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@Microinteracti1 To the clowns parroting the “philly is a democrat city - look at what you get” line, SEPTAs finances are heavily controlled by Harrisburg, PAs republican-led capitol. You can guess how they fund SEPTA.

Two Europeans arrived in America having spent fourteen months being told by MAGA accounts that European civilisation was collapsing. The streets of Paris, rivers of crime. London, a caliphate. Oslo presumably reclaimed by wolves. JD Vance, a man who looks like a thumb that went to Yale and still couldn’t find a personality, flew to Munich to personally inform European leaders that their continent was dying. They listened politely, the way you listen to someone at a party who has had too much to drink and needs to feel important. MAGA trolls spent years warning that Europe would soon speak Arabic, that the cathedral spires were coming down, that sharia was six months away. This from a country where Muslims make up roughly the same share of the population as in Europe, give or take two percentage points. A detail that has never troubled anyone posting at 2am in a Punisher skull hoodie, eating a gas station burrito, lower back destroyed, credit score in freefall, absolutely certain the problem is Oslo. But America has the highest GDP in the world. The highest. MAGA men twerk to this number every morning like it personally pays their medical bills. It does not. It does not pay anyone’s medical bills. That is, remarkably, the entire point. But the number is big and big numbers feel like winning, which is lucky, because winning is now the only thing you can afford. “Honey, I need to call my congressman and find out how high our GDP is this morning.” She has already left. So these two Europeans flew across the Atlantic to witness what all that GDP looks like with human eyes. The shining city. The paradise. The country that spent fourteen months laughing at Europe’s crumbling civilisation while its own bridges were held together by institutional optimism. And what a civilisation. So advanced it projects power across the Middle East with carriers so expensive that a Shahed drone costing four hundred dollars, assembled outside Tehran by a man eating a sandwich, sends the entire vessel sprinting back beyond a thousand kilometres. To drop six bombs on anything, the jets refuel three times and fly the distance from New York to a different geological era. Ukraine has been swatting these same drones like mosquitoes for two years with equipment from a military car boot sale. The most expensive navy in history needs a thousand kilometre running start. Then Zelensky called. He offered to protect the oil refineries, keep prices from two hundred dollars a barrel, and stop American soldiers catching Iranian missiles with their bodies. Trump said no. Flat, cheerful no. Whatever was on Fox ranked higher. His cholesterol was doing its best to make the decision for him anyway. Part 6 of their honest impressions is a Philadelphia subway entrance actively decomposing. Grey liquid of unknown origin weeping down the walls. Broken glass overhead. Tiles that haven’t seen a mop since Carter was explaining stagflation to a nation that had stopped listening. The whole thing radiating the energy of a place where something went wrong in 1994 and the report is still pending. Their verdict, delivered with the hollow expression of people who just watched their worldview collapse into damp Philadelphia tile: it looks like a horror film. Literally a horror film. Fourteen months of lectures. The highest GDP in human history. Carriers that sprint from a drone worth less than a second hand Kia. A broad face with beard who flew to Europe to announce its death. A president who was offered a chance to protect his own soldiers and said no thanks. And the first thing America showed them was a subway auditioning for The Last of Us. It didn’t need to prepare. Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@Kobaj8 @redstreamnet Yes it is.

@redstreamnet None of this is taught in german schools btw.

On this day, 81 years ago, the Nazis murdered German anti-fascist and communist Georg Elser, most known for his heroic attempt on the life of Adolf Hitler. Hitler only narrowly escaped Elser’s precise and detailed assassination plan by chance. 🧵

@ChristopherHale Uh maybe redesign this? It doesn’t read like you might want it to.

America stands with Pope Leo XIV.

NEW: A stunning new report claims that the Pentagon summoned Pope Leo XIV’s top American diplomat and threatened him after the U.S.-born pontiff gave his January state-of-the-world address. Leo used the address to denounce a world ruled by “a diplomacy based on force” and “zeal for war.” thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon…

@nee_massey Great shades Stu - what are they?

Travelling Stu on the Rhine

@JebraFaushay Mitchell and Webb did it better

Saturday Night Live occasionally makes me laugh. Welcome to MAHAspital. Where emergencies are treated with beef tallow and raw eggs.

@gtconway3d Mitchell and Webb did it better

This is absolutely fucking brilliant.

@grittyleoriot Wow

1.4 million to the nova fest exhibit, while cutting tegular trash pickup in Neukoln and trying to make the kiez look dirtier, all school vacations for kids, and many other things while running hasbara defense for a genocidal ethnostate. antideutsch as staatsrason

@AlanRMacLeod @jzux Weimar Republic would like a word

There are few things more dangerous to humanity than billionaire ownership of our media.

