Imagine how much better Anerican politics would be if right-wing activists like Norquist, Reed, and Abrahamoff had spent the 80s crying about RNC primary rules rather than ruthlessly taking over the Republican Party.
When the party stops rigging it, maybe they will? Sanders was cheated in 16 and 20 (in 20, they flooded the zone with candidates who then conveniently dropped out and cross endorsed Biden when it was clear how the vote splitting would help Biden and hurt Sanders). And in 24, no primary.
February 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Imagine how much better Anerican politics would be if right-wing activists like Norquist, Reed, and Abrahamoff had spent the 80s crying about RNC primary rules rather than ruthlessly taking over the Republican Party.
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in america there has never been a starker difference between the parties. both parties are not the same. there is no ratchet cranking democrats rightwards. these are lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel cooler
February 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM
in america there has never been a starker difference between the parties. both parties are not the same. there is no ratchet cranking democrats rightwards. these are lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel cooler
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I don’t want Newsom to be the candidate. I don’t think he will be but if it looks like he might, it’ll take work and persuasion, not self congratulatory horseshit.
February 16, 2026 at 7:23 AM
I don’t want Newsom to be the candidate. I don’t think he will be but if it looks like he might, it’ll take work and persuasion, not self congratulatory horseshit.
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American culture from 1776 on was Black, was Indigenous, was Spanish, was Jewish, was Quaker, was a whole lot of different things which then often got together and made splendidly non-European things, and most of our music has an African mother.
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 11:13 PM
American culture from 1776 on was Black, was Indigenous, was Spanish, was Jewish, was Quaker, was a whole lot of different things which then often got together and made splendidly non-European things, and most of our music has an African mother.
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One of the saddest things I’ve heard from Syrian and Lebanese friends is how painful it felt when supporters of Palestinian liberation dismissed their own legitimate grievances under the so-called Axis of Resistance. As if Beirut and Damascus exist only as supply lines for that.
February 14, 2026 at 12:11 PM
One of the saddest things I’ve heard from Syrian and Lebanese friends is how painful it felt when supporters of Palestinian liberation dismissed their own legitimate grievances under the so-called Axis of Resistance. As if Beirut and Damascus exist only as supply lines for that.
Why not build the AI Satellite Factory™️on top of Mt Everest? That's closer to orbit than most launchpads on Earth and also helps address some of the supply chain issues. A "happy medium."
I have just enough understanding of the science and factory production to know a) not only how absurd it is to build a satellite factory on the moon but also b) how pointless. It's amazing people still report this as anything but idiot fantasy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/t...
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Why not build the AI Satellite Factory™️on top of Mt Everest? That's closer to orbit than most launchpads on Earth and also helps address some of the supply chain issues. A "happy medium."
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The thing about all the Newsom posting is that people are giving themselves negative feelings about the party as a whole based on something at best hypothetical (more likely imaginary) and after the thing doesn’t come to pass, those negative feelings will remain, searching for justification.
February 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
The thing about all the Newsom posting is that people are giving themselves negative feelings about the party as a whole based on something at best hypothetical (more likely imaginary) and after the thing doesn’t come to pass, those negative feelings will remain, searching for justification.
This is actually a very good question: "Why would voting for a Trump to a legislative body be harm reduction if he had a 'D' next to his name?" And the answer to that is that it's a pledge to vote for a Democratic Speaker or Senate Majority leader. A Collins with an R is a pledge for the opposite.
February 13, 2026 at 10:15 PM
This is actually a very good question: "Why would voting for a Trump to a legislative body be harm reduction if he had a 'D' next to his name?" And the answer to that is that it's a pledge to vote for a Democratic Speaker or Senate Majority leader. A Collins with an R is a pledge for the opposite.
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Those contradictions won't heighten themselves, comrade.
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Those contradictions won't heighten themselves, comrade.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the United States.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the United States.
Never forget what Debbie Wasserman-Schultz took from us
I've soured to the point where I consider the "rigged system" talk the original "Stop the Steal." People down the stretch were telling me that "the media" had conspired to stop Sanders and presented newspaper endorsements of Hillary as proof, as if they were some kind of nefarious scheme
February 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Never forget what Debbie Wasserman-Schultz took from us
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I maintain my theory it’s not just in-group signaling it’s also cause Trump has bad terrible eyesight and needs people with huge exaggerated features like kabuki masks to read them as faces
Mar-a-Lago Face is becoming indistinguishable from Black Hole Sun Video Face
February 11, 2026 at 1:47 AM
I maintain my theory it’s not just in-group signaling it’s also cause Trump has bad terrible eyesight and needs people with huge exaggerated features like kabuki masks to read them as faces
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People were always flabbergasted when they found out a math degree but hated arithmetic. There are whole fields of math that don’t use numbers at all, really. Those are the ones I like the most.
