it's really weird to hear the sanitized sales pitch for it too: "it will give you ubi and keep you fat and happy while it does all the work" - aren't these the same guys who think "raise taxes 2% and make buses free" is a wild fantasy of malign actors

lol, lmao

Establishing an authoritarian state while simultaneously destroying state capacity was never going to work; it's just going to be massively unpleasant to live through, and for those of us who aren't young it will probably consume the remaining years we have.

idk about the “hot” part but if someone at the DNC wants to cut me a check we can let the nation decide

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

omnia sunt communia

I found my new epitaph: "I was accused more than once by some Board members and the Governor’s office of being stubborn. Perhaps I am. But stubborn and principled often look the same, especially to those who are unprincipled."

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

This is in fact how the state having a monopoly on violence works but normally the state isn't supposed to Post about it like they're the Navy Seal copypasta guy.

there was a good post about how every time Nuzzi hears a garbage disposal she thinks "I should call him" and I will continue to think more about that joke than I will about whatever that NYT article says

just heard a teen at the gym say to another, apparently about an older piece of equipment, “this one’s got wabi-sabi to it”

Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’m not reading this article but I’m having too much fun imagining the Love Song of R. Francis Kennedy.

“Southern Spear” sounds like a try-hard name for a military farce, whereas “南方之矛” has a noble elegance — it’s hard living in the Chinese Century

It’s not just this story either — someone’s gotta start passing the hat around for Project Suetonius

I’m not reading this article but I’m having too much fun imagining the Love Song of R. Francis Kennedy.

It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats

this is the most embarrassing thing ive ever seen in my entire life and there are so many things that compete for that title on a daily to hourly basis

NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week. prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...

It’s not all bad news these days.

#TIL the #Arabic word for the mail, barīd, is from #Latin veredus 'light horse' (via Greek), making it a distant cognate of #Dutch paard and #German Pferd. The Latin word was borrowed from #Celtic – can't imagine there are very many other Celtic words in Arabic! 📧🐎

and this is before Operation Southern Spear has really taken off

This is something actual religious belief would work to counteract — but if you don’t fear the Lord, all you have left is worrying about what your buddies and your group chats think.

I would take a piece on this - how the Epstein letters expose how shoddy and connection-based global governance actually is when you turn over the rock.

how could you ask America's finest minds to break off contact with a genius like this simply for abusing children?

i'd love to read a real evolution of "stay woke" - i saw it evolve as: 1. in black culture, a way of pointing out structural racism 2. on black twitter, same thing but often a joke about something silly 3. white people adopt woke to mean generic antiracism 4. conservatives learn a new n-word

it's kind of funny how people never want to explain what this means because mamdani released a campaign video about sylvia rivera and how she was an inspiration for his support for transgender rights

A parallel here is “Mit brennender Sorge,” which everyone in 1937 understood to be a rebuke to Hitler. But if you read it carefully, Pius XII is careful to allow that there would be nothing in particular wrong with being a Nazi, as long as particular abuses were addressed.

Good reporting and analysis here from @heidischlumpf.bsky.social. What still feels lacking to me is an emphasis on Catholic doctrine, not just emotions. The Church's teaching has a LOT to say about what justice requires when it comes to respecting immigrants' human rights. I want them to teach it.

Trying to figure out what this reminds me of…

The USCCB released a statement in support of immigrants—but its failure to mention Trump and ICE undermines its welcome message. Analysis from @heidischlumpf.bsky.social: www.commonwealmagazine.org/bishops-stat...

"A guy emailing a reporter talking about old girlfriends or saying someone is "dirty" is not a whole news story."

TIRED: trump killed epstein bc he knew too much about the sex crimes WIRED: mnuchin killed epstein bc he knew he had to stay on at treasury in order to keep the world economy on track

Editors tend to be beholden to things, right?

The “integralists” are aware of this and believe they’ve cleverly solved the problem by rejecting the consent of the governed as a godless idea. That’s Vermeule’s “imperare aude!” — one should simply decide that it’s possible to rule people in a way that they mostly hate.

man, people who work at the New York Times really thought the New York Times was going to matter under the Second Republic

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

Something I learned from @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social recently is that the first guy to ever be charged with raping his wife (in 1978; it wasn’t a crime in the US before the 70s) was not found guilty and then, in *2017*, was tried tor raping two other women, found guilty, and sent to prison.

The Hebei Pangzai would prepare a Thanksgiving beyond the dreams of any American.

This is a newspaper that published numerous stories about a 17 year old from Uganda checking a box on a college form that said “African American”

(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school

Look, you may think this was bad strategy, but where would Kamala be today without those endorsements from Reid Hoffman and Larry Summers?

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Gosh, such a shame this never came together.

people are complaining that the political press did not report that donald trump had thanksgiving with a well-known pedophile in 2017, but if you really think about it, there's always a well-known pedophile whenever donald trump is present

Beast mode name sir