Always come back to this observation from @adamserwer.bsky.social

They really are just making sh*t up to ensure past, present, and future white people aren't asked to account for or remedy the impacts of racial discrimination. They're just trying to apply orginalism to people's actions now

Originalism but applying it to people

i am not going to pretend there’s a debate about what heritage american means. there is not. the debate over whether there’s a debate is a means of infiltration and normalization. if we are going to debate this then we must also debate if 2 and 2 make 5. it’s no less obviously stupid and malignant.

Tonight you will be visited by the ghosts of three gender studies majors, each warning you that you’ll have to burn off in hell after death all the sins you accumulated in your futile effort to be a real man in life …

An industry is 100% white: nothing to see here An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die

I went on Matt Bernstein's podcast to talk about Samantha Fulnecky's attempt to ride the Riley Gaines grift train. @kattenbarge.bsky.social youtu.be/_IQHeSKOeMs?...

Only 60 pages in and @milleridriss.bsky.social's book "Man Up" is phenomenal! So glad I picked it up

They only wanted to ensure: (a) slurs could be used without consequence (b) they couldn't be criticized There aren't any principles here. Just a way to gain power and capture institutions to launder their bad ideas and undermine legitimate knowledge centers in the name of "free speech"

these are the kind of numbers that, *at the end of a president's term*, herald a total wipeout for his party in the next election. we are in december of year one.

this just has me thinking about how so much of this government and the movement around it is purely a matter of aesthetics. is there a strategic reason for produce a new warship? maybe. but my hunch is that this is happening because the president thinks it will look cool.

He ran on violent racist pogroms you fucking dickbags! Straight up blood libel. How have so many people already memory holed an election that’s barely a year old?!

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

Thank you to Fredricka Whitfield and @cnn.com for having me on today to talk about the recent political attacks on gender-affirming medical care for adolescents with gender dysphoria.

Exactly. I wrote about this here> www.liberalcurrents.com/the-heritage...

Since there seems to be a flurry of Yglesias discourse on here today, here is my take. He recently joined the moral panic over teaching about race--on the side of the racists. And he gets critical race theory wrong because he superficially engages with it.

Utterly shocked that the same party that attacks schools, doesn't want to fund SNAP, is making healthcare inaccessible, and doesn't care about gun violence *also* wants to make it illegal to provide gender affirming care. Transphobic? Yes. But bigger picture: Republicans just hate children

I’m sick to my stomach over these efforts to eradicate trans kids. Make no mistake, the goal is to stamp a group of people out of existence. It’s horrifying and violent and a bunch of Democrats support it.

Biden was the kind of old where you take away the car keys. Trump is the kind of old where you don't let him near the grandchildren

Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives. It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.

Horrific. Shame on *any* person that supports this kind of legislation

Really kind of dispiriting to realize how many men in my world see the women and people of color in their lives as thieves and obstacles to their thriving.

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

Those purported liberals should've seen through this bullshit the minute the Right claimed to care about "protecting girls." But plenty of those purported liberals are perfectly comfortable with the kind of soft sexism this logic implies.

"Yglesias claims to think “rights are good,” but would have us ignore how neutral rules can be used to deny people their rights. Earlier this month, the Trump Department of Justice issued a memo that follows from Yglesias’s reasoning" www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

It’s not every book that makes my breath catch in my throat. This is one of those books. @milleridriss.bsky.social shows how misogyny acts as a catalyst for violence and how patriarchy drives anti-scientific thinking, racism, and conspiracy movements @princetonupress.bsky.social #manup #patriarchy

Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.

Read @parkermolloy.com on the rules of grief. www.readtpa.com/p/the-rules-...

One citizen said that federal agents in Idaho pointed guns at her children, ages 6 and 8, and dragged her 14-year-old daughter out of a truck and zip-tied her. The mother told investigators that an agent threatened to “fucking blow your head off.” By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

Republicans don't care about kids in general. George Carlin had it right that Republicans only care about you before you're born and when you can join the military. The years in between are a black hole into which Republicans spit

We’re closing in on two decades of Republicans telling you, in no uncertain terms, that they do not care about kids being shot dead. In schools, in movie theaters, at church, in the street. They. Do. Not. Care. But hey, at least they’re good at racism and destroying the economy, amirite.

It is mind boggling that they are explicitly acknowledging that the president is weaponizing federal funding to impose a partisan agenda (which is literal fascism) but then they blame those resisting this fascism for the consequences. This is an abuser’s mentality plain and simple.

I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.

Call me old-fashioned but I think the president should not try to kill the First Amendment, the tourism industry, and the universities

Conservatives being shocked at the logical endpoint of their ideological commitments would be funny if it wasn't so costly to everyone who cares about democracy, equal rights, common decency, etc.

tearing down confederate statues is an affront to history but erasing abolitionists supports their segregationist goals, so it's just fine

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

There must be a million iconic images of nature they could have chosen, but in a personalist regime you are forced to carry the image of the man damaging the national parks you are visiting

There does not exist a hot dog suit big enough nor a face eating leopard ferocious enough to serve as an adequate metaphor for Chris Rufo complaining about right wing media becoming conspiracy addled click bait

I also think it’s rooted in *lots* of people wanting to avoid the clear implications of their friends and family members voting for (and cheering) an open white supremacist. Better to pretend it’s a gaffe or insincerely held campaign strategy than to ruin Christmas dinner.

A lawyer who helped lead Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election was also heavily involved in lawsuits seeking to ban trans women from sports. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social took a deep look at the strategies and coordination behind sports bans in one of our most read pieces this year.

Behold, an elderly man in the throws of complete cognitive decline. He is living in an extended delusion that’s being fed and encouraged by the sycophants around him, so that they can run the country for their own evil purposes.

this joke plagues transphobes because it’s an incredibly cutting take on what the modern transphobic panic is, a hysterical panic based off of a lie that transness is fake and that there is an intentional effort from the right to prop up this wedge to destroy all LGBTQ rights

damn that’s a lot of economic anxiety

main economic message from the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it

Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups. This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.

becoming clear that most of trump’s cabinet positions actually see themselves as “secretary of dudes getting jacked,” the one thing these guys have any actual interest in, the single bit of advice they remember from a jordan peterson audiobook they half listened to, and they all suck at it.