mr. sweet and awful

SURPRISINGLY HUMAN. HMU TO BUILD MONORAILS.

[Thag Simmons @d_h_sanders]

Textbook example of what's happened to people. This guy has no idea what the problems are, what he thinks caused them, and definitely doesn't know how to fix them, but he's absolutely certain there ARE problems. This mindset gives you justification for burning the world down.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

it’s to push the Overton window yes but also the reason Trump and allied pro Israel nonprofits are targeting sympathetic cases is because they are engaged in a terror campaign designed to chill all speech and going after more liberal, accommodating voices maximizes this terror

[PotatoMcWhiskey @PotatoMcWhiskey]

America First has to be the dumbest fucking ideological movement on the entire planet. Brother, you guys were already first, you had won world politics. Your country and allies are (were?) like 70% of the worlds GDP and you have an entire military system designed to keep you rich

[Nasty African Girl @SunBirdZAKH]

americans finally finding out that the rest of the world has been subsidising their goods, industries and lifestyles instead of the other way round 🙃

[Maia @maiamindel]

"we're reshoring domestic manufacturing"

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

It's somewhat terrifying to acknowledge that the president of the United States is blowing up the global economy based on a deranged and moronic view of international trade, but here we are.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I crave a good explanation of how outright and obvious lying became completely acceptable in one narrow slice of American life and somehow that slice is “the people in charge of the country.”

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

It is hard to express, without resorting to expletives, how stupid it is to suggest that the United States, world's richest economy with a population of 340 million, should have a bilateral trade balance of zero (no trade surplus or trade deficit) with every country in the world.

[Cloudy 🌥️ @oncIoud_e]

slightly worrying to see the co president spread false statistics about trans people like this and then say he wants to put us in asylums, but hey what do i know

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Rubio’s position seems to be:

- We get to say who is a terrorist. Our decision is final. Trust us.
- Once we decide someone is a terrorist, we can immediately deport them. No judges.
- After we deport them, we can make them rot in a foreign prison. No criminal charges needed.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

This is FUCKING INSANE

Trump's ICE goons detained a Canadian actress because of confusion over a work visa for TWO WEEKS - shackled, thrown in a van, sent to AZ, kept awake, not allowed to contact a lawyer
https://t.co/3DtPrwxwiK

[Michelle_BYoung @michelle_byoung]

This asymmetry in US politics has lead us directly to fascism. You cannot have impossible standards for Democrats and literally NO STANDARDS for Republicans they don’t even have to be law abiding. I will NEVER not be UPSET about it!

[Jon Bois @jon_bois]

you know, this nfl sunday, it’s important what difference us. but when we all it together, and that which it’s all of us, that’s when it’s what’s most of all. and that’s how it’s together the game — in a big way

[Out of Context Pokémon @OoCPokemon]

good morning

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

Look at the evidence presented in AP piece: It’s all *one* side, Republicans, radicalizing - absolutely no equivalent on the Democratic side.

“Polarization” - what you say when you want to lament the state of politics but prefer to obscure who is actually responsible for it.

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

This perfectly captures the fallacies of the “polarization” narrative: What is depicted here isn’t polarization, and describing it as such obscures rather than illuminates what’s actually the problem - the escalating anti-democratic radicalization of the Republican Party.

[The Beverly Tweetmaker @BvrlyTweetmaker]

This is the math of the politicization of trans rights: a few will suffer incalculable pain so that many can avoid minimal discomfort, all in a calculated effort to secure power for a handful of elites