Hamstrosity

I can't really believe it but it seems to be the case that the Times has not covered a credible accusation of rape against the President of the United States, but has two solid stories on Obama's cheesecake factory quip.

See, everyone has been so down on his behavior in the minority that no one has stopped to ask whether he would go absolutely drunk with power as soon as he became speaker.

I really mean this: read the story; the story of how Vivek’s ad came together — including but not limited to what she was like when they found the mom and noticed how incoherent she was and how she couldn’t keep facts straight — is somehow more depraved and worse than you already think

me, reading the headline: well, he’s a public figure and actual malice is a hard standard to reach me, reading the article: ohhhhhhh

lmao even half of the Crazification Factor was like "no thanks" on this one

OUR 44th president. Let's finish what he started and guarantee healthcare for every American. 🇺🇸

there are people serving life sentences right now on thinner evidence than we have for "donald trump was jeffrey epstein's partner in serial rape" democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.

WOW! Meta had a secret PR plan to discredit Jon Haidt because he was a critic of social media. Meta was going to recruit academics, like Andrew Gelman, to write take down pieces. I wonder if they paid any other academics to try and discredict other social media experts.

He's such a phony. His wife's name was Usha Chilukuri when they met. His in-laws names are Radhakrishna and Lakshmi Chilukuri. He was married in a Hindu ceremony presided over by a Hindu priest.

Lot of folks (self included) expressing despair that despite aggressive prosecuting fascists ("doing everything right") Brazil was still going to get Bolsonaro-ed and the fact this guy gtfo-ed as quickly as he did should be a big signal for the AOC DOJ to go *hard* in 2029.

Says a lot that this GOP candidate thinks it's chill to excuse his own behavior bc he was "a barfly prone to morally dubious behavior" 👍

"I would consider everyone forgiving me" is such a funny phrasing. I bet you would!

Our media is utterly broken

the actual reason is that the media likes Trump and wants to help him. They didn't like Hillary and they didn't like Biden and wanted to hurt them. That explains why Hillary's emails was covered as a nuclear-level scandal and "Trump is a violent rapist who is best friends with Jeff Epstein" isn't

i hope if nothing else, the media ignoring this finally stops people from saying "the reason the media doesn't run drumbeat scandal coverage on trump the way they did on Clinton is because Dems don't make a big deal of it like Republicans do"

There are credible allegations of rape against the president, and evidence his administration has taken steps to cover up his relationship with the world's most notorious pedophile. This story is being covered more aggressively by People Magazine than the NY Times, Wash Post, or Wall St Journal.

the answer has been all along "some of the local orgs are crazy and some of them are great, the national orgs are pants-on-head ludicrous, good luck figuring out if your local org is full of sleazebos or basically cool people who will caucus w/ Dems", WNY is hashtag blessed luckily

So if I'm understanding this correctly, the DSA's national political committee is going to force DSA LA to rescind their endorsement of Nithya Raman unless she gets on Zoom with them in the final days of the campaign to talk about Israel....

How is People’s magazine doing better coverage than most legacy media? people.com/former-miss-...

Someone should ask him who invented the numerals he uses to count tapeworms in his sewage milk.

Well played

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

one of the really useful takeaways from fukuyama's political order books is a clear conceptual understanding of what corruption *is* in its fundamental nature. and the answer... is patronage networks organized on personal connections! corruption is *inherent* in these discretionary systems!

i think cities should enable development according to impersonal rules and then levy impersonal taxes on land to pay for impersonal social services free_speech.png

looked at in longer perspective, it's striking how much this resembles the premodern system of exclusion, rents, and personalist connections, which was--and this part's important--radically worse than the modern system of impersonal rules and general taxation

Judge Rules DOJ Unlawfully Fired Comey's Daughter...

I wonder if Trump will talk about Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s ass at his rally in MS today?

Yes: everyone was preparing how to manage the aftermath of the war they very much weren’t winning.

I think Garland perceived his job as being the responsible adult in the room whose role was to resist pressure to lock Trump up. But when Trump was guilty of multifarious offenses ranging from treason to fraud to child predation, this turned Garland into Trump’s de facto protector.

Huge event. Failed Jared Kushner/Trump luxury hotel project planned for Belgrade played a role in starting expanded protests against Vucic.

bluesky and politics discourse in america generally lives in the eternal now. it is occasionally good to step outside of one's time and see the world in longer view: even this shall pass, though not without loss.

pundits are basically bored by the idea that these democratic candidates are not meaningfully behind with black voters and so are trying to conjure a controversy into existence

So I'm more positive on AI than a lot of people here and... I do not understand using this example at all? This... does not seem like a useful way to use AI. I can easily come up with 3 words to describe my kids and would never trust AI to do so accurately.