White genocide is when a neighbor has a weird name. White genocide is when you hear a new language for the first time and don't understand it. White genocide is when the girl who ghosted you, after you generously offered to breed her, starts posting Insta pics of her new favorite ethnic cuisine.

vogt asks schake why so many americans have visibly soured on the liberal international order. she responds that a succession of presidents have failed to sell it to the american people to disagree, respectfully: you can't understand the crisis without iraq, afghanistan, and china

If Ross Douthat wants to interview this TPUSA propagandist then fine...but at least he could just DO HIS FUCKING JOB as a journalist and actually ask the guy meaningful questions that would not allow him to present himself to NYT readers as something ENTIRELY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT HE ACTUALLY IS.

I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

It is utterly baffling to me when universities are under threat from a repressive government under going executive backsliding, the level of analysis we seem to get from media elites at the Atlantic is "they deserved it because of their work on DEI?"

If only Biden had spent more time complaining about the real problem -- immigrants, who bring obvious and easily demonstrable benefits to US society -- instead of minor issues like everyone dying of an infectious disease or losing their jobs and homes.

Same headline. Seven years apart. 🤡 @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

@minakimes.bsky.social Awkward tight end names, gotta love 개새끼 (gae-saekki). Right up there with Colson Yankoff & Tommy Tremble.

During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind

The way the conservative justices‘ hostility to the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments’ *legitimacy* comes through (not just on doctrine or narrow interpretation) is in that they resist originalist arguments as applied to those amendments—they don’t care what John Bingham and Thaddeus Stevens said

You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.” All how you choose to frame it.

Contra Ross Douthat here, a foundational idea of Bidenomics was that Trumpist authoritarianism was partly fueled by legit grievances over neoliberalism. This heavily shaped their industrial policies. As always, Ross erases the last half century of lib egalitarian theory from his diagnosis. So odd.

Lesson 6: If you have a theory of the Supreme Court that does not include political ideology, its going to be wrong. During the Biden administration it was all major questions because they did not like his policies, and during Trump it is mostly unitary executive, because they do.

Russia showing just how serious it is about peace tonight, launching waves of missiles and drones at Kyiv. Air defenses are working to knock them down. A series of explosions just rocked Ukraine’s capital. It’ll be another long night.

Trump is incapable of resisting charm, (male) charisma, and - most importantly - celebrity. He has an unquenchable desire to be near it, has been chasing it his whole life. That's mostly it. Forget all the "He's a populist!" bullshit from both the centrist commentariat and the anti-liberal Left.

@iammilliam.bsky.social Not sure if you’re a Joy Williams fan, but her new collection is vintage stuff. You’ve mentioned your mother passing in the past year; my father is dying now & I find Williams an excellent companion as we endure—liminal yet acute, feels the wicked & the affectionate.

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

Britain is an object lesson in how poorly arranged democracies can succumb to destructive positive feedback. The people who ensure a stagnant economy via Brexit enjoy political dividends blaming immigrants for the consequences of that very stagnation. (US democracy is arranged at least as poorly.)

@johnwilliams.bsky.social First thought on seeing the NYT soft-focus piece today: please pleeeease assign Becca Rothfeld to review the Nuzzi…

one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.

The train that runs between Chihuahua and Ciudad Juárez once saw thousands of migrants riding north towards the U.S.-Mexico border. Today few migrants are riding the trains, a sign that migrants are taking more clandestine routes in hopes of reaching the border. My story for The El Paso Times:

As someone who actually lives near the border it's worth noting that very few Americans do, or ever interact with the border in a meaningful way. They know "chaos at the border" as a story through their tv and phone screens exclusively.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

“Agents drove north on Kostner Avenue with neighbors in pursuit. Residents chased the convoy on foot, on scooters and in cars, sounding their horns … Inside the iron fence of the FBI office, agents emptied out of their cars to gather in a parking lot while civilians screamed profanities at them … ”

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

um, it's where people live? land cannot vote.

ah yes, aristocracies — known the world over for their innovation, flexibility and capacity to meet new challenges

ICE/CBP is rampaging through the burbs again this morning. Sightings and kidnappings reported across Bolingbrook, Summit, Addison, Bensenville, Melrose Park, Brookfield.

Anyway, if you're familiar with the dynamic, it is impossible not to notice the way it is playing out on the national stage, with Republicans the daddy party and Democrats the mommy party. Daddy's raging, destroying, lashing out, & most political analysis amounts to ...

Can I also just say, again, that the Biden admin under no circumstances committed to “left-wing” migration policy, in any way, shape, or form. I want Douthat to articulate what specific policies he thinks are included in that, because I think he seriously misunderstands the policies at issue.

chat is it good when defense intellectuals are citing Adrian and putting arguments you'd hear before the Spanish Civil War

Vance's speech was far more extreme than anything on Mamdani's platform or his comments about the American promise. Peters quoted only his reference to union soldiers, but Vance here suggests that ancestors of Confederate soldiers have "a hell of a lot more claim over America" than creedalists./7

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

jesus christ man, we can’t ever get used to this and normalize it.

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor. And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

@iammilliam.bsky.social Seen in charity shop, possible Lock(lin)listed cover art? You might think he’d have put his teeth in.

Here is what hasn’t been a problem: My students. I worried they would be resistant. They haven’t been. They have been game since day one, all in on the project. If I had to guess, I think they like how serious it feels. Like they are being taken seriously as scholars

There's a lot to unpack, digest and consider here, though some of the solutions they suggest seem unworkable. But it's striking to me that they dismiss @aoc.bsky.social as "AOC at the Met gala," when she is actually an example of a working-class candidate with great communication skills who wins.

This is an important conversation but I am struck that nowhere does the power of conservative media come up; indeed media is described as “progressive.” No mention of Rush Limbaugh and talk radio, Fox News, Twitter, or right-wing influencers with huge audiences. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Last week, a federal judge ordered immigration agents in Chicago to use body-cams: "That is not a suggestion." Yesterday, agents stopped a state lawmaker and *pointed a gun at him* They had body-cams -- that weren't on I know b/c the cameras have a blinking light when on. These weren't flashing

Over on X, a conservative influencer is taking credit for this.

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

There's also a severe selection on the dependent variable problem with these comparisons. The Times has looked at all the moderates who won elections, but doesn't include the ones who underperformed and lost. This exaggerates the effect size by roughly 2x. More www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data-over-...