i’ve had my issues with ActBlue, but debilitating Democratic fundraising infrastructure would be an obvious “competitive authoritarian” play. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/u...

i feel like if they fire me and then decide they want me back they should beg my forgiveness and lure me with a nice raise.

truth social could totally win the social media game if they formatted “truths” as notes with each letter cut out from a magazine and pasted in place, like ransom notes or a serial killer’s taunt in old movies.

“The reality we're seeing unfold is policy that's likely to hurt…workers while primarily benefiting those with enough money to weather the storm and capitalize on distressed assets afterward.“ @kyla.bsky.social kyla.substack.com/p/an-orchest...

would establishing a sovereign wealth fund to which some federal revenue streams will be diverted require an act of Congress?

“we’re gonna annex Greenland and Canada is gonna pay for it.”

if you don’t want to be shunned for your cybertruck, just write FUCK ELON in maximal block letters on its rump hood and gigantic backside.

from @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o... ht @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social

“Slotkin—like so many in her party lately—failed to convey any sense of real urgency or alarm. Her speech could have been given in Trump’s first term, perhaps in 2017 or 2018, but we are no longer in that moment.”

these proud real Americans are busy undermining core defense capabilities in other spheres (i mean, the air force doesn’t need weather forecasts, right?), so why not compromise military communications to fire-spectrum to friendly oligarchs?

fascists are learning that women are unreliable appointees to the Supreme Court even if they have an impeccable pedigree from a Federalist Society whose core intent is to prevent deprogramming. hls.harvard.edu/bibliography...

“popularists” describe the median voter as a kind of idiot whose prejudices must be catered to. real voters are not that, are capable of detecting the condescension in the strategy, and flee those motherfuckers every chance they can.

“economists” falsely presume a quantitative resource constraint rather than undesirable patterns of deployment and remuneration. under poor deployment and inequitable remuneration, greater public share can be welfare increasing, even when much must be spent on unconsumable war preparedness.

denialists are predictably popular, until they aren’t.

while we’re going back to the McKinley era. people were more self-reliant then. more people lived on the farm.

do the tariffs in their current form survive the morrow?

maybe i'm not a real American or something, but it frustrates me that Slotkin is not talking about all the criming and destruction the administration is wreaking—taking Congressionally prescribed agencies to the wood chipper, withdrawing food and life-saving care from people with no notice, deaths.

woke is gone.

under Trump, you announce everything. what you actually do… well that's not so important. as long as he can take credit for your announcement.