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Not really having a great time to be honest IRL: music, climate, politics, gaming
Bluesky neither needs nor deserves hagiography on this front, but there is a real phenomenon of people respected by subsets of our enormous coalition who chose Elon over this site, and that's a sign of low character & unwillingness to receive pushback
You did say the Nazi tattoo was bad when it was revealed! That much is true. But by a few months later you were dismissing the idea that there could be anything more
Maine Democratic Party just announced how they're picking a new Senate nominee
If you're wondering if this is just a Ryan Grim thing, this is the Drop Site social person
status-anxious misogyny is the main unifying characteristic, though Stoller and Greenwald at least are also white supremacists
Generally very frustrated to see what happened to the @prospect.org under @ddayen.bsky.social. I subscribed to the mag back in 2007 after I got my first $9/hr job in a call center. At the time it felt like a badly needed lens on a post-Katrina world. Now this is the kind of person on staff
I've never understood this claim. Like, nobody would be doing any of this stuff for DeSantis or Cruz or Rubio. What about any of this speaks to Trump's particular weakness
The tweet you've been talking around says "If he was great on Gaza I'd still roast his ass". In what world is this even potentially inclusive of Palestine advocacy? Every one of the claims in this tweet, including the made-up ones, are about the housing crisis in the Bay Area.
Checking in about six weeks after this to note that Moe Tkacik is still being published at @ddayen.bsky.social's @prospect.org, still podcasting with Dayen
right - fun fact, "Genocide Joe" was first used in response to the government only including 2 packs of COVID tests in the free request form
Have fun dodge-rolling, when you could be kicking Roger the Libertarian's ass
I've played every Final Fantasy bar XI, including non-mobile spinoffs, and the strangest thing I've ever seen in this series is unquestionably the product placement in XV. Raises so many unanswered questions
I think we can goad RFK Jr into solving our RFK Jr problem. I'm certain he's one of those guys that thinks he could beat a bear in a fight