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support whomever you’d like, but what is frustratingly dishonest about this take is that actual issue — the thing critics have identified as the problem — isn’t the decision of the 21-year old to get the tattoo, but of the judgment of the 40-year old who still has it.

Always great when you haven’t heard from your cousin in Montana in decades and they weigh in on how dangerous the future mayor of New York is and you just don’t understand.

Oh I understand the racism and xenophobia just fine. And said so.

They showed me little birdy, and asked you are you little birdy's mother, and I would say you are not my mother, I said not mother to the dog, and to the cow, and to the boat, and the steam shovel, and I would say you are not my mother, and I got a 90%. They say they've never seen it before, 90%.

Not only did I only get 3 hours of sleep, but suddenly one of our cats is crawling on three legs. 😳

The hits keep coming!

She won the Intel award- the nation’s most competitive and prestigious high school science competition for original research.

He’s bragging about passing a senility exam.

[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?

METRO EXCLUSIVE Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor

My closing pitch to voters? “I will only live in this awful place if I rule over it”

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people? Does anyone work anymore?"

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Pregnant Women, DON’T TAKE PARENTING ADVICE FROM A CONVICTED FELON WHO OWNED A TEENAGE BEAUTY PAGEANT AND HAS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT HE WAS BEST FRIENDS WITH THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHILD RAPIST IN MODERN HISTORY.

There are few phrases I respect less than when someone says they don't "agree" with research findings. Research doesn't exist for you to agree or disagree. It exists for you to prove or disprove. Come up with a competing hypothesis and TEST IT. Otherwise, I don't give a damn how it makes you feel.

Tomorrow I have a super busy day with some stressful unknowns so I need to be rested and ready.

Naturally, I’ve been up for 3 hours stressing about it. 🤦‍♂️

fml

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

Deeply racist, yes, but also deeply stupid.

Rural counties have higher enrollments than urban ones. Some of the largest enrollment states are red ones like Louisiana, Oklahoma and West Virginia. Undocumented immigrants are ineligible. Most beneficiaries are required to work 80 hrs/month.

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okay, another one where the final guess was picked just because I thought it was childishly amusing and didn’t expect it to be the answer.

Details tomorrow.

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group

1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy

you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"

an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

Frame: food stamps are used by undeserving / Black people

Negation: actually many people on food stamps are deserving / white

Kirby: THEY ARE STARVING PEOPLE ON PURPOSE. They are using racist tropes to justify it bc many people will find that persuasive. Everyone deserves to eat

frame: they're targeting criminals
negation: actually they're targeting ordinary people

kirby: it's a fascist attack. they're white supremacists doing ethnic cleansing. which is why they're saying everybody who isn't white is a criminal

frame: trump's "university compact" is mostly mainstream and some more partisan ideas

negation: this is very extreme and not at all mainstream

kirby:

frame: democrats are to blame for a government shutdown

negation: no, actually republicans are to blame for the shutdown

kirby:

Frame: our problem is that generals are fat and shouldn't worry about climate change / following the rules of engagement

Negation: that's not any of this works

Kirby: these are fascists. they want to use guns to make everybody play make-believe

Frame: this man is here illegally

Negation: actually his paperwork is in order

Kirby: this is a racist attack by fascists bc a Black man is
leading a school district, and the better he's doing the more they hate him

Frame: this public service costs too much, it isn't making money

Negation: it's actually very efficient and it could make more money

Kirby: they are attacking the very idea of public services

Top is an empty rectangle with a jagged line in the middle. The left side is labeled "Frame" "F is happening!" The right side is labeled "Negation" "F is not true!" Below is a large image of Kirby, a round pink blob with eyes with a small version of the Frame F shape flying into his mouth. To the right is a large pink rectangle labeled "Kirby" "K is happening, that's why they're saying F"

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues.
For example:

Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $

Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $

Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

i made a helpful reference

The optimistic take.

Lately it’s hard not to think of The Good Earth as a reminder that eventually there are a lot more people than guards.

Yeah, the difference is that Nazis really exist. (Like right now.)

It's not a costume.