But seriously. I’m kinda like this about the Weston Price Foundation but google them. Massie, RFKJr., Andrew Wakefield, every kook and charlatan who has worked to destroy public health and promote health pseudoscience is involved with them. And they’re a huge influence in the tradwife movement.

I’d consider the system pretty broken if childhood vaccination rates were even lower than they are now, some basic vaccines were impossible to obtain, and there were no restrictions on the sale of unpasteurized milk. And that’s what would be happening if every Republican were like Massie.

We are going to see antisemetism as the glue of some effective red-brown coalitions going into 2028. You are seeing the beginnings of it with Platner's footsie with right wing antisemites combined with the conspiratorial way he talks about AIPAC money controlling the government.

People try to break down the Midwest into states and evaluate them accordingly but I maintain that the better way to think of it is to divide it into just two regions: Lake Midwest and Corn Midwest. Lake Midwest generally rules. Corn Midwest generally sucks. There are few exceptions.

Everybody is rightly pointing out that he joined *after* the war had already begun, as a rich kid with many other options. But not enough people are pointing out that he also had been involved in anti-war protest the previous year.

Most parents of a kid with actual ARFID aren’t going to persist in these recs to the point of starving them. They will instead conclude that they don’t work for them. If anyone’s actually persisting to the point of serious harm, there are things going on there that a label on a book won’t fix.

a thing I have learned this week is that it’s difficult to write about parenting because everyone looks at what you wrote and sees their own parents. lots of misplaced anger. I’m not your mom!

My hot take about this discourse is a) it’s good that we’re more aware of things like ARFID and extreme food sensitivities in some kids now and b) extreme cases should not be weaponized to imply that sensible advice about encouraging a balanced diet for kids is worthless, let alone abusive.

If everybody knew my name because of a show I made that I named after famous genocidaires, I’d simply shut the fuck up about anything related to this topic.

I go to trans and queer events. I introduce myself sometimes with my family name. This is a trigger for people, because they fear Zionists. And by that, I mean they fear Jews as theoretically disloyal since we are assumed to be Zionists until clarified. Does Lain have access to clout?

I’m going to plotz if I hear this clown fawningly referred to as an “oysterman” one more time. He is the owner of a small business that sells a luxury product. That’s not “working-class” just because he wears boots. Christ, take a cold shower, people. This is embarrassing.

In general, it’s easy to say that Jews control all the major institutions it you’ve just decided that any institutions that Jews are not and cannot be involved with are definitionally not major. And this is exactly what a lot of people have done.

You guys I just saw a woman on Feeld whose ad said she was a zinester from Poland and had a “no Zionists” tagline and I wanted to match just to tell her that her people are a big reason so many Zionists exist

A lot of bad faith actors cynically pretend to care about sexism and misogyny when it allows them to push transphobia against transwomen. This does not mean that sexism and misogyny are not real problems worth fighting on their own terms. This is a post about antisemitism.

It happened, the thing my mom has been warning me about for months. I spilled a glass of water and my toddler cheerfully exclaimed “Oh shit!” Guys, what am I going to do? Like, sure I could push out a 99th percentile birth weight baby by myself but STOP SWEARING? What am I, Hercules? 😳

Says it all that the writer he flamed wrote the most gentle, balanced piece about the whole thing, and obviously holds Lindy in high esteem. She can’t be dismissed like all of the gleeful takes by people with obvious agendas against feminism, “wokeness”, Lindy herself etc. A hit dog will holler.

“Waaaah but Zionist orgs claim to speak for all Jews, what am I supposed to dooooo???” I dunno, Travis, maybe not allow institutions that you apparently oppose to frame basic reality for you? Are you an anti-Zionist or only when Zionists don’t support your pre-existing biases?

And then they don’t believe you anyway.

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My definition of fragility differs from Kalman-Lamb's. To me, fragility is needing so desperately to please your peers that you would encourage your own degradation and the degradation of your people to gain your peers' approval. Palestinian liberation and Jewish dignity need not be in conflict.

On man, I feel this quote in my bones. What woman hasn’t been this friend before?

thank you, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, for speaking out against vile antisemitism masquerading as anti-zionism, particularly when doing so is both unpopular and unrewarding.

