shawnpillow

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[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Support for genocide SHOULD be met with an earthquake sized political reckoning. Good people are repulsed with the moral bankruptcy of political elites. It's surprising that so many people are surprised.

[shawnpillow @stpillow]

Probably not a bad sign for the overall economy

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Amazon, $AMZN, Prime Day household spending is down 16%, per Bloomberg.

[shawnpillow @stpillow]

Mark is doing amazing work here. My brother is a type1 diabetic and my wife is a surgeon. Increasing affordability of medicine massively improves our society.

[katsu @katsuxbt]

Mark Cuban says a kid was paralyzed in a car accident and lost his insurance, medication cost $10,000 every 3 months, his pharmacy sells it for $61, the difference kept them from going bankrupt

“The guy’s kid was in a car accident and got paralyzed. His drug, Droxidopa, it was going to cost them $10,000 every 3 months”

“We didn’t carry it. I said let me check, turns out we could, we get it for $61 a month, 98% cheaper”

[signüll @signulll]

what a fucking tragedy for nyc.

the same dumb resistance happened during the uber saga & now you’re watching the same shit play out again with autonomous cars.

the reality is that humans should not be operating metal death machines forever. esp in a city where taxis have spent decades gaming routes, ignoring pickups, driving like maniacs, & treating the meter like a side quest. uber fixed some of that, then slowly became expensive as hell, degraded, & unreliable in its own stupid way.

collective decision making of humans is often so so damn stupid.

[shawnpillow @stpillow]

By making them vote for politicians who represent them? This is an incoherent position

[David Frum @davidfrum]

DSA settler-colonialists seem to be successfully imposing their alien rule upon the indigenous inhabitants of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.

[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

An underrated winner from tonight: Kathy Hochul. Two years ago, she got literally zero applause during her speech at the DNC. Pelosi blamed her for Democrats losing the House. Her own lieutenant governor knifed her in the back.

Then... she went to war with Trump, endorsed Mamdani and now she won her primary unopposed.

[shawnpillow @stpillow]

love this bit

[Tom Haberstroh @tomhaberstroh]

I slept on it. I had to do it.

The New York Knicks title deserves an asterisk.

They join my definitive short list of NBA championships with an asterisk: https://t.co/RVVvIwVCdB

[sam @sam_d_1995]

Spencer Pratt finishing with a lower % of the vote than Trump got in 2024 is a very good reminder of the echo chamber that Twitter has created around this election

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

I don't live in LA, but for those who do, I'd encourage a vote for Nithya Raman. She's far better on housing, which is LA's #1 issue, and more braodly Bass does not deserve to be re-elected.

We should remind politicians even in deeply partisan areas they can be held to account.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Within a corrupt political system, here is an inspiring story which speaks to the beauty and strength of democracy and what we can accomplish when we work together. 

In April 2025, as part of our Fighting Oligarchy tour, I held a rally in Missoula, Montana. As we almost always do at our rallies, we invited local union leaders to address the crowd and say a few words about issues impacting their communities.  One of those local union leaders was a National Forest firefighter named Sam Forstag, who discussed how Donald Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE had just fired thousands of federal employees — including many in Montana.  

As a result of that rally and the 9,000 people there who responded very positively to his remarks, Sam, who had never run for public office before, decided to take on the Establishment and run for the U.S. Congress as a proud member of the American working class.  

Guess what? On Tuesday, June 2, after putting together a strong grassroots coalition, Sam Forstag won the Democratic Party’s primary in the First District of Montana. And, with our help, he’ll soon become Congressman Sam Forstag.

[shawnpillow @stpillow]

Guess we know who the real seamheads are. Sanchez is on an incredible run

[Max Dolente @Philly_Mays]

Ive lost the locker room during cristopher sanchez talk

[Max Dolente @Philly_Mays]

Ive lost the locker room during cristopher sanchez talk

[Maxime Aubin @MaximeAubin1]

I’m seeing a lot of misinformation about Victor Wembanyama’s pregame outfit, even from major American media. @hugo_levay asked the player directly, and Wemby confirmed it was an outfit for Eid al-Adha, the Muslim celebration happening this week, not a monk’s robe.

PS: Wembanyama is not Muslim, at least, the last time I asked him, he said he didn’t identify with any particular religion.

[Paul Don't Lie @PaulHeadleyNBA]

The best tweet in the history of a glorious account.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Congratulations, @chrisrabb! 🥳

Philadelphia, thank you for nominating this powerful champion for the working class to the People’s House.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

This is how the guy who just won in the bluest Congressional district in the country talked about the Democratic Party and its messaging.

[nba paint @nba_paint]

Spurs take Game One.

[NoTechBen @NoTechBen]

So……..about that MVP

[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.”