Nick Tarallo

Just saw the ABC News road crew tech team lose their jobs live on screen from Jesse Jackson Sr's funeral

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

Investigative journalists are increasingly convinced that the United States was responsible for the bombing of a school in Iran that killed more than 100 children along with other civilians.

Here's how the reporting has developed: 🧵 1/

This is an actual Pentagon press release. “An Army believed to be casualty…the believed to be death”

Oh shit oh fuck my Chokato named Malvagitaro for some reason is probably so mad at me

Aaron, you're really doing us a service by watching NewsMax so we don't have to

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

Yes it's, uh, not a great time to be looking for a job

(Hire me please)

“Slurs filled a chat” is a beaut

ICE has a terrible track record providing medical care to those in its custody.

Their new cover-up?

“This is the best healthcare than many aliens have received in their entire lives.”

This is in official notifications.

It’s almost like he’s hoping for it so that he can have an excuse to use “emergency powers”

It's hard not to read this as Hegseth essentially saying, "The morons in the Biden administration would have wasted SO MUCH TIME trying to avoid blowing up a school full of girls but we're smarter than that so we didn't restrict our warriors by telling them stuff like, "try to not kill any kids".

Kristi Noem's "Open to Work" LinkedIn Profile

Like, sure. Go ahead.

Create content on Elon's platform that makes other users of Elon's platform agree that that alternatives to Elon's platform aren't viable.

You are a special person

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Like, sure. Go ahead.

Create content on Elon's platform that makes other users of Elon's platform agree that that alternatives to Elon's platform aren't viable.

You are a special person

I will never, ever feel inferior for using BlueSky over X, as using X would be voluntarily giving away my time and attention to make the world's richest man - who openly hates good things - even more money

Same goes for Insta, Threads, FB

In 1966 the New Jersey Young Republicans gleefully sang racist and antisemitic songs at their gatherings. The lyrics to one went “Riding the Reich in my Mercedes Benz, shooting every kike, saving all my friends." Hartford Courant, 13 February 1966.

The cost of one year of war in Iran, $365 billion plus a few dozen for associated infrastructure costs, is equal to the amount of student loan debt relief blocked by the GOP in 2023.

(Roughly $400 billion in debt preserved)

For the cost of one year of war in Iran, we could afford to feed 10.4 billion children for one year.

(Per World Help, $35/yr)

I hope I'm not being reductive. It's just been my own nagging observation on the topic and the presidency writ large

Bush understood that America needed a narrative or else it would burst at the seams.

Trump doesn't really give a shit about America, so he doesn't even put in the effort to lie credibly.

This has also been the distinction between him and traditional evil Republicans all along

I am appalled at Graham Platner's obvious lack of judgment and his ignorant assumptions of how things actually get done in politics

These two things are not really debatable

Ugh, yeah. I am with you there!

Regardless it's good to notice and good to point out when and how it happens

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

I know what you mean.

I don't think this is "more correct" or anything, but I find myself blaming Ken (and publishers, influencers at large etc) for knowingly exploiting human behavior rather than the individuals who are being typical flawed humans

In fact, it sort of begs the question of whether he thoroughly read the article at all (or instead fell victim to the same exact headline clickbait) before rushing to make Quick Content out of it

It also betrays the fact that Trump knows nothing about what we "get" out of NATO.

It was always structured with the knowledge that we, and then NATO generally, benefit from our access to Euro bases.

The notion that all nations pay in the same amount as the US was never a requirement!

Ken knew exactly what he was doing with that headline/description.