"The Power of Positive Thinking" is Trump's guiding philosophy. There's a reason it's a book that has guided a lot of its followers into prison (or worse)
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"The Power of Positive Thinking" is Trump's guiding philosophy. There's a reason it's a book that has guided a lot of its followers into prison (or worse)
I'm sure there are some people who make a lot of money but I just pay more for any product that uses oil and anything that is shipped via engines that use oil ie virtually everything I buy.
The new Pixar movie features several human characters who turn into beavers, in case anyone is looking for a new hook to raise a panic about how *they're shoving wokeness down our throats*
My kids get a news magazine, "The Week Jr.," and I'm seeing what the sanitized write-around looks like already. The mag is honestly doing a good job presenting everything in a kid-appropriate and politically neutral way, but to do that you have to eliminate the real Trump almost completely.
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These companies all settled lawsuits with Donald Trump by promising to donate as much as $63 MILLION to his presidential library.
But then, Trump dissolved a library fund.
So where'd the money go?
I'm pressing these CEOs for answers.
“The below account is neither owned nor operated by Emeka Egbuka. It is in no way affiliated with Emeka or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.”
Musk’s perverse pay-go ‘verification’ system continues to create situations like this
DeSantis's whole shoe thing is *fascinating* to me. Men and their thing about height—I just don't know if we're gonna make it as a species
Knowing how insecure and miserable they all are, all the time, doesn't fix any of the damage they've done, but it is a little satisfying...
Is it good that the Iran War White House leaks make me think of that episode of Succession where Logan is delirious bc of a UTI, and his staff has to pretend to remove a dead cat from under his chair because they're afraid to admit that he's out to lunch when important deals are happening?
The "funny" story Vance tells about Trump guessing shoe sizes, and the way that stiry embeds Vance's claim that his own shoe size is 13 (uh huh), and then the photo of his feet next to Rubio's in the Oval Office... so much here
That *is* surprising! I will see if I can get my hands on it. Another time I saw a book about America's history of welcoming immigrants that was written by Callista Gingrich, which was terrible in a cosmic sense but also terrible on the level of the page. So much "rhyming" verse that doesn't scan!
Trump and the Coronavirus I wrote a lot about the coverage of Trump’s response to the pandemic, and here is what was clear all along: He had no real plan to restore the country to health other than to peddle false hope, predict a quick end, adopt fake deadlines and shift the blame to others. The most urgent need was to test, test, test, and either he didn’t get it or he didn’t want to know the results because they would “look bad”. The media blew its coverage by letting political reporters lead instead of health and science reporters. Political reporters paid way too much attention to whatever Trump said, such that whatever it was made headlines. They let Trump set the agenda instead of letting knowledgeable people do it. Political reporters also gave Trump way too much credit for trying. They covered up for his incoherence, ignorance, cluelessness, gaslighting, and yes, just plain stupidity. They failed to properly exploit their rare access to him by confronting him with facts and piercing his bubble. They remained complacent in the face of a massive death toll, instead of relentlessly demanding more forceful action.
History repeats itself. Remember how devastatingly incompetent Trump was during Covid? How he had no plan? And how news outlets didn’t call him on it? Let me refresh your memory: presswatchers.org/category/tru...
Thinking about the consequences of aggression is for WOKE NERDS not WARRIORS
You'll be tired of all the winning! Well... you'll be tired, anyway
A more serious media would be demanding Hegseth’s immediate sacking and then Trump’s resignation. They have destroyed alliances that took centuries, alienated nearly everyone in the world and murdered an entire school of girls? It’s criminal. I want to see that on the front page. We need hearings.
"Suh, ahh thays yer wurrds?"
"Yes and they are correct"
"Aha, GOTCHA!"
His colleagues must hate him so much.
It is so wild to watch this and see Kennedy behave like he's dunking on some wild, out-of-touch leftie when my actual reaction is "I gotta follow that guy on Blooski, he seems very sensible and correct"
Right! Straight up mainstream Republican messaging. I didn't read it, but if it says "Pluralism is a lie" inside, I'll eat my flag lapel pin
This morning I was volunteering with a local org that serves immigrants. I spotted this book (pub. 2002) on a shelf in the children's room. The "America is for everyone" vibe was popular for a reason. People LIKE seeing themselves as part of an inclusive community!
GOP congressman from Tennessee Andy Ogles posted on Ex-Twitter on March 9: “Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.”
“Pluralism is a lie”
That really captures the essence of MAGA: A movement at war with the reality of American life and a large portion of the population.
And it also points to one of the regime’s key weaknesses: They have fully bought into their own white nationalist propaganda.
It's sad how much The World Right Now has complicated college search. Like just for starters I don't think it's safe for my kid to live in a red state and even if they wanted to risk it, they'd be robbed of the companionship of other people for whom it's not safe. That's a lot of schools crossed off
I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere
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"We lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military." Louder for the Catholics in the administration, Your Eminence
"A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening." This kind of plainspoken moral clarity is what we have bishops for, and I am grateful to Cardinal Cupich for stepping up to provide it.
The man was out here quoting "On Eagle's Wings" ffs
Job getting you down? Feeling a little picked on? Find a friendly crowd of deplorables and trot out the "ain't I a stinker?" act for an instant boost.
Screenshot of four different jobs from the NY Mag feature about what people make in NYC: "Home Health Aide $23,000 I've been a home health aide for ten years. My main patient last year was in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time taking care of her. I worked two days a week, and I was being paid for 13 hours of work each day - my agency, Loyal Home Care, budgets eight hours of sleep and three hours for mealtimes into our wages. But I was basically working 24 hours a day. She was active, and I was worried she would fall, so I would watch her all day and night. This is a pretty common experience for health aides. The agency can deny our overtime, but you can't deny a patient. When they say, "Oh, I need a drink of water; I need to use the bathroom," how could you possibly say "no" to them? Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."
It's all so clear
