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Yes. Two related points: 1) it’s incoherent to say that all speech—even if incorrect, scientifically inaccurate, cruel, or fascist—furthers the marketplace of ideas, except one kind of speech uniquely: “that guy is racist and should be fired,” which is special bad speech that ruins the marketplace…

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Seriously take a moment with these words of the President. This is chilling.

Sometimes I think Trump knows things but pretends not to. Like he knows what asylum means, but he hopes his followers don’t. I really think he has no idea what the American Experiment is/was.

Trying to picture erecting a university statue to a Krassenstein.

I mean. I kind of just want to talk to interesting people and see what they have to say.

I learned scrolling X that they all absolutely hate us. Like a lot. Even when they’re still anti-Trump.

I realized I was out of vanilla extract when making my noodle kugel, so I scraped a vanilla bean which seems too inappropriate and fancy-schmancy for a kugel.

You know what didn’t happen? Pundits going on Gab, Parler, Gettr, or Truth Social to repeatedly say “no one cares about this site, you’re in a bubble, you forfeited your influence, things are awesome on the site you don’t use anymore, so awesome that I come here to tell you you’re dumb unlike me.”

When I assigned it, the students almost always actually finished the reading, so I can vouch for its readability. Kant, on the other hand. Well.

Pro-choice is one of our most popular positions???

This was the absolute norm for any US politician until, well, Trump. Even Mike Pence said it when he was booed at a staging of Hamilton just after they won in 2016.

I just learned that Extremely Offline Husband that he has never heard of Sneakers (?!) so I’m forcing a watch tonight.

Fellow parents of kids with cognitive disabilities: now is the time to be loud and proud about how awesome our kids are, and to emphasize neurodiversity. And to support adult disability activists.

I talk much less about my kids and am far more annoying on here.

Right now I have the worst kind of cold: too sick to want to do the Rosh Hashanah cooking I need to, but not sick enough that I don’t feel guilty about that.

Really not appreciating the recent noticeable increase in misinformation/disinformation aimed at ginning up left-of-center anger right now.

Dems should also make even clearer that there may be criminal charges in non-military circumstances too.

lmao no I would never get hoisted like that, I mean it's my own freaking petard

His greatest sin, if not his greatest crime, is that he has spent a decade molding us into a deeply and proudly shitty people.

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This is like how I am Nostradamus because I predicted what kind of sandwich I would have for lunch

Most Jewish Americans disapprove of the Trump administration withholding funds from colleges to address anti-Jewish sentiment, according to a new survey.

What the right wing resents most about us is that we have so much more cultural power. We should use it.

And with that, the FCC left Disney alone forever

I checked on Twitter to see how the right wing was defending firing Jimmy Kimmel, and the line from the people who are into Fox News was: “It’s not cancel culture! He said something inaccurate! In real time, not in old tweets!”

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

I did not think The Man Show would generate two important political figures of our dark times.

Milo. Can get people banned. For being offensive. Milo. Is a trusted source. On what’s abhorrent to decent sensibilities. Milo.

Went through a phase in junior year in high school where I really went for this vibe Melania has going here. Maudlin music was listened to, bad poetry was written.

One thing to consider is whether the GOP’s massive electoral success in the past decade happened because they compensated for their weaknesses or doubled down on their strengths. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

Glad to have the reassurance that they carefully verify before a missile strike that they are not hitting innocent fishermen.

I’m going to be spending a lot of time in the coming days who believe this and I may have to give up Bluesky a few days before so I’m less primed to lose my shit.

G and D are warring for dominance. I’m also struggling to figure out the lowest ranked.

Look, I loathe handing it to the UK, but this is gorgeous.

I can never quite predict which celebrity deaths will hit me hard, but I’m feeling Robert Redford. I was just saying literally yesterday that I wanted to see Ordinary People again. Dude had just such a likable presence, and was a part of so many good movies over so many years.

I read this expecting to side against Ruth Shalit Barrett, and she did fuck up, but when I read the actual complaint from a couple of years ago, I think the Atlantic also fucked up badly www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...

In light of recent events I am moving “woke 19 year olds” down to “tied for 1st” in my rankings of threats to the First Amendment

you know what, in the spirit of this, just throwing this out there: are there any people who know detailed history of the secularization of the Teutonic Order-State under Albert, Duke of Prussia? I need it for a half-written fantasy book.

The administration that cares so deeply about fighting antisemitism is blaming wealthy Jewish donors for funding political violence in the US.

Empathy is neither necessary nor sufficient for morally right behavior. But if you teach yourself that empathy is a temptation you must resist to see the world clearly and act in the interest of humanity, you will think your worst impulses are correct.

This is what David Brooks meant when he said a conservative had texted him that Kirk was their George Floyd. They didn't mean that Kirk was a victim of a profound injustice. In the conservative mind, Floyd was used as a symbolic pretext to reorient society. They want to use Kirk that way.

This is the exact facial expression I want from my necromancer.

TIL that many people other than me thought The Pitt was better than a “Hey, pretty good, quite entertaining, B+” show

Some of the same people who said it wasn’t just permissible, but obligatory, to bring up the negatives about George Floyd’s life are getting people fired for bringing up the unsavory parts of Kirk’s.

"Basically, the parts of my brain that tell my mouth how to produce speech are gradually shutting down. Over time my speech is likely to worsen, and eventually I may not be able to speak at all."

She could have said much worse than she did and her firing would still have been evidence of a purge to make the paper white.

My husband swears we hate-watched this together when we were grad students but I’ve managed to wipe out the memory of even a single frame.

Well they were both people that said jaw-droppingly racist things in a twinkly way, and were polite to white moderates who found them oddly charming. One was “at least not as bad as the John Birch Society,” the other “at least not as bad as Nick Fuentes.” Buckley used bigger words, though.