(Trying to hype up my AI company to investors) yeah I asked our latest LLM when the Grateful Dead was formed and it hacked the Pentagon and sent all the files to North Korea, can I have more Series E funding please
Michigan senate primary 3 minutes after they were accusing each other of endorsing 9/11 or being backed by foreign interlopers
a visa overstayer from Chad who wants to be an American is more American than anyone who puts on the ICE mask
Semafor@semafor.com · 4h ago“Based on its extraordinary success in slashing overstays from bonded countries to near zero, the State Department has made the Visa Bond Program permanent,” a State Department spokesperson told Semafor.
We're gonna look back on the first half of this year as a bizarre fever dream where people took the UK Greens seriously
Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 11h agoHello I'm an idiot
"Dad, we have to vote blue no matter who!" "Now hold on a minute there, Bobby. I'm all for protecting American values from Donald Trump, but if we don't play fair we lose those values ourselves. Talarico stole the nomination from Jasmine Crockett, and no matter what anyone says she's my Senator."
Shri Thanedar's politics - broadly left of center on domestic US politics but with a huge carve-out for Hindutva - actually makes him the closest non-Jewish analogue to a certain kind of American Jewish politics.
Joohn Choe@joohnchoe.bsky.social · 5h agoThis is the context for Thanedar and Modi. It's not just "is Thanedar pro-India," this is a simplistic phrasing of the foreign influence question for a country numbering 1.477 billion souls. The question is perhaps more properly "which India."
(standing guy image) the actual problem with asylum is that there is a collective mass denial that “move somewhere because the employment options are better or you like the vibe” is a perfectly normal thing we should encourage
One important way of doing this is going to be shrinking our global military footprint in a big way. Which brings me to my proposal: end CENTCOM's entire presence within the first 100 days.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7h agoI know it sucks, but Dems have got to be prepared to inherit a munitions-and-readiness hole that is going to be expensive to fill, but which will need to be filled. Hardly the only such hole, but it will be a big one.
If elected in the general, Abdul El-Sayed would be the first Muslim Senator, but not the first Arab Senator. There have been 6 Arab Christian Senators, including one from Michigan, Republican Spencer Abraham.
Ulster-Scot yeoman Southern farm boy: gee, if I please my slave-holding Cavalier masters by destroying the Union maybe I can get my own slaves! Wisconsin German '48er, driven into berserker rage by snorting pure uncut Hegel: the system of German idealism will be completed with Confederate blood
Honestly think Stevens wouldve won if it wasnt for that “Israel comes to me in my dreams” clip.
Shri's race being too close to call despite getting hit on all sides by the establishment, the DSA, and local groups... the only Indian politician in America strikes again...
Going to Stevens's house a decade from now as a journalist to do a retrospective on the rise of two-term Senator from Michigan Abdul El-Sayed. She's still doing the voice. "I can't stop," she tells me. "Euchre Yooper Verner's Party Store Pasty. Oop!"
I made this post and then went and did something and I have now come back to find that the McMorrow vote is greater than the extremely narrow gap between AES and Stevens. You should have appealed to us instead of taking us for granted!
Bill McKay@mckay4senate.bsky.social · 22h agoDon't care, still voting McMorrow.
People talk about how if libraries didn't exist the idea of them would be viewed as crazy today, and this is how I feel about property tax.
"Manwë Súlimo, a second Tree of Valinor has been struck by the spear of Melkor and drained of its light by Ungoliant."
Bill McKay@mckay4senate.bsky.social · 2d agoGetting in trouble for my incredibly tasteless fanart of the destruction of the Two Trees that is clearly based on 9/11
The Federal Government must act to not only maintain but massively strengthen the value of the yen in order to make tourism there more expensive and end the scourge of 27 year olds planning Japan trips once and for all.
r/atheism was like 75% correct and 25% incorrect at worst btw.
Why don't we simply send r/atheism supersoldiers after these people instead of listening to their concerns?
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d agoThere is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.
How will King Arthur awakening from under Mount Snowdon and taking back Wales for his people from the Anglo-Saxons affect Burnham's chances of achieving a working majority in the next election?
Going to a cafe in Weimar Berlin, ordering a Turkish coffee*, then pulling out a DDP pamphlet and reading it while angling the cover conspicuously at flapper girls. * latest fad
Borders are an injustice, pure lottery of birth. Wealth inequality between the EU and right outside it is staggering and unfair. Our Frontex to Libyan navy deals are disgusting. If EU countries abolished borders most of the continent would become Mussolini. I don’t know what to do about it tbh.
It is pretty sad that so few people actually believe in open borders
Enoch Powell gets angry the Mont Perelin Society has a minute of silence for the Munich Massacre because it's not related to neoliberalism.
