the problem w yglesias is not that he's dumb, but that he is dumb and very powerful people listen to him and act on his stupidity

Not sure what’s worse: the “Quiet, piggy” itself, or the media’s tepid shrug at it. What a tawdry and disappointing time we live in. We deserve so much better than this.

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal. /1

No surprise here. Bret Stephens, staunch defender of Israel and apologist for its genocide, thinks it's defensible to overthrow Maduro. The United States has meddled in the countries of Latin America fo centuries, supporting dictators, authoritarians, and genocidaires. That's called imperialism.

"AI" is really: "Capital hates Labor so much, it wants to replace it entirely". One little problem: ALL profit is, ultimately, derived from Labor. AI can *NEVER* be profitable.

Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some. Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.

I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel. We have to be SHARP on the left right now.

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“Quiet, piggy.”

Possibly unpopular opinion but I think tenure should be revokable when you express bigotry toward the immutable characteristics of part of your student body. Such as saying women are naturally not as good at science and engineering. How many young women students has he harmed since saying that?

Trump just called Mohammed bin Salman a "very good friend" and added, "we've always been on the same side of every issue." This is the first time MBS has been on U.S. soil since Saudi agents murdered and dismembered Jamal Khashoggi. Trump praised MBS's record on human rights.

The House of Beauty: Lessons from the Image Industry by @arabellesicardi.bsky.social is the best book I’ve read in a long time.

Academia is a really racist and sexist place. Larry Summers, as the president of Harvard, epitomized that racism and sexism but he is not unique. That's why we needed DEI.

and yet the intensity of reporting around trump and affordability has not reached 1/10000th the intensity it had under biden. the msm is not emphasizing this issue and its because theyre trying to help trump and the gop.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

i love it when the snakes fight each other. do not support her. do not welcome her into the tent. she's an evil psycho. but do enjoy when she and trump fight.

How do you land Vanity Fair west coast editor at age 32 after having affairs with two presidential candidates you were covering as a journalist. That is some prime white lady shit.

We'd have less fascism if more guys got knocked the fuck out early in life for stuff like this until they dropped the habit

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Because their corporate media masters demand that they maintain access at all costs.

THIS!!! yes.

Megyn Kelly Anxiously Waits For Everyone Else To Start Condoning Pedophilia Too https://theonion.com/megyn-kelly-anxiously-waits-for-everyone-else-to-start-condoning-pedophilia-too/

Barack Obama *ILL-ADVISEDLY* ran against Bobby Rush in 2000. He lost by 30%. Many of us absolutely knew he would lose at the time in Chicago. 3 years later he was running for Senate. Anyway, "waiting your turn" in politics is ridiculous. You run when you want to run & failure is fine.

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A political party that includes even just one fascist is itself fascist.

We are not doing this

I don't understand the new arrangement either: Trump authorizing the House to vote to demand that the DOJ something that Trump would already have the authority to order DOJ to do (certainly under the Trumpian Executive Theory, arguably even under normal circumstances).

underrated how the de facto prohibition on discussing the substance of policy among political reporters means they are primed to focus on culture war nonsense

I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

A discussion sparked by a piece whose opening argument was that Larry Summers was the tragic, rational victim of a feminized woke mob

The idea that Trump built a durable, multiracial working-class coalition was always overstated. trib.al/hxDajMO Exit polls from New Jersey and Virginia show the GOP lost overwhelmingly among all three voting blocs: voters under age 30, Black voters, and Latinos.

wait, I saw 'peril' earlier and just assumed 'oh bc they knew this was behavior that could get them in trouble' now that I see 'born in China' I'm like, bitch, did they mean YELLOW PERIL oh my God?

This is the guy who said women are underrepresented in STEM because they’re stupid

Is this like a reverse MeToo?

The Lawrence Summers story has reminded me of my own reporting 7 years ago, on how difficult it was to root out even a notorious university sex pest. At UC Irvine, a dozen professors rallied to his defense, citing all manner of misogynistic excuses. www.ocweekly.com/a-dozen-uc-i...

gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Same. Reporters with resources and leadership that allowed them to center the people over protecting power.

White House aggressively posting “trump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail

People Magazine trying to save democracy

All I can say is I attended a Democratic Party event in DALLAS, TEXAS 10 days ago with officials and candidates and the biggest cheers were for Mamdani and the most questions/most frequent topic of conversation was Epstein. We should not overthink this.

Wildest racism I ever experienced was in Iowa…and these racists believed that they were “very nice people.”

This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke... Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.

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matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK

Honestly these emails at parts remind me of a 15 year old girl I was friends with when I was 15 and the way she'd talk to me on AIM about a teacher she had an (unknown and unreciprocated crush on). Thing is, she was a 15-year-old girl and it was totally normal and not weird and creepy and pathetic.