You see that? How “far right” views are routinely re-packaged as “populist”?

we all die, we all live forever, or the fax machine

When I raised caution about whether a realignment was actually happening people seemed to think it was cope

"claims of a fundamental realignment of American politics have been highly exaggerated" this happens ***every single time*** someone proclaims a realignment

It’s unfortunately dropped in my classroom as well

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed

Again, this is the guy we’re supposed to view as a serious conservative thinker

The whole press is Breitbart now

Lmao

The people on the right getting mad at Tucker Carlson for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast don’t seem to have gotten mad at all at Donald Trump for hosting Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at his home for dinner. Funny that.

We'll achieve East German levels of informing-on-neighbors in no time!

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism. bsky.app/profile/larr...

oh just straight up gutter racism!

Struggling to imagine the chutzpah it takes to say that someone "doesn't understand New York culture" because they're an immigrant.

The October survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 25% of Hispanic adults have a “somewhat” or “very” favorable view of Trump, down from 44% in an AP-NORC poll conducted just before the Republican took office for the second time.

The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem

Just got word that ICE is in Wicker Park/Humboldt Park

Greg Bovino Immediately Flouts Chicago Court Order, Lawyers Say talkingpointsmemo.com/news/greg-bo...

The Democratic Party has very little to say for itself at the moment *except* for the fact that it’s the one national party that’s not chock full of people with Nazi group chats, secret Nazi social media accounts, Nazi friends, or Nazi tattoos.

The bigger the problem, the greater the inclination to wave one’s hand in the direction of some ill-defined, yet-bigger problem. If Trump started a nuclear war, we would be told to stop hyperventilating over the fission of tiny little atoms and focus instead on truly important issues.

GDP shrank by .6% in the first quarter. Hardly the best of times.

While all eyes are on Gaza, Knesset passes preliminary vote to annex West Bank.

Should lead every newspaper and newscast.

It’s really notable how — in just the past week — business lobbies have begun to push back on White House tariff, immigration and export/trade policy. @wsj.com @cnbc.com @bloomberg.com @reuters.com

A new NBER working paper highlights the positive benefits of Chinese graduate students for American universities, students, and communities. www.nber.org/papers/w34391

So No Kings 2 protests were: 75x as big as initial Tea Party rally in Philly About 200x in DC 200x in Boston 20x in Austin 7x in Houston

In the wake of the George Santos rescue, Trump has now pardoned or commuted the sentences of most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

The British voted for Brexit because of immigration. But now, they want to turn back the clock in favor of the pre-2021 border system.

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

“A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination”

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

One thing to take from this is that legacy media’s attempts to win back GOP audiences have utterly failed. If those attempts have also eroded trust among Dems and Independents, then they’re a massive own-goal.

It's like when they say, "equal opportunities, not equal outcomes." They have no idea how incredibly radical it would be to take that seriously. Similarly, giving "equal scrutiny" to both parties would *revolutionize* political media. It would be unrecognizable.

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

i think the key to understanding a lot of establishment discourse is that basically only the left and liberals are capable of being viewed as subjects capable of judgement which is why GOP rule is essentially treated as a force of nature

You. Are. Allowed. To. Insult. The. Police. It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences. That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras. Rightly confident in his impunity.

61% of American Jews say Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza; 40% now say Israel is committing genocide. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... I wish the 40% number were higher but this can hardly be dismissed as a tiny fringe of the community.

43% of Democrats (52% of 18-29 voters) say foreign policy and Israel will play a role in their vote in the 2026 primaries. (81% say the economy and healthcare, of course.) 80% want to reduce support for Israel 74% want an arms embargo 72% say it's a genocide 65% want sanctions

Many people in this country seem to believe that you should be able to export as much as you want to the rest of the world but the rest of the world shouldn’t be able to do the same

I think this supports the conclusions of most of the research in this area, but I do wonder if this changes now that the range of possibilities of what can happen to immigrants in this country has widened under this fascist administration

The Home Secretary just told people seeking safety "your only route into the UK should be a safe and legal one". She's right. Everyone should be able to seek sanctuary safely. But it's her Government that refuses to create safe routes - forcing people to risk dangerous ones.

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

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...

Maybe I’m helplessly naive here but I think the role of someone like Coates is not to say what seems most likely to get a Democrat elected, but to say what’s true.

I guess my point here is that MAGA has become totally unashamed to admit that they are racist, but somehow the rest of society has become ashamed to call them racist. Which gives them this incredible advantage of being able to express openly racist ideas and never be called on it

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...

Just wait: Tylenol's gonna pay Trump $10M, and he's gonna come out next week saying that actually it's Advil that causes autism.