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This is now a Tim Walz stan account until Dems fuck it up by picking someone they think the NYT will like. Edit 8/6: Well I’ll be damned Edit 11/7: Still a fan 😭
Misanthropic humanist | failed academic | state budget wonk | way too online
Misanthropic humanist | failed academic | state budget wonk | way too online
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The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
Trump looked pretty rough today -- note that both of his hands are discolored
(Joe Raedle/Getty)
(Joe Raedle/Getty)
December 29, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The President of the United States appears to be getting regular IV infusions, the public doesn’t know anything about it, & the DC media evidently doesn’t care.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
We are months into the mystery of Trump’s hands, the White House is lying, & I’ve seen a grand total of one serious news story about it.
Disgraceful. Embarrassing. And let me just note again that this too can be credited to Marco Rubio, confirmed 99-0 with every Democrat in the Senate voting for their colleague who is now betraying our allies and destroying the work of generations. Super job guys.
Zelensky lands in Miami. Not a single US official is on hand to greet him. In the language of diplomacy this send an unequivocal message of coldness and hostility. Compare it with the lavish pomp and red carpet shown to Putin when he landed in Alaska a few weeks ago.
December 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Disgraceful. Embarrassing. And let me just note again that this too can be credited to Marco Rubio, confirmed 99-0 with every Democrat in the Senate voting for their colleague who is now betraying our allies and destroying the work of generations. Super job guys.
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yes. because what MAGA extremists believe and advocate is fundamentally unamerican. not conservative. not even reactionary. unamerican. these are foreign ideas that failed at enormous human cost within living memory. these are not serious people. they are maladjusted wreckers. symptomatic.
speaking as a personal example of this "heritage American" they have recently dragged back out of the rotting landfill of American history, I can tell you that even the literal DAR disagrees with these idiots! they *attend naturalization ceremonies* in celebration of immigrants becoming Americans!!!
there's no such thing as a "heritage american" and brain-damaged constitutional law professors and members of the vox cinematic universe treating it with respect is bad, and they should be berated
borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that
borders are fake, and america is what it is in the best sense due to periodically recognizing that
December 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
yes. because what MAGA extremists believe and advocate is fundamentally unamerican. not conservative. not even reactionary. unamerican. these are foreign ideas that failed at enormous human cost within living memory. these are not serious people. they are maladjusted wreckers. symptomatic.
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mutual aid as a replacement for the state is the electoral equivalent of believing in ethical consumption under capitalism, it makes you feel better about things but ultimately you aren't accomplishly anything beyond directly helping a small number of those in need
December 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
mutual aid as a replacement for the state is the electoral equivalent of believing in ethical consumption under capitalism, it makes you feel better about things but ultimately you aren't accomplishly anything beyond directly helping a small number of those in need
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This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
And mutual aid is subject to value judgements about who “really” needs aid, just like charity organizations. These value judgements then bleed into other policies, like setting up homeless services that target minority pops despite the fact that in my city (PDX) most homeless folks are white men
Guys I know you’re all going to yell at me here but mutual aid is not meaningfully distinct from the kind of privatized community charity system where poor people go to the church and hope someone has donated a hot meal. It’s not progressive, it’s not effective, it’s not good service provision.
"poor enough to need mutual aid"
Everyone needs mutual aid.
Everyone needs mutual aid.
December 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
And mutual aid is subject to value judgements about who “really” needs aid, just like charity organizations. These value judgements then bleed into other policies, like setting up homeless services that target minority pops despite the fact that in my city (PDX) most homeless folks are white men
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Guys I know you’re all going to yell at me here but mutual aid is not meaningfully distinct from the kind of privatized community charity system where poor people go to the church and hope someone has donated a hot meal. It’s not progressive, it’s not effective, it’s not good service provision.
"poor enough to need mutual aid"
Everyone needs mutual aid.
Everyone needs mutual aid.
The reality is that very poor people - like, poor enough to need mutual aid - usually have an exceptionally low turnout in a midterm primary. They’re busy surviving! If you’re in a district that has a lot higher-income voters, they’ll probably be disproportionately represented in such a primary.
December 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Guys I know you’re all going to yell at me here but mutual aid is not meaningfully distinct from the kind of privatized community charity system where poor people go to the church and hope someone has donated a hot meal. It’s not progressive, it’s not effective, it’s not good service provision.
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
I immediately went to the article to see if it was mentioned anywhere in it that these farmers can only grow rice in CA because of billions of dollars in public money poured into water infrastructure. Surprise! No mention of the fact these people are hugely subsidized by the people they despise!
December 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I immediately went to the article to see if it was mentioned anywhere in it that these farmers can only grow rice in CA because of billions of dollars in public money poured into water infrastructure. Surprise! No mention of the fact these people are hugely subsidized by the people they despise!
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they put the postal service in the fucking constitution
it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit
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it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit
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The USPS faces a tight squeeze. With fewer people using the mail, it’s lost more and more money: $9 billion in the 12 months ending in September alone.