@JRAwesomeAve999 @ridpath_linda @seanilling @RadioFreeTom Getting cancer / in a car accident / assaulted = “can’t take care of yourself” yeah ok boss

@ridpath_linda @seanilling @RadioFreeTom Problem, Linda, is good hardworking people will have to pay your share because you suck and can't take care of yourself, but find whining that others should be forced to take care of you at the point of the government gun makes it okay.

You can defend democracy but also acknowledge that its sharpest critics, going back to Plato, are totally fucking correct about the average voter

US immigration officials picked up a blind Rohingya refugee last week in Buffalo, NY. Then, realizing they had no basis to deport him, they released him five miles from his home. He needed a walking stick and died trying to make his way back to his house: investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/bli…

@mindyisser Wow what a dilemma

my husband wants to be a mummer so bad but he hasn’t pulled the trigger yet and i know it’s because he feels like the two options are “racist trump supporters who all live in washington township” and “hipster philadelphians who are left wing and annoying about it”

@BarackObama Crime, not a “tragedy”. You’re useless in this moment.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Tis analysis shapes all my thinking about the future of the US right now, and it explains why Trump and the GOP are behaving the way they do. There is a near zero chance a Democrat will be sworn in as President in 2029, no matter how people vote. bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/tru…

@EarthFirstVoter @cmclymer As if doing the opposite - engaging in friendly relations and including them socially in your community - will make them “nicer” at their job?

@cmclymer Increasing their stress & anxiety — won’t that lead to more hostility, tense encounters, maybe mistakes. A heightened nervous system isn’t great at de-escalating and thinking rationally

I said this last year, and I'll say it again: Part of our responsibility as citizens is to make those working for ICE as miserable as possible. Not just non-cooperation but actively looking for any non-violent and legal way to increase their stress and anxiety. (thread)

@nathanbenaich @jeanmarcalkazzi Probably the only thing he gets right

@jeanmarcalkazzi LEGEND

12 hours and counting - notary reads every single word of Series A docs in Germany out loud in front of founders. In person. Guys, we have GDP to grow here. Pure prehistoric madness.

@briannalyman2 “6th great grand uncles” are probably hundreds and hundreds of people

11th-great grandfather came on the Mayflower 10th-great grandfather founded Hartford 7th- great grandfather served in the 3rd Massachusetts Provincial Congress alongside Sam Adams/Hancock. 6th great granduncles served as minutemen in Lex & Concord Proud Heritage American

@USTechWorkers @dieworkwear Success story? The man’s still looking for a walkable neighborhood.

Your personal success story doesn’t address the systemic issue of documented cases where employers use the H-1B program to displace or undercut American workers at scale. Immigration policy is judged by aggregate outcomes, not anecdotes. The relevant comparison is not you versus native-born Americans (you’re not on a visa tied to your employer), but you versus other foreign workers who are just as talented and willing to work for less in exchange for the opportunity to live and work in the United States. That labor-arbitrage dynamic is exactly what the H-1B program enables. But it’s safe to say that a “pants writer” isn’t under any real threat from immigration policy.

“Take Mitchell Boone, a 27-year-old Trump supporter. Five years after leaving a computer science program at the University of Missouri, and what he says are over 1,000 job applications later, Mr. Boone claims he has landed just a single job interview. Today, he says he keeps three part-time jobs in Greenville, S.C., and grows his own food to cut down on expenses. Having abandoned hopes of working in tech, Mr. Boone says he is exploring alternative fields like construction or farming.”

@ellisthinkery @politicsusa46 The left does not wage culture wars. The right does, as distraction from inequality, and the left takes the bait.

@politicsusa46 You don’t see the left waging culture wars?

Listen to this conversation between Ezra Klein and Fareed Zakaria which I found quite spooky, because I’ve been wresting with thoughts for a while now about the common link identified by Fareed, on the fact that right wing populism has infected society regardless of the socio economic structures present. Culture wars are as much a problem for Sweden as they are for France, the US and here in the UK too. It provides fuel for the hard right to dominate the political space to the detriment of the least well off among us. It is truly a conundrum I’m struggling with. @nytopinion 🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNRJJvd6e/

BREAKING: All 31 Moms for Liberty Candidates Lost the 2025 Election

@agraybee Where is this steak photo?

Hoover's presidency ended when he was photographed feeding a steak to his dog.