“We will either work with you on genuine reform or destroy you with your own tools” is a fair bargain.

this is where i think longwell's qualitative methods are actually quite useful. she remarks that when people talk about the economy, they also *constantly* refer to a feeling of powerlessness. i think this is key.

Opinion | What Hundreds of Focus Groups With Trump Voters Revealed

nytimes.com

Last night, Americans made a clear call for accountability and affordability. A body politic cannot recover until its harms have been treated and its wounds have been healed. Crimes against our people and our Constitution must be answered for.

So about that: was 1976 followed by a new age of Democratic ascendance? The lesson here is GET STUFF DONE NOW. Impose consequences! Strengthen institutions! Prosecute the crooks! Expand the Supreme Court! End gerrymandering! We don’t know what 2028, much less 2030, will bring.

Owen Winter@owenwntr.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Democrats popular vote margin is the largest of any party's since 1976 www.economist.com/interactive/...

look man you were president and i'm just some schlub but i think it means normal people want cheaper gas and the dem base wants to drink the blood of their enemies

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tonight, the American people sent a clear message — they want a politics that brings people together rather than divides them, and leaders who offer concrete solutions to the challenges they face.

Not to be a hater at this time but I wish I'd kept screenshots of all those old Bluesky posts about how all Southerners should just be abandoned to fascist wolves. If that was you, libbing it up tonight will be allowed once you fill out your Apology Form. Get your paperwork done

If you’re online STAY ONLINE

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 5d ago

Remember, your job is NOT over once you leave the voting booth! Here’s what to do next after you place your vote: —go home —sit on your couch —take out your phone —open Bluesky dot Com —scroll until something good happens

I am still a believer that there is a weird gap generation ca. 1957 – 1967 that is too young to be Boomer and too old to be Gen X. For me, Boomers were at least 18 during the Vietnam War (ended 1975), whereas Gen X were still in high school when MTV launched (1981).

Bluesky explained:

Republicans tried to appeal Obamacare like 200 times, knowing full well that Obama would veto it, to signal to their base and voters broadly that “we’re trying to do stuff but da president won’t let us!!” Democrats meanwhile are like 🥺 we can only vote on stuff mister trump wants

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · last wk.

this is shockingly stupid. if donald trump is vetoing things @schatz.bsky.social it means democrats are pushing GOOD THINGS

Congrats to Brewers fans

You can uncensor it using this prompt engineering technique I invented

now here's the thing: it is of course completely reasonable for someone to be skeptical of cars on the ground that they are *dangerous*, but anyone who says they are *useless* is obviously very dumb AI denialists seem not to have grasped this distinction yet

no kings includes draftkings

Can you imagine if CA/the country had done this when interest rates were near zero

Governor Newsom Press Office@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 3w ago

>> @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom signed 4 new California laws that “aim to speed student housing construction by exempting projects from environmental review, curbing certain lawsuits and offering developer incentives.”

Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 3w ago

the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

Another person who is good at deception of this nature: Donald Trump. Trump is a moron with no special insight into humans, but he’s capable of saying stupid and wrong stuff confidently (in part because he’s detached from reality) and that’s quite literally all you need to sucker half the world.

Again, what I want you to realize is that THIS IS NOT REALLY EXPERT MANIPULATION. Elizabeth Holmes did not succeed at fraud by telling convincing hard-to-detect lies. She succeeded at fraud by telling big, dumb, obvious lies that rich people wanted to believe. This is how 95% of fraud works!

James Downie@jamescdownie.bsky.social · 3w ago

There is extensive documentary evidence that she knowingly misled people, including by her own admission! (www.ms.now/opinion/eliz...)

I feel like the AI consciousness debate is getting too "weed smoke-filled dorm room" for me. yeah it's kinda interesting but it's hard to really go anywhere with it in a way that feels like you're making progress.

Elizabeth Holmes—like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk—is a dumb person's idea of a smart person. I am genuinely troubled that more people can't seem to see this.

remember the world cup, when you had tons of folks visiting the united states for the first time and having just the best time of their life? it ruled! we should encourage that kind of thing!

Anyone else feel like everyone is just nuts nowadays? I'm not even talking about the obvious candidates but everyday people who get worked up into a defensive frenzy about the most insane things and can't fathom that they might be wrong or that someone else might think differently.

Something very important to figure out before Jan 20, 2029 is whether, when a new President is inaugurated, they will control the computer system at GSA (i.e. doors to federal buildings) and Treasury payments system or if those systems will be somehow in the hands of DOGE cronies

I swear to god so much of this is literally just people confusing measles and chicken pox

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Minnesota Republican state Sen. Bill Lieske: "Back in the day when the measles vaccine didn't exist, measles was a joke! ... yes, there are increases cases. How many of those are actually resulting in deaths? Are they just going home with the sniffles? Back in the day, people had measles parties."

This is different from a malware botnot how exactly

Yahoo Finance@yahoofinance.com · 4w ago

Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become ‘challenging’ to shut down

Seeing things like "Chinese youth unemployment is 18.9%"is why I feel more than a little insane when young people talk about how much better China is than the US

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4w ago

On that note, I have never in 25 years of doing this stuff seen such a divergence in analysis between scholars focused on a state's domestic political economy and colleagues focused on its impact on global geopolitics and trade as with scholarship focused on China over the last five years