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
https://cnn.it/4qkeNoF
December 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
they put the postal service in the fucking constitution
it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit
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it is a public service and not supposed to make a fucking profit
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watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
December 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
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DHS shared an AI-generated video of Santa working for ICE, proving yet again that the official voice of the US government is still cruel, gross, and weird.
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
DHS shared an AI-generated video of Santa working for ICE, proving yet again that the official voice of the US government is still cruel, gross, and weird.
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The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.
I hope all of the Democrats who unanimously voted to confirm their *colleague* enjoy this video of him high on…life, grinning and winking while standing on the graves of children he, personally, decided to starve to death. Really good job, y’all!
yeah I mean it’s genuinely sad that the “reasonable old school” Republican (who Dems eagerly and unanimously voted to confirm) is out here doing pressers blatantly geeked out coke and it’s not subtle
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I hope all of the Democrats who unanimously voted to confirm their *colleague* enjoy this video of him high on…life, grinning and winking while standing on the graves of children he, personally, decided to starve to death. Really good job, y’all!
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1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
1 - the exec branch can't decline to spend $ Congress appropriated
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
2- the fed govt can't use federal $ to extort states over policy/political disagreements
3-the fed govt can't use federal $ to impose conditions unrelated to the funding program
4-the fed govt can't use federal $ to coerce states
Something I wonder about is whether anyone in this admin thinks there might be a downside to the US Government no longer honoring their contracts. Seems like it creates some issues down the line, like, say, no one reputable will contract with the US government anymore.
The impeccable @fieseler.bsky.social breaks news of what offshore wind developers were told today in writing… an hour or two *after* the Trump admin announced it was halting construction
Story also notes the current head of the offshore energy agency is a former NOIA lobbyist (offshore drilling)
Story also notes the current head of the offshore energy agency is a former NOIA lobbyist (offshore drilling)
‘Bonkers': DOI letter halts all five in-progress offshore wind farms
Construction will be paused for 90 days as Trump's Department of War and Interior Department coordinate to evaluate supposed "national security" risks.
www.canarymedia.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Something I wonder about is whether anyone in this admin thinks there might be a downside to the US Government no longer honoring their contracts. Seems like it creates some issues down the line, like, say, no one reputable will contract with the US government anymore.
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Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
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NEW: For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections.
This year, it finally succeeded.
This year, it finally succeeded.
Inside the North Carolina GOP’s Decade-Long Push to Seize Power From the State’s Democratic Governors
For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections. This year, it finally succeeded.
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
NEW: For almost a decade, North Carolina’s majority-Republican legislature tried six times to strip Democratic governors of control over the board overseeing the swing state’s elections.
This year, it finally succeeded.
This year, it finally succeeded.
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"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
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It's "national security" to them because they have talked themselves into the notion that renewables are a sophisticated Chinese hoax, designed to drain the lifeblood of American power -- oil and gas.
No, seriously. This is what they believe.
No, seriously. This is what they believe.
Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects
Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk
My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January
Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk
My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January
Trump Uses ‘National Security’ To Freeze Offshore Wind Work
The administration has already lost once in court wielding the same argument against Revolution Wind.
heatmap.news
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's "national security" to them because they have talked themselves into the notion that renewables are a sophisticated Chinese hoax, designed to drain the lifeblood of American power -- oil and gas.
No, seriously. This is what they believe.
No, seriously. This is what they believe.
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Was there any other time that the Mittster might have shared this brilliant insight with the great American public? Like before he squirreled away hundreds of millions in tax-dodged flipping and stripping?
Heather Cox Richardson: Romney “appears to acknowledge the political ideology of the past forty-five years has failed. He called for addressing the economic inequalities in the United States by placing higher taxes on the rich….”
December 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Was there any other time that the Mittster might have shared this brilliant insight with the great American public? Like before he squirreled away hundreds of millions in tax-dodged flipping and stripping?
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For this week's That's Marvelous newsletter I regrettably wrote a little bit about Bari Weiss (but also I happily wrote a little bit about dogs)! Read it here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/163-60-minut...
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
For this week's That's Marvelous newsletter I regrettably wrote a little bit about Bari Weiss (but also I happily wrote a little bit about dogs)! Read it here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/163-60-minut...
Someone is about to find out that white women do not get the grace and latitude white men do. She thinks her whiteness is the primary signifier to other conservatives, but surprise: it’s gender!
Erika Kirk stunned the internet with an apparent slip of the tongue in which she implied her deceased husband Charlie was a "grifter.
'Incredible': Internet stunned by Erika Kirk's 'slip of the tongue' on Charlie's 'grift'
Erika Kirk stunned the internet with an apparent slip of the tongue in which she implied her deceased husband Charlie was a "grifter."Honoring a student at a Turning Point USA event, Erika Kirk said, "Despite the devastating loss of Charlie Kirk, my incredible husband... Caleb has persisted with the...
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December 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Someone is about to find out that white women do not get the grace and latitude white men do. She thinks her whiteness is the primary signifier to other conservatives, but surprise: it’s gender!
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The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...
February 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...