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Gavin Newsom: “democrats need to cater to the culturally normal..”

The normies he has in mind:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is again flooding the airwaves and social media with snappy videos of himself in a custom Carhartt jacket, warning New Yorkers to stay safe. He is again holding news conferences at the city’s emergency operations headquarters, surrounded by top aides in outerwear bearing agency emblems. And he is again at the helm of a government operation that, by virtue of its complexity and general unwieldiness, can lend itself to people falling through the cracks.

The tone of contempt here, in a news update, is disgraceful. "How dare Mamdani and his team...uh...wear those clothes and use social media to try to prevent bad things from happening when...um...bad things could still happen in a situation like this!" GTFO.

“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it

Again, remember how much these people freaked out about AOC talking about the connection between climate and meat lol.

Republican senator tells Americans struggling to afford rising beef prices to just eat something else:

"You have so many proteins to choose from."

Green box with opening instruction picture that resembles someone pulling their arse open with the forefingers of both hands, sorry no funny or twee or slightly arch explanation comes to mind here, it's just nasty.

Roses are red,
I would rather not see
A packaging box
Inspired by goatse.

Comrade DiaMat @comradediamat.bsky.so... ・ 1h Gov. Newsom to a black crowd: "I am like you. I'm a 960 SAT guy. I can't read."

Like... despite being put in quotes, this is not something Newsom said. And framing tgis as "to a black crowd" is also misleading. It was just an event on Newsom's book tour that happened to be in Atlanta. I'm sure there were people of all backgrounds there.

There is a group of psychotic political acolytes who (correctly) freak out over Trump's Greenland/Canada maps and then don't bat an eye when Israeli defense ministers do that with greater Israel maps and act like it's a totally different thing lol.

What's amazing is both candidates are much much further to the left on economic issues, as well as many social issues, as the people they're replacing (Thank god CA is out)

Rebel with a Cause @rebelwithacause2.bsky.social + Follow TEXANS PLEASE VOTE FOR JASMINE CROCKETT!!!! DO NOT BE FOOLED!!! James Talarico: He wears HIS religion on his sleeve His grandfather, a Baptist Preacher TALARICO RECEIVED HIS "MASTER OF DIVINITY" AT AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY!!! SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IS MANDATORY!! 100 100 100 9:15 AM Feb 22, 2026 Everybody can reply

Calm down man lol

Also, both of them are religious and Crockett even did a church tour. Crockett's favorite phrase irl is like "The devil must be busy", I have no idea why so many of her boosters aren't pretending she'd incredibly deep with religious groups as well.

It's Texas, people.

Jewish Democrats alarmed about whether their party will remain welcoming Former Democratic Rep. Kathy Manning: ‘There is no doubt that we are living through very difficult times for American Jews’

To be blunt if the "Jewish Democrats" cited in this piece think that AOC and Analilia Mejia are anti Jewish then they're just not meant to be listened to.

We can in fact assess these claims on the merits and determine that this is just hysteria. It sucks to say but that is just what it is.

There’s a new weirdest way to play Doom: using rat neurons grown in a jar It’ll be hard to top this, honestly.

I love to say it, but you can run doom on brain cells

www.rockpapershotgun.com/theres-a-new...

Texts From Late Staffer's Phone Show Rep. Gonzales Made Explicit Sexual Requests Support independent journalism, $5/month, $50/year.

Republican congressman Tony Gonzales, father of six, texted his female staffer at 12:51 a.m.: "Anal?"

The woman later died after pouring gasoline on herself and lighting herself on fire.

www.24sight.news/p/texts-from... @24sight.news

There have been dozens if not hundreds of pieces dissecting why women like Heated Rivalry and he just boiled it down to one sentence.

It's insane because in 'normal business world', being cautious about too big an investment from an outside source is definitely a consideration but in SV it's essentially heresy lol.

YouTube video by Investment Fun Raising too much money (Silicon Valley show)

One of Silicon Valley's better plot points was about them devaluing their first buy out specifically to give themselves more runway and supposedly the conversation below was based on a real conversation a guy had with a failed unicorn in like 2010 lol

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zgf...

Ultimate median voter

No one goes "Oh actually we're just going to do the thing we've maximized and perfected and improve marginally over time" They go "instead we're going to try and bolt shit on that makes it all worse because then we can leverage perceived future value to continue this rocketship growth" lol

That's the driver behind enshittification, you have companies that are given absurd values on presumptions of scale, then some of them actually accomplish those gains irt scale, and then they're told they either have to cut the cool cereal bar and insane payouts OR do it all again but different.

what film simulation you rocking

lots of snow on top of a big ole tree in front of some brownstones

snow! so much of it! pic from the middle of a snow covered road. a tiny snow covered person is visible in the distance

the snow continues! it’s falling in front of even more brownstones

another tree absolutely loaded with snow. precariously so at this point imho

this blizzard is actually incredibly important to me personally as someone who just got a fujifilm

The struggle between human and imagined post-human epistemologies has become everyone's struggle. Yet most are staying very silent on their position in this, only disclosing it backstage. I'm guessing it is time for a dramaturgical analysis... /

LLM-adopters have adjusted their expectations of how quickly one can write a grant, thereby expecting their teams to write and submit more grants per year, as compared to those who are more LLM-critical. Again, those positions are not visible from the outside, but the # of submitted grants is. 4/

It speaks volumes that Trump's own supporters keep trying to k*ll him. The violence you incite comes back to claim you.

I started Twitter in 08 and ended in 08 before picking it back up in 2015 lol

2007, what a time

John Roberts is not breaking from Trump and is not neutrally applying the law. Anyone pretending otherwise needs to have a long look in the mirror and reflect on what clearly core aspect of their identity needs to believe something so laughably false

i’m so tired of these people and the bullshit they peddle. i’m so tired of their entire little sycophantic subculture.