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@gmail
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the part of this that I still don’t know whether DeSantis actually understands is that Disney probably has like a 50-step manual for this situation where this is like step
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Disney is pulling the plug on a nearly $1 billion development planned for Orlando, Florida, the company said on Thursday, as it feuds with Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“AOC is just pandering to PMC libs,” I say sagely, as she skips inauguration festivities to yell into a megaphone at a Teamsters picket line in the South Bronx
Kamala Harris: "I Love Gen Z ... if someone is 18 years old today, they were born in 2005! Oh yeah, check that out. Think about that for a minute! Ha ha ha ha."
Scoop: The U.S. has sent the coordinates of aid organizations on the ground in Gaza to Israel to help prevent strikes. Despite that effort, many humanitarian sites have been bombarded
Just an incredible story in The Times. Poverty *fell* in April and May, per one study, bc of the massive federal welfare expansion — including expanded unemployment & $1,200 checks — even as the economy fell into a black hole
the Martha’s Vineyard incident is a poignant reminder that one central conceit of Republican politics is that everyone is secretly as cruel as they are, and surely nobody would genuinely want to help the people Republicans pack into planes and ship off to faraway liberal locales
young leftists often say they were radicalized by major historical events. young conservatives often say they were radicalized by their college classmates hurting their feelings
she was the first person to ever veto a gay marriage bill and she flew a Confederate flag over San Francisco city hall, please have some self-respect and at least post a pic which doesn't imply she was meaningfully pro-gay lol
Minneapolis city council said they’d disband MPD. now they’re proposing cuts of less than a million dollars now that nobody’s watching. they’re still looking at putting disbanding up for a referendum, but in the meantime they’re p much ignoring demands to defund. keep protesting
by electing Zooey Zephyr to serve as a member of a nearly powerless superminority, Missoula voters made Republicans so mad that they derailed their entire legislative session, made fools of themselves on national news, and raised a gajillion dollars for the opposing party
"Confederate Culture Index" was defined as the sum of county-level indicators of Confederate memorials, United Daughters of Confederacy chapters, 2nd Ku Klux Klan chapters, & lynchings of African-Americans in the post-1900 period.
Southern CA had a lot of "Confederate" influence:
you might want to ask yourself why Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the Squad are the only nationally-known Democrats who, with Roe at risk, actually seem to want to replace the sole Democratic opponent of codifying Roe in the House with a normal pro-choice Democrat
I am heading to San Antonio, Texas in just a little while to do all that I can do to make sure
@JCisnerosTX
becomes the next congressperson for the 28th district of Texas.
Scotland is not colonized, it willingly spent 400 years as handmaiden and enforcer to the most infamous colonial empire in human history. please be serious.
every conservative is becoming a slightly modernized version of HP Lovecraft absolutely quaking in fear at the sound of a foreign language or the sight of a brown person
Europe doesn’t actually require wheelchair ramps or disability accessibility in general. the ADA, like the first amendment, is one of those things where we surprisingly suck way less than everyone else
the man is a billionaire chocolatier who had been hiding in Poland as he faced criminal charges in Ukraine, but a month ago he specifically returned and forfeited his passport so he could have the opportunity to personally defend Kyiv himself. unfortunately have to respect it
“How long do you think you can hold out?”
“Forever.”
Former Ukrainian President
@poroshenko
takes up a Kalashnikov rifle alongside civilian defense forces as he speaks to
@JohnBerman
from the streets of Kyiv.
there is copious research at this point that this is like the worst possible way to do it too but we all keep living like Calvinist corn farmers because It's What We've Always Done
Ilhan reps Minneapolis. the representative across the river in St. Paul is a white woman named Betty McCollum with more or less the exact same positions on Israel and foreign policy more generally. she’s been in Congress since 2001 and you’ve probably never heard of her.
so funny that the royals may have thought the best way to soft-launch a royal divorce was to make everyone suspect the princess of wales was dead first
this man looks like he is about to inform a gaggle of plucky orphans that technically their rich aunt never recorded the version of the will that left the children everything, so he gets to keep it all
if I were choosing a corporation to fuck with in litigation I would simply not choose a theme park company whose terrifying corporate lawyers will be eager for a break from viciously shredding extremely sympathetic personal injury plaintiffs. rip to ron desantis but im different
The people who pick a fight with Disney's legal team are like the men who think that they could *definitely* get a point off of Serena Williams if they were given the chance to play her. You can't. You are outclassed. You don't even KNOW how outclassed you are yet.
