Tankies and Nazis continuing their total and complete merger, I see.

Took me a sec but I knew I recognized that account. Check this out:

This account has 50k+ followers, including celebs and big accounts, and he’s just performing one of the all-time hit singles of antisemitism on main.

Happy Easter

The problem with pointing out that Hasan Piker said the US deserved 9/11 is that everyone defending Hasan Piker agrees with him.

If I’m going international with it: Birmingham, UK and Canberra, Australia

Philly

Baltimore! Baltimore is awesome.

Providence, obviously, always

Utica DYK that Utica’s art museum is unparalleled for a small city, with multiple masterworks by Pollock, Kandinsky, de Kooning, Rothko, Baziotes, Mondrian, and Cole? It’s on par with the collection at Yale. Its building is also a modern masterpiece designed by Phillip Johnson. www.munson.art

Idk if people put KC down, but it is great

Unironically Memphis

Detroit and it’s not close. Detroit is awesome.

Pittsburgh is seriously underrated.

Right-wing Christians and even the NRSC have lined up to mock James Talarico’s inclusive, open-hearted Christianity. Some have even called it blasphemy. But the Christ of the outsider and the poor is a threat to their political power. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/right-wing-a...

so i posted this same tweet on the other site and all the replies are "actually it was the jews", in case you needed more convincing that It Is That Bad over here x.com/rhcm123/stat...

Why aren’t they staying in the Big Cypress Lodge, the hotel inside the giant Bass Pro? Look at the bowling alley it has.

Wow remove Jerry's verification. CLT has rocking chairs walking distance to Bo Jangles. This is verifiably wrong when LAX exists.

Roald Dahl was not, in fact, just criticizing Israel.

Social media brain at work

100%, Alan. I can't vouch for Elia Kazan's politics (not well-versed) but I have been thinking about his 1957 film, A Face in the Crowd, a lot more than usual, lately.

I especially appreciated Sarah bringing up 2016 and the locker room talk discourse. It’s important not to legitimize a narcissistic bully who says gross things just because they share your politics or some of your policy goals. And the fact that he’s popular it isn’t exculpatory.

This is one of the fatal flaws of populism in any form. Support from some sizable base of the people doesn’t confer moral righteousness onto anyone. And it doesn’t wash away their transgressions. The people are not pure and holy. www.liberalcurrents.com/iran-slopuli...

In the unlikely event that anyone on here would like to pay good money to hear me talk about Isaiah Berlin, Hannah Arendt, Judith Shklar, and ideas about freedom (or knows anyone who might): roundtable.org/live-courses...

Just thinking about Jonathan Majors sitting in his monogrammed Jonathan Majors directors chair on the set of the new Daily Wire movie while the producer barks “we don’t negotiate with communists” into his phone… four years ago he was supposed to be the Big Bad in this year’s Avengers team up movie!

People would rather talk to a mirror than even engage other individuals on the internet

And the chatbots will materially degrade as less and less updated information is there because it's unsustainable to produce actual content in this environment.

In case that first one isn't clear above

Untranslated headlines in German are much clearer than New York Times headlines in English

"The refrain of 'shut up, bitch,' echoed from Andrew Tate videos...carries a simple message....male supremacy [is] an animating feature of the far-right politics dismantling American democracy today." Unsettling glimpse into male supremacist side of some segments of online far-right Christianity:

Liberal Currents has quietly become one of the few outlets taking male supremacy seriously, either as a foundation of Trumpist fascism or as a system of oppression in its own right.

It sucks that these men still need women around even though they hate us. They can't just become the male equivalent of lesbian separatists.

Male supremacists Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd want women to “shut up.” I wrote about this and the abuser politics on the right. www.liberalcurrents.com/abuser-polit...

This is an important point! These men don’t want women to just be quiet. They have to be there to reflect back all things things they desire: adoration, affirmation, respect, etc

When I was a kid they had a section in Highlights magazine called Goofus & Gallant.

Oh I literally missed that’s this is called Year Zero. As in the Khmer Rouge’s declaration of Year Zero in the 1970s, which preceded the genocide of a quarter of the Cambodian population.

Deeply embarrassing that Jacobin doesn't bother mentioning the actual artists who drew, colored, and lettered the comics in this critique of "liberal capitalism."

"Hey would you like to read a Chapo Trap House Comic for $45 American dollars?"

Just hand out the Pulitzer now.

62 days to baby I not panicking why do you ask?

Calling all audiobook fans: Audible is running a sitewide sale and “How to Eat an Elephant” is almost half off! If you’re thinking of preordering the audiobook, now is a great time to do it.

I’m with Sarah on this, but I’m very glad she and Tim talked it out.

"I could think of 1000 other things I would rather Democrats pick fights about now. Like, why him right now?" "Because he's making their life harder." @timmiller.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social spar over one of the biggest questions facing Democrats: what to do about Hasan Piker?

Christian male supremacy = Taliban

Opted for this read instead of the NYT: www.liberalcurrents.com/abuser-polit...

Unforgivable vandalism

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

The obscenity of a budget that cuts the forest service to fund the re-opening of Alcatraz as a prison.

The problem with platforms is that they're always advertised as "true freedom" Which always devolves into folks being assholes. The best moderation is 1. Treat everyone like adults, but you're not going to harass people. 2. None of us are dumb, so don't play dumb when given a temporary ban.