Incredibly glad that we have the ADL to stop this kind of thing by uhhh organizing to have college students who say Free Palestine deported

There’s gonna be reporting, prosecutions, and then historians writing about the corrupting influence of foreign agents on this regime for decades and decades.

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

The central question of our political era is “who was president before Jan. 20th, 2021?”

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

After Douthat says Trumpism is pressuring institutions "to do the right thing," his first example of that "right thing"—the "civic purpose"—is resegregation in higher education

maybe empathetic coverage of trans people and the way the govt is coming down on them is a better use of a writer's time, and would be better shared by a politician. similarly maybe one on undocumented migrants, their stories. maybe the loved ones of someone who died bc they couldn't get an abortion

I agree it’s good to convert voters. The thing that DC Dems can’t seem to get into their thick skulls is that kumbaya listening sessions convert no one. What converts people is creating a social penalty for stupid beliefs and ideas

Imagine cooking on this level

The Guardian editorial board says recognition must serve as a start, a call to action, and not the end or a symbolic move. Sanctions, meaningful economic and diplomatic pressure, and an ironclad pathway to a resolution of the conflict is necessary.

the 2019-2023 House was majority pro-choice!!!

my crank theory that profanity is a shortcut to authenticity lines up with this nicely because I believe the big English profanities generally have Germanic roots

i hear what you're saying but "then i will face god and walk backwards into hell" is one of the best sentences english has ever conceived and i sometimes forget its about getting banned from the zoo for hollering at the monkeys

John Roberts's "there's no such thing as corruption" and "the president has the right to use the DOJ as his personal law firm" jurisprudence is really working out well for us.

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Primaries in New York are extremely high value because of how much of the party, media and donor class live here.

Embrace enlightened centrism and realize Schumer Bad and Trump Bad are both subspecies of Specific Type of Guy From New York Bad and strategically align your political support accordingly. Critical support to Comrade Mamdani against STGFNYism and long live the Great Khan of the Plains.

AOC 2028 let's fucking go

Actually, I would like an experienced feminist writer to do it. I have the logic but not the expertise to make something good here.

didn’t you quite literally write a book about how supermajority thinking was killing the government

"Corruption is sometimes described as a victimless crime, just skimming from a bottomless pool of government cash. The story of the [NYPD] under Mr. Adams should put that idea to rest" Great column on how SCOTUS's gutting of public corruption laws helped get us here www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

unilateral polarization of the right is in fact the big problem facing the democratic world but unfortunately you cannot stop it by lying about why it is happening

the difference between me and guys like klein is that he thinks we should study the right to learn their values and i think we should study the right to learn their tactics

Yeah this is the correct diagnosis. His astounding ability to give charity to almost any argument runs into huge problems with people who are using arguments as domination tools. Sometimes he can lay bare the fragility an incoherence during an interview but this falls away in his direct commentary.

idk if disney/sinclair/nexstar understand how bad they fucked up by angering the disney influencers. i don’t fear god or kpop stans but i do fear disney adults.

Emil Bove should be prosecuted for this btw. Doesn't matter that he's on the bench.

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?

One additional way we gotta work to defund the right is to abolish school voucher programs and crack down hard on charters.

Pretty clear that running socialists within the Democratic Party has been the most successful electoral & rhetorical strategy of US socialists in 40 years

Unlike Donald Trump, most Americans believe in the ideals on which our nation was founded. Now is the time to stand up for those noble ideals. Be loud — for America.

I need people to square the circle between "Magneto was Right" and Zionism. Because the impulse behind the former is why Zionism exists.

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

I mean, the main value of the asset is the ability to use the shambling corpse of the Post to manipulate public opinion; I wouldn’t say it’s a distressed product

God this is just the stupidest shit.

lmao michigan’s workaround on the new covid vax restrictions is to declare that not having gotten a dose of the lasted covid vaccine is an underlying condition that puts one at high risk, that rules www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

I think Democrats should not be trumpeting it, because none of those people are hearing them. Priorities USA should definitely be paying amenable streamers to talk about how Trump take Xbox and PS5 and gaming PCs on their streams though.

honestly i don't even think it's that. it's the reduction of politics into essentially a subculture or a scene instead of mass politics

(a) Good post (b) good practice for senators to repost each other

lol & lmfao

The fundamental problem is that a moral argument for liberalism would definitionally serve as an indictment of conservatism, and that would not earn the approval of Douthat or Shapiro or Spencer Cox, which seems to be the point of this exercise.

A lot of people who swear up and down that their politics are rooted in materialism rather than naive idealism will also argue against the use of the American flag, even though most people the left needs to win like it, because it spiritually symbolizes this or that or is infused with dark energies.

The trick to winning in these three states is to run an independent who can make conservative-coded rhetorical appeals while being a down-the-line liberal on most issues.

I no longer think it's just SOCOM; there's almost certainly quite a few naval officers who need to see the inside of a jail cell

Right wing crazies want me arrested because they know I won't back down. Too bad.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Jesus Christ Susan spend some time with your grandchildren

want to support someone who could be very different? Bethany Andres-Beck is running to defenestrate the Democratic party's most obnoxious transphobe, Seth Moulton. bethfordemocracy.com

Tammy Baldwin remains the highest-WAR Senator. I don't want to hear shit about centrists when a soft-spoken lesbian from the most obnoxiously liberal college town in the country can have a near-perfect voting record and still get reelected on the same ballot as Trump in a state he won twice.

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