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Mike Yass
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WW3 has already started it’s just unevenly distributed | Aerospace, AI, and a real-life #polycythemiavera mutant.
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You must treat the computer with respect, because the more humanity you see in anything, the more of humanity you will see in any person.
the best argument against all this ai shit is that a sizable chunk of the population clearly comes to believe Computer Has Feefees And/Or Is God and that is extremely bad
*takes massive bong rip*
Thiel’s book opens with a chapter on conspiracies…
Some dem PAC should run an ad saying

“Local republican says he wants to fund schools. But in practice he’s spending your taxes to hire middle school penis inspectors to examine your children.

This fall, say no to local politician, Donald Trump and his pedophile friends.”
The right is also transparently insincere about “protecting women’s sports” - when they spent the prior two decades mocking it.
Earle-Sears tried to copy the line "for they/them, not for us" but instead of "Kamala wants to spend money on felon sex changes" her ads had a clip of Spanberger saying "LGBTQ people have the same legal rights as anyone else" and a blurry clip of someone playing basketball aggressively.
The right is also transparently insincere about “protecting women’s sports” - when they spent the prior two decades mocking it.
Earle-Sears tried to copy the line "for they/them, not for us" but instead of "Kamala wants to spend money on felon sex changes" her ads had a clip of Spanberger saying "LGBTQ people have the same legal rights as anyone else" and a blurry clip of someone playing basketball aggressively.
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Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.
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Farewell sweet Prince
Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”
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Anti-corruption (and anti-waste) has impressively broad support.

It’s an impressively data-backed thing.
A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
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You may not like it, but this is what peak electoral performance looks like.

Rick Wilson is the median R->D 2025 voter. We need these people if we're going to control congress in 2026.
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grant_laser_eyes.heic
Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas (a Democrat who is the chamber's president pro tempore) just tweeted this:
You may not like it, but this is what peak electoral performance looks like.

Rick Wilson is the median R->D 2025 voter. We need these people if we're going to control congress in 2026.
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GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR,
YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE,
THE WRETCHED REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORE.
SEND THESE, THE HOMELESS, TEMPEST-TOST TO ME,
I LIFT MY LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR!
imo the correct dem immigration position is engraved in stone on ellis island
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imo the correct dem immigration position is engraved in stone on ellis island
A coworkers is on the county council and I decided to make small talk by complaining about paper straws.

He made it abundantly clear to me that the council had only _taxed_ plastic bags, and “private businesses chose paper straws all on their own”
I have genuinely not seen Dems talking about plastic bags or algebra in years, and I'm not even limiting myself to democratic politicians.
One underrated aspect of Zohran is that he always wears a suit, always presents himself professionally while still doing fun and approachable retail politics. You don’t have to drape yourself yourself in hypebeast and post thirst traps, you can be fucking grown up respecting the office and be fun
this job is gonna suck ass if I get it too - which I think is likely...

but my career is sorta fucked if this program goes off the rails...
But because this is bizarro world, the guy who yelled at me, then tells the other interviewers it was good that I did that - because I operated with "high conviction" and have a "willingness to take risks" to achieve big outcomes.

what the actual fuck?
I had an "internal" job interview today: I was asked about a situation "where you disagreed with your boss, and how you resolved that conflict".

I gave a mostly planned answer - only be told: "No, we want to hear about the time you did Y", omitting the part where he literally yelled at me?
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David Wells only gets sadder as he gets further in his 1998 perfect game, and I’m here for it
Amazing. Truly in awe of this one.

I could only imagine the exploding heads on fox if Kamala had done this.
The official White House account just posted this video to TikTok featuring a remix of Nicki Minaj’s “Beez in the Trap” and 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?”

Lyrics: “Bitches ain't shit and they ain't saying nothing / A hundred mothafuckas can't tell me nothing”
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For best results while trick-or-treating, use nuclear compellence, _not_ nuclear deterrence.

(CAUTION: Your results may vary. Side effects may include rattling saber syndrome, fear of escalation ladders, loss of nuclear control, and premature detonation. Void where prohibited by international law.)
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I don't know why this brought this to mind, but here's my pitch, Hollywood: MUPPET SEVEN SAMURAI

you can have that one for free
Programs/defense contractors that have advertised on WAMU:

LCS (LM)
F-35 (LM)
F-35 alternate engine (PW)
MATLAB (mathworks, but they called out aerospace...)

and of course a bunch of

"Artificial Intelligence" intel contractors
There's one true sign of a truly fucked defense program: when they start advertising on NPR
Foreign trade missions and the lobbyists and PR firms working for the Andurils of the world are single-handedly propping up the DMV's escort market right now