Brennan Harkin

Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

Van Hollen has been one of a very few Democrats to meet the moment under Trump. I’d absolutely vote for him for President.

The French duo is ice dancing to Blue by Eiffel 65, transitioning into Daft Punk. We're going to live forever.

Being a centrist rocks; you get billionaires to dump a bunch of money on you to found new groups every year that tell the same billionaires what they want to hear. Lose elections, get more money, found new groups.

The Super Bowl commercials paint a picture of a society in decline.

- Crypto
- AI
- Gambling
- Surveillance panopticon

Woke’s back and I’m glad but … my kingdom for one 30 spot of a pretty lady telling me to drink a beer.

If you had told me in 2017 that one of these men would be soon be delivering soaring oratory worthy of a President while the other would become a right-wing bootlicker, I’d hardly had believed you.

The great Chester Himes and Griot, his beloved blue point Siamese, named "after the magicians in the courts of West African kings." Himes also said that if he stayed away too long, Griot would wreck his studio and chew up his books. #Caturday

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

We’re in the midst of a great dumbing-down of the States. A neo-dark age entirely of our own making.

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say www.pressherald.com/2026/02/07/i...

This reads like a combination of longstanding servility/pettiness and desire to help PiS & the further right parties in the Sejm.

“Except”

Fuck you.

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Finally, a public official meeting the moment.

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

If they won’t even enforce the law, what purpose do they serve? The demands of 2020 were right.

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50

Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

National Slopification

Best he flushes those 2028 hopes now.

Russia spent $160,000 in 2016 and it triggered a congressional investigation. So long as this is allowed to keep happening in Democratic primaries, the party is fundamentally unserious about confronting foreign election interference.

"My boss knowingly broke the law by arming a genocide" should be Exhibit A in The Hague.

i don't think removing, like, noem or rubio or hegseth would matter all *that* much in the scheme of things, but i think removing miller would be substantial. i think he's going to be one of the hardest people to dislodge as a result (also because he's not in a senate-confirmed role)

“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect

Can’t wait for the ADL to condemn Mamdani over this.

I mean…go Pats, but Kraft is all around one of the most evil owners in sports.

I’m not the first person to observe this but it bears repeating: a central part of the appeal of figures like Bernie or Zohran is that they speak to voters like adults.

That’s already illegal. Can we get someone who knows what they’re doing in charge of negotiations?

The Berniebro-bashing centrist to unhinged right-wing racist pipeline.

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