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I tweet *sometimes.* Usually about politics I’m sick of, or video games. “Barely A Socialist.”

[Cody Johnston @drmistercody]

@Noahpinion It's not simply "lack of aid", it's "the act of removing aid". Very dishonest framing and comparison here.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

@Noahpinion It's not "lack of aid," it's "purposly removing it in such a chaotic way where the backstop can't be filled by other foreign governments and nonprofits appropriatly"

It was pulling it while at the same time publically claiming it wasn't pulled until the second it was, full stop

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

It's really sad because if we had elected a normal president, the 250th anniversary of our country would have been a really cool celebration of everything that makes this country great.

Instead, we get one miserable, unpopular asshole inserting himself into every little thing and making it about himself.

And it was entirely predictable if you had a pulse the past 10 years. Oh well...

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

This is especially funny to me because I know she has strong opinions about houseplants—she gently criticized my own dried out flower boxes, and I felt it would be too awkward to explain that I keep the house’s exterior dingy on purpose because I fear the guillotine

[The Notorious S.E.B. @bigseb31213]

the public does not understand how broken US immigration policy is, because conservatives have blocked any reform measure for twenty years. There is essentially no legal mechanism for people on TPS to become citizens unless they marry a citizen

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Cuba for 60 years: we love communism, communism is the most important thing in the world to us, we'll be communist forever.

Cuba immediately after meeting Hasan: wow communism is insanely stupid.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations.
https://t.co/s3LE8vedNi

[Dan Przygoda @dprzygoda]

Here’s the logic too many people are operating on: “Trump is a piece of shit, so the solution to that is to vote in more pieces of shit.”

But when has putting more pieces of shit into power EVER worked out well?

[Hutch @hutchinson]

Drawing an equivalence between dating a 19 year old and an allegation of physical abuse is…a choice.

And Newsom’s affair was a HUGE story in CA at the time. Are you saying Platner’s being treated unfairly because the media isn’t still covering Newsom’s affair 20 yrs later?

[Dylan Burns 🦀 @DylanBurns1776]

Absolutely atomic community note

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

I blame the New York Times. They taught people to see stuff like for example a 3rd Waffen-SS Panzer Division Totenkopf and think, “now there’s a man with economic anxiety”

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

I think the reason everyone is responding negatively to this position is that the pod save guys were (rightly) FURIOUS with the Biden campaign for not acknowledging the weaknesses which led to a situation which gave Republicans an advantage. Fair enough. It was a tough position to take because Biden truly was a very effective president. But they were right.

This same anger, however, is nowhere to be found about a deeply troubled candidate with a long history of bigotry, sexism, dishonesty and problematic behavior which harms his campaign and thus the chance to beat the Republicans and be a true check on Trump’s power.

I won’t conjecture as to why they have this double standard except to say that it’s odd and maybe worth reevaluating at this point given how much his behavior and non-disclosures have materially harmed his campaign and, given the stakes, endangered American democracy itself.

This was the EXACT argument they made against Biden and it’s nowhere to be found here.

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

>Elon Musk finally not lying about a corporate politics situation
>just straight up correct on every fact of the matter, it’s clear what happened

>his case gets dismissed on grounds of the statute of limitations

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

The main water bad guy in water turned out to be politically untouchable farmers, then when I went to land use it turned out to be hmmm farmers again, and now that I'm in air pollution the main villains appear to be oh my goodness

[China Uncensored @ChinaUncensored]

I knew the narrative warfare against Taiwan would be ramping up. Expect to hear more of this. It will boil down to “the US should abandon Taiwan.”

It takes years and about $20 billion dollars to make a semiconductor fab. So even if you—mistakenly—think the only value of Taiwan is semiconductors, then no, Taiwan is not 18 months away from losing strategic value.

But then there are all the other increasingly important strategic reasons Taiwan is important.

-If China captures it they’ll have broken the first island chain and be able to project power throughout the Pacific (they’ve already been creating undersea maps for submarine warfare as far as Hawaii and even Alaska).

-China will become the dominant power in the Indo-Pacific gaining control of $5 trillion of shipping going through the South China Sea

-the entire region will see that US defense guarantees are meaningless and will have to capitulate to the CCP. South Korea is already dangerously compromised. But what will happen to Japan, the Philippines, India?

-the US will have abandoned one of Asia’s largest democracies to an authoritarian regime that is already talking about committing genocide on the Island

That’s just a few of the reasons Taiwan is not EVER losing its strategic importance, especially not in 18 months.

Stay on guard! As we get closer to a potential CCP invasion of Taiwan, we’ll be hearing more and more voices calling for the US to abandon Taiwan. Know better. Counter the psyop.

[signüll @signulll]

what’s interesting to me is that the previous gold rushes didn’t credibly threaten the safe path simultaneously while dangling the jackpot.

like you could sit out the dot com boom & keep your accounting job. the current bit where the same technology is both the lottery ticket & the thing eating your fallback is pretty damn novel & also kinda nasty.

[Morgan ❤️💜💛🐝 @kilday_morgan]

CODIFY what? The Voting Rights Act was LAW. They overturned it. WHAT EXACTLY DID YOU WANT DEMOCRATS TO DO THAT THE SUPREME COURT WOULDN'T UNDO?
It was YOUR job to vote for Democrats so that partisan judges wouldn't get lifetime terms on the Supreme Court and enact project 2025.

[José @josecanyousee]

leftists this week:

dsa endorses an elderly billionaire for california governor

leftists defend mtg over aoc

david hogg excuses graham platner’s opposition to an assault weapons ban

blame democrats for the voting rights act getting gutted

[Julian Brave NoiseCat @jnoisecat]

Polling always showed this was true. The Biden era was unique in that it was a moment when both climate activists and Democratic elites tried to change this status quo. Unfortunately these combined efforts did not fundamentally improve the salience or popularity of climate. Consequently voters did not reward Biden or his party for those historic climate investments.

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

This is extremely funny because every time I make a post about this, half his followers say 'noooooo he totally did tell his followers to vote for her. and he totally voted for her.'

Guy is just so tremendously full of shit.