curtis you're a real one go out a hero

babies feeding babies

Dude literally called Trump "America's Hitler" lol

Related to previous post: I think this gets into Sandel's point about meritocracy - so many of our SV captains of industry are totally convinced they are gods of engineering when in reality, they were the first player in a winner-take-all market.

cass sunstein has written against "partyism", which he defines as disliking people based on the political party they belong to, but i would like to argue that a lot of the US's problems are "partyism", as in "elites whose sole motivating principle is getting famous people to attend their parties".

begging these people to read a single biography of a saint. a recurring theme in the life of the great saint is detaching herself from the cocoon of the home (usually to the consternation of the rest of the family).

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

in the midst of so much evangelical slop it’s almost refreshing to see some cathoslop

The only way to understand the MAGA movement is as a giant collection of people dumb enough to imagine they’re not being tricked but everyone else is. I really believe this, all the way down.

Milei needs to learn that his socialist policies have failed everywhere it’s been tried, and sooner or later you’ll always run out of other people’s money. Maybe he should try reading Milton Friedman instead of Carl Marks.

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

When Big Bob Barron is getting more media play and your a jealous bitch

The self styled leader of the opposition in Israel and nominal liberal Yair Lapid declares that he will take no part in a government that has Palestinian citizens of Israel represented in it. Jewish supremacism is the consensus opinion among the Zionist bloc, from left wing to right wing.

The sign on the ground really completes this incredible photo.

i mean broadly if there is not some amount of bad-faith use of identity as a bludgeon, the society isn't antiracist enough. for the same reason that the ideal amount of crime isn't zero.

the president thinks that he can have me arrested for making fun of him and as a committed bipartisan i accept that this is just his beliefs and call upon him to come to my cell and debate me

Enjoy the way this positions “white people” as the Nazis, like that’s just the most natural thing in the world…

I would say the difference is that the concept of “terrorism” is deployable in these contexts in a way it wasn’t in the ’80s

Disney’s revenge should be to make an Andor spinoff about the beautiful lesbian spymistresses (they can get it past the censors if they dedicate it to Bari Weiss)

Just one 7 minute episode with an AI version of Diego Luna recanting his sins against the Emperor.

hic domus, haec patria est

it’s important to remember that in general these people are not “folding” or “surrendering” — they’re maximizing shareholder value

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

unclean, unclean

yesterday morning I was talking to two local activists and introduced the word “orbánization”

NEW: Bernie Sanders becomes the first Senator of the United States to label Israel's war on Gaza a genocide.

Interesting development here, a Democratic mega firm affiliated with former Biden and Schumer advisors called SKDK drops its contracts with the government of the State of Israel after Sludge reported that it was making AI driven social media posts with a pro-Israel slant.

For sale: rage bait. Never taken.

Describe a single historical precedent for defeating authoritarians by being nicer to them.

A vain, immoderate faith in these institutions made it possible to overlook the fact that their vitality was gone. The machine could still be heard clattering along, so no one asked if it was still doing its job” - Carl von Clausewitz on Prussia in 1806

chuck's gotta go, man just can't even pretend to meet the moment we're in, you cannot be out there talking about bipartisan funding for the health care system when the VP is threatening your constituents with loss of employment and freedom for speaking their minds in public

the invocation of the pseudo-concept of “terrorism” is why they’ll be able to maintain this isn’t Cancel Culture

to be fair, a state built on the disenfranchisement and enslavement of the vast majority of its population by unbelievably evil elites is probably a good comparison

a spokesman for Hakeem Jeffries commented, “Kathy Who-chul?”

The Palestine Exception becomes the Universal Rule. It is shocking the number of normal nice liberals who, in 2025, do not know what Canary Mission is. What "normies" are experiencing now is what critics of Israel have always experienced.

Bro have a fucking spine

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Entire agency needs to be RIFd

You cannot be saying this when there are many MANY pictures of you gleefully ripping apart homeless camps.

after Vance’s “debaathification,” it will be time for Woke ISIS

It's not surprising that a white guy shot Charlie Kirk. Charlie's inclusive message of inclusion, equity, and diversity was bound to make some people angry. To borrow two of Charlie's favorite phrases, he seems to have triggered a dangerous combination of "white fragility" and "toxic masculinity".

This isn’t just a skeptical report — it’s a fundamental challenge to today’s equity valuations.

Brandonification

No reaction to it, at all. Full-on Lebensunwertes Leben on FOX.

going to keep saying: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities