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@2waytvapp @LarryOConnor This is absurd on its face

“I don’t remember Kristen Welker or whoever was sitting in that chair pressing Barack Obama about how he was going to pay for all of the things that he paid for, including the Affordable Care Act,” says @LarryOConnor after the NBC News host challenged Scott Bessent about how Donald Trump would pay for the war with Iran. “When Barack Obama is the president, he gets away with saying, ‘oh, it’s not going to cost us a penny. This is budget neutral.’ Look where we are right now. How budget neutral does Obamacare feel? So that’s why it’s frustrating from my perspective, because it’s a double standard that Republicans are always asked to meet and Democrats never are.” #Iran @MarkHalperin @KevinPWalling

beethoven may have been unsuccessful in love but he was not unlucky

@mauriceravel08 lol

@jeremydenk late romanticism has some gems. reger busoni godowsky etc

Counterpoint: the romantic era began with some important innovations and then with some exceptions mostly congealed into rehash and bombast

@ivanhewett So join us on the left fighting these things lol

@jeremydenk Well now we agree!

This is disingenuous. Christianity’s abominable arrogance is all in the past. Christians don’t now go around threatening to levy a tax on or even kill people who refuse to convert, or declare apostates should be killed. But you know this already.

@ivanhewett we should definitely resist the many forces that try to eat our democracies, and one of them is bigotry, aided and abetted by religion, another is money …

@jeremydenk well fine so we have to resist both anti-democratic tendencies, right? Not make excuses for one of them, on the grounds that we really must be ‘inclusive’, not give way to ‘bigotry’ or ‘hate’, or all the other boo-words leftists like to throw at anyone who disagrees with them?

@ivanhewett I just think that’s not an argument given the anti democratic tendencies of American evangelism for instance

@jeremydenk I think we come at this issue from different angles Jeremy. From a British perspective thinking of right-wing Christianity as an equal threat to liberal democracy as Islamism just seems absurd.

@ivanhewett They harass gays on other streets they advocate death to the east and plot world domination (look up dominionism)

@jeremydenk now I think about it - isn’t this just ‘whataboutery’? Ugandan fundamentalist Christians don’t feature largely on MI5’s terrorist watchlist. They don’t harrass gays on London streets, advocate Death to the West, and plot world domination.

@ivanhewett For starters cnn.com/2023/06/29/afr…

@jeremydenk goodness - where does that happen?

@ivanhewett Christians actually do levy taxes and punishments on non observers

@jeremydenk the trouble with X is these replies come winging in, to who knows which idle remark.

@AAC0519 @bungarsargon it is hilarious for a right-wing person to complain about this, you do realize?

@bungarsargon They raced misinformation out quickly because they knew it would become "fact" and that everything that followed would get lost.

Last night, a friend mentioned how strange he found it that two Muslims would target a Muslim mayor's residence. I had to explain that that's not what happened. But it's proof of what a good job outlets like CNN have done obfuscating the truth. Together with Mayor Mamdani, the liberal media has worked assiduously to make it seem like Mamdani—rather than a group of anti-Mamdani non-violent protestors—was the real victim of Saturday's terrorism. My column: batyaus.substack.com/p/mamdani-thin…

Is it possible that ChatGPT wrote the complete works of Christopher Marlowe?

@1714tak i’d love to see

@jeremydenk I think Metastasio already covered that one.

Spent the morning writing an opera libretto about Philip Seymour Hoffmann returning as a ghost to warn us of the vapidity of Timothee Chalamet

@AmyKosari @alexbkane lol you’re just a bot

@jeremydenk @alexbkane Look, I subscribe to the New York Times. I love the New York Times but I saw what they did with covid and I learned what they did by burying the news of the Holocaust in the back pages. I see their good points and their flaws.

A New York Times investigation indicates that it was a US strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, mostly children. nytimes.com/2026/03/05/wor…

@canarymission @AmyKosari Should have gone to congress if we wanted to go to war and brought allies along

Rashida Tlaib's framing of the fall of a brutal autocrat as nothing more than a "violent fantasy" of the "elite" chooses to ignore decades of state-sponsored terror. Ali Khamenei spent his life "preventing democracy" and "oppressing his own people". Using political slogans to shield a regime from accountability doesn't promote peace, it erases the blood on the dictator's hands and insults the tens of thousands of Iranians who died by his hand while protesting for their freedom.

@AmyKosari @alexbkane I have lots of complaints about the nytimes but still they’re not propaganda like fox

@alexbkane The New York Times is not a reliable source. We all know this by now. It is not only not reliable, we know that it also largely propagandistic.

@JimBovard @nypost lol and DOGE really worked out

@jeremydenk @nypost I always appreciate great art work for my articles. Here's another favorite

With Trump today in White House is German Chancellor Merz. He is a coward who is ravaging free speech in Germany. He personally filed almost 5,000 complaints against his online critics, sometimes resulting in police raids against people he targeted. My @nypost oped