I get your rationale but if Dems can’t win the msging war they have lost. Angus King basically framed it as we are capitulating because fighting doesn’t work. And tone deaf statements from Schumer after the fact, when others all but acknowledged he was in on it, scream fecklessness and cowardice.

And while the most skilled and honorable samurai is gunned down in the mud, it is the peasant-born pretender who brings down the sniper, sacrificing himself in the process.

Seemingly echoing the Melian Dialogue—the strong do what they are able, the weak suffer what they must—peasants seek aid to fight off ramshackle bandits raiding not for riches but food, as the land descends into lawlessness while elites war amongst each other.

Seems clearer by the day that when Altman compared OpenAI to missionaries he meant it in how missionaries historically spread their gospel by the sword, as empires do…

I suggest letting Senate offices know we will boycott fundraising efforts, in particular for the DSCC, unless leadership changes. Schumer’s job is to maintain unity and he is using others’ votes as a shield. We shouldn’t doubt that less vulnerable Senators fell on their swords to protect the guilty.

That’s right! Democrats breaking a supermajority in Mississippi is truly emblematic of blue cities and blue states voting blue.

This strategy never works anyway, so long as the party doesn’t turn into a circular firing squad in response.

Oh no…

That puppy has huge paws and is going to be gigantic when he grows up.

Wasn’t he even recently caught creating sock puppets to endorse his opinions on his own SubStack? I mean, c’mon…

Really not sure why we even bother paying attention to Matt Yglesias. Just b/c Ezra Klein thinks he’s relevant doesn’t mean he is. I mean, who wasn’t awed by how One Billion Americans changed the discourse and anticipated the present moment.

Bleak, yet completely unsurprising

Enshittification in action.