I’m far from the first person to say it, but the Bulwark folks’ experience of defeat in intrapartisan conflict means they have shed some of the cherished illusions folks like Schumer or Jeffries still cling to.
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I’m far from the first person to say it, but the Bulwark folks’ experience of defeat in intrapartisan conflict means they have shed some of the cherished illusions folks like Schumer or Jeffries still cling to.
Yes, I think that’s right. That commitment describes the boundary in which the discursive commitment can apply. The liberalism of previous eras had an understanding that forces outside that boundary had to be defeated and outcompeted.
I am so sorry.
A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure. The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.
I could make that
At our house we do a pan fried tofu with a light crust of nutritional yeast. You can throw in salt and pepper, or any other seasoning mix. My notion is to treat it like whitefish with lemon.
Ok yes, that’s right
No way, Bowery King is Nosferatu! (Lives in the sewer, knows everyone’s secrets, a network of the homeless agents, etc)
Brujah, right?
Ok what clan is Wick?
I'd like to see some reporting on this, I do think it's quite clear they can't be everywhere and doing everything at once and we need to be able to document clear signs of withdrawal from particular fronts, or else it'll feed the perception that they ARE everywhere and doing everything
You can hear the Billy Joel voiceover go “*record scratch* I bet you’re wondering how I got here”
Not to speak for Sharon, but generally speaking: Strauss understood philosophers as being at physical risk from their governments. He argued they encoded a hidden (esoteric) meaning in their texts behind the surface (exoteric) meaning. So the answer to Rufo’s question is “yes dude, obviously”
That focus on discursive positioning re and against others in their social class is frustrating and boring. I think there was a lot of that on the “lol no it’s not” side of the fascism debate.
At least Hegseth got a chance to try out his new spoken word material.
I have some of the same security concerns as others, but I’m in a years-old signal group chat. Please keep me in mind if something gets going in Philly.
Donated, best of luck to you & Crouton!
Holy shit, man, congrats! 👁️WIDE AWAKES IN CONTROL👁️
Man, I hadn’t seen that but looks like he sure did. He’s thoroughly yesterday’s man, a philosopher for the end of history but not for what came after.
As a former political theorist, I am comfortable saying Habermas is full of shit.
Yeah, the question of consolidation at the federal level is open, but there’s no doubt it’s taking place in the states. Its reversal in WI shows it can be fought, but it needs focused attention, energy, & resources. Otherwise we’re on both the fast and slow roads to state & national consolidation.
IMO day 2 back is worse than day 1. On day 1 you’re still refreshed from your time away, but on day 2 you’re really back in it and adjusting to how it’s just going to be this way.
💯Frank was a piece of shit, Charles was a far more interesting character
Thank you, yeah, I called the number just a few minutes ago but that’s what they told me. I will try again in the morning.
Did you just call the number above? I called just now & while the woman who answered said they are aware of Logan & Cheekie’s situation, Cheekie is not currently in care so there’s nothing to donate toward.
They’re playing your music @djinnandtonic.bsky.social
Seeing spontaneous resistance break out against ICE kidnappers in LA was genuinely moving. Very often, I think about how the courage and conviction to resist fascism is found all but exclusively among ordinary people.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
this should become a thing, putting up signs like this for every arrest & disappearance in public spaces. it would likely break into lower info, less politically engaged demos and local social media groups
I was a fan of his starting with the Fly in 1991. I was 10 years old, and his work just leapt off the page at me. (Impact Comics never got their due imo)
Thank you for sharing, that is straight up phenomenal
They took the cell samples from the back of his hand, that’s why it’s all fucked up
Bluesky right now ...
How many seas must the white dove sail, before she sleeps in the sand?
That’s the thing though: he modeled taste. Not necessarily the critical consensus or whatever, but having strong preferences and being able to defend them.
In almost every instance, the courage and virtue needed to stand up and say “no, this is wrong” is found exclusively among ordinary people like us. Those who most benefited from our society and lead its elite institutions, at the NYT, at Columbia, at CBS, in the Dems, are weak, venal, and corrupt.
Inshallah
Yo where’d you get that???
That reminds me of these screenshots of a chat someone (not me) had with Robert Kurvitz, the lead DE writer. Disco Elysium wants to be your friend.
Messiah of Evil is good as hell. Just a tremendous exercise in sinister vibes.
The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off
It’s both those things, but it was also ineffective: while the polls had already been turning in Clinton’s favor beforehand, pundits embrace a folk narrative that it was the Sister Souljah incident that did it. I think they just like it when politicians push black people around.
It’s when a white (centrist, straight, cis, etc) politician scapegoats a representative of a minority group to please pundits who haven’t learned anything new since 1992.
I think even more, a lot of people looked at the black female senator from California and said “hey that’s Sister Souljah.” There was nothing she could have said to persuade them otherwise. I (still) think and hope that isn’t most people, but it’s a lot.
Check out Coherence (2013). It’s one of those movies where it’s best to go in blind. The Invitation (2015) is also very good.
