it's basically impossible to argue with this, they have won significant policy concessions, and there's no reason to think they'll stop pushing now that Labour have opened the door for them

In big cities, no one gives a fuck about you (laudatory)

Larry Summers (World Bank/Clinton admin/Harvard president/Obama admin) yukking it up with Jeffrey Epstein about women being dumb and society coming down too hard on perverts makes me wonder how all women are not constantly Becoming The Joker

👇 the only thing keeping me from being utterly consumed by thirst for vengeance is my boundless compassion for the entire human race

seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email

Decolonise Naboo!

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

this is exactly what's happening

lmao come on

Vance and co. like to insist it’s not “regime change” because there’s no plan to shore up a successor government — the aim is to leave a vacuum that we periodically bomb into submission

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

It's pretty clear that Vance either is a neo-Nazi himself or strongly sympathises with neo-Nazi ideology.

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

been reading about the glorious revolution and it’s funny that this event that looms so large in the history of British parliamentary govt and thus world liberal democracy was straightforwardly the Dutch doing a regime change as part of their geopolitical struggle against France

i am truly grateful that all my haters are motivated exclusively by jealousy, if there was any other component to it that would do my head in

watching the DHS accounts do barely obscured Nazi-posts has soured me on internet memes and in-jokes

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

It's always striking how readily Trump can change course if he's exposed to other voices. Perhaps the most tragic irony of the Trump era is that Trumpism would not be half as dangerous without Trump, yet Trump would not be half as dangerous if he weren't surrounded by Trumpists

Casting Joan of Arc based on how well the actress can do Fleabag...

The puzzle pieces are starting to fit together — Trump's individual authoritarian policies adding up to a concrete system that could render elections durably unfair www.vox.com/politics/462...

george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh

Who else choosing B? 🤤

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

The university that invented modern neoliberalism going too hard into speculative investments and ending up destroying itself through a debt trap is a bit too on the nose

Yep, I reported this several weeks ago. William Pulte, a Trump loyalist, is using the FHFA bureaucracy to help Trump gin up fake pretexts for prosecutions of his enemies. One former IG told me: “From beginning to end, this process is highly irregular." newrepublic.com/article/1980...

Look at what happened to divorce rates in Mexico when some areas extended the school day by 3.5 hours! Why did divorce rates go up as a result of the change? "The availability of childcare...translate[d] into increased bargaining power and economic independence for women."

This is my rough taxonomy of how US politics is being reorganised (with each column being one type). I'd estimate 80 or 90 percent of influential news media personalities lie in this spectrum. That's why they seems so cozy with neo-Nazis like Hanania or the Bugmunch blogger guy.

RFK Jr. et al seem to have bred stochastic terrorism. MN political assassin tells Glenn Beck's outlet his plan was "citizen arrests" of lawmakers responsible deaths from taking the Covid vaccine. www.theblaze.com/news/exclusi...

This is what my own first drafts are like tbh.

I spoke with 40+ sources for a look inside the Anti-Defamation League. Here’s some of what I found. ADL’s gentle response to Elon Musk’s infamous salute was partially driven by his support of Israel. To ADL, that indicated he didn’t have “antisemitic tendencies.” (1/x) nymag.com/intelligence...

Thought this was a fun cartoon.

The good news is that all men are brothers animated by the same hopes and fears. This is also the bad news.

I don't think "divorced guy" is widely enough recognized as a political affiliation

My take on the play is that it's either an antisemitic comedy spoiled by a moment of great humanity, or it's an inspiring statement about humanity ruined by being stuck in an antisemitic comedy.

Excruciatingly embarrassing

This person👇 Trump Fires 6 N.S.C. Officials After Oval Office Meeting With Laura Loomer www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

Opinion | America is a nation of stupid assholes and our laws and institutions should reflect that.

Wow that’s broad. Incredibly broad. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

"Wildcat cop strikes are probably the most insane regular occurrence that is never actually talked about." “police kidnap de blasio’s daughter and issue veiled threat demanding the mayor authorize specific tactics” is a thing that happened and was a blip in the press bsky.app/profile/star...

I had such a viscerally negative reaction to the film "I Care a Lot" and to Rosamund Pike's character in it that I had to do self-criticism to check if I was being sexist in how I treated men vs women as "charming villain" characters. Let myself off the hook when I remembered I loved "Gone Girl".

Douthat: I think you’d prefer the human race to endure, right? Thiel: Uh — Douthat: You’re hesitating. Thiel: Well, I don’t know. I would — I would — Douthat: This is a long hesitation! Thiel: There’s so many questions implicit in this. Douthat: Should the human race survive? Thiel: Uh — Yes.

Someday someone will write a history of the Trump administration that consists entirely of graphs that suddenly go unexpectedly vertical.

WOW. Breaking news from ABC that has the potential to cast serious doubts on today’s indictment of Mr. Abrego Garcia.

the problem with artificial intelligence is what it does.

Unfortunately on here it’s a badge of honor to be proudly incurious about this stuff. It’s a real shame. If the water stuff was actually true, I would way *less* worried about AI’s social effects: it would cost more, be more expensive, and likely be more thoughtfully used.

It is weird and a problem to have a problem president who is completely divorced from his admins own policy actions. Except on tariffs, I guess.