shellenberger are all over this and will expose the government efforts to stomp on our 1st Amendment rights.

Really feels like the time has come to nationalize journalism (and yeah, I know he’s not a journalist.)

Corporate objectives and profit will always outweigh editorial integrity. Separate them entirely.

Honestly, I look at the responses to this and really wonder if our society as a whole is so far gone we shouldn’t try to save it.

He’s not praising the guy, he specifically says his ideas were terrible. That doesn’t mean his murder isn’t a tragedy for his family. Both points can be true.

Hard to overstate the harm done to society by shutting down so much of the reporting and research on online extremism.

Just as with refusing to allow research into guns as a public health crisis we are knowingly, but blindly, walking into a very dark moment.

Likely doesn’t help that most news organizations did away with the reporters who followed this and surfaced it. Or that so many universities shut down their research teams. Allowing it all to take place in the shadows makes it all worse.

They were, in fact, the makers marks. Something any trained field agent would have identified in seconds.

If this came from the FBI, Dems would be utterly negligent not to call for Patel’s resignation at this point. An incredible number of major f’ups in 24 hours on top of every other reason.

Ha! Thanks. I mean … as well as can be given everything. I hope YOU are alright.

My friend, I am capable of holding two thoughts in my head at the same time. I can appreciate a D that will throw some rhetorical punches while also desiring him to have more substance on critical issues. It has been the experience of living with Gavin in CA for almost 20 years now.

No, it’s just that one has substance and the other is the same preening spotlight loving guy he’s always been. It would be fine if they were both in the spotlight equally but everyone is super jazzed about Gavin’s troll act!

Please please please please please please please please please please please please

I honestly don’t know how they hold MAGA together without Trump. JD doesn’t have the personality to do, and his alignment to the elites is problematic for the populists like MTG.

Without the folk hero at the top, there’s nothing to prevent it from splintering.

I don’t know, maybe he didn’t know what Pritzker was going to announce. But even so, holy shit do look inept suggesting there’s common ground with someone sending troops into cities and states that don’t want them.

Even if true, the maniacs around him will continue their work and …

I’m not confident the Dems will do what’s necessary to fracture his base. He’s a folk hero to them, Vance can’t hold it together with his damp paper bag personality.

But “civility” will get in the way.