In the lib brain - American civil religion is the most important thing in the universe and voting is a sacred covenant. The typical r/politics redditor the night of election day will unironically say…

Look, if people had turned out - Biden would have won and our democracy would have saved. But they didn’t so we fucking get Trump again.

I’ll want to say - I dunno - isn’t the super-low turnout Biden’s fault?

That would be perfect for them.

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TRUMP WAS REELECTED. IMPORTANT EMAIL YOU MUST READ!

Restoring Roe? Look, we had a plan but you idiots didn’t vote hard enough and we can’t do it.

Doing anything positive about anything? Elections have consequences. Everything good in congress is already DOA because you idiots made TFG president again.

Do not forget that there’s also the Republican justice “veto”.

Sorry not-sorry but we must lurch to right so we can reach out to the all-important “won’t vote for us anyway” demographic.

You stopped a kind, decent man from being president for a second term. You even made him cry. Are you proud of yourselves?

[Video embed of President Biden crying]

By the way - we’re going to continue to be highly active on our Restoring Roe plans. Restoring Roe is an important tool in our campaigning and fundraising arsenal quiver.

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Palestinian president rejected U.S. requests to hold off on UN membership vote

Bluesky summary

Secretary Blinken personally asked Abu Mazen on the phone to not pursue full-status membership for the State of Palestine at the United Nations. In exchange, Abbas would have been invited to the White House to meet President Biden as a consolation prize of sorts. Abu Mazen rejected the offer.

https://bsky.app/profile/emissaryofnight.bsky.social/post/3kqecjqt4uz22

Libs will be more worked up about this than the continuing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza plus the injuries, suffering, and death in the West Bank.

A much shorter flyer would be “We are the Yale police and if we don’t get a significant raise - we ain’t doing our jobs. Careful walking around at night and sleep tight!”

The top comment…

Historically, New Haven is one of the poorest communities in the state when ranked by median income, while Yale’s endowment grew to $42 billion this year. Universities typically do not pay property taxes, the major income for cities. Yale does give stipends to New Haven in the form of direct cash and scholarships, but is it enough, given its enormous wealth?

How much better off would the citizens of New Haven be if they had the property taxes for all the land and buildings the Ivy League school owns? How much better would the public schools be? The libraries? The parks? City jobs? This reeks of income inequality.

I think if you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. No need for corny art singing tribute to the worker or even for the Manifesto. Never before had I seen so many wealthy people gathered all in one place. If a tornado came through and wiped the whole thing out, the stock market would plummet and the net worth of a country the size of Slovenia would vanish from the ledgers in a day.

I used to live in Baltimore and remembered the kind of people who would go to the Preakness in their stupid hats and Sunday best while the whole swath of the city it was situated in starved and languished for lack of funds. This was like that, but without the hats. I saw $30,000 Birkin bags and $10,000 Off-White Nikes.

I saw people with the kind of Rolexes that make strangers cry on Antiques Roadshow. I saw Ozempic-riddled influencers and fleshy, T-shirt-clad tech bros and people who still talked with Great Gatsby accents as they sweated profusely in Yves Saint Laurent under the unforgiving Texas sun. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

People clinked glasses of free champagne in outfits worth more than the market price of all the organs in my body. I stood there among them in a thrift-store blouse and shorts from Target. In the paddock, expert chefs prepared food and alcohol flowed freely, though I did not partake, already a little queasy.

Stocks were discussed in passing conversations. I opted to step outside onto the balcony and watch the last of the F1 Academy racers zip around the track. Directly beneath the balcony were the Mercedes and Ferrari garages, so close one could almost touch them.

His tweet that’s in the Newsweek article: Nitter.

I know this is very old news but jesus fucking christ Elon really fucked comments. It’s a sea of blue check human garbage. I kept scrolling down to find a sane comment. It seems that the first ~50+ comments are pro-fash. And nearly every single comment is a blue check.

Here’s her Instagram post. She was escorted out of the building by a plain clothes police officer.

A Bluesky thread by somebody else

https://subium.com/profile/clancyny.bsky.social/post/3ktkxc3njw22h

do you have what it takes to dig five touchscreens menus deep in size ten font to engage the emergency brake as you accelerate uncontrollably towards a bus full of nuns

What’s wrong with them? Why won’t women date me? I’m an alpha.

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Where to start…