it does not all seem obvious to me that anyone i don’t know is *owed* an answer to a reply post

I am proud to be born a Muslim. I am proud to be born in Somalia. I am proud to have become an American. None of you can change that no matter how much you rage tweet. Drink some water and touch grass.

Among Democrats - "Which of the following political figures would you prefer?" 🔴 AOC, Sanders, Mamdani: 53% ⚫️ Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi: 33% ⚪️ Unsure: 14% Read it all here -> usapolling.substack.com/p/democratic...

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Remarkable judicial order in Trump NYT lawsuit - tl;dr, this is a lot of PR garbage, not a complaint, please re-file something serious. t.co/Ca48rtRLjp

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

what on earth is going on man - imagine saying this to someone ten years ago, they’d tell you you needed to pokemon go to the psychiatric ward

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if you heard a Noise emerging from gayguys between 35 and 55 earlier today this is why

for fuck's sake people this is very serious, this project cannot fail because someone is still angry at someone else for being on the wrong side of an inner-trot factional split in 1997

Die SPCDU liefert: in Kai Wegner und Franziska Giffeys Berlin kostet eine kaum funktionierende UBahn jetzt 4 euro pro Fahrt. #cduwirkt

If Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn want to remain credible leaders of a political movement, it is PAST time for them to corral the factionalist wreckers and move forward with something together. Anyone unable to do that needs to get out of the way.

There is, to my knowledge, no domestic terror statute with which to designate "Antifa" as a terror group. In the end, legality hardly matters. As I recently reported, the president has even asserted that he can kill anyone, anywhere, under any circumstances: theintercept.com/2025/09/15/v...

that’s not a bob, it’s a robert

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

You can do this OR you can type “Asian-style steak sauce recipe” into your phone like I did. One of those things is extremely embarrassing and makes you look like an inept dork, and the other takes five seconds and tells you how to make steak sauce.

Most Jewish Americans disapprove of the Trump administration withholding funds from colleges to address anti-Jewish sentiment, according to a new survey.

This censorship isn’t about jokes — it’s about serving corporate interests. www.levernews.com/the-real-rea...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

THE ROOM NEXT DOOR may not be a good movie, but it does feature Tilda Swinton returning as her own daughter in this insane wig

Janet Mills would begin her freshman term in the Senate at the age of 79. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...

Government funding is the one card congressional Democrats have to play, and one they could and should use to push back against Trump's authoritarianism. What's their big demand? RFK Jr's resignation? Reforms in ICE? Stand down of National Guard? NOPE. "Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits"

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

When ChatGPT first took off this was the use case that confused me the most. People said they “only” used it to write “first drafts.” That’s the most important draft! That’s the thinking part!

SCARPIA, AVANTI A DIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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The political juggernaut that Democrats cower in fear of

Diese Verharmlosung als "shitstorm" ist Teil der Strategie. Das ist eine rechtsradikale Kampagne, die eine kritische Journalistin als kritische Journalistin einschüchtern, mundtot, vernichten will. Es ist so menschenverachtend wie systematisch. Wir müssen für @dunjahayali.de einstehen, alle.

People really hate all of this, it’s why I keep saying that the administration is doing things as propaganda out of weakness, not strength

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

This is the seniormost Democrat in Washington as the Trump administration announces its plans to use domestic terrorism laws to prosecute its political enemies

similarly struggling to dream up a strategy of political communication less likely to win people over than *tsk tsk… SOME of us were right ALL ALONG, join the team… I guess.*

we have not yet come to terms with the scale of the strategic failure of giving the issue of ‘free speech’ to bosses and fascists wrapped up in nice paper with a little bow

"good working people are right to be concerned about being murdered by trans people" pete buttigieg, probably

democracy dies in darkness ™️

my podcast has episodes that have rivaled the 25-54 viewership of MSNBC 😭

friends, a classic:

Brian Kilmeade carefully considered the criticism of his stance and changed his mind, conceding that not all homeless people should be liquidated by lethal injection. That’s doing politics the right way. —Ezra Klein

Our Lady Of The Sequins is the Marian apparition associated with drag queens and nightclub singers ✨

Jeder deutsche pseudoliberale Nazi-Enkel, der oder die Judith Butler, die Mitglied einer Synagoge ist, beiläufig als Antisemitin diffamiert, kollaboriert nun offiziell mit der Unterdrückung kritischer jüdischer Wissenschaftler/innen durch ein faschistisches Regime. Chapeau.

I think every museum needs a David Lynch room

Germany is 23rd of 27 in real terms in education spending in the EU and its national discourse is struggling to figure out why the schools are shit. “It’s probably the immigrants,” journalists reassure their readers.

and this is why the study of weimar-era masculinisms and their very similar Sex Weirdness is useful

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

the italian man in our box screamed MAMMA MIA CHE MELODIE at the end of act 1

we bow before the greatest Poster to ever do it

What does the Venn Diagram of people saying Charlie Kirk was an exemplar of productive civil discourse and people who had meltdowns about ChapoTrapHouse and the dirtbag left look like?

One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.

If I don't see multiple ~media reporters~ columns about the extraordinarily irresponsible Wall Street Journal report from yesterday morning — and their extensive promotion of that inflammatory report — you all should just pack up and go home.