Wr are doing protests and we are getting shot, actually. Pampered softies… 🙄

The comments are full of Americans being like “Okay, what do you want us to do that we aren’t doing?” And these pampered softies being like “Er…protest more? And, um, boycotts or something!” 🙄

My toddler has started saying “Oh goodness!” except she still has trouble with the first consonant and the vowel so she actually says “Oh Dudeness!,” which is better.

Yeah, I agree, this always seemed totally plausible to me. Which of course doesn’t make it actually *true* but I never got what about it seemed like “conspiracy theory” except that, for some reason, it became a disreputable speculation among all but conspiracy theorists. Which is kinda circular.

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This post really is a great example of how a certain, loud portion of the online left has made “Nazi” a completely meaningless word. Which sucks, because, um, we unfortunately actually do really need that word.

I think it's um rather interesting how desperate people are to believe that America can't possibly be invading a country that its conservatives have talked about invading every single year for the past forty six years except if a nefarious foreign force bribed it to.

He’s not even an “oysterman” or whatever image he wants to conjure with that language. He’s not some folksy, weathered working man braving the seas in the boat his grandfather’s built to make a living. He owns a small business that sells a luxury product.

“Working class people often do not graduate college and shiftless New England prep school failsons also often do not graduate college, I cannot tell the difference between these two things.”

Very true but also there are a LOT of issues besides the Nazi tattoo! The Blackwater contractor thing, the fact that he played at being a war protester *before* joining the military to fight the same war, despite having many other choices as a rich kid, the tattoo is the tip of the iceberg.

It actually hurts other pro-Palestine politicians like Mamdani and Abughazaleh to lump Platner in with them and pretend like the bad-faith accusations of antisemitism lobbed at them are similarly bad-faith when lobbed at Platner. This is why someone like Platner can poison a progressive coalition.

Did he distance himself from this guy? Or is he cool with this message? Are you?

Which frankly means we need a lot more people to get a lot more picky about who they let into their movement spaces.

Religious scholars who study apocalyptic thought, Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and politics, are out here. We have been ringing the siren for decades. Universities are closing religious studies, many scholars who are experts in this are unemployed (including me).

Trump says and does awful things because he wants to. He loves to mock and upset people, he loves the attention this behavior brings him, and it’s worked out fabulously well for him. His behavior is extremely ego-syntonic. He is not “Tourette’s-adjacent.” He is an actual terrible person.

Ah Bluesky, where it is ableist to suggest that people don't have to order Doordash but people with Toruette's just aren't putting in the effort.

A lot of people are showing that they basically believe that Tourette’s with coprolalia just removes your “filter” (a term I have literally seen used) and prevents you from being able to stop yourself from shouting what you actually feel and believe, as opposed to what you find most distressing.

But the best part is, if you struggle with intrusive thoughts, one of your worst fears is that they some how secretly *do* reflect who you are and what you feel and believe, which then only increases them. Which makes the whole current discourse just so much fun!

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Activist OpSec posturing is just Operator culture for lefties send post

This is so obvious that it shouldn’t need saying, but the reason people across the country are outraged with what’s going on in Minneapolis is that *they can see it*. That means filming, it means press. If you’ve got someone with a big audience on your side, that’s a resource to use!

What I always want to know is who is even determining what good OpSec is? Who’s coming up with best practices and based on what? Most people in US activist movements just don’t have the experience or knowledge to determine such a thing. And given how much tech has changed in the past few years alone

Oh man, the obsessive Stancil anti-fans are feisty today, is it a full moon or something?

the minneapolis network seems like it's hitting that point where the people who think of a protest movement as their cool underground spy club are getting flustered by the pressure of recruiting for a goal bigger than "create a cool underground spy club"

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Minneapolis should press its momentum and demand not only withdrawal but start talking about the need for immediate reparations, loudly, with the total certainty that only winners have. "You have wronged us terribly and must pay recompense" and let them argue the second part.

You didn't owe it to Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris to vote for them, but you sure owed it to my kid and those immigrants getting oppressed

On the one hand, I am very moved by the national mourning for Alex Pretti and I hope it brings his family a crumb of comfort. OTOH I can’t not notice that Renee Good didn’t get a response like this and I suspect it’s because more people were willing to entertain the administration’s lies about her.