Cait

obviously i have no problem with an age gap except when the older one in the relationship openly admits his relief that the younger one is too inexperienced to realize she’s too good for him

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

I spent a good hour wondering if I was reading a fake report from a fake House Judiciary Dems website bc surely it would be headline news somewhere, anywhere if it were real.

Note the key phrase "so many people." Yglesias thinks it's fine—good in fact—that American billionaires are very interested in foreign elections and routinely influence them to promote corruption and fascism. His concern is that filthy plebs like you and me might want better things for everyone.

'my daughter had homework and asked me what made her special so i asked my robot i like more than her' is such a wild new kind of bad parent, we gotta quit making new kinds of people

she told someone this story.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight" has been really bugging me because a) yes you can and b) you definitely should, that was the main problem

When Democrats do well this fall, we’re going to see a lot of “strategists” trying to take credit for their approach. The trans panic people have been nothing but a drag on Democratic momentum and they need to fuck off into the sun

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

dems need to leave trans people the fuck alone!!!! what the hell!!!!!

Being impressive to 18-21 year olds is simply not it

I’m tired of having to look at Vivek Ramaswamay’s big-ass head.

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

of course the worst people in the world see dogs as nothing more than part of their death cult fantasies just absolute pieces of shit

it's also vv funny that Elon has so little to say about Hinojosa as TX, who would have much more direct power over him & SpaceX, I think because he can't even conceptualize losing the governor's mansion.

seeing Elon go on a multi-day crashout about Talarico has really highlighted how psychologically devastating it would be to Republicans if they lost Texas. So much of their self-identity is tied to repping Texas as the anti-California and would be shattered if the state even tipped blue.

you're just going about your day and you now get to read stuff like "Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean" and you just have to nod and move on with your day. “Oceans are different, sir.” lmao www.theverge.com/policy/10167...

🟡 SCOOP: Elon Musk makes $1 billion investment in Ellison’s Skydance, providing a much-needed financial injection as the company looks to cut costs and bolster its stock price. www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

RIP Tom Skerritt, a reliable and enduring actor who you probably remember from...everything, basically. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Watching this play out has been soul-destroying. These people are beyond sick and depraved. They are cruel and seem to have no capacity for shame. As a society, I genuinely don’t know how we deal with a meaningful segment of the population who have no shame.

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a personal thank you to all of you joining in

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

republicans are like “protect the children! (terms and conditions apply)”

"Every time I look at a screen, politicians and political operatives are showing a sickness of heart and mind that’s truly horrifying....I don’t think the 50-year relentless upward redistribution of wealth in America is doing the trick for Ohio families." bring back shame 🤝 class war

John Roberts and the justices who voted with him in the Citizens United case are among the greatest enablers of fascism in US history. Villains.

The political power billionaires derive from their wealth and assets must be entirely destroyed for democracy to endure.

Confiscate all his assets. Break up and/destroy all his companies. Take away literally all his money. Ban him from all industry and investment and employment. Let him live in whatever public housing he can find off of whatever public assistance is available.

Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink and try Musk for crimes against humanity

Outstanding. More of this, please. Elon Musk is a white nationalist troll using the billions he made off government contracts to destroy this nation. Light. Him. Up.

He should not be allowed to have any government contracts--he is operating like a rogue state.

Hard not to conclude that this is just straightforwardly a pro-rape caucus.

when the sales associate tells me the price

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty