The fascist radicalization pipeline makes a lot more sense when you stop believing what fascists write about how they were radicalized.

drives me insane that education, the slow process of producing a society, has to change radically every year or two in response to trends and rhetoric

Earlier this year, Republicans tried to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in their 2026 budget, while proposing a 13% increase in defense spending. The Institute of Museum and Library Services just got their funding back through courts.

i'm stupid. put me in the ny times.

My twelve-year-old daughter's Christmas haul included a cassette Walkman and a Discman, and music to play on both. Yes, part of it is STRANGER THINGS. But part of it is the seemingly inevitable swing towards throwback tech, coupled with the current longing to be LEFT ALONE TO LISTEN TO SHIT

We won't begin to roll back the tide of fascism until white liberals come to terms with the fact that tens of millions of their fellow citizens actively, knowingly, support racist Gestapo policies. Tens of millions of racists were not deluded or misled. How will you adjust your strategy accordingly?

There it is. The final print edition, after more than 150 years, of the Atlanta Journal Constitution elink75f.mail.breakermedia.com/ss/c/u001.o7...

what a shocking turn of events who could’ve seen this coming

okay let's do a thread of FUN ONLY, no-stress, low-stakes New Year's Resolutions that are designed not to make you become a Better™️ Person™️ but purely to increase the amount of happiness in your life in 2026 I'm going to learn Polish folk embroidery and I want to DM at least a one-shot of something

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

these marvels (like all marvels) are mere repetitions of the ages

"He stole people that worked for me," Trump initially said, when explaining why he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago in 2003. It was unsettling and incredible on multiple levels. This reporting is much more unsettling, and much more credible

Time for another pundit op-ed on how the Trump resistance is losing steam and on its last gasp

Israel is banning the Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders from operating in Gