My identity? I’ll tell ya. Voter. A voter from the University of Michigan.

“Is casting a dark-skinned Black woman as Helen of Troy actually racist,” a relatively short Reddit thread never closed by mods, most everyone thinks it’s stupid and it peters out quickly

I’ve surprisingly managed to convince at least a small handful of leftists to admit President Bernie wouldn’t have passed M4A. They do this motte and bailey thing where they say it still matters that he would have “pushed” for it

It would be funny to name a cow Chuck Grassley

If you don’t properly manage your Zynventory you might be faced with an unwanted Zynterregnum.

“Money in politics” is here to stay for the foreseeable future. Better learn to deal with it

I'll echo Jaime Harrison's point that blaming AIPAC, like "the Establishment," has become a substitute for making an actual argument.

Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · last mo.

this is the sort of thing i was getting at in my Glonzo article there is nothing wrong with disliking AIPAC or the causes/candidates it advances, but when it becomes a generic villain you throw out in random contexts it should start to raise some eyebrows

As far as I can tell based on modern accounts, 90% of peoples' college experience today is essentially paying a lot of money to use Tik Tok and ChatGPT in a private room that isn't in their parents' house.

What if lady he sexually assaulted wasn’t in fact a lady but rather the country of Israel in wig and he did it to stop war they always do.

At that point it was clear, whether he beat Collins or not, or whether more bad stuff eventually came out or not, that this guy was always going to be a massive drag on the Democrat's brand and unfortunately I think we're not done paying the price.

@internettheo2.bsky.social · last mo.

I think people who confidently said he should drop out after the tattoo thing on the basis of “more stuff is gonna cone out” probably have the most politics ball knowledge even if you disagree w them on other big things.

Chekhov's gun is a narrative principle emphasizing that every element in a story should be necessary, while irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if a gun is included in a story, there must be a reason for it, such as being fired at some later point. The principle that all elements mus

Texas Monthly@texasmonthly.bsky.social · last mo.

Many of the characteristics that make feral hogs a formidable invasive pest could make them an ideal super-spreader if screwworms take hold in the population.

So ya Trump never faced any repercussions for stonewalling on the Epstein files and 'Epstein Class' has become a generalized term which most people using it would not even include him as part of.

Ok I’m really tired of hearing about Platner. Let’s fucking close this book forever and move on

I think it would be really funny if after all this we ended up with someone born in 1955 as the candidate

politiburb@politiburb.bsky.social · last mo.

So in case anyone was wondering, this is the statement made by Valli Geiger, the candidate Platner is alleged to have endorsed to replace him. I think it speaks for itself!

There's a little black cat that's been lounging on our back porch. We put some water out for him and now he's firmly designated our house as his property. He will not rest until he's sleeping on our bed

You have to be getting paid by someone to defend Platner at this point

All Power to the People@basil45.bsky.social · last mo.

KEY DETAILS MISSING ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ Ryan Grim — of Drop Site News — looks under the hood. All is not as it seems. #HitJob #Platner

The working class aesthetics thing doesn't even seem to work. "They're a bunch of dumb chuds so of course they want to vote for a dumb chud!" Elites think working class people are too dumb to conceptualize someone running the country who isn't like them.

Thag Simmons@dhsanders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Emphasizing "working class" issues is seen as something noble by the broader left, but it actually represents a dismissive attitude. They think working class people are too dumb to care about any political issues not related to their jobs.

The arc of the groin of politics bends towards smoothness.

There are a ton of people who wouldn’t have to do all this backpedaling if they’d simply decided to not go scorched earth over an election in another state

There's this whole constellation of people who owe their careers to the endless attention and affirmation you can receive complaining about The Democratic Establishment. But there are, it turns out, much worse things in politics than The Democratic Establishment

You wouldn’t believe it now but “the guy with the Nazi tattoo should drop out of the race” was an extremely controversial, eventually even contrarian position. People got real mad at you for saying it!

Yeah I once talked myself down about AI with this realization. AI can review 10k pages of documents and get some wrong conclusions but it may be better than 10 humans doing that. And you review the AI’s work the same way you would the humans’ work.

Ed@ed3d.net · 2mo ago

we constantly rely on unreliable tools (some of them in meat suits and with hair) by adding compensating controls around their actions so the outputs are bounded and, while not deterministic, predictable in the real world, this is normal. but now *you* have to look at it, and some people hate that

People are mad at the Democrats because they haven’t done enough to fight Trump, which is why they’re voting for DSA members who believe the real enemy is the capitalist Epstein Class establishment in which Trump is just a visiting side character.

You should go for a world record here sir!

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump: And by the way, on July 4th it's going to be 107 degrees out and I'm gonna go and make a really long speech. Just to show that I can do anything. It's going to be 107.

There's an important principle where if there are multiple plausible explanations for someone's behavior, you don't assume the worst explanation. This is a critical underpinning of modern law and the functionality of a liberal society and it's being increasingly lost due to social media.

Emphasizing "working class" issues is seen as something noble by the broader left, but it actually represents a dismissive attitude. They think working class people are too dumb to care about any political issues not related to their jobs.

Thag Simmons@dhsanders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Throw it on the growing pile of evidence that "working class" messaging and aesthetics does not appeal to the working class. It actually appeals to upper class people.

Throw it on the growing pile of evidence that "working class" messaging and aesthetics does not appeal to the working class. It actually appeals to upper class people.

Bill Scher@billscher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Platner getting trounced among working class men in Fox poll

A disproportionate amount of all this garbage originates from KIippenstein. He'll laugh at a 78 year old Democrat slightly tripping on stairs and then whenever Trump shits his pants on camera or slurs out "aughallualalehh" he'll ignore that and post a clip of him praising Mamdani or something.

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In many ways this is my frontal attack on the “Smoothgroins” essay. It’s my counter-argument to the idea that the dirtbag approach is somehow more effective or more authentic.

jumping in on the new personality quiz

We need huge, bold, structural change. We're tired of half-assed solutions that do nothing to address the root causes of problems. We're throwing incrementalism out the window. We are doing...um, let's see. Right. We're freezing rent for a subset of the population.