considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
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considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
It’s not that Klein doesn’t take the right seriously. It’s that people like him take the right TOO seriously. They examine right-wing beliefs as an extension of valid policy objections, rather than almost entirely arising from the right giving people permission to indulge in inchoate resentments
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
Tech people are insane
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
I am simply too masculine
I was doing something super heroic and cool before I got in a car accident, please do not look into this any further
The new Elizabeth Gilbert memoir sounds absolutely berserk www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
yes exactly tho I kinda hate that we've settled on the "high trust vs low trust" terminology since the supposedly "low trust" group is hilariously trusting! they are defined by being gullible, credulous rubes who trust claims by others instead of critically interrogating them
On principle, yes, we provide health care to prisoners. Not doing so would be inhuman. We can quibble about the details of what that includes but it’s fundamentally insane they were able to turn this into a decisive national issue.
The most frustrating thing about Harris’s alleged gaffe on trans prisoners is that almost no one bothered to defend it on the merits. But the policy is fine: When the state provides healthcare it should also provide transition care!
Looking at airbnbs in Zagreb and this is the energy I want to bring back to my home
The other thing is, in a time when Donald Trump has won two presidential elections I simply don't believe that a candidate has to do this sort of too clever by half triangulation to win! If you're not good enough at politics to avoid throwing your own constituencies under the bus then don't run
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
I have never seen a more 'maam this is a wendy's'-ass article
No he didn't. That isn't true. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/m...
What's dangerous about these accumulated choices to cover the end of constitutional rule of law as a debate between reasonable sides is that it reflects a deep truth about constitutionalism: that the rules of the game are established purely by convention & the alignment of mutual expectation.
I am talking about the turtle
It’s really hard to do insightful satire of right-wing weirdos because almost any ridiculous stance you can come up with, they’ll just express freely without a shred of irony.
The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.
why do the bananas need to move around
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
It’s so weird that people latched onto a bunch of mostly bullshit justifications for disliking a technology that has immediate obvious negative societal externalities. It’s made it way harder to teach writing but people scream about imaginary lakes evaporating.
Put this one in The Atlantic’s hall of fame, alongside “what if Democrats can’t admit they lost”
Many people are saying
imagine being so offputting that even these losers turn on you
Jesus, I’ve seen what Anne Hidalgo has done for Paris, and I want Mamdani to do it for us. Amen 🙏
goes without saying but the actual videos are the least sexy thing I've ever seen. He is gooning to the Polar Express x.com/KShiverz/sta...
"this seems to go against population" is the clear winner
The "concerns" aren't based on anything except replies to his horny AI tweets but they are kind of fascinating
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
It is less a mass deportation regime as it is a mass kidnapping and indefinite detention regime
this would be so healing
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
Speaking of which, the only purpose of a question like this is to add to the panic. The problem of political intolerance is *extremely* concentrated on the American right and appears in every aspect of its policy agenda. Left-wingers being rude to their conservative uncles isn’t a real problem.
This is a poorly framed question. Lots of conservatives would cut off a family member for being LGBT, for example, but that doesn’t clock as a ‘political view’ to them. Also, the narrative that leftists cut off their conservative family members too easily is extremely widespread on the right.
I’m an affiliate, how dare you
The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
“I’m not racist, some of my best chatbots are black”
#rowsdower
this is I'm afraid an actual saying that goes back some way. all it means is 'if somebody has a bad reputation, then people will interpret all of their actions badly' it's just weird because of the dog thing. the alt "he that has an ill name is half hanged" is better
this is from a 1936 self-help book and I hope the author is making it up
This saying fuckin sucks dude
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I feel like an op-ed written by undergraduates that contains the phrase “to us, the solution is deceptively simple” would stand to benefit from some ruthless feedback before publication.
The highlighted quote in the second image is quite something. “Mom says you have to let me play with you.”
Unfortunately, this isn't limited to elites. Every Baby Boomer whom I know personally is opposed to everything that's happening right now, but not so opposed that they would do something unthinkable like be rude to their Republican nephews or friends or landscapers.
5 anecdotes in a trenchcoat: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/m...
@jerusalem.bsky.social makes an accurate observation on Twitter about the true nature of the right’s project - eliminating trans people. I am curious if we will see The Argument cover the implications of this observation - that there is no grand bargain to be made on trans rights (cont)
Why is the answer never to respect that voters are adults who make choices? The loud, repeated message is “close hospitals and nursing homes in my community, taking money from cities to pay for them makes me feel left behind.” You don’t have to agree, but have the respect to listen.
