David Ryan Andersson

This suggests that Hegseth has truly fouled the arsenal and possibly diverted PURL funded materiel to US needs. Dude has ceashed deep in criminal mismanagement territory and there is no rescue chopper coming for him.

a new friend showed me her hear me out list tonight, which featured the air conditioner from the brave little toaster

We must expect that Meta's interference is happening in other elections around the world *right now*. This isn't just a one-off. Meta has proved repeatedly they are committed to advancing far-right agendas worldwide, are serial liars, and are flagrantly indifferent to the dismantling of democracies.

Brazil was of two huge election results today—alongside the defeat of the nationalist, authoritarian leader of Serbia: "the slate of candidates selected by protesting students had won at least 135 seats in Serbia’s 250-member legislature" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/w...

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

We are sensing a pattern

reliance on starlink is a national security threat for every country, including the united states, where musk would absolutely use it to sabotage the foreign policy of a dem president it must be replaced posthaste

Me coming home from kindergarten

Never forget the power of having very hot people in your coalition.

I do think this should put some of the hand-wringing over the uniquely sinful American electorate, uniquely feckless institutions, etc in perspective. The truth is that there is a large trans-national constituency of people who actively want this. They aren’t deceived. They want this.

Between Lula being behind and Lee in S. Korea becoming unpopular, I really would like to emphasize that there’s no one easy trick to resolving facism for good.

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Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

This is horrifying and exactly what a lot of us have been warning against for years. So fucking frustrating. We could have had better—politically, technologically, socially, and economically. We need far better leadership in all fields, at all levels.

As we suspected:

If this holds then good on them. But this should have been the stance the moment he returned to the White House.

From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…

It's a mix of that and weird Ashley Madison "have an affair with our computer" messaging. Like, Speechify is now marketing itself by saying you should feed your girlfriend's voice into it and it will speak to you better than your girlfriend ever does and read books to you.

No connection to reality out there

Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.

It’s wild you’re expected to celebrate SCOTUS not allowing the president to dismantle a voting method used by tens of millions at the 11th hour — and also, at the same time, it absolutely is a big deal and couldn’t be taken for granted.

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

hunter biden spending months trying to recreate his image to ultimately just do a crypto scamcoin is amazing. 10/10. so glad we don’t have to pretend to take him seriously as a 2028 presidential candidate anymore

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever watched a media company suffer actual consequences for their shitty behavior?

New: Roger Stone has endorsed the Trump national security emergency proposal for elections, telling Wayne Allyn Root — who pushed it to Trump during an interview this month — that it was, "brilliant," & a "revolutionary idea," & seems "legally unstoppable." www.mediamatters.org/election-den...

It's a pretty big fucking problem that no one can say for sure whether the President of the United States knows this is AI

good morning mr president, we have that video of you as a muscle man who can fly and carries cartoon style nuclear bombs all queued up like you requested but we really need to reiterate once again that we will be out of oil in 14 hours

Its not even a good solution. Like, retrofitting a DJI drone is the go-to for underdog insurgents and has pretty much no natural counter.

No one is obligated to like Hasan Piker, but it is at your own peril to ignore the fact that he's being targeted by an enormous smear campaign seeking to undermine Progressives' victories in the Democratic Party. Pretending that this is all frivolous and doesn't matter is ceding ground.

Looking in the replies to this, it's disheartening to see how many progressives or leftists are like "EVERYTHING I KNOW IS AGAINST MY WILL LOL. WHO CARES HE'S ANNOYING LOL" I think it is important that progressives at least know who he is and what he stands for, instead of learning it from fox news

for what it's worth the WH reaction has me shading towards the belief that, despite all intuition, he is not actually fucking her and he is going to completely lose his shit if his caretaker goes away

it took me an unfortunately long time to realize they weren't against universal healthy care because they couldn't economically do it, they were just against it on principle, their principle being, everyone poorer and more in need than me can just die

This seems like an entirely rational position to take.

And for at least a bit of real world data, Bluesky continues to be the largest single source of traffic (after search) to @techdirt.com. I don't think Threads has ever shown up in any list of referrers. Ever.

This is obviously horrific and that's the point BUT How many of these guys do we think are going to shock themselves?