Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

This really is a full service blog.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

I also would like a pony to improve my balloon juice experience.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Republicans in disarray!

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

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I’m sure you all, like I, am waiting for Adam’s update, which, I am also sure, will be filled with a fresh update on all of Russia’s warcriming.

I would like to put out that if you watched the Putin speech filled with eliminationist rhetoric, and what thhey are doing with the wholesale slaughter of the undesirable Ukrainians, that their actions are the end result of the same eliminations rhetoric that we hear every day from what in the past was the GOP and right wing fringe but is now mainstream Republicanism. If you go beyond their rhetoric on minorities, lgtbq, etc., it would be no different from what the Russians are doing in Ukraine. Maybe by different means, but the same end goal.

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Trump Death Cult Open Thread: Proud, Proud Boys

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Once again, the Squatter-in-Chief has invited his biggest fans to do whatever they want… which is to intimidate people in the name of White supremacy. On the positive side, at least even the least discerning pundit can no longer pretend they don’t know what Trump might be encouraging…

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Antifa Stands For ANTI-FUCKING-FASCISTS

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I am so sick and tired of hearing people trying to turn these people into boogeymen:

The antifa body count is STILL ZERO.

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Sunday Evening Trumpery Open Thread: BLOODLINES!

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You ask me, Trump wore a mask at his Michigan campaign stop because his advisors were genuinely afraid that the very nasty, probably (((globalist))) AG would MAKE TROUBLE, as globalist women Democrats are wont to do. So they got him a very special mask, with the Presidential seal on it, and told him that his mask would be the envy of every non-presidential-seal-embroidered mask wearer. Unfortunately, what remains of Trump’s mind went to the same anti-(((globalist))) place, it seems…

Huck Finn-style humor:

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Decline & Fall Open Thread: If A Nazi Screams on the National Mall…

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… and can’t get the attention they so desperately demand…

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Andrew Yang’s Dangerous Idea

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Andrew Yang has released a plan for Internet regulation. Some of it is good, some of it is anodyne, and some of it is terrible. You may wonder why I’ve chosen to write about this, since he’s not going to be the nominee. Two reasons: one, we should all be talking about this stuff more. Two, his plan is a great example of how Americans go astray when thinking about regulating tech companies.

From his website, we can start with the good:

Regulate the use of data and privacy by establishing data as a property right. The associated rights will enable individuals to retain ownership and share in the economic value generated by their data.

Wonderful! Big fan. I used to work at a startup that sought to enable customers to do this. Alas, it failed because investors thought that our user base would only be the Very Online™, and the sorts of people who want to hide things. Without widespread adoption (or government regulation), this doesn’t work.

Then we have the “sure, alright, I could see that working out”:

Minimize health impacts of modern tech on our people, particularly our children. I will create a Department of the Attention Economy that focuses on smartphones, social media, gaming, and apps, and how to responsibly design and use them, including age restrictions and guidelines.

He proposes things like “removing autoplay video for children under 16,” though personally I’d like to see that apply to children under 116. This one also contains stupider bullet points like “removing the queues that allow infinite scrolling,” which would be laughably easy to work around, if anybody can even figure out what it means.

And then we reach his dangerous ideas, which many politicians across the spectrum like, and which represent a particular failure mode in American regulatory thought.

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