It's from a 2006 article by David Sirota.

Mr. Obama Goes to Washington | The Nation

The quotation in context

Obama has a remarkable ability to convince you that his positions are motivated purely by principles, not tactical considerations. This skill is so subtle and impressive, it resembles Luke Skywalker's mastery of the Force. It's a powerful tool for a Democratic Party that often emanates calculation rather than conviction. "I don't think in ideological terms. I never have," Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. "Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, 'Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.' That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?"

During 1982, Mussolini released a pop music album of romantic songs under the title Amore on Alfa Records; the album was released only in Japan and has since become something of a collectors item.

whoever is in charge of the lathe, knock it off.

To some extent there has to be panic in the government, law enforcement, ceos obviously trying to figure out how best to handle this whole situation. I'm sure theres a lot of meetings and phone calls and ideas bouncing around among the ruling class...

So its really funny at a possibly crucial moment for the empire, when clear, careful and decisive leadership is required, there might as well not be a president at all because the husk that was once Joe biden is incapable of understanding or even remembering what's happening

Known paedophile Steve Huffman is apparently very scared, as they are now attempting to scrub posts of Kenny Klipp's publishing of Luigi's Mansionfesto

Mario, if you're out there, remember that techbros both enthusiastically support and enable/develop social murder too

The Pentagon doing the Larry David gif going back and forth between "we hate Muslims" and "but these specific Muslims hate China" while trying to figure out how long to fund this proxy group.

Sidenote: Banger

Regardless of whatever the person turns out to be, it will always be funny.

Eating a meal? A succulent Happy Meal?

https://subium.com/profile/governorwalz.mn.gov/post/3lcyhmfayu22b

I almost blocked him yesterday at Bluesky because I thought his posts would be entirely boring. Now I wonder how often he'll post stuff worth sharing here.

We were in Texas the entire time.

https://nitter.poast.org/SkyNews/status/1866420373773840622

Today, we bid farewell to our kind and beloved neighbor, Rami, my husband's friend, who was martyred by an airstrike while sitting at the door of his house in northern Gaza with his friend. He had no political ties, he was simply a Gaza citizen. They were targeted by a Zanana missile. Despite the great pain his loss has caused us, we know that Rami is in a place of honor with Allah. Please pray for his mercy and forgiveness, and for us to have patience in this difficult time.

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't.

https://subium.com/profile/schwarz.bsky.social/post/3lcxx6kqzvc2k

The democrats would have tripped over themselves crying about it and appealing to norms and civility and their usual gormless bullshit and Kamala would have eaten shit even harder.

And instead of shouting "read the room!" the DNC consultant and liberal pundit classes would have gone along for that ride because they are just as clueless as their bosses.

My two takes

• Standing school valedictorian, Luigi Mangione, pictured here in holding cell after being arrested on non-standing-school-related allegations

• You may not like it, but this is what peak male living space looks like

Andy Newman is a real NYT journalist, but when I tried searching his latest posts on his page on the NYT website, I couldn't find this (even though other live contributions related to the story were showing up). Unsure if the post is fake, if it was real but deleted, if it just isn't showing up, or if I just can't see it without an NYT membership.

oh wow look at me I'm a human! when do I live? now, clearly. Everyone older than me lived in these descriptive periods of history that define the je ne sais quoi of the everything. I'm gonna tell everyone in the future that I'm living in the "now" time! wowwww, fuck you dickhead, real fucking selfless ain'cha. now we have to deal with the mass confusion every time someone distinguishes between modern[^1] and contemporary.[^2] i want your incorporeal form toyed with by forces unknown to me because you've slightly inconvenienced literally everyone in the modern day. jackass

[^1]: kinda not now technically, depending on context [^2]: definitively now