Finally ! He will pay for his crimes
There’s a way that the actually existing liberal institutions agree with Musk, Milller, et al that convinced, sincere liberals don’t actually exist.
Glad to see Octavius Catto getting written up by @erikloomis.bsky.social. Catto has a nice memorial at Philadelphia’s city hall. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/erik...
Which superhero had the best now defunct civilian supporting cast?
i find wailing about the irrecoverability of anything resembling a society just absolutely contemptible. this all came from nothing and can be returned from it.
I just got this, I’m stoked!
I think it could be cool if it was Langdon’s first day back after addiction treatment.
I was briefly associated with a Koch-funded center, and while I was quickly filtered out I saw firsthand how they funneled promising conservative intellectuals & academics toward funding & professional opportunities. It was remarkable, and I’m sure there’s nothing like it for anything left of center
"Liberalism cannot simply be a procedural set of mechanisms for adjudicating disputes among illiberal groups. Liberalism needs liberals as a political force." www.liberalcurrents.com/pluralism-pa...
I’m representing a couple of employees through some deeply dispiriting processes, and looking down the road at the NLRB being ruled unconstitutional is hard. People talk about how we don’t need institutions like the NLRB, but I don’t see the alternative. Still, optimism of the will, etc etc.
It’s hard to draw lines around these things chronologically. Like, Gramsci included civil society within the concept of the state.
Uhhhh if anyone wants to be my friend it doesn’t have to be cash, we can do Venmo or whatever
Hey, off topic, but good to see you here again
It’s kind of you to ask! It’s only available in a format that has my irl name attached, so I can’t share it here. If I’d know this post was going to get any attention I wouldn’t have mentioned it!
Right, and that explains why the south was fixated on the geographical expansion of slavery. They correctly understood that expanding the reach of slavery carried with it the expansion of the social, political, and economic order known as the slave power.
That is exactly it. A whole society with slavery as its center.
You’re kind to ask. Unfortunately it’s got my irl name attached to it so I can’t point you toward it.
The best writing I’ve ever done was a line by line exegesis of the second inaugural. A beautiful, courageous speech. Incredible to imagine a leader in wartime who could stand in front of his country and say, “we deserve to die for the crimes we have allowed.”
American chattel slavery was many things so terrible as to be almost unspeakable. One of these was an archipelago of rape camps. It was a crime on a world historical scale.
This isn’t going to get a fraction of the coverage the Oberlin banh mi incident did because it doesn’t impact the sliver of society related to elite reproduction. The Atlantic, NYT, and Bari fucking Weiss don’t give a shit what happens at Oklahoma public schools
Oh shit yes!! Been waiting on this one.
Stalin’s mastery of the party bureaucracy fueled his rise to power!
This is true, and I will always have a degree of fondness for Stewart because of it, but he’s yesterday’s man through and through. Utterly unfit for our time.
Among other things, Stewart is completely used up. Yesterday’s man.
To me, part of what we need to do is affirm pluralism as superior the morally, politically, and aesthetically impoverished alternative. Not just a de facto reality to be negotiated, but an ethos that advances the moral claims needed for a common pluralistic society to thrive.
She’s obviously a virulent racist, but are there sources for the rumor she’s a drunk?
the way western journalists abandoned their palestinian colleagues in gaza leaves a black mark on the profession
Bob Dylan, depending where he’s at that day
TS Eliot (tbh I could list most modernist poets), Clint Eastwood, Morrissey, Cormac McCarthy, Frank Miller
I am so hyped for this one. I keep checking the shop!
Pinning this for when I vote for Pritzker
Leaders and elites in every goddam sector of our dumb society looked at Trump 2 and thought “hmm, I bet I can make this work for me!”
It has to do with the mutability of identities. The notion that a Honduran can become an American or a woman become a man is intolerable for people whose personality is structured around these things as concrete and unchangeable.
As I said to someone else, I categorically reject anything that’s finds Steve Rogers is 50/50 a Trump voter. Absolutely not, throw the whole thing out.
I can’t accept anything finding Steve Rogers is about 50/50 a trump voter. Just absolutely not. Throw the whole thing out.
As best as I recall, it involved an open bar, east coast straussians, libertarians in favor of organ harvesting, swingers, and one poor woman the swingers had their sights on but was definitely uninterested.
I know someone who went to a retreat funded by the Koch network and boy did some wild shit happen there
He looks really sweet
Do Philly!
They’re waging war on the very concept of the public
the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies
i wish i could convey to blue wave types who get mad at criticisms of the democratic party that a major factor in the rise of american fascism is that authoritarianism is an outgrowth of elite impunity. the dems have spent decades refusing to hold the rich & powerful accountable for crimes and well,
This is absolutely true. The failure to recognize this fuels people’s embrace of the just world fallacy, which is a viciously cruel belief.
He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad.
I’m reading 999 right now, and it’s mostly great but one or two of the stories really uhhhhh illustrate how norms around depicting people from minority groups have changed.
