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Endless, unprecedented corruption large and small

Many have shared this excellent piece by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social that speaks to this essential moment. Among many thoughts, it occurs to me that in our desire to do away with internalized shame, self-shame, we gave up shame as a tool of community standards. www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Compare this with Kavanaugh's baby-brain concurrence

This list really puts in perspective just how silly it is to delay this show over this one guy.

Do not comply in advance.

Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor, is 1 of only 100 Americans out of over 250 million adult citizens given the consequential responsibility to advise and consent on exec branch nominees. He used that to approve an antivax, anti-science conspiracy theorist as the nation's top public health official.

RFK Jr. has killed 2 infants:

@425suzanne.bsky.social I won this in a raffle!

Wrote an article about Douthat a few years ago about how he steadfastly refuses to learn from events—because he wants a sort of American Orbanism but usually tries to obscure that—and since that’s apparently still the case, no need to write another.

Wow

Go fash, lose cash

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

My take is that the next Democratic administration should be pro-labor generally and also work to destroy the International Brotherhood of Teamsters unless and until they self-purge.

Charlie Kirk on Pope Francis:

This Week's Onion Magazine:

"meaningful personal donation" this is literally financial extortion lol

And yes, I am going to keep shitting on Ezra Klein until one of us is dead, and depending on fate and cosmology, probably after that. It’s Ezra’s obligation to work to find common ground with me.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

CROCKETT: When I say that you are the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI, that is real, because you are the only one that never even served with the FBI PATEL: That's false CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question

It's cool that guys making tens of millions are like, "yeah one benefit of signing here is I don't have to give a small amount of money to fund public schools and disability services," and we treat this as shrewd navigating rather than an abomination.

Donald Trump has long treated 14-year-olds as adults so this makes sense

In America, this happens all the time. And we don’t talk about it because it’s not “crime.” There’s no one to blame who’s not already dead. The only answer is to keep angry men from having guns, and we won’t do that. www.google.com/search?clien...

Same people who have been complaining about minority quotas for years.

The end-state of Libertarianism is always that the powerful are "free" to impose their will on others without limit or restraint. It is consistent with an ideology that fervently asserts that it will not protect anyone that does not already have the power to protect themselves.

Also, it's pretty incredible how far the @nytimes.com has bent over backwards over the last decade to take the view from nowhere in giving Trump credit he doesn't deserve, and he repays their capitulation with a $15 billion lawsuit because they endorsed Kamala in the end.

It is not good but it is quite funny that all of these institutions that ruin themselves trying to curry favor with him end up getting punished anyway. The right will never love you, they are fundamentally incapable of it

The outrage of a no bid contract on autism to an engineering school that doesn't even have a department of epidemiology or neuroscience is only exceeded by the choice of recipient, a data scientist who last published on autism in 2020 and thinks like Wakefield. 🧪 #episky 🧵 apnews.com/article/vacc...

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Bombshell ‘Wall Street Journal’ Investigation Finds Tyler Robinson Once Had Trans Uber Driver

🧵 We have a rare healing opportunity 🧵 Many who defended Charlie Kirk as “nothing more than a good Christian” are being forcibly exposed to his hateful bigotry - a side of him algorithmically omitted from their social media diet. People with a conscience are likely expressing shame and regret.

I have to say this is utterly shocking. She just quoted the man.

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

"You are being musically mean to me and it's hurting my feelings so I am going to call the police department that we are supposed to be supporting to report a feels violation."

/4 As I continue on this journey of self-discovery and self-forgiveness I would like to thank @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social for his kind note

/2 Also (3) We shouldn’t pretend a facile short apology weighs the same as an open call for Nazi liquidation programs.

There has got to be legal consequences for conduct in this administration

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Hi! I was homeless. That's me he wants to kill. If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can. This guy would have killed me for being homeless.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

We saw a "doomsday pepper" interviewed who said, "A zombie apocalypse is the biggest threat to my family." For those with privilege, someone being rude to them is the worst thing they can imagine, and weight it as such. Just like that prepper probably was lucky not to have any more proximal needs.

All right, I wrote about it:

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

It'd be funny, in a pathetic sort of way, if it weren't so influential at the heights of power, with the distortion providing rationalizations for a fascist project using state power to crush free expression.

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

Thanks! Lot to learn. The 'groyper war' was a big moment in 2019, they trolled Kirk Q&As to push MAGA harder right. Some reading from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social, me & others: theintercept.com/2024/07/18/n... research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publicati... www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Yup -- it was said in happier times, but the fundamental wisdom of Dave Barry still applies: "someone who is nice to you and a jerk to the waiter is NOT a nice person."