So considering he reposted that AI medbed thing last night there's a nonzero chance his own advisors have been showing him AI Fox News clips in the oval office and he thinks they're real

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

If two communists don't hate each other, one of them is a fed.

that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

This is so fucking tiresome Instead of yammering on about some “college professor” you just made up (and already want to fire), you could try talking to one of us

I picked the wrong timeline to stop drinking so much coffee

Gonna guess Mỹ Lai is next?

Remarkably, by the rules of the language game around campus politics, not having been in any way connected to a college since you last puked in a dorm common room 30 years ago, actually qualifies you as a keen critic of higher ed.

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Whewwww

Chotiner: I’m just trying to get at the truth here. Heidegger: Truth isn’t correspondence to fact, but the unconcealment of Being. Chotiner: What’s in those notebooks over there? Heidegger: This interview is over.

So is there a Mrs. Chotiner

Vance leads a segment of the right-wing commentariat which seems determined to offer statements as if Donald Trump were not the president. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

Okay this is *very* good

Opa??

“A woman handed him stickers she had made with a picture of bagels and lox and a message urging Jewish voters to support Mr. Mamdani: “Reject the smear campaign — join the schmear campaign.” A rabbi associated with the congregation gave Mr. Mamdani a challah.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

My friend @thomaszimmer.bsky.social is deservedly revered for his magisterial, in-depth analyses of the crisis of American democracy. Please subscribe to his relaunched newsletter Democracy Americana over on Steady and support his important work!

Trump is pronouncing "acetaminophen" the right way. by Ezra Klein

For anyone concerned there may be something to the Tylenol-autism BS, I present:

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

This week on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social: the second part of our episode on Phyllis Schlafly, all about Schlafly’s crusade against the Equal Rights Amendment and the style of politics she pioneered podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Bei Miosga stellt Jens Spahn die republikanische Gleichschaltung der US Medien als bloße Reaktion auf eine angebliche „Cancel Culture“ der Demokraten dar. Und unterstreicht dabei sehr schön, was die Mär vom linken Meinungsdiktat bei vielen ihrer glühendsten Erzähler immer schon vorbereiten sollte.

This is good advice. For instance, you can look up Horst Wessel here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

How Trump survives a half dozen Watergates at once: Three Stooges Syndrome.

“That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them.” —The President of the United States, speaking at a memorial service

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

See, Bluesky is so dead you're wasting your time here but it's also so alive it's distorting the whole field of political debate. Schrodinger's social media site.

It's like there's at least 1-3 impeachable offenses being pooped out every single day including weekends

I try not to engage with BlueSky discourse, but it's worth pointing out that pundits wringing their hands about this site are operating counterfactually. I didn't leave X to go into a fun little bubble or echo chamber. I left X bc it was becoming completely unusable for the thing I used it for (1/3)

Well lucky for them they can hold their “secret gatherings” by simply going to an editorial meeting for any of the country‘s major newspapers or a meeting of any of the UK’s major political parties

Great clarity on how the call for ‘more dialogue’ with MAGA is a dangerous, counterproductive Trojan horse (as it has been for a decade), plus a historical comparison for vital perspective.

It’s downright poignant to have one (1) idea in your life and for that idea to be wrong

This is essentially the Cyrus the Virus strategy for dealing with universities: shut up or the bunny gets it

The notion that Republicans are the more real Americans, whose authenticity Democrats must pay tribute to with imitation, persistence even though it is contradicted by more and more actual empirical evidence.

This. No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued. This process takes at least a couple of years.

Checking what time it is at Disney headquarters

The "woke right" is the new "fetch"

I thought we weren't supposed to talk about Pete Hegseth's grooming standards

Plugging @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social’s ‘Project 1933’ series again, as a compliment to this:

Every day is like a cross between “Who Goes Nazi?” and “…the Aristocrats!”

Biggest story in the world, told in the mainstream press perfectly well: AP/PBS headline: TRUMP'S MOVES AGAINST MEDIA OUTLETS MIRROR AUTHORITARIAN APPROACHES TO SILENCING DISSENT www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

The number of university presidents who beclown themselves to please the far right, only to end up being shark chum anyway just keeps growing

You guys they're just really concerned about women's sports

“All opposing forces seem as though vanished from the face of the earth. It is this utter collapse of powers only recently present, no, their complete disappearance … that I find so staggering.” Victor Klemperer, 1933

WaPo donning its hotdog suit

Gulp www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

Penn State's Eric Hayot knew he could make a convincing case in support of the value of higher ed in the face of these attacks, and he was right. We worked together on this, basing our case in Pittsburgh--but you could make the case with examples from your own community.