I will say they nailed one thing: refusing to shake hands with a teammate bc they’re from another country is extremely representative of a certain America
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I will say they nailed one thing: refusing to shake hands with a teammate bc they’re from another country is extremely representative of a certain America
“she had spent nearly six months in jail and because she was unable to pay bills while behind bars, she lost her home, her car and her dog…Lipps’ arrest is the eighth documented wrongful arrest in the United States tied to facial recognition, according to IBS Times.“
I want a slate of procedurals as copaganda but for good
NTSB
NTSB: Los Angeles
IRS
USPS Postal Inspectors
The Secret Service’s Other Job
CPB
CPB: Tampa
it's deeply embarrassing that team usa is treating the wbc like a military operation while every other team is just having a lot of fun
1) Detention quotas filled via 2) indiscriminate roundups driven by 3) Palantir AI 4) without warrants or 5) supporting evidence... it's all bad and everyone involved should be locked up for a long, long time
Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.
No joke, I think this might be one of the most important roles for tech-savvy Millennials/Gen Xers.
We caught a glimpse of an amazing world, one that was almost entirely free of corporate or political influence because the suits hadn’t caught on yet. We could talk with ANYONE in an age of landlines
And where we’re at today is a complete denigration of that dream. Early Twitter compared to X as now. The death of Geocities and MySpace. “Pivot to video.”
We caught a glimpse of paradise (granted, with some problems), and then we let late stage capitalism drag us back into “number MUST go up.”
Again, leaders of other countries don’t talk this way. The glee with which our current leaders talk about killing people is not normal, and nor is their lack of concern for who exactly we’re killing. American bombs incinerated 100 kids in Minab. Were those the “right people”?
Imagine thinking that “what makes America special” is our … lethality.
What an uninspiring vision for a once-great country.
Given how awful Ticketmaster is, I was prepared to be outraged, but then I read the article and couldn't help but agree their assessment of the stupid customers...
I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.
I think there is something to explore that many nations at the WBC have come showing what they love about their country (dancing, celebration, tradition) to represent the people while the American team has shown up representing and only celebrating the military
Love too add another mess for the next Democratic administration to clean up, another debt racked up by the party of financial responsibly to be paid at the cost of having the government do good things for people.
Right wing billionaires aren't buying up all the media outlets to take on a new hobby, they're doing it to brainwash people at scale. Bond villains, the whole lot of them.
Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
It is really hard to overstate how much damage has been done to this country on a purely institutional level, and we have three more years of this shit.
and, of course, they aren't going to get any credit for saving people money at the pump... especially if gas prices go up even with the taxes out of the picture...
What a bunch of fuckin' dummies... instead of making republicans take responsibility for their bullshit, democrats are going to end up getting blamed for raising taxes right before elections if they don't extend the moratorium...
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I like to think I'm especially discriminating, but having a pretty good monitor probably helps with that...
www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/
Honestly if you’ve ever REALLY wanted to sing a song on national TV, going to the first round Stanford-Pitt game in Charlotte might be your best shot
I'm no fan of realpolitik - it's killed millions of people - but if the goal of U.S. war is to project global power, we have showed weakness. The nations that already hated us hate us more. The nations that used to respect us no longer trust us. America has squandered all of its moral capital
MAGA hates the most essential parts of America. Dems should say so without caveat or qualificaiton.
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
They are murdering civilians on the high seas.
They are murdering civilians in 🇮🇷.
They are murdering civilians in concentration camps.
They are murdering civilians on the streets of 🇺🇸 cities.
These are not problems that can be fixed with new laws or more court orders.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
Remember this the next time a Republican pol lies that he cares about kids.
Now that we've saved daylight for the 100th time or whatever, let's not give it away again like suckers...
They don't believe in the law; they don't believe in America. Let their names be forever synonymous with weakness, cowardice, and nihilism.
Paul Weiss
A&O Shearman
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Kirkland & Ellis
Latham & Watkins
Milbank
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Skadden Arps
Willkie Farr & Gallagher