David
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These are arguments for breaking the law that would be widely recognized as psychotic if offered in any other context. But when we're drivers, we just feel entitled. I *wanna* go fast, so fuck you, fuck safety, fuck society.
Cars make us terrible people.
Cars make us terrible people.
December 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
These are arguments for breaking the law that would be widely recognized as psychotic if offered in any other context. But when we're drivers, we just feel entitled. I *wanna* go fast, so fuck you, fuck safety, fuck society.
Cars make us terrible people.
Cars make us terrible people.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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I know it’s dumb and not nearly as meaningful as all the genuinely horrifying things he’s done but I stand by the idea that tearing down half the White House so he could build a big gaudy ballroom was the exact moment where everything started unraveling for Trump.
New York - Net Support For:
Bombing Alleged Drug Boats: -23%
Prosecuting Official Critical Of Trump: -28%
Deploying ICE To Round Up Illegal Immigrants: -28%
Increasing Tariffs On Virtually Everyone: -33%
Demolishing the East Wing: -40%
Siena / Nov 12, 2025
Bombing Alleged Drug Boats: -23%
Prosecuting Official Critical Of Trump: -28%
Deploying ICE To Round Up Illegal Immigrants: -28%
Increasing Tariffs On Virtually Everyone: -33%
Demolishing the East Wing: -40%
Siena / Nov 12, 2025
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I know it’s dumb and not nearly as meaningful as all the genuinely horrifying things he’s done but I stand by the idea that tearing down half the White House so he could build a big gaudy ballroom was the exact moment where everything started unraveling for Trump.
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More important than being polarizing is the fact that she's a terrible journalist & an utterly pedestrian thinker with absolutely nothing to recommend her other than a fine-tuned ear for what powerful men want to hear.
David Ellison vowed not to politicize Paramount—yet his first big move at CBS News is a major bet on Bari Weiss, one of the most polarizing figures in media.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
The Weiss Price
David Ellison vowed not to politicize Paramount—yet his first big move at CBS News is a major bet on Bari Weiss, one of the most polarizing figures in media.
www.status.news
September 4, 2025 at 4:19 AM
More important than being polarizing is the fact that she's a terrible journalist & an utterly pedestrian thinker with absolutely nothing to recommend her other than a fine-tuned ear for what powerful men want to hear.
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You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?
The world's largest sand battery just went live in Finland
Finland has inaugurated an industrial-scale sand battery this week in the southern town of Pornainen, where it'll take over heating duties from an old woodchip power plant for the municipality. It's s...
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August 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?
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Just to start with, the push should be to use whatever means possible to cut off all tax revenue coming out of Philly and the surrounding counties from funding the rest of the state, especially roads and highways, until SEPTA is funded. If you can’t find a legal way to do it, find another one.
August 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Just to start with, the push should be to use whatever means possible to cut off all tax revenue coming out of Philly and the surrounding counties from funding the rest of the state, especially roads and highways, until SEPTA is funded. If you can’t find a legal way to do it, find another one.
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I'll just say again:
Everyone can see how the dysfunctional media environment has convinced people that crime is an epidemic, when in real life -- people's "lived experience," if you will -- crime is way, way down.
Now why wouldn't the same dynamic apply to the economy?
Everyone can see how the dysfunctional media environment has convinced people that crime is an epidemic, when in real life -- people's "lived experience," if you will -- crime is way, way down.
Now why wouldn't the same dynamic apply to the economy?
August 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'll just say again:
Everyone can see how the dysfunctional media environment has convinced people that crime is an epidemic, when in real life -- people's "lived experience," if you will -- crime is way, way down.
Now why wouldn't the same dynamic apply to the economy?
Everyone can see how the dysfunctional media environment has convinced people that crime is an epidemic, when in real life -- people's "lived experience," if you will -- crime is way, way down.
Now why wouldn't the same dynamic apply to the economy?
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It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
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“It was so much easier to meet people when I was in college” (a big pedestrian zone full of multifamily housing).
July 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“It was so much easier to meet people when I was in college” (a big pedestrian zone full of multifamily housing).
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Lmao fuckin get bodied Fetterman
Greenberg: We're looking to the leaders who will fight for us, because even today there are folks among the Democratic Party who think we should roll over and play dead. Anyone seeing John Fetterman here today?
June 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Lmao fuckin get bodied Fetterman
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Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
June 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits
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I'd go with like "many of the pedophiles who flew with Trump on Jeffrey Epstein's planes are the same people who are also trying to cut health care for Americans. Part of the reason they want us poor is so we can't fight back when they rape our kids."
The craziest thing about this fight between Trump and Elon Musk is that Republicans are trying to take away health care from 16 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.
June 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I'd go with like "many of the pedophiles who flew with Trump on Jeffrey Epstein's planes are the same people who are also trying to cut health care for Americans. Part of the reason they want us poor is so we can't fight back when they rape our kids."
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It’s such a perfect encapsulation of how the right drives American media cycles that slightly-too-long school closures are still considered a huge liability for democrats while murdering hundreds of thousands of people with anti-vaxx propaganda is never mentioned as a downside of Republican rule.
Matthew Yglesias identifying the Democratic Party's electoral issues: school closures during covid, "paralysis on women's sports" and "candidates running on late-term abortions"
June 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It’s such a perfect encapsulation of how the right drives American media cycles that slightly-too-long school closures are still considered a huge liability for democrats while murdering hundreds of thousands of people with anti-vaxx propaganda is never mentioned as a downside of Republican rule.
