Um, excuse me. The richest African American is clearly Elon Musk. 🤓

That’s wild cause Black people were just trying to go to work without dealing with racism, sorry you had to endure that tho

Dumas' FATHER was born to a French count and an enslaved African women in Haiti. The Père was then brought to France, was educated, served in the military, etc. "The Black Count" is a fantastic book about him. His son is the author Alexander Dumas, and he based Count of Monte Cristo on his Dad.🇭🇹

This is important for men to say. I have interviewed candidates for clerkships and associate positions and in finance. I have written some letters - not many. This is not how men behave. This is not what I have been asked. This is not what I have said.

Good lord. This video is wild. Click if you want more reasons to hate New Atheists.

It's genuinely just this.

Liberals and Georgists and feminists and Marxists and Christians agree. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-centripe...

I can see why Lukianoff has zero following on this platform and hasn't posted yet. He'd last about three minutes here getting this kind of bullshit take eviscerated, and go back to X with his tail between his legs sobbing to Robby Soave and Claire Lehmann about "incivility" and "echo chambers."

I honestly see both sides of this. I demanded my congressperson vote for no funding of DHS, even on a temporary basis. Democrats should strike while the iron of public mood is hot. But isolating DHS from other funding sets the debate on favorable terrain for Democrats.

How to treat the stranger, the foreigner, the immigrant, is an ancient moral question. Certainly far older than the modern state. Shakespeare, the Bible, the Stoics, Buddhism, all seem to agree that treating the stranger with hostility is abhorrent.

The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...

Yep, we need more high quality progressive video content. I just hope it's actually progressive and not mealy-mouthed centrism.

do not honestly know if this title is literal or metaphorical

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

MAGA despises this about the arts, their power to evoke the universality of humanity in the face of evil hate. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...

The American people make their Heel-Face Turn.

They went broke giving away personal pan pizzas to book-reading millennials. 😔

Good for her. She knows what he did. He made her take those antibiotics.

in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits

i'm skipping woke² and going straight to trans³

Wyden was doing the same “hey, over here!” routine about the §215 bulk phone program long before anyone heard the name Edward Snowden.

There should be zero exceptions for a rogue agency that you're going to abolish. #AbolishICE #AbolishDHS

Kamala Harris mused about price controls for food for about five minutes in fall 2024, & the entire country & national media lost its stuff over “SOCIALISM!!!” 🤔🤷‍♂️ Happy week, everyone.

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

"Why would the director of national intelligence ignore the country of Georgia and instead investigate the state of Georgia? Because she’s not interested in foreign threats. She’s working with Trump to conquer the people he regards as his true enemy: blue America." www.thebulwark.com/p/why-is-tul...

Actually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.

Maybe putting an Assadist tankie in charge of national intelligence was a poor idea

What if I told you that for the anarchist, setting dumpsters on fire is not just some means to an end. No, Neo. What I'm trying to tell you is: setting dumpsters on fire *is* the end.

A statement against doomerism as some kind of intellectually elevated, clued-in reaction to the horrors of our political moment.

Related: A lot of folks think having the maximally cynical read on everything makes them savvy, but a reflexive cynicism is just a kind of inverted naïveté

Fellow shitlib, not a Marxist and wholly lacking radical chic, and I concur.

This. Also: 1) it should be easy to move to the US 2) It should be easy to work in the US 3) It should be easy to become a US citizen Welcome to my TED talk.

Democrats should run on abolishing illegal immigration entirely. Can't be an illegal immigrant if immigration is legal!

Quick way to end chaos at the border and radically reduce illegal immigration is to legalize immigration generally, and provide an easy path to citizenship.

I am told very strongly that we must preserve economic inequality because it comes from modern, nonzero-sum gains from innovation, unlike ancient zero-sum wealth. Really, we should be grateful to Jeff Bezos for all he has given us.

facts may not care about your feelings, but a lot of people prioritize their ideological feelings over facts

Libertarian economists appeal to a qualitative difference between ancient economies based on zero-sum plunder and modern ones based on nonzero-sum trade and innovation. Inequality arising from the former is bad, but inequality from the latter is good. 🧵

Washington Post’s new motto: “Democracy dies in dark irony and plutocratic venality.”

Really nails the Bari Weiss Contrarian Pundit Complex: Rather than admit to a mistake, cry "cancel culture" and elevate inexcusable people, then call yourself a hero for "standing up to the woke mob."

This really generalizes beyond Marxism to every careful, systemic theorizing. It was all so much dumber and more basically evil than anyone was prepared for.

This is well done, and speaks directly to my main complaint about criticisms of concern about inequality.

This, by David Lay Williams, is excellent on many fronts! Here is one: “when we struggle with problems today that resemble those of the past…it strikes me as foolish simply to discount the treasure of long-cherished wisdom.” Yes! And new wisdom surely comes of struggling with theirs.

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you're deporting and killing people who are on the inside and who have lived most of their lives here. Johnson doesn't realize it and wouldn't agree with it, but his love/hate line is an argument for amnesty.

Come to Charlottesville this May for a weekend about liberalism, ethics, civic virtue, and public religion. Feat @jamellebouie.net, @hollybfletcher.bsky.social, @sarahposner.bsky.social, @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com, @shortle.bsky.social and more! www.pulaskiinstitution.org/events/for-g...

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

If they Charles Murray, you flee in a hurry.

Absolute cinema