Race-neutral affirmative action programs that genuinely attempt to help the most disadvantaged people often end up designed around criteria that clearly correlate with race, because it turns out that a lot of disadvantage flows from race, not class

Biden was incredibly unpopular with young people well before Oct. 7, 2023

And of course it's not just the youths. I'm officially Losing My Dad to Phone, and TikTok is the prime offender. He spent most of the last family thing listening to garbage rw tiktoks on speaker and wouldn't put it down to come eat. Just sat there scrolling while his food got cold. Shit's awful, man

This is why it was completely insane for Dems to laugh off the Twitter purchase. We created a forum with practically every single political and media elite all in the same room together hearing the same things, and then we turned it over to a far-right oligarch

Lindsay, the entire reason far-right control of TikTok is bad is because I WAS RIGHT ABOUT IT CONTROLLING YOUR BRAIN. If you’ll recall, that used to be a controversial position! I got ratioed like crazy in like 2022 for saying the youths were getting their politics from the meme dance app

This is what was happening when Trump's approval was in toilet in 2017. Being a supporter was perceived as being shameful and stupid and people vied away from it.

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

I was touching grass all day yesterday and somehow missed this - but how was it even POSSIBLE to miss this? How is this not one of the biggest scandals of our lives? A top Trump guy taking huge bribes and then the corrupt DOJ shutting it down? The whole administration should collapse

The speed with which we decelerated out of “Democracy is over, civil war, outlaw Democrats, massacre the left” to “Charlie who?” once they started trying to valorize the actual man is pretty breathtaking

Again, the biggest crime hot spot in DC is the Trump White House. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

It broke the sacred rule to not quote him or actually show him saying anything lmao

Jimmy Kimmel should just play this when he gets back on tv

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

It took, what, eight days? For the pretense that MAGA cares about Charlie Kirk to totally collapse, and for Trump’s megalomania to take center stage again. No matter what they say or do they only ever care about one thing: making us worship Great Leader alongside them

like probably not Trump himself but will it work? …maybe? it’s not exactly unprecedented for peaceful marchers to change politics

Okay after the media freakout over Biden withdrawing from Afghanistan the wrong way- a courageous and popular project that the media conspired to use to destroy Biden’s presidency and elect Trump! - it would be an O Henry twist if Trump reinvaded Afghanistan for no discernible reason

President Trump threatens the Taliban, demanding that Bagram in Afghanistan be returned to U.S. control.

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

I support progressive economic policies but struggle to see much evidence that recent election results match economic conditions. (Inflation killed Dems in 2024 but not 22, when price increases were much sharper. Really?) A strong economy didn't help Obama/Clinton in 2016 or Trump in 2018.

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Telling people to be fearful of protest and trying to frighten them with (incredibly unlikely) possibility that they’ll be targeted by law enforcement for peaceful mass opposition is absolutely a way of discouraging people from being part of the opposition, WHICH IS WHY DONALD TRUMP IS DOING IT.

According to Social Justice Bluesky, the anodyne observation that civil disobedience requires attracting attention from the powers-that-be has transformed me into an avatar of white privilege who is actively trying to get people of color killed.

Yeah, real effective resistance requires overcoming the vague gnawing anxiety of putting yourself at slightly increased risk of being noticed, while doing a bunch of boring work of talking to people. Not the catharsis of guerrilla heroics, but months of slightly elevated blood pressure and sore feet

All of these people resent the fact that real resistance to authoritarianism involves mundane mass organizing and working with normies so they instead like to playact that they are like SLA members.

people who talk about going to No Kings protests in terms of how to avoid getting kettled or black-bagged are Blue Sky’s version of men who talk about how they won’t go to a large city without a handgun and seventeen personal defense items

yes, that’s definitely a good analogy for public protest against the government

the way you do this is you encourage more people to protest. numbers provide safety, anonymity weakens any protest

because they’re terminally online do-nothings who have spent zero minutes thinking about actual resistance they just want to win the online virtue-signal game, which means criticizing normies: either for ignoring fascism, or ignoring the safety of marginalized people by urging them to fight fascism

hey do you think the people who are going and getting themselves arrested at ICE facilities are trying to attract or avoid law enforcement attention?

OK *this* was an actual vote, and this is political malpractice by the House Democrats. Hakeem's gotta go.

okay, so, Bezos spent $250m on the Washington Post. it's definitely worth less than that now. let's say $200m. $225. kamala harris raised over a billion dollars.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Christ almighty. I don't think any single person made more noise about this precise false belief being rampant on Bluesky than I did. But the amount of delusion it takes to look around the world right now and say "the PROGRESSIVE epistemic bubble is getting really bad" really boggles the mind.

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

At least Trump's dropped the pretense that this is about Charlie Kirk and is instead really just about him not wanting to be made fun of.

No, I’m saying this isn’t Germany in 1934. The opposition in Germany in 1934 would have given anything to be as well-situated as we are, with as many potential avenues of resistance

Some of this is probably just the economy starting to suck more, but also, the nonstop chaos - and not fun, goofy Trump 1.0 chaos, but scary, disturbing chaos with people getting killed and the words "dictatorship" thrown around a lot - probably isn't great for the public mood.

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folks surfaced a lot of past brendan carr tweets that seem to contradict his current agenda but i feel like this one got unfairly slept on a bit

Political opposition is not getting shipped to camps, which is what we're talking about. You are free to go around the country saying whatever you want about Trump. Virtually the only limiting factor is effort and courage. Again, do you know what actual resistance movements would give for this?

while we're at it, why not have 50% of House Dems pass a resolution honoring George Wallace, who was also shot by a cowardly gunman or George Lincoln Rockwell

They're selling out the millions upon millions of Americans who have rightfully objected to everything Kirk stood for, and the many who have been suffering terrible professional and social consequences for refusing to honor a bigot. Pathetic cowardice

Everything wrong with the Democratic Party in a nutshell. 95 House Democrats (including Jeffries!) just voted to honor the life & legacy of Charlie Kirk. Only 58 voted no. 38 voted present. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

I sort of have a war plan red hail-mary contingency mapped out for if this ever happens (god forbid)

this is so silly. being steeped in meme culture doesn't mean writing "bella ciao" on a bullet you're using to kill a far-right figure is devoid of any semantic content. memes have meaning

Guys, people disrupting ICE facilities are committing civil disobedience, likely with the aim of getting arrested. Good on them, but they'd probably be pretty dismayed if they knew your takeaway was "Protests are dangerous and I should be more cautious about going to them."

This is yet another tactic that fails completely if sufficient numbers of people step up. You can fire a few teachers, a few pilots, make an example of them and try to cow everyone else into silence. You can't fire half the workforce

I got a say this thing hits considerable less hard with the screen name visible in the bottom there

It’s true that there are a small handful of people facing legal reprisals for their political speech - mostly non-citizens - but the vast majority of violence deployed by the Trump administration has been against non-political immigrants, not activists and dissidents.

We can change the shape of things. There are more of us than there are of them. What we desperately need most right now is signals to our craven elites that they shouldn’t be caving.