Andrew Cooley

[j aubrey 🤠 @jaubreyYT]

Not really what I want the Vice President to be saying

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

“I just think I have the rights to the fruits of my labor” dawg that’s socialism. Billionaires only exist because they profit from the fruits of their WORKERS labor lmao.

[Wendigoon @Wendigoon8]

Dolly was born in East Tennessee and used her success to make it better. So much money from her attractions and fame came into our mountain communities and was put into schools and infrastructure. She made the Imagination Library to help childhood literacy in Appalachia. Every month since our daughter was born, the library has sent her a book with a note from Dolly encouraging her to be proud of where she’s from and to learn the importance of the stories that built us. Her husband passed last year and she spoke of being reunited with him. I’m glad heaven is a little sweeter, and sings a little better for it. Rest in peace to the Queen of Appalachia, Jolene could never.

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

Just had to send 3 emails

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

A top 5 reason to implement a wealth tax is related to this point below about China eating our lunch. If our super rich class was leading the world when it came to frontier industries, that would be a strong case to let them keep cooking.

Instead, their focus the past 15-20 years has been on building monopolies and moats, propping it up with ever-more-absurd financial engineering, media consolidation with the aim of stoking culture war and blunting criticism of Israel, which for some odd reason is supposed to be a national priority for us — all while falling behind China on robotics, batteries, EVs, and so on. We’re barely winning on AI if at all. They cheered as Trump effectively repealed the IRA, the biggest investment in new energy production in decades, and are now crying that there isn’t enough energy production for their AI.

If our billionaires were winners, we might consider defending them.

But our billionaires are losers, in several senses of the word, and they embarrass us on the international stage. A wealth tax will take them down a few pegs and hopefully let some winners rise up. We no longer have a meritocracy so it’s time to strip the participation medals from these monopolists.

So no, a wealth tax is not punishing you for your success. It’s punishing you for failure. Don’t like it? Stop losing.

[Owen @Owennfa]

WHEN YOU REALIZE THE BABY BOOM WASN'T JUST SOLDIERS COMING HOME HORNY.

It was soldiers coming home to the GI Bill free college, 0% down home loans, low-interest business loans.

It was strong unions. Pensions. A house that cost 2 years of salary.

It was confidence that the future was actually going to be better than the present.

That's what produced a baby boom. Not romance. Security.

You want a higher birth rate now?

Give people a future where they know their kids will actually be okay.

That's the whole formula. It's not complicated. It's just expensive, and nobody in charge wants to pay for it twice.

[Evan DeSimone @Smorgasboredom]

It is not remotely surprising to me that a plurality of Americans believed stopping six trans kids from playing sports was worth blueberries that make you dead, but i’m not sure how to rebuild a functional society with such people.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Just so people understand: It is Trump’s Iran war that is driving the debt and interest rate crisis. Asian economies are tanking because they are starved of oil, that, in turn, is punishing their currencies, and Japan in particular is selling our bonds to try to prop their currency up.

As they sell, that exacerbates the crisis. If Trump truly tries to target Iran economically next week further, it’ll be pouring the last gasoline we have right on the fire.

We’re watching this man break the global financial system for nothing. The deal Iran offered in February was better than what he can or will get now. And we’re all going down with him.

[Jeff Sneider @TheInSneider]

Nothing to see here, folks!

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

this gets much funnier when you remember they have the exact same reaction to a black Disney princess or Cracker Barrel changing its logo

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

If technology becomes the ultimate criterion, the human person risks being reduced to data, a cog in a machine or a commodity. If, however, technology is integrated with a wise perspective, it can become an instrument of growth, justice and fraternity. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Mr. Beat @beatmastermatt]

Holy crap, I didn’t realize the DSA was so based.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Joseph McCarthy quite literally hated America for its freedoms and spent his life policing speech and canceling his enemies.

He then drank himself to death to try to numb the pain of his shame. Of course Matt considers him a hero.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[🏝️ @cashonlyisland]

Dont mind if i do! #fuckneighbors #fuckyou

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

It is important to resist the commodification of basic human needs. Food, water and healthcare cannot be subordinated to market considerations or geopolitical interests. Access to adequate food is a fundamental human right grounded in the dignity of every person. Meeting this need not only alleviates suffering but also addresses underlying causes of geopolitical instability. Indeed, food security is an essential component of global and integral security. https://t.co/DgkM9RegJ7

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

John C. Reilly: “Why aren’t people on the right wing concerned about human rights? They’re human too. Elon Musk says don’t be fooled by the empathy trap. Empathy is not a trap, empathy is a superpower. It’s what makes human beings exceptional, our ability to look outside ourself”