Leslie Thomsen

Read this whole thread, take care of yourself, and saddle up, buckaroos ❤️

FFS, Gen x, can we please stop embarrassing ourselves? Go vote yes on 40, no on 41 & 42. Taxing billionaires is the most punk rock thing ever, and some of y'all have forgotten your roots.

USIANS PAY ATTENTION!! WE BEAT META, WE BEAT YOUR BIG TECHS!! IT IS POSSIBLE!!

If you are tired of being treated like a credulous idiot, have I got a 🧵 for you...

And in CA, we can vote to tax billionaires to get health care help for our neighbors. Vote yes on 40 to give 250 individuals a chance to give back to society! (also no on 41 & 42)

AI firms want you to believe their fraud bot is alive so they won’t be held responsible for the fraud bot’s crimes. But there is no gray area here, they hold the on/off switches in their very human, very prosecutable hands.

Absolutely fucking not.

Love this for him

THEY ARE NOT POWERLESS TO STOP HIM! Go back to Washington, stand on the steps of the Capitol and demand Johnson and Thune recall the House and Senate, and impeach him. THIS IS HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THERE IS LITERALLY AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL! (It's called the Constitution.)

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

The generation that got to buy cheap houses thanks to a postwar construction boom, then blocked new housing construction to juice their asset values is now whining that they have to pay taxes on their unearned wealth. Just breathtaking selfishness.

Revolting against property taxes will hollow out your state and turn it into a retirement community that drives out young people who weren’t lucky enough to buy in because they weren’t born 50 years earlier - signed, a Californian

Oh your vqporware car can violently flip you laterally at gforces that could kill you? Well my walk to the train passes a grain silo that smells like pancake mix. So who is actually cool here?

Right so the war against social science. Yes it’s ideological. It’s also a termination letter from the state saying it no longer needs legitimation. that’s the public crisis — ask yourself why it doesn’t need legitimacy.

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

The administration wants to live stream an execution, but yeah, Senator Ossoff is the real problem. 🙄

It’s striking that the GOP has a massive cash advantage even when Trump is currently causing lasting harm to the US and global economy. What does that say about the interests of capital?

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

Planning for these scenarios is more exciting than working on regulations and creating secure testing environments. Pretty sure that's all this is.

Behold the glorious smile of an American patriot and complete badass having a great time at the Power to the People concert while Tr&mp spent the day raging at a t-shirt.

An important note here:

Donald Trump being unable to spread his message at a press event because the Press wasn't There is really, really, really, really, really really f****** clarifying.

Watching tech people tremble before the awesome power of AI feels like when an actor is “attacked” by a wild animal in a movie but they are just holding a raccoon pelt to their neck and pretending to wrestle with it

Words to live by.

I keep hoping to see an update saying that Pogi is doing okay, that Urska is with him, any shred of news. I know it's the middle of the night in Spain, but I keep checking. #lavuelta #cycling

#booksky

I forgot about this creepy Cav moment. Seems like Pogi will smash the record just to say, "don't grab my face, weirdo."

You stupid motherfuckers

If you are feeling sad about yesterday's world cup game, take heart! Mexico's nat'l champion won the stage at the Tour de France. ❤️🐂🇲🇽🎉

This could be us, America. But we're gonna need to break up with the oligarchs to do it.

Gooool for TELEMUNDO who not only refuse to run ads during the mandatory hydration breaks, but also straight up just announced that hydration breaks are necessary because of dangerous heat caused by fossil fuel-driven climate change. Bravo Telemundo. #worldcup #futbol

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

You know what to do, folks. We flood the ratings and love-bomb Mamdani's speech. We ignore Trump's addled and hateful ramblings. Only one of these men has something to say about America at 250 that is worth hearing.

Radical leftist position: make college affordable instead of normalizing cruelty to children.

Isn't it time for humanity to decouple from big business? They do not add value to our life at all. Built-in obsolescence, attempts to run everything on subscriptions, surveillance to optimise <their> business model, reliance on AI instead of humans, to our detriment - just a few examples.

Is this that part where they try to convince us that they are legitimate and non-partisan?

What in the DINO bootlicker...

Never forget the fucking pink smiling faces posing by that fucking sign wearing the fucking merch of a fucking death camp.

Here's the link to combat the new government rules:

Please read and call. Flood the zone.