I've been saying this for years. Democrats, Labour, etc - they've become married to the polls and forgot how they can shape them
It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”
It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”
Rare for a public poll, we did a survey experiment to test whether priming respondents about the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia impacts support for Trump's broader immigration agenda. It does. Support for blanket deportations fell 20 points after hearing about Garcia's case.
Self-identifying as a centrist is perhaps the most cynical and amoral political identity you can have because you're just openly admitting your beliefs aren't really beliefs they're just strategic positions that only exist relative to others in the room you happen to be in
pretty noticeable that very, very little other media has made any use of the Star Wars sequel timeline, because it's not only bad it's *uninteresting.*. Contrast with the prequels, where although the movies were awful the setting was interesting.
This is the sort of statement that should get you forever barred from this job
Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax"
nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
Auction to Dine With Trump Creates Foreign Influence Opportunity (Gift Article)
When the bidding stops Monday, the top buyers of a Trump family crypto coin will win a tour of the White House.
This is getting a fair amount of scorn, and I’d say it deserves it. The hidden premise is that “corruption” requires the specific proof that the Supreme Court has decided (controversially) is required for certain very specific federal criminal statutes.
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There is no plan. There is no 3D chess. The president has a toddler’s understanding of the economy and will continue to just do things (and then undo them, and then do them again).
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
The first Democratic governor who sends their state troopers into an ICE field office to free someone ICE has kidnapped is going to be president in four years.
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"The world's richest man is killing the world's poorest children. And he's doing it with glee"
- Bill Gates
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...That's one striking (and very angry) cat
“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.
based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right
We do not eat a credit card’s worth of plastic a week. This doesn’t pass even the most basic sniff test but also the paper everyone is quoting doesn’t even say that we ingest that much plastic and I’m sick of hearing it in credible places!!!
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.
To be fair, this is the experience medieval and early modern intellectuals had. The circle of the educated was fairly limited.
Even Galileo was friends with the then-current Pope I think.
I just think it’s hilarious that people went to college with the Pope. “What’s Ken up to these days? Partner at a law firm outside Pittsburgh, that’s nice. And Bob? Oh, he’s the Pope.”
This is the best day of my life
Cybertrucks are piling up -- apparently no one wants to buy them -- but they can't stop making them, b/c shutting the factory down is too expensive. Great work all around.
Tesla Cybertruck inventory goes through the roof
Tesla Cybertruck is experiencing a significant increase in unsold inventory in the US and facing huge challenges in meeting initial sales expectations.
No one in this fucking country is transitioning either socially or surgically, in order to rape people.
Why would they, when it is so much easier to just become a fucking cop?
South Carolina police detective & school resource officer Daniel Shealy has been found guilty of possessing & distributing videos of children being sexually abused.
Some of the videos Shealy possessed included recordings of prepubescent minors in bondage & constraints
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Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US
Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you
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My heart wants it to be like the 50s when swarms of unsupervised children roamed at random, getting into shenanigans and danger and possibly slipping into fantasy worlds - but the real answer from the right is "We'll put them to work by removing child labor laws"
So many things are baffling about the "little girls can have 2 dolls instead of 30" quote. Dolls being used as a stand in for a shortage of essentials aside, if kids have no toys, no PBS, and no parents around because they're working to death in this economy... what are kids supposed to DO?
A 90-second failure of Newark Airport’s air-traffic safety systems, which blacked out communication to planes carrying thousands of passengers, has exposed a new level of crisis in U.S. air travel.
Listen to "The Daily."
A Frightening Moment to Fly
Can't be overstated how fucked up it is that Black folk came up with a word to express people being aware of the oppression of other people and it's now targeted by far right governments globally as something evil that must be destroyed
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When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
Just one area highlighting the need for liberal investment in media: Try to google any news issue and the bullshit right wing piece spinning it is free and near the top of the rankings, meanwhile the truth is paywalled and often not even on the first page of results
Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.
“We’re being canceled when we say the n-word”
*white woman says n-word, people giver her $700,000”
“We still feel canceled on the inside”
There it is…
Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once
Increasingly Powerful Trans Person Capable Of Using Every Single Bathroom At Once
EVERYWHERE—As the influence of the nation’s transgender individuals continues to encroach on the freedoms of the U.S. populace, sources confirmed Tuesday that increasingly powerful trans person Tori R...
LITERALLY the other two pleaded guilty, but nah, we're just going to clear them in this fucking murder.
Anyway, an A24 Soulsborne already exists called The Green Knight.
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This headline is grossly irresponsible. You should be ashamed
Me driving irl
This is disgusting
no he didn't that's not him what the fuck is wrong with you freaks
Sorry this is so funny to me.
Sinners (2025)
My papa would’ve ate at the met😌
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The fact that it goes back to the early 70s is the big selling point for me
I'm a sucker for novelty restaurants.
The Hobbit Cafe in Houston, TX started in 1972 as a vegetarian restaurant under a spreading live oak.
They offer 'Second Breakfast' (brunch) on Sat. & Sun. The main menu offers Gollum’s Seafood Tacos, Radagast’s Mushroom Burger & Mirkwood Black Bean Burger.