I fucking love that NYC’s response to the blackout is falling into a benevolent quasi-anarchic state, governed by the will of the halal carts and anyone willing to direct traffic
I’m a broken record on this, but there is no historical precedent for this level of age-based partisan polarization, either. it’s all coming from one age group, it only emerged in the mid-2000s, and it’s been consistently getting stronger as the 21st century progresses.
I don't get billionaires because if I owned a venerated American news institution I would simply give it lots of free money and get hailed as a savior of journalism instead of trying to make myself money I don't need in an industry that doesn't make money
NEW: Mayor Eric Adams quietly created a two-person office, staffed by a personal friend and an NYPD lieutenant, whom he tasked with taking pitches from private-sector entrepreneurs wanting to do business with the city.
Crypto has been a top focus:
an actual cool and good thing that's happening is somebody figured out that there was no rule preventing local governments from using their leftover Joe Biden ARP stimmies to just write off thousands of people's medical debt and then a bunch of cities actually did it
.
@cityofsaintpaul
is going to buy over $100,000,000 in outstanding medical debt owed by more than 43,000 residents.
And then — with help from
@RIPMedicalDebt
&
@OFE_STP
— we’re going to forgive it all.
ERIC ADAMS (inexplicably wearing a Supreme-branded Bulgarian flag tracksuit): Now the real earthquake we need to be talking about is a mindset earthquake. Energize your body, shift the tectonic plates of your mind to enter a new era of power and purpose in your life
what’s your favorite *reply* of all time on this website? only rule: it must be a reply from one user to another user’s tweet. it cannot be a reply to one’s own tweet.
did I just spend 30 minutes making this in the ios photo editor? yes. fuck you. i survived a standardized test today, you're not allowed to judge me. anyway that's actually a convincing graph
serious question inspired by the Quebec wildfire smoke: how much of our perception of midcentury aesthetics as colorful is actually the result of the Clean Air Act not existing yet
This is Joel from Woodstock, a former Republican who came to the Fulton County Jail this morning to deliver a message:
“I want to see the sociopath who tried to steal my vote in 2020 go to prison.”
DeSantis and Abbott think it’s a good bit of theater because the idea of a community rallying to help foreign strangers doesn’t compute in their warped brains
@clapifyoulikeme
[a human picks me up as if I am a sentient toy, rather than the product of millions of years of evolution engineering me to have lethal hunting capabilities]
dog: this rules, hello friend
cat: I am literally plotting your bloody demise
I think it’s funny that conservatives think colleges are this evil hub of communist indoctrination and mob rule when in fact they’re just the first place in a coddled young conservative’s life where their peers can tell them to go fuck themselves without getting in trouble
Question: Trump took aim at your weight. What’s your reaction to that?
Christie: Oh like he’s some Adonis? He should take a look in the mirror every once in a while, maybe he would drop the weight thing off of his list of criticisms
everyone who’s replying to me to inform me that rich liberals do not have perfect politics: I am a socialist, I already know this, that is not my point, and you are all very annoying
it drives me fucking batty that the crux of the wokeness-free speech-cancel culture-whatever argument is that people in fancy jobs are being persecuted by the very suggestion of mild consequences for shit that could get you fired from stocking shelves
Work started Monday on turning the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station, a project meant to make it unattractive as a site of pilgrimage for people who glorify the Nazi dictator.
@AmesCG
@nycsouthpaw
Pepsico was so clearly within the safe harbor for advertising puffery though whereas I think Chevy's poor lawyer has to argue their website was not authorized to make offers or some other kind of rarely-used copout workaround
AIDE: Madam President. a second plane has hit the World Trade Center.
KAMALA HARRIS: do you know—how is it the *World* Trade Center when it's only in New York? [chuckle] World. The world is a big responsibility, right? and responsibility, it comes from all over the world, all ove
Bari Weiss dated Kate McKinnon…Andrew Cuomo dated Sandra “two shots of vodka” Lee…and now I learn that Keith Olbermann dated Kyrsten Sinema…this website will never cease its campaign of psychic violence against me
Somewhere
@BarackObama
must be smiling that a 38 year old son of Hindu immigrants running to the right of Trump is cribbing from him! Obama’s vision for a multiracial democracy is seeping into our politics despite the intense backlash. A slow but satisfying vindication.
Reagan-appointed judge ruling Texas's drag ban unconstitutional after Texas's attorney demanded a drag queen litigant twerk in court to prove it's not "creative expression": well I'll be darned, he really can throw that ass in a circle!