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This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them
Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason."
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
February 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them
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Massive, meaningful changes in governance done as a result of a ctrl-f for the word "transition." No one will ever believe how stupid this shit was.
This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Massive, meaningful changes in governance done as a result of a ctrl-f for the word "transition." No one will ever believe how stupid this shit was.
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Life is constant change, flux, and endless, fractal complexity. Authoritarians hate change & they hate complexity.
They hate *life*. Authoritarianism is fundamentally anti-life.
They hate *life*. Authoritarianism is fundamentally anti-life.
February 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Life is constant change, flux, and endless, fractal complexity. Authoritarians hate change & they hate complexity.
They hate *life*. Authoritarianism is fundamentally anti-life.
They hate *life*. Authoritarianism is fundamentally anti-life.
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I'll probably say this 5 million times in coming years, but:
A political strategy that relies on the public "waking up" and realizing that Trump & Co. are awful -- on their own -- is destined to fail. No matter how bad it gets. None of this is self-executing. People must be told & shown.
A political strategy that relies on the public "waking up" and realizing that Trump & Co. are awful -- on their own -- is destined to fail. No matter how bad it gets. None of this is self-executing. People must be told & shown.
February 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I'll probably say this 5 million times in coming years, but:
A political strategy that relies on the public "waking up" and realizing that Trump & Co. are awful -- on their own -- is destined to fail. No matter how bad it gets. None of this is self-executing. People must be told & shown.
A political strategy that relies on the public "waking up" and realizing that Trump & Co. are awful -- on their own -- is destined to fail. No matter how bad it gets. None of this is self-executing. People must be told & shown.
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To MAGA dipshits, including Trump, it's all just a game, words & images on the TV, an endless reality show. But the government is real, the things it does are real, and the consequences of thoughtlessly fucking it up are real.
January 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
To MAGA dipshits, including Trump, it's all just a game, words & images on the TV, an endless reality show. But the government is real, the things it does are real, and the consequences of thoughtlessly fucking it up are real.
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In general, Biden was more accommodating of the left than any Dem president in my lifetime and, to a first approximation, it got him *nothing*. No credit, no support, not even acknowledgement.
December 31, 2024 at 7:46 PM
In general, Biden was more accommodating of the left than any Dem president in my lifetime and, to a first approximation, it got him *nothing*. No credit, no support, not even acknowledgement.
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Jesse has spent the last six years promoting the notion that large numbers of children are transitioning without assessment — something for which there is no evidence.
He should be treated like anyone else peddling a false and harmful idea.
He should be treated like anyone else peddling a false and harmful idea.
Jesse Singal's life's work is laundering transphobia into language that that cocktail party set finds palatable. This technique attacks a weakness of liberalism and democracy, and it's being exploited ruthlessly right now.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
December 7, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Jesse has spent the last six years promoting the notion that large numbers of children are transitioning without assessment — something for which there is no evidence.
He should be treated like anyone else peddling a false and harmful idea.
He should be treated like anyone else peddling a false and harmful idea.
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Ed Yong won the 2021 Pulitzer prize for his reporting in the Atlantic on COVID.
In private posts on IG last week, he told his followers they should unsubscribe, citing the magazine's decision to hire Jonathan Chait, and its coverage of trans issues/Gaza
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In private posts on IG last week, he told his followers they should unsubscribe, citing the magazine's decision to hire Jonathan Chait, and its coverage of trans issues/Gaza
www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...
November 18, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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I think Ned's right that Dems will be tempted to tack right. I'm also seeing people complain about how Kamala should have moved left.
Either shift, though, depends on voters ***knowing what Dems are doing.*** Politicians cannot campaign on their records if voters have no idea what they've done.
Either shift, though, depends on voters ***knowing what Dems are doing.*** Politicians cannot campaign on their records if voters have no idea what they've done.
November 6, 2024 at 5:08 PM
I think Ned's right that Dems will be tempted to tack right. I'm also seeing people complain about how Kamala should have moved left.
Either shift, though, depends on voters ***knowing what Dems are doing.*** Politicians cannot campaign on their records if voters have no idea what they've done.
Either shift, though, depends on voters ***knowing what Dems are doing.*** Politicians cannot campaign on their records if voters have no idea what they've done.
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60% of this magazine's output now is just variations on "To be fair, the premise of my article is false..."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
September 19, 2024 at 3:06 PM
60% of this magazine's output now is just variations on "To be fair, the premise of my article is false..."
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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You have to respect that the Supreme Court majority features every kind of Stupid Smart Guy that our culture is capable of producing, from Resentful Bribe Guys to Normal-Passing Opus Dei Kooks to Unbearable Adult Libertarians. Kavanaugh represents the vital Ivy League Guy Who Can't Read tranche.
kavanaugh pretending like the word 'insurrection' is inscrutable really gives the game away
February 8, 2024 at 4:51 PM
You have to respect that the Supreme Court majority features every kind of Stupid Smart Guy that our culture is capable of producing, from Resentful Bribe Guys to Normal-Passing Opus Dei Kooks to Unbearable Adult Libertarians. Kavanaugh represents the vital Ivy League Guy Who Can't Read tranche.