Orwell never said "In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." It's genuinely embarrassing that a big-budget documentary that was a TIFF and Cannes selection would include this bullshit quote in its trailer. Trailer: youtu.be/SQ8l6HSCWBw?...

Spent last hour and a half looking for a quote I swear existed but can’t find anywhere fml guess I’m skipping lunch

Look at the ratio.

Being in the writing business requires that you grasp very early on--and get over--the fact that people like this are going to be handed elite jobs in your field that they very obviously do not deserve. It's not healthy to be bitter about it, but it is necessary now and then to point it out.

local business elites are mad their power doesn't transfer to the federal gov't, tech billionaires are mad their power over the economy doesn't immediately give them ultimate power over culture, the academy, and public opinion, etc.

one way to think of the right today is that it consists of people who have a lot of power over one or more domains who are mad that it doesn't immediately translate to power over all other domains.

this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child

it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

Hongkongers by and large have stayed on Instagram and Threads. In the Chinese version of this statement issued by Ellie Yuen, a local journalism student with bylines in NBC, she alluded to "obvious and irresistible forces", a phrase often used in Mainland China to refer to threats from authorities

Doing my usual hate reading from the least serious New York immigrant Douglas Murray.

must emphasize again that the government and courts have not only attacked trans rights built in the last 15 years and that were *explicitly envisaged as part of the Equality Act they are using to attack them* but forcing a rollback of *decades-old* policies by individual groups.

Let's just say that I'm resigned to the fact thay it's almost impossible for me to do the kind of data+accountability+solutions journalism without having someone knock at my parents' door had I returned to Hong Kong, and I'm really concerned that America is going down that same oppressive path.

For what it's worth, my experience was the exact opposite. I found my students this semester to be more engaged and excited about the work than they have been in years.

Dude should have been bullied harder.

this really isn’t an exaggeration

This is a stark example of how transphobia strips GCs of basic empathy. She doesn’t see the trans girl guides as worthy of any respect, or even as actual children being isolated from activities and their friends. They are hand-waved away as “boys”. Ghoulish - rotten dog shit where her soul should be

If you look at the subtext, Johann believes that men and women aren't equals, can never be equals, and the only way for women to be happy is to have men at a significant distance. She's a vile, pathetic woman who wants other women to be miserable.

Rowling made it clear after the Supreme Court decision, they don't just want to win, they also want the rest of us to agree with them AND to apologize for ever having been against them - they're not just evil wankers they're sad little losers to boot

When you're a targetted the people doing it want you to sign off on their cruelty so they never have to question their decisions when the day is over. It's why they obsess over detransitions and gay transphobes.

It’s the mark of an amateur – in journalistic writing, book writing, TV, whatever – that they think ideas are the currency, where the value is, and need fiercely protecting. Everyone has ideas. Usually ten before breakfast. Executing them well is the hard bit.

This cretin appeared on John Anderson Media. An Australian youtube channel run by our former deputy Prime Minister.

I just want everyone to know that I think about this Guardian article once every three days.

a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

in particular, every scientist I know who left academia was amazed at how much better they were treated in the private sector.

maybe the simplest encapsulation of the difference between childhood and adulthood is that magic as a child is something that just happens and magic as an adult is something you need to be open to experiencing

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

Once in a blue moon I doubt my communication abilities. That doubt was killed after I read this paragraph.

i want to thank olivia nuzzi for giving me the confidence to start seriously considering writing a book.

This is vitally important. As I've written, the left has a serious pipeline problem (www.vox.com/on-the-right...) and Liberal Currents is exactly the kind of place that could help solve it. Give them the money they need!

Some of many beautiful and creative illustrations that Tolkien drew for his Christmas letters to his children.

something this shows incredibly well is that the NCR isn't just human wave attacks. They use their superior numbers wisely to overwhelm the enemy through skillful usage of combined arms.

I didn't play the games until my 20s. It has been a process of realising "No, this isn't a meme. It's literally said/done in-game."

It's really worth pausing for a moment to reflect on just how badly education has been fucked under capitalism, in which students are increasingly no longer being assigned books or meaningful reading & analysis of any kind. In which gamifying "outcomes" overshadows, well, education.

The man banks on the ignorance of his audience which is vast.

Douglas has always been like this. He gets away with it because he's media trained and he's from Eton.

"This week the woke right took to saying that people who are black aren't properly British" complains Danny Finkelstein. No, Danny, Douglas Murray, who you patronised, promoted and admired, has been saying *exactly this* for over a decade. archive.ph/2025.11.12-0...

The British New Right's younger members are very into rhetorical friend/enemy fights as it gets you out of the trap of having to articulate the policies you want being incompatible with your base of pensioners

They also bring it up in every conversation and repeat gender essentialist points as a mantra. At times, it's the only thing they'll discuss amongst themselves.

when I organized a drag queen story hour at my university a few years back we immediately got an email from a national right-wing news organization asking questions. there were department parties bigger than this event—that's how obsessed the right is with college everything that happens at college.

People who would never make a stand for anything beyond money not only find it hard to believe others would, but despise how that realisation makes them feel about themselves.

Very good @davidjroth.bsky.social on the Oklahoma essay grift. defector.com/the-conserva...

Me logging onto this website on this fine day after a Halo session: youtu.be/Kar3E2qkYrM

Democratic Socialists reacting to the Russian Situation, 1920.

Exhibit A: this map Exhibit B: the whole thread in all its psychotic nationalist glory

one of the funniest things about this is that the colors are actually the stance on the falklands war (which would still be dumb and not support their point, tbc), but OP is so bad at communicating that everyone thinks the map is supposed to be a direct representation of colonists vs colonizers

People mistakenly believe that George Orwell’s “Burmese Days” were written about the absurdity and horror he saw while acting as a colonial policeman in British Burma. They’d be wrong of course. If one consulted this map they’d understand Orwell was actually speaking about Gatlinburg Tennessee.