The judge was apparently impressed: “Darn it, it was interesting. That’s one thing why the job never gets tiring: you learn about different things & different folks & different science every day.” He ruled TX's drag ban was unconstitutional on 5 points:
the Confederacy was so blundering, evil, crude, and incompetent that it managed to keep Europe officially neutral throughout the entire war despite the major European powers all having a strong interest in the South winning
The confederacy was a millenarian death cult that took the biggest L in the last 200 years. It has enjoyed relative prestige as a historical event among certain morons but it would be more dignified to derive your identity from being a 2nd generation AMC Stubs Rewards Club member
I don’t think you could ask for a better demonstration of the Supreme Court as a deeply political body than this term’s sudden rash of good decisions. in 1937 it was an angry president threatening court-packing, in 2023 it’s angry wine moms punishing the Court’s political party
Dear President Eisenhower:
Listen BITCHASS congrats on flopping your way back into the White House. Enjoy your racist neanderthal Congress. Try not to destroy the country too hard. Hug your loser son for me you ungrateful bastard. And find God
Sincerely,
Harry S. Truman
Lacy Clay was not demographically unrepresentative. he was not in a district inherently favorable to primary challengers. he was not exceptionally corrupt, just the bog-standard stuff. he was not an ideological outlier in the Democratic caucus. and the left just took him down.
if Dems do the smart thing and double down across the ideological spectrum on the unifying principle of being normal and enjoying things there’s at least a 10% chance Republicans negatively polarize themselves against, like, coffee
WARREN: I will personally rewrite the entire US Code, here’s how
BUTTIGIEG: I think what;if maybe thing.s are be do good fjord bipartisanship,
MEDIA: these are the same
Both Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg "have made braininess central to their political brand," argues
@PeterBeinart
. "And it’s working—a fact that offers a window into the changing culture of the Democratic Party."
I assure you your high school classmates also wanted to tell you to eat shit in the most public of manners, they just had detention and angry parents to think about
I’d love for even one reporter to do a big feature on why the types of people who vote Democratic are fleeing conservative rural areas en masse, but since there’s no way to write that piece without placing the blame squarely on conservatism it’ll never get written
Every rural PA county listed here is bleeding population rapidly as they get redder, and one Latina immigrant says in this well-reported story there are few places in her town she feels safe. Conclusion: this is national liberals' and leftists' fault.
[2024 GOP debate]
TRUMP: Ron—Ron DeSantis. You were very good to me, then what changed? [to audience] He’s even named after me. Ron, Ronald, Dona—
DeSANTIS [nervously swallowing]: my, uh, my parents named me—
TRUMP: And he’s ashamed! What a disgrace. A disgrace. [the crowd boos]
if you think it disrespectful for a politician to announce a campaign for public office before the incumbent announces their own plans you should not be working in politics. we don’t have nobility in this country; nobody is owed a term in office until the public gives it to them.
Kamala elated at Warnock’s victory because without tied Senate votes she can devote herself full-time to sampling high doses of various prescription anxiolytic cocktails immediately before filmed interviews
We gotta be having these conversations!
Having conversations with people we disagree with is a necessary part of our democracy. Thanks for sitting down with me this week
@RepChipRoy
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if you are a white American and you are not descended entirely from original colonists, in all likelihood you are descended from the 19th-century version of Os the Twitch streamer from Morocco who crossed an ocean to be an Uber driver
AZ: “If I pay $7,000 for America, it’s… I don’t care.” I talked extensively with 20-year-old “Os” (short for Osama) from Morocco who says because he paid money to get here, Americans can pay to help them.
He tells me he was a streamer/gamer in his country and is hoping to drive…
it is genuinely quite difficult to get to Joe Biden's right on Palestine but Trump's administration was outright pro-settlements, the Trump M4A fanfic was less embarrassing than this
Question: Why were those two expelled and you weren't
Johnson: Well, I think it's pretty clear. I'm a 60 year old white woman and they are two young black men
I know it’s repetitive at this point but I’m just amazed that some people’s
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example of why NATO is bad is the one time they literally stopped a genocide. it’s fucking NATO do you know how easy it is to find examples of bad shit they did
swing state Democratic majorities with no margin for error: we just overhauled our civil rights laws codified abortion rights legalized weed and made school lunches free
blue state Democratic majorities with permanent control: we, uh, we cut taxes for rich people
Our look back at 2023 continues. Our work to help elect
@maura_healey
Governor led to the Governor signing the first tax cuts in 20 years in Massachusetts. Another example of Democrats getting things done for our Commonwealth.
#mapoli
Ron DeSantis somehow overestimating how racist the median Republican voter is because he exclusively hires people who were school shooters in an alternate universe