EmanatingPenumbra

RTs are binding legislation

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

It is February 2025. I am watching the US impose a bunch of stupid tariffs on Canada

It is March 2025. I am watching the US impose a bunch of stupid tariffs on Canada

It is July 2025. I am watching the US impose a bunch of stupid tariffs on Canada

It is August 2026. I am watch

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The idea that we need absolute deference to mass opinion on technical questions of utility regulation but no compromise with the electorate on “who plays on the girls volleyball team?” is a really perverse way of thinking about politics.

[New Liberals 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @CNLiberalism]

Feel like shit just want him back

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

Co-sign

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I have never seen a psy-op more effective than the data center stuff. Absolutely wild how bipartisan the data center hate is for such an incredibly benign industry.

The same folks who'd be wildly enthusiastic over a new steel mill are irate at the idea of a data center.

[Jeff Maurer @JeffMightBWrong]

You are never far enough left for people who just want to condemn others for being insufficiently far left.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

IMO the real “downward mobility” is that even through I’m very successful I couldn’t afford to live in an apartment that matches the size and neighborhood that I grew up in thanks to America’s large and growing housing scarcity problem.

https://t.co/iDXJTcWMK0

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Donald Trump, skilled in all ways of contending, has made it impossible for the United States to reach stable diplomatic agreements or policy commitments thanks to his trickster persona and now our age of credible rule of law is collapsing.

https://t.co/i0hm8BSiTy

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

So let me get this straight.

Propecia blocks prostate cancer. Viagra slows cancer spread. And GLP-1s do … basically everything else.

The average Ro customer who just goes “I’ll take all of it I guess” is gonna live forever huh

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

In my experience, there are a lot of people on the left who believe that leftist politics is objective reality and non-leftism, or anti-leftism, is a media product—specifically, something that can only be created by propaganda that separates people from the objective experience of reality.

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

Wait so you're saying that for just 3x the water use of a golf course we can create a ton of economic and intellectual activity that almost anyone can access?

[Ben Dreyfuss @bendreyfuss]

My favorite ODYSSEY backlash talking point is “Nolan has disrespected the Greeks” because literally no one in America actually cares about this including the people saying it.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

the actual most effective anti-communism policy in American history was the Marshall Plan, but they can’t talk about that because they decided USAID was actually about spreading Marxism for some reason.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

The Warren Commission conducted its investigation into the JFK assassination in 10 months.

The NBA investigation into whether it was ok for Kawhi Leonard to get $30m for doing nothing is now entering its 11th month.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The funhouse mirror of American politics: MAGA is driven by wealthy bourgeois railing against "elites" and pretending to identify with coal miners, while the new vanguard of the proletariat is a coalition of legatees, prep school graduates and adults still living off their parents.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Trudeau won three elections, handed off power to a same-party successor, cut child poverty, and is now traveling the world with his cool pop star girlfriend.

You may not like it but this is peak performance.

https://t.co/5qC5am94sP

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

I want to look this good at 79

[New Liberals 🇺🇦🇹🇼🌐 @CNLiberalism]

Hilarious that he finally gets a normal policy win and then refuses to take credit for it

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

again, big picture, donald trump won an election about affordability and then he

- passed tariffs (which raise consumer prices)
- expanded the deficit w a ginormous corporate tax cut (raises interest rates)
- waged a stupid war (raises gas prices)
- and now refuses to sign a bipartisan bill to reduce housing costs bc he's protesting senate republicans for failing to pass voting restrictions

... while making $2 billion from crypto rug pulls that transferred income from his supporters to his bank account

americans hate the president for very good reasons