The insurrectionists succeeded. It just took awhile.
It's more of a lifestyle
My point is that he could have spoken to the dozens of academics who study this for a living rather than simply wondering out loud!
I love the idea of a guerilla umlaut www.the-berliner.com/english-news...
Just say you started listening to If Books Could Kill and Maintenance Phase, this is taking forever
"I wonder," writes professional journalist for nation's most prestigious publication. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
Fucking losing it how little of the reporting I’m reading about the CDC not mentioning how an anti-vaxxer gunman killed a police officer and fired hundreds of rounds at the building 2 weeks ago. An end to end ouroborous of delusional mania. The GOP will probably give the shooter a posthumous medal.
among many other topics that the political press would normally make a huge deal out of but ignored for Trump in 2024 is how comically unqualified and unprepared JD Vance is to be President, especially in context of aging Trump's at-best-mysterious health. US senator for 2 years and that's about it
First time I've sobbed at the end of a video essay
Literally what's the action, JD?
I'm going to be honest if the only thing keeping the United States from becoming a fascist autocracy was that no college professors post the word "diversity" on social media for 24 hours you should just move somewhere else because that scale of message discipline is not humanly possible
little known fact: In 2020, Republicans lost the White House and the Senate.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
I really want to highlight this screenshot because that first sentence is so powerful. Instead of closing rank around their opinions and their principles, they just... stopped. I know speaking up is hard, but goddamn, what a let-down for the people doing real work.
"students with different views must talk to each other without prejudgment" sounds fine at first but is nonsense after three seconds of thought. "Poles are wrong" is prejudgment. "Nazis are wrong" is just judgment. The quest for viewpoint diversity is undermining the project of rational inquiry
Well, I really hoped this piece would spark some debate, mostly because I *want* to be proven wrong! Please read the piece. My view is that Trump has made extraordinary progress on most of these items, but what constitutes an endpoint is up for debate.
some personal news, I finally joined tiktok
Food insecurity isn’t even lingo lol
it remains genuinely shocking how much Trump 2.0 is anti-treatler - making everyone’s hobbies and small pleasures worse and more expensive - and how little this has impeded his authoritarian consolidation because the elites don’t care
Matty Yglesias personifies the trolling, soulless fail-upward engagement hounding pseudo-intellectual brunchlord bullshit that has devoured modern American media
Boiling some eggs
Also fascinating how many well-regarded senior scientists have gone all in on this. Pondering a forthcoming essay collection on the political threats to science from…the American left?
When the links work they direct to onlyfans for hot (probably AI generated) cis women! I can’t imagine marketing on grindr is the best strategy
Oh yeah definitely
The profiles are generated to get around word filters or they’re a weird pastiche of generic dating-profile tropes. They often link to Twitter accounts that don’t work.
‘“What are you looking for on here?” Fertile cis women a three-hour flight away!
The spam on grindr has gotten really fucking weird
Everyone Has to Be Nice to Me, by the Harvard Crimson Editorial Board
That's right, the reason Germany has so many fewer mass shootings than America is because they don't have antidepressants.
That's right, we're influencers podnews.net/press-releas...
why not just click on the link I provided if it's so important to you
How long are we going to have to put up with mush like this? Frowns? Muttering? The humanity! Also, what do you mean ad hominem attacks were "just as harmful?" Surely they were more? Dreck elevated in the discourse so readily, you're not even expected to make the strongest version of the argument.
Bluesky replies not beating the "annoying as fuck" allegations
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"they started it" is a great justification for starving children and leveling cities
Powerful actors making false empirical claims that have the potential to weaken the only bulwark to fascism in America we have right now? I dunno, hard to say!
"children should not be starved" takes precedence for me but you do you!
You'd think journalists would brag about something like, "We stood with Palestine early, when it was wildly unpopular, because we knew it was right." But nope! In 2025 you earn kudos by bragging about how nice you were to each other while you abandoned any pretense of having moral values.
This is the triumph worthy of an article-length humblebrag in the New York Times: "We once published an editorial criticizing Israel. But then, as Israel began murdering tens of thousands of innocent people, we issued a generic take that ignored the merits of its actions."
