anthony is trying their best

almost 63 years old

[anthony is trying their best @biguglyanthony]

got engaged today

[anthony is trying their best @biguglyanthony]

@badluckhealth @ryangrim he's a DSA member but wasn't endorsed by Metro DC DSA

[anthony is trying their best @biguglyanthony]

@socialistdrag0n @ryangrim member, yes. he wasn't endorsed by Metro DC DSA though.

[anthony is trying their best @biguglyanthony]

@Shanksrams @TheDeranged_1 @ViciousPred4592 @wideofthepost The article is pretty clear that this occurred before the campaign and came up during internal vetting. You can question whether this is true or not, but making the claim that Platner is sexting women WHILE on the campaign trail is a much bigger accusation than past infidelity.

[anthony is trying their best @biguglyanthony]

@CJohnStella @aparnafordc did you read the thread?

[Brian Tashman @briantashman]

It’s not a wedge issue within the party. The percentage of Democratic voters who have a positive view of Israel (13%) is the same as the percentage of Democratic voters who have a positive view of abortion bans (14%), yet nobody says abortion is a wedge issue within the party

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Oh ya for sure dude imagine a country like that

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote.

“I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’”

“I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

[Nick Field @nick_field90]

Even as Democrats turned Virginia from a red state to a blue state, they never bothered to change the Supreme Court because that would be seen as a radical challenge to norms and institutions. And today that hesitancy came back to bite them, that's the lesson here

[Karim is reading A Farewell to Arms @shift_in2_turbo]

May Day started in the United States to commemorate the deaths of striking workers in 1886.

[Chris Alvino @ChrisAlvino]

This is my issue with conservatives explained in a single video: They are COMPLETELY unable to practice any kind of empathy (neither cognitive nor emotional) with any out-group. Until they have first-hand experience with an issue, they cannot fathom that it even exists

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔹NBC: We saw people living in severe poverty in Havana. Is it time to take responsibility and change the Cuban system? Why not follow China or Vietnam which have embraced one-party rule while also embracing market economies?

🇨🇺 President Díaz-Canel: We study their models closely. But they were under sanctions for about a decade. Cuba has faced more than 60 years of blockade.

That is the difference. They were able to develop once restrictions eased. Cuba has not had that opportunity. We are an island 90 miles from the United States, under constant pressure.

When China and Vietnam began their development, they started from less favorable conditions than Cuba has today. So the real question is: lift the blockade and see what Cuba can do. If we have achieved this much under pressure, what could we achieve without it?

If Cuba is truly weak, as some claim, then why has the United States spent decades trying to isolate and undermine it? Why not let it fail on its own? The answer is clear.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

TRUMP MUST BE IMPEACHED & ARRESTED.

HAKEEM JEFFRIES & CHUCK SCHUMER MUST RESIGN IN SHAME FOR NOT ADEQUATELY FIGHTING BACK AGAINST THIS ILLEGAL WAR & SCHEDULING THE WAR POWERS FOR AFTER THE ATTACK!!!

CALL HAKEEM: 202-225-5936

CALL CHUCK:
202-224-6542

CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN & TELL THEM TO DEMAND DEM LEADERSHIP STEPS DOWN

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.  Americans do not want this. They do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. They want relief from the affordability crisis. They want peace.

I am focused on making sure that every New Yorker is safe. I have been in contact with our Police Commissioner and emergency management officials. We are taking proactive steps, including increasing coordination across agencies and enhancing patrols of sensitive locations out of an abundance of caution.

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

My take on the Newsom discourse is incredibly simple: Last year a socialist won a primary and centrists all refused to endorse him and ran the second place finisher against him in the general and therefore centrists have no right to do voter shaming in any context ever again.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

To understand how monstrous the US blockade on Cuba is, think about the endgame. What are they trying to achieve?

The goal is clearly to starve people to the point where they are too weak to resist an invasion, or so desperate they are willing to accept US control.

To get to this point, the US would have to plan on *very severe* starvation of the country.

Because remember, the Cubans fought a revolution against a US-backed dictatorship, and they have struggled to survive under US blockade for half a century. They will not surrender their sovereignty easily, they will fight to the bitter end, and the US understands this.

The US is gearing up for genocidal crimes. They backed the genocide in Gaza precisely in order to set a precedent that would allow them to do this themselves.

It is pure, wanton barbarism. Every decent person with any shred of human values must resist this campaign with all their might.

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

The 7 House Democrats who voted with Republicans to fund ICE got burned by the Rotating Villain Strategy. Hakeem Jeffries told them to take this unpopular vote and take the heat from the base, expecting someone else would play this role in the future. But on Saturday.. 1/🧵

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

This is one of my favorite forms of American self-delusion. "No one other than the US observes the Cuba sanctions."

Société Générale was fined $1.34 billion for processing $5.5 billion in Cuba-related payments.

ING was fined $619 million for Cuba wire transfers.

European banks have been hit with 83% of all US sanctions fines.

They "observe" because the alternative is financial annihilation.

If a foreign bank defies OFAC, the US Treasury can cut off their access to the US clearing system entirely.

For a global bank, losing the ability to clear dollar transactions is a corporate death sentence.

They would cease to function overnight.

That's why they obey Washington over their own governments.

The EU has a blocking statute that makes it technically illegal for European companies to comply with US extraterritorial Cuba sanctions.

They comply anyway.

Then there's the "State Sponsor of Terrorism" designation, reinstated in 2021. This label is radioactive.

Over 100 foreign banks have terminated Cuba relationships entirely since then.

It triggers automatic "enhanced due diligence" protocols in every compliance department on earth, making a $500 remittance to someone's aunt look like terrorist financing to the algorithm.

88% of global forex transactions touch the dollar.

Every dollar payment clears through New York. Touch the dollar, obey OFAC.

The US also weaponizes supply chain dominance.

For most countries, foreign products can contain up to 25% US content before Washington cares.

For Cuba, the threshold is 10%.

A Swedish ventilator with US microchips cannot be sold to a Havana hospital without a Commerce Department license.

Since 2019, Title III of Helms-Burton allows US citizens to sue foreign companies in American courts for operating on land nationalized 60 years ago.

A Spanish hotel chain can be dragged before a judge in Miami for running a resort in Varadero. Foreign investment freezes.

Over 160 countries vote against this blockade at the UN every year. Their banks still refuse Cuba transactions, because the compliance industry runs on fear.

The blockade works precisely because other countries don't get a choice.

It's an extraterritorial financial empire.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Hi! It's us, the centrist establishment that's been running the Democratic Party and produced every Dem nominee in recent history. Things are going really great for us, right? So we have some advice for how Dems can keep up our awesome win record in 2028.