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It is extremely stupid. However, it reflects a deeper problem imo - the sheer certainty among the public that greater state capacity or greater infrastructural development will never actually benefit them, while tax cuts or direct handouts provide immediate financial benefit.

It's a bad situation!

Polling Shows Democrats Aren't Too 'Woke,' They're Too Weak The idea that Democrats are weirdly and extremely obsessed with "identity politics" and pronouns is a right wing propaganda fiction not supported by polling data, and Democratic party leaders should n...

Over at the newsletter I wrote about how establishment Democrats' problem isn't going "too far left" on "identity politics," it's being feckless invertebrates in the face of autocracy and unchecked corporate power.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"

Running for Congress on a platform of sneaking into Polymarket HQ and unplugging all their stuff. Overflow crowds at a local Knights of Columbus hall roar with delight as I promise to pour Florida's Natural Grapefruit Juice (with pulp) into the USB-C port of every computer in the damn place.

I too remember the earlier, woke wars. tons of spent microaggression munitions strewn about everywhere, friends crying out for God as they were slowly cancelled...look, if you weren't there, you'll never understand

It's amazing what it says about income inequality that the math on this proposal actually works.

The child care block grant gets less than $9 billion a year for the entire country

there's a lot of specific overwhelming and massive crises happening at once and every single one has at its root elites who did crimes and never suffered consequences for it.

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

Christ. We have begun “major combat operations in Iran” as of just minutes ago. He’s saying there will be American casualties. Slurring his words.

New layer of horrifying just dropped

This is what the Trump bureau of prisons is doing to trans people, putting them at immediate risk of medical emergency to forcefully detransition them.

Unimaginable levels of cruelty.

years ago The Nib (RIP The Nib) ran a comic about media empires and how everything had been conglomerated into 5 companies. I think with Paramount buying Warner Brothers we're down to 2, maybe 2.5 companies? Meanwhile The Nib is dead and all of us in the wilderness are fully knives out at each other

trump desperately wants the approval of the cool guy who has the job he wants

Congrats! Beautifully written piece. Have you heard of… shrimp welfare?

Block shares soar 20% as company slashes workforce by nearly half Block said Thursday it's laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount.

Investors are crazy, man. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/b...

BREAKING: Protests have erupted at Columbia University after the school says DHS agents detained a student after making "misrepresentations to gain entry" to building.

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union.

This could have tremendous implications for voting:

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

I was just reviewing a manuscript about early presidential emotional history and may we all live long enough to read thoughtful histories about this incurious era.

In hellsite AI hoax bubble, Altman disses humans: Apple has just published a paper with a devastating title: The Illusion of Thinking. And it's not a metaphor. What it demonstrates is that the AI models we use every day - yes, ones like ChatGPT - don't think. Not one bit. They just imitate doing so.

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

Greenland has 56,000 people. Its health services are publicly funded by the Danish government.

It doesn't need a 1000-bed hospital ship that's in drydock, anyway.

Mobile, Alabama, where Mercy and Comfort are dry-docked, has 187,000 people & turned down Medicaid expansion under the ACA.

It might.

little Garfield on a scooter, and a cannabis joint

(L) my teacher and (R) my school

oh wow that's crazy anyway isn't it weird how the fascist in your mind makes you resent others asking for help especially if their need is monetary and it becomes important to you that they prove their need even if it's cheaper to just give them the money hahaha so anyway the olympics huh

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

I really do not want to die in the billionaire-induced climate war mass genocide

US Major General Jasper Jeffers said the Gaza “International Stabilization Force” will first deploy to Rafah and hopes to eventually have 20,000 soldiers.

Indonesia, which has pledged 8,000 troops, will serve as deputy commander of the force.