This is lunacy.

Bari Weiss not beating the "soft-MAGA, aspiring to be state TV" accusations

Treason against whiteness is loyalty to humanity. Similar idea here!

Unironically my ideology (apart from a very pedantic philosophy of science point).

I had to write about Artemis II. The communion of joy experienced by so many during this historic mission--from the astronauts themselves all the way down to so many of us--was a light in the darkness and a glorious reminder: Great things are still possible. This future can still be ours.

"Real war in Ukraine and the prospect of conflict over Taiwan ought to have made it impossible to pretend that military power, industrial might, and hard security don’t matter." www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

Woke 2.0 is material wokeness. Woke policy that directly target the bottom lines of racist organizations.

Is that covered by the 25th Amendment, or ...

I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason? just a wild country

@moiradonegan.bsky.social and @adriandaub.bsky.social on Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Self-recommending. It's sad that Stanton's late racism overshadows her abolitionism. I could be wrong, but it does seem like a heel turn rather than her feminism being racist all along. @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social

I’m reminded of Martha Nussbaum’s remark on the mirage of “independence”: “Human activity always goes on in complex interdependence. The task of politics must be to imagine forms of interdependence that are human rather than slavish, and to forge those circumstances, where possible, in the world.”

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

Wait, if Vance and Kirk have sex on a couch is it automatically a threesome?

Good discussion of a great speech.

Gonna rock this writer's world when they learn about how the independence of men is underpinned by myriad social supports including, wait for it, the unremunerated labor of women. Good thread.

The probability that any critical term applied to any kind of woman by any group for any reason will eventually be used as a misogynist term of abuse approaches unity. This isn't to say feminists shouldn't coin terms like "white feminist" or "girlboss". It's just to say it sucks that this happens.

Thx to @lioneltrolling.bsky.social for picking up in his substack on the New Yorker fact check blooper I pointed out to him over the weekend. For the full story see my chapter on Brimelow in Hayek’s Bastards or this open access piece in Journal of American Studies👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New Yorker this week: "In the 90s, William F. Buckley had tried to keep paleocons like Brimelow and Buchanan out of mainstream conservatism by banning such ideas from the pages of National Review." Brimelow was a senior editor of NR in the 90s and wrote many articles including cover stories.

literal lol

Great discussion between @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @ibramxk.bsky.social. Kendi's new book looks good, in line with Stamped from the Beginning, a book that really shaped my thinking about how competing ideologies can evolve in tandem. Great Replacement Theory is older than it looks.

Listen I never take the ‘no’ bet on ‘is a popular European politician racist’ but the inability to accept a W when there is literally nothing of value lost from the fall of the Orbán regime is weird

They're calling it the MAGA Heresy. Beautiful heresy. Maybe the biggest heresy in history. Nobody thought we could heresy like this, but we did.

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

Republicans would never.

Anyway, I think Tyler Cowen should ask himself Is this what the virgin AI actress Tilly Norwood would want?

This is the umpteenth graven image Trump has produced blaspheming against their god but these so-called Christians are only now noticing because of high prices at the pump. Better late than never to realize you've elected the Antichrist, I guess.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Tyler Cowen's revealed preference is competitive authoritarianism. That's why he's committed his efforts to boosting and smart-washing what passes for the rightwing intelligentsia.

The moon in the fucking sky. @quinnae.com on the liberalism of joy.

My new piece for @liberalcurrents.com on the origins of the right's anti-intellectualism www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...

THE POPE RESPONDS TO TRUMP: "Blessed are the peacemakers… I don't think the message of the gospel is meant to be abused in the way some are doing it." The guy Christian nationalists are using to impose a theocracy on 🇺🇸 is beefing with the carrier of the actual message of Jesus

These are real posts that Trump posted tonight on Truth Social. The rant attacks primarily the Pope. But also, he basically attacks whoever was in charge in the US when COVID started. Maybe he actually doesn't remember?

We didn't clear house following Reconstruction or following the Civil Rights Movement and we absolutely have to do it next time.

Magyar now polling third in the Iowa caucus.

Feel like the headline from the event is BERNIE TO BILLIONAIRES: GO TO HELL

Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not.

Let's feel good. This is the latest in a string of victories against fascism around the globe. I'm thinking of Koreans thwarting the autogolpe and convicting Yoon Suk Yeol, and Brazilians convicting Bolsonaro. And in the US, we are very well positioned for November midterms.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

Wow. Crazy. It's so democratic to have a representative body where one party can consistently win majorities despite losing the majority of votes. Much to consider.

The news is so good for liberal and democratic and humanitarian and even European reasons. But humiliating JD Vance, who went all the way to Hungary to stump for his man, makes it *great* news.

update: it worked

The struggle of deproletarianization is convincing the proletariat (of the truth) that the socially liberal, social democratic platform of anti-discrimination, worker empowerment, egalitarian tax policy, and robust public goods and services benefits them. Like, a lot.

The granular about Piker himself is totally uninteresting to me overall, but Klein is able to see that from the POV of Third Way in particular they don't actually have an issue with all the dumb or wrong things he says and that there's basically no credibility here if you're unabashedly pro-Israel

Good luck to the people of Hungary. I hope the new government (assuming everything works out in the transition ...) prosecutes corruption in the Orban regime to the fullest extent and implements pro-democratic reforms.

Amia Srinivasan’s “Sex as Pedagogical Failure” should be required reading. Whenever a man in position of authority pursues a subordinate woman, he is changing her trajectory in that space forever. The research on how much even “consensual” affairs hurt the women involved is jaw dropping.

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate (the greatest celebrity-on-celebrity social media takedown of all time)

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

so happy for my emotional support astronauts

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