We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

a lot of people think that the use of bitcoin allows them to encrypt the US mail

Well don't I feel stupid

“Effective LLM use is metaprogramming for wordcels and that’s why almost nobody is doing it: because they either don’t know metaprogramming or they are not wordcels” a sentence I just uttered at work, help

Getting flashbacks to that time I suggested a trans barista might have more common political interests with a trans lawyer ordering a latte from her than a transphobic construction worker, prompting much outrage and indignation.

"Under American socialism, everyone will be taken of, you fucking idiot, you useless neoliberal piece of shit. lol, lmao"

It's ok to deadname Twitter, guys.

This is part of his deep cover ruse to trick the left into adopting Yimbyism out of anti Matt Yglesias animus.

It is the ur-grift and it exerts an inexorable gravitational pull on grifters everywhere.

the correct response to the authoritarian internationale is not isolationism--whether of the "america first" or "hair shirt" varieties--but the founding of a counterforce liberal internationale

Relatedly, the US having one party that openly invites international interference on its behalf is going to make it impossible to ignore right-wing parties abroad.

Interview with the Vampire but the interviewer is Isaac Chotiner

Antarctic Yimbyism!

far and away the most compelling argument for pro-natalist policy is how fucking dysfunctional greying countries are becoming politically. can't cut elderly benefits. can't raise taxes. can't let in workers. no throw only fetch politics until something collapses.

"It’s now abundantly clear that nothing we do is ever going to be enough. It’s always the same story. No good deed goes unpunished, and no sock full of quarters to the kidney goes unprotested."

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

I'm going to climb the 8 highest mountains in the world to raise awareness of what a scam this guy it.

Your Party splitting before it's even actually formed or named may be some kind of record even for a leftist party.

the A-10 is an indestructable sky tank with the kind of weapon a 9-year-old might invent for a bad guy to shoot. the F-35 is a way to put a bunch of extremely expensive elctronics very high up and then kill a guy who has no idea a plane is there from three counties away.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

What's the matter babe you've barely touched your event horizon ribs

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

right, this is the basic problem. ezra is a guy with a lot of virtues who has been forced into a situation where none of his virtues are actual virtues. i am biased because i'm a stranger whom ezra klein helped for no reason, to such an extent that i would not be here (anywhere) without him.

Honestly kind of hilarious that after 50,000 different galaxy brain ideas they tried running in one of the two major parties in a two party system and it worked,

Telling people to be fearful of protest and trying to frighten them with (incredibly unlikely) possibility that they’ll be targeted by law enforcement for peaceful mass opposition is absolutely a way of discouraging people from being part of the opposition, WHICH IS WHY DONALD TRUMP IS DOING IT.

people who talk about going to No Kings protests in terms of how to avoid getting kettled or black-bagged are Blue Sky’s version of men who talk about how they won’t go to a large city without a handgun and seventeen personal defense items

User complaining that the LLM is lying, have you considered that perhaps the LLM is just a little dumb?

Maniac from Flashdance! It took me a couple days to realize that the reason my thumb hurt so much was from practicing the right hand part to this song. Absolutely amazing song. Very sad I can't match Sembello's vocals.

As a white guy, we should all be aware that we can't address an adult as "child" without prefixing it with "Sweet summer".

this is a former US Marine who signed up for the military under Reagan and is carrying an American flag. do you think he is a member of PSL? maybe a Fourth International thing that broke off after beefing with Chariman Bob?

again, as somebody who has actually lived in a dictatorship and worked with dissidents from across the world, this kind of whiny cosplaying by academics pretending they have some secret knowledge of resistance is very annoying.

notably this review very casually explains, in its opener no less, why pmarca backed donald trump. i think this explanation is probably correct. it goes on to dumpster yud's book and most of the industry's AI alignment, which might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's very good

I think the uncomfortable fact being elided in the discourse here is that most street marches nowadays are pointless; they don't have material demands being made, aren't connected to sustainable orgs/issues, aren't replicated on any regular schedule, etc.

the idea that anything other than the most transient organizing is dangerous is corrosive to the type of civil society resistance which is necessary now but not occurring

as others have pointed out, the rise of the idea that "organizing" means "go hang out with some friends and maybe do a drum circle while not actually making any cogent political demands of anyone" has been highly detrimental to the US left

Not even Will as-generated-by-Midjourney-in-2023 has enough fingers to count them all!

If Indivisible was serious about fighting Trump they would simply organize a general strike but do it without collecting anyone's contact information

We're in cuckoo bananas world where Ezra Klein is bowing to right wing authoritarian narratives faster than Karl Rove.

It's so funny that a lot of the political press's defenses of its own awful coverage of things ultimately boil down to a claim that having a free press is completely pointless because the press can't actually influence the public or the government at all

Admittedly, attacking the Freedom of Speech of people conservatives don't like is a good way of honoring Kirk's "legacy".

“fascist government controls media and bans dissent” is a straightforward description of what’s happening in the united states

i think you could have won over trump voters by ruthlessly punishing donald trump

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

there is no universe where putting your email on a list of attendees to a mass protest is meaningfully unsafe where posting about politics on Bluesky under your real name (or under a pseudonym taking precautions 90+% of users are not) is a safe or advisable thing to do.

the abolitionists stared down the slave power for DECADES and never once went "well i guess slavery is just too popular. might as well stop participating in american politics" the slave power was unbeatable... until it wasn't. that didn't happen by magic. that happened by hard fucking work.

people who are clout sharks about it being unsafe to sign up for protests or whatever the fuck are basically doing the work of the cops for them and are the bane of people doing actual offline political works existence

So the enforcers of laws will take away your money and power even if you haven’t broken any laws?

i know it’s kind of a pedantic, meaningless point, but the freeze peach enthusiasts who are now crowing about getting people fired and worse are not hypocrites, they are liars, they never believed any of it to begin with, and it’s a little embarrassing to admit to having believed them

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.