February 11, 2026 at 3:18 AM
People were always flabbergasted when they found out a math degree but hated arithmetic. There are whole fields of math that don’t use numbers at all, really. Those are the ones I like the most.
Boring normies hit the Up or Down button, but I drew a circle on the wall next to the elevator with a Sharpie and hit that instead.
the thing that gets me about the antivoting leftists is that they don't just want to not vote. they want to not vote and have all the rest of us admit how cool and good it is. a participation trophy for laziness
February 10, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Boring normies hit the Up or Down button, but I drew a circle on the wall next to the elevator with a Sharpie and hit that instead.
AI skeptics massively underrate the value of LLM systems. Also, AI boosters don't understand expertise. Autopilot technology revolutionized aviation but you still need a pilot.
Colleges need to stop trying to teach students how to use AI. Even in the theoretical use cases, genAI requires the expertise to know the process and outcome WITHOUT IT to be able to use it for shortcuts and then THOROUGHLY vet the product. EXPERTISE. Students don't have that, they're students.
February 10, 2026 at 5:12 PM
AI skeptics massively underrate the value of LLM systems. Also, AI boosters don't understand expertise. Autopilot technology revolutionized aviation but you still need a pilot.
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He murdered 300,000 people last year right here on earth and the toll may climb to 14 million.
Elon Musk's ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat for a rather nearer and more achievable goal – sending humans to live on the moon. https://cnn.it/46sbAMm
February 10, 2026 at 3:12 AM
He murdered 300,000 people last year right here on earth and the toll may climb to 14 million.
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One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
Dr. Oz urges 'take the vaccine, please' amid measles outbreaks
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
bit.ly
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
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I never noticed this either.
February 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I never noticed this either.
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When mine was little we received the d'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths and Book of Greek Myths, which are amazing. I wanted to make sure he wasn't culturally illiterate, so tried to find a Book of Christian Myths, but ran into obvious problems. (1/n)
February 7, 2026 at 5:27 PM
When mine was little we received the d'Aulaires Book of Norse Myths and Book of Greek Myths, which are amazing. I wanted to make sure he wasn't culturally illiterate, so tried to find a Book of Christian Myths, but ran into obvious problems. (1/n)
Carve it into my tombstone:
I have learned
that being politically correct
is lost on haters
so I speak the language
that they understand
I have learned
that being politically correct
is lost on haters
so I speak the language
that they understand
February 7, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Carve it into my tombstone:
I have learned
that being politically correct
is lost on haters
so I speak the language
that they understand
I have learned
that being politically correct
is lost on haters
so I speak the language
that they understand
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Wilder thing is that you can grab a Big Mac and Fries from the same exact spot Mussolini and Wife were hung from.
That Esso station morphed into a friggin' McDonalds.
Because the Golden Arches are freaky like that (even if their restaurants are soulless husks now).
That Esso station morphed into a friggin' McDonalds.
Because the Golden Arches are freaky like that (even if their restaurants are soulless husks now).
February 7, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Wilder thing is that you can grab a Big Mac and Fries from the same exact spot Mussolini and Wife were hung from.
That Esso station morphed into a friggin' McDonalds.
Because the Golden Arches are freaky like that (even if their restaurants are soulless husks now).
That Esso station morphed into a friggin' McDonalds.
Because the Golden Arches are freaky like that (even if their restaurants are soulless husks now).
There's no rage more pure than the anger folks on the far-left feel when a progressive shows they can win a Democratic primary.
Dear Dems, the people want you to run on abolishing ICE, not appeasing fascists.
INBOX: the Democratic National Committee is forced to delete a premature congratulatory message to former Rep. Tom Malinowski in the #NJ11 special election primary to succeed Gov. Mikie Sherrill this morning.
DSA member Analilia Mejia, running on abolishing ICE, took the lead late last night.
DSA member Analilia Mejia, running on abolishing ICE, took the lead late last night.
February 6, 2026 at 6:32 PM
There's no rage more pure than the anger folks on the far-left feel when a progressive shows they can win a Democratic primary.
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I know this is kind of spitting into the wind, but I'd like to make an effort:
Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them.
They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._
Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them.
They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._
February 6, 2026 at 12:47 AM
I know this is kind of spitting into the wind, but I'd like to make an effort:
Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them.
They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._
Just because ICE calls them "administrative warrants" doesn't make that the most accurate term for them.
They are forms. ICE forms. Signed by an ICE employee. Authorizing an arrest, but still, a _form._
I must be living right.
February 6, 2026 at 6:03 PM
I must be living right.