Josh Rudolph

"How do we get back the men we lost to Trump, Andrew Tate, and the Proud Boys?"

Please do not bring those weird ****ers over here. We have kids over here. I will call Child Services.

Ten years ago you didn't hear some new scandal about Nazis every fucking day. This is not normal, and it's not okay.

Over a third of the old internet no longer exists, 87% of all video games before 2009 are lost media, 40% of the Million Dollar Homepage was dead links as of 2019, etc.

*And* this media void is being filled with mindboggling quantities of ai slop.

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A whole bunch of right-wing food industry adjacent business owners that continually complain about SNAP are about to find out how much of programs like SNAP are actually a subsidy for them.

Apropos of nothing: It is vitally important to always have a person in your life that will not hesitate to, honestly and kindly, tell you when you are completely full of shit.

No Kings protests were one of the few times Trump, MAGA, and right-wing media were reacting to something the opposition did, rather than the opposition reacting to whatever they do.
Adopt a principle from war strategy: generally better to be taking action and forcing opponents to react. Good point.

Today's quote from @mattsheridan.bsky.social I'll be stealing for later use:

"They've been being fed this shit for so long that now their only two options are either admitting they've been eating shit this entire time, or spending the rest of their lives pretending they love the taste of shit."

a fun thing to consider is that China, and probably Russia, almost certainly have the ability to post from the president's Truth Social account. they just know that they only get to use that *once*.

Can we all agree that if any other President had some contractor from Silver Spring flatten half the White House with a backhoe he'd have been arrested or 25th Amendment'd immediately

The fact that White House openly declared they aren't going to Congress is insane

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

@bentripp.bsky.social

America needs to become an egalitarian social democracy out of spite.

Obama and his dog in the East Colonnade, now destroyed.

Curious how many people will be doing this soon.

Breonna Taylor was killed after cops raided the wrong home.

There is no journalistic task more imperative than getting eyes inside this process. The kind of thing historians wait for archives of dictatorships to open, when figuring out how the REAL nightmare begin.

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civic religion is a thing and that’s the mfing temple right there

should it be, at long last, the thing that breaks the fever? probably not

but people really do care about buildings

It’s the most corrupt administration in American history and nothing else even comes close

Online leftists and centrist pundits fundamentally share the same view of the world, though neither side will ever admit it.

i feel like people are underestimating the very likely possibility we get a steady drip of what platner blacked out looks like. some of which i’m willing to put money down will be Serious Crimes

You know, it kind of feels like the Platner thing is more or less a Bluesky versus X, The Everything App forum war, but a fairly one sided one because everyone I’ve seen on here is sincere in their rejection of him

If I can be allowed a moment of darkness - if Cuomo pulls off an improbable win, I don’t think that Nee York can lay claim to being a vibrant, multicultural city. There are a whole lot of people here who are sending a very bad message to their neighbors with their support of Cuomo’s campaign.

I think the White House is probably absolutely riddled with spies and listening devices and also they're getting exactly as much actionable intelligence as you'd get from browsing Truth Social.

Cuomo goes full gutter racist down the stretch A deranged AI video and radio comments aimed at Mamdani show his truest colors yet.

My latest — I wrote about Cuomo’s vile racist speed run in the final days of the mayoral campaign, with gross comments on a right wing radio show, an AI video best suited for 4chan, and his weaponization of white and Jewish grievance to beat the would-be first Muslim Mayor of NYC:

Boys, looks like I’ve got an exam to go fail

Simply no way to have a functional society unless people who collaborate in this sort of process are socially, politically, and economically punished for it.

it turns out actually Doing Activism makes me feel less miserable about what I see on the internet news who knew

Frankly, I'm not sure, but I think you have to try because if it's not we probably don't have enough of a civic culture left to be worth saving, y'know?

Now if only this was reflected in the party's "leaders."