there is a reason that this is such a recurrent fantasy, apart from the usual ones of being dazzled by Big Man's power and wanting to bash the Democratic party. the emergency measures around the pandemic *did* see financial relief for a lot of people, while Trump was president. so, yes, if ...

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 6h ago

i’m sorry but there is no chance that donald trump, a vengeful man who has devoted *two presidences* to destroying the social insurance state and giving the stolen money to his rich friends, would sign a bill extending public health insurance

we have gotten too used to tech companies whose execs have captured their board and voting power, this is how it is *supposed* to work

Mike McCue@mmccue.bsky.social · 7h ago

Jensen Huang was fired because he lied to the board and everyone else about sleeping with a customer and an employee. Once the CEO lies about something material and self-interested like this, there's no other remedy for a board. This is all about basic governance, not woke 3.

So much going on here...

Andrew Teale@andrewteale.me.uk · 4h ago

HYNDBURN, Huncoat - Lab hold Lab 318 RUK 275 Restore Britain 257 C 74 Previous results: www.andrewteale.me.uk/imfd Previews: andrewspreviews.substack.com/p/previewing...

one reason I’ve become a lot more bullish on us rejoining in the near-ish future is that every negative response to Burnham opening up the conversation is just content-free “oh nooo you can’t do that” whining

Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · yesterday

i mean

someone in the billionaire gc is like "no really guys i think it will be fine, it's not like the rest of us are banging chinese spies" and there are no emoji reactions and briefly, Everyone is typing

Also if your expectation for societal collapse is that hunting will be the main form of subsistence, then honestly not much point prepping: you're probably gonna die. The world really can't sustain that many hunters, and your chances of being the 0.1% who make it is going to be more luck than skill.

Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST@chathamharrison.bsky.social · 9h ago

the trick of doomsday prepping not being about actual preparation is that 99 times out of 100, they aren't even ready for an SHTF where survival means hunting, fishing, & living in the woods. They are ready for a particularly self-satisfied camping trip

The US healthcare system has spent decades evolving in ways that are (a) extremely stupid and (b) extremely well-entrenched with substantially dependent interest groups, and the lack of interest from a lot of Leftists in the details of actually implementing reform have been very frustrating.

Mikhail Gorbaechev@mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 7h ago

Like there is a reason public-sector unions have tended towards skepticism of the NYHA and it isn't that they're mean and evil, it's that it would fuck over their membership in a substantial way.

When John Paul II actively covered for paedophile priests and said you can’t use condoms to stop HIV he was doing religion and couldn’t be criticized. When Leo says that war and poverty are un-Christian he is understood to be Doing Politics and can be attacked as such.

This quite literally the same logic and morality as saying that the mass murderer wouldn’t have killed his whole family and then gone on a shooting spree if his wife hadn’t left him and let herself keep getting abused.

I do think ‘CEO of globally significant company goes around trying to stop all the employees he’s having an affair without finding out about each other while also possibly being subject to espionage’ could be a fun sitcom

Important to remember that despite multiple affairs, including with a spy, Huang is still far from the most problematic (former) tech CEO

Doing a little reading last night and not completely surprised to learn that the last midterm with a president in his second, non consecutive term (1894) was an extinction-level event for the President’s party and destroyed it for almost 20 years.

i’m sorry but there is no chance that donald trump, a vengeful man who has devoted *two presidences* to destroying the social insurance state and giving the stolen money to his rich friends, would sign a bill extending public health insurance

and ignoring for a moment that this is trolling, i actually think it is a bad thing to hand your political opposition your signature policy program as a gift.

sure, send him a bill to veto. but this idea that anyone could successfully manipulate trump into getting your preferred policies is half the reason we’re in this mess.

David miller update. He's on the other site literally promoting the blood libel. No I don't mean the bs way some apologists for Israel are using the term "blood libel" I mean the actual literal blood libel

Yeah, UK and France were still talking about the need to keep Yugoslavia together to "avoid a war" as late as January 1992. Meanwhile, everyone in Croatia:

Lots of good points about the racism here, but even if we are limiting it to non-Black extremely famous Democrats, it's just ridiculous to say. UMC, TEC, American Baptists, PC USA, Catholic, ECLA Lutheran, and more are WELL represented in presidential tickets and congressional leadership.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6d ago

The victories of James Talarico and Adam Hamilton stood out in the midterms because they are both committed, outspoken Christians—a departure from the recent Democratic Party, Peter Wehner writes. theatln.tc/fz6HjiQe

This is why, although I obviously don't agree with Brexit, I do get a bit annoyed with the breathless 'the UK has committed ECONOMIC SUICIDE by LEAVING the EU' takes. No we haven't, it was a bad decision that has left us measurably worse off, but the UK economy is not on the verge of collapse.

Nathan@nwylabour.bsky.social · 14h ago

This is the thing, there isn't anything seriously, structurally wrong with the UK economy. We have just imposed unnecessary constraints on ourselves since 2010 for stupid political reasons.

*Winnie the Pooh trying to hide his increasing disappointment as he reads more about the honeypot situation*

imo an underrated reason for the horrific Christian Nationalist push among evangelicals is because they see this trend accelerating and think they can beat people with the stick of the state to return evangelical hegemony over the culture

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 10h ago

to be fair, this is also rapidly hitting evangelicals too: if you read any publication from the evangelical world, they all admit mainliners just got the headstart

genuinely crazy-making to watch pundits talk about “new religious democrats” as if raphael warnock has not been in the senate for half a decade.

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 22h ago

A large portion of our pundit class thinks that democrats only started being religious in 2026 and it shows what a tiny epistemic bubble they inhabit

Both Labour's left and moderate wings have both socially conservative and socially liberal tendencies, and your average moderate's motivations for joining the party are about as likely to be motivated by social liberalism than by a desire for centre-left economic policy.

"the biggest threat to gay rights since Section 28". That would be the same Section 28 that the Telegraph endorsed right to the end, praising politicians who supported it as "champions of traditional Christian values", "resisting" the "unstoppable advance of the homosexual lobby".

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 20h ago

9 days in a row now on the Telegraph front page

Other relevant detail: the rebranding happened because they were bankrupted by a court case for Bosnian genocide denial

Americans should know this is basically a literally true description of Spiked. You could go into more about the dynamics of British Trotskyite politics, but fundamentally Sharon has just given a literally correct description of something that plays a non-trivial role in our information environment.

it makes sense when you realize that 99% of the time, the legacy press doesn't treat Black Christianity as "real" religion or mainliners (and this is mirrored in how like, atheists are basically also treated as somehow dominating the Democratic party)

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · 22h ago

Again: you should be fired for being this ignorant.

Statutory rights of reply can be more accessible, though they of course do have problems of their own

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 14h ago

When you think about it, libel laws are only laws for the rich. No normal person can afford the sort of expense that taking legal action involves. The whole system should be reformed.

So people just really don’t understand that the majority doesn’t happen until January, huh