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how to use civility to stop the borg
March 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
how to use civility to stop the borg
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Chuck Schumer right now
March 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Chuck Schumer right now
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no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
March 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good
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March 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Darkly funny that vaccines have worked so well for so long that folks have straight forgotten what it means to catch a real disease that could kill you instead of mildly inconvenience you.
February 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Darkly funny that vaccines have worked so well for so long that folks have straight forgotten what it means to catch a real disease that could kill you instead of mildly inconvenience you.
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Bezos, worth over $200 billion, is doing reply bait posts. Nice reminder that wealth can’t buy dignity
February 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Bezos, worth over $200 billion, is doing reply bait posts. Nice reminder that wealth can’t buy dignity
We’re fighting!*
Half heartedly delaying two votes for a couple hours, and then fundraising
Half heartedly delaying two votes for a couple hours, and then fundraising
Republicans want to push perhaps the biggest cuts to Medicaid ever, threatening care for kids and seniors, just so Trump's billionaire buddies can have another tax break.
Democrats are fighting for YOU.
Democrats are fighting for YOU.
February 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We’re fighting!*
Half heartedly delaying two votes for a couple hours, and then fundraising
Half heartedly delaying two votes for a couple hours, and then fundraising
This is an interesting thread/insight, and something I’ve watched happen to my dad and his peers over the past decade-ish
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
February 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is an interesting thread/insight, and something I’ve watched happen to my dad and his peers over the past decade-ish
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I think there’s this tendency to assume Musk enters each agency with some kind of plan. But his office is 30 people, largely children, and the federal government employs millions. He spends half his time on drugs, tweeting, doing interviews. It’s all random noise www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
February 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I think there’s this tendency to assume Musk enters each agency with some kind of plan. But his office is 30 people, largely children, and the federal government employs millions. He spends half his time on drugs, tweeting, doing interviews. It’s all random noise www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates
Do you have any suggestions, because I feel they should be doing more too; however, that doesn't negate our responsibility to fight as well, just as you did.
It’s been a long fucking day, I’m tired, and I misspoke. Let me rephrase it in a more correct way.
Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.
Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.
February 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Get arrested preventing DOGE goons from entering public buildings, get arrested going into public buildings to find out what DOGE goons are doing, get arrested on the floor during confirmation votes to protest the rubber stamping of unqualified candidates
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The job market has never been better for shills, stooges, and toadies of all stripes. Linkedin absolutely buzzing if you're a sycophant, a flunky, or even an unctuous little worm
February 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The job market has never been better for shills, stooges, and toadies of all stripes. Linkedin absolutely buzzing if you're a sycophant, a flunky, or even an unctuous little worm
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We are being governed by the weirdest and most alien sociopath-political tendency of all time, one that can’t even conceive of friendship or even human connection existing outside the bounds of hierarchy and domination
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), who last year nearly got into an actual fist fight during a committee hearing with union leader Sean O'Brien, just said they are friends now and "if we were in a relationship, I'd be the man in the relationship."
February 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We are being governed by the weirdest and most alien sociopath-political tendency of all time, one that can’t even conceive of friendship or even human connection existing outside the bounds of hierarchy and domination
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Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all.
www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/
www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/
The Generative AI Con
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st ...
www.wheresyoured.at
February 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all.
www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/
www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/
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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
February 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
Anyway I think I’m gonna stay off the Torment Box for the rest of the day, as a bday present to myself
February 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Anyway I think I’m gonna stay off the Torment Box for the rest of the day, as a bday present to myself
This incredible idiot, along with the rest of the democrats, then provided unanimous consent to move forward the RFK nomination (and other crazies) more quickly so that they could have a three day weekend ✨
Confirming RFK Jr. would make America sicker.
We are holding the Senate floor tonight to fight back against his nomination by Donald Trump.
We are holding the Senate floor tonight to fight back against his nomination by Donald Trump.
February 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
This incredible idiot, along with the rest of the democrats, then provided unanimous consent to move forward the RFK nomination (and other crazies) more quickly so that they could have a three day weekend ✨
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we are getting stories crazier than watergate every single day and no one bats an eye at them anymore. society has hypernormalized intense corruption that it feels like NOT being openly corrupt hinders you
Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan’s acting U.S. attorney, resigned on Thursday rather than obey a Justice Department order that she drop a corruption case against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, that she had championed, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.
Manhattan’s Federal Prosecutor Quits After Adams Case Is Ordered Dropped (Gift Article)
Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
we are getting stories crazier than watergate every single day and no one bats an eye at them anymore. society has hypernormalized intense corruption that it feels like NOT being openly corrupt hinders you
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Pillaging Medicaid to pay for armored Teslas.
"Armored Tesla" forecast to win $400 million State Department contract after Trump's election, government document shows
The State Department’s procurement forecast, revised as of late December 2024, lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to buy $400,000,000...
www.dropsitenews.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Pillaging Medicaid to pay for armored Teslas.
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The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem
February 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem
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gulf of freedom fries
February 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
gulf of freedom fries
We gotta start disbarring MFers
Alina Habba: "There's a separation of powers for a reason. The executive branch is the ultimate authority on federal issues."
February 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We gotta start disbarring MFers
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This is sort of the skeleton key to understanding a lot of shit: there 100% is a non-trivial amount of inefficiency and waste in the federal bureaucracy, and most of it is a *direct result* of ‘reforms’ that are meant to assuage the people who complain about “waste and inefficiency in govt”
for decades the federal govt has bent over backwards to limit spending even on totally sensible things like office coffee, all so they can say your tax dollars aren't going to pay for coffee. and it was all for nothing bc elon is tweeting out conspiracy theories about non-existent fraud.
February 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is sort of the skeleton key to understanding a lot of shit: there 100% is a non-trivial amount of inefficiency and waste in the federal bureaucracy, and most of it is a *direct result* of ‘reforms’ that are meant to assuage the people who complain about “waste and inefficiency in govt”
“We’ve done nothing, and now they’re upset with us???”
inadvertently vital reporting here from axios showcasing dem staffers whining about a foundational tenet of representational democracy: telling your representative how you want them to represent you.
February 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“We’ve done nothing, and now they’re upset with us???”
