Uhhhhh

There’s a bunch of research demonstrating that shorter hours and work weeks don’t harm productivity even vs. the 40-hour week, so it’s funny that the people who consider themselves the most rational evaluators of fact alive still just want to dominate their workers for purely ideological reasons

I wanted to tear it all down, but I didn't want to live in rubble.

The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.

Zohran Mamdani makes videos educating people about a trans activist and Donald Trump posts an AI video of himself shitting diarrhea all over American citizens. The news media is trying to stop the former and help the latter.

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

As I was saying

It's not a ceasefire if they're sending air attacks. What is wrong with everyone

what trump brought to the republican party, more than maybe any other thing, was contempt for virtue, and he’s demanded that republicans abandon any virtue they might have once had.

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For posting AI generated videos of Himself flying a Plane full of Shite

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

There are many, many American flags too. This is a Mexican-American city. It's right there in the fucking name. Mexican-Americans are under siege here right now, undocumented immigrants and citizens alike. The Mexican flag is symbolizes the protest against that violent crackdown, nothing more.

so what's the criticism here? leftists were first? Last No Kings I went to it was the people with the keffiyehs going all Abolish Ice. Now it's everyone. And this is supposed to be bad for and owns the leftists?

a lot of people have written about the slavery apologism in Doug Wilson's church but not a lot of people have written about the horrific sexual abuse

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

Good example of how much of a hack Oren Cass is—on April 2nd he had *the White House* publish his praise for Trump's tariffs, and now suddenly those tariffs were "haphazard", created "heightened uncertainty", and have "needlessly antagonized Allies"

the american public in 2025 thinks the republican party in 2025 is less bad than the american public in 2017 thought the 2017 republican party was, and there is really no good answer for why besides "republicans run every company that decides what your phone shows you"

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that. No phones, no staff, nothing. I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

So she doesn't want to accomplish anything?

essentially their idea is to create a desert and call it peace, primarily because they think where Bush went wrong was trying to build democracy instead of just breaking things

my thoughts on the nazi GOP text group are roughly what i mentioned in the 1st part of this essay. identity with the GOP has become increasingly correlated w/ "ethnic antagonism" — this type of rhetoric is sadly to be expected as you make GOP identity stronger www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-trump-...

6-3 that majority-minority districts violate the VRA, every red state has its redistricting plan drawn up and ready to go as soon as its official, GOP slight favorites to retain the house with a D+5 generic ballot

I didn't watch CBS News before Bari Weiss got there. I doubt you did either. But the mainstream media moving right really does matter, because of the mainstream media's collective powers of 1. agenda-setting and 2. framing. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

I’m not thrilled about Mills running for Senate at 77 either but getting Collins out is no joke and if Platner can’t win the primary he didn’t have the juice for the general anyway

The federal courts have degenerated into places for far-right charlatans to bypass democracy, and democratic reforms must start there.

Bibi: i am in a partisan alliance with republicans and gonna play to the clock to fuck you over Biden: sounds good

I have much to say about @lastweektonight.com lumping us in with National Review & The Federalist & Pod Save & Jacobin as an "opinion-heavy outlet." We are a news outlet that (regardless of our perspective) provides fact-based reporting. Putting us on this list is, well, factually inaccurate.

For various reasons I think this one will be longer standing but this is also 100% true.

Agreed that it's too flimsy but this is the why of the TikTok acquisition and AI investments. Their plan is to fully control how reality is perceived, and although that's obv really hard, we shouldn't take too much solace from that. They're certainly getting better at it by the day.

Well let Trump do it, but by the time he’s out of office we’ll figure out it was a mistake to let a president do that

In my experience self-made rich people can maintain a decent grasp on reality until about $25-50 million or so, and at that point they usually lose it. Heirs maybe $10 million is the normality threshold.

Meanwhile they’re firing federal workers for having a rainbow flag at their desks

More posts like this from politicians please

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

I agree that the shadow docket use is inappropriate but what this chatt shows is that the appointing president means exactly what cynics think it means

Hopelessness of the intellect, vengefulness of the will

I feel like “it’s feasible for republicans to win a statewide race for New Jersey against a completely uncontroversial democrat” should be a five alarm fire when it comes to the general public thinking everything that’s happening right now is more or less fine

Important to remember that not only did we pass #SB79, the biggest transit-oriented upzoning bill ever, we also passed a clean CEQA exemption for new multifamily infill housing. This is, bar none, the biggest year in state action on housing policy reform in California history. Not even close.

i want to say i hope youre right but this is how i felt in 2009 and here we are 16 years later with democrats still largely afraid of their own shadows. im not optimistic.

“Attention-fracking!” That’s good!

It doesn't last forever but this kind of posts underestimates the human capacity to just roll with it. Some Latin American countries exist in perennial omnicrisis and all that happens is that voting turnout is reduced. People adapt *while* becoming more despondent, cynical, and prone to conspiracism

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

I wrote about the Bari Weiss take over of CBS News as part of a broader trend away from the pretense of liberal institutionalism into a genuinely post-reality tabloidism, marked by AI slop, unsophisticated Trumpian-Likudite propaganda and consolidation of traditional and social media.

It's actually really impressive how much of where we got to right now stems from the top legal and political scholars in our media just declaring "well if that's true then the left is right, and we know they're not, so that isn't true" for like, thirty years