maybe it's just his way of retaliating against Jimmy Carter for voting Kamala.

call me old-fashioned, but i still think the norm against territorial expansion by military force is worth adhering to and enforcing.

a lot of crowing about the US’ “amazing” economy leaving Europe in the dust, but one doesn’t see a lot of mass protest by states looking to draw closer to America, while what’s going on in Georgia and Serbia is remarkable.

wouldn’t a dark enlightenment be an endarkenment?

so who does God Emperor Musk favor to become the next Senator from Florida?

more taxation, less murder.

so, are centrist Democrats for or against at this point some combination of wealth tax / progressive income tax that would render accumulations of wealth at Musk, Bezos, or even Gates levels unsustainable?

did all the cancer programs in the original CR ultimately get funded, or just a portion?

if we were to expand defense expenditures to 5% of GDP, i wonder how adept the new administration would be at ensuring the funds expand capacity and competition among defense suppliers rather than bid up prices.

since we have now all read ChatGPT responses and seen Midjourney pics, all of our creative work is now derivative of AI. soon we’ll be required to pay licensing fees.

A great rejoinder to the kind of bullshit one often gets, "Oh, you miss New Deal, the era when we were making progress towards social democracy? I see you are nostalgic for Jim Crow then, you moral cretin." infosec.exchange/@david_chisn...

This is horrifying.

people who do this for a living make a lot of money, while, say, homeless people do not. obviously what is paid is not productivity.

mastodon.social/@BenRossTran...

i can’t believe that they’re hypocrites!

what is the Magdeberg killer talking about when he accuses Germany of “chas[ing] female Saudi asylum seekers all over the world… chas[ing] Saudi girls who have never been to Germany and had no intention to seek asylum in Germany?” x.com/tim_roehn/st...

what ultimately is the status of the Francis Scott Key Bridge reconstruction funding?

“Donald Trump, alleged leader of…populist Republicans, scuttled a spending bill primarily to shield the richest man in the world’s investments in China and the profits of UnitedHealth Group, owners of the second-largest pharmacy benefit manager.” @ddayen.bsky.social prospect.org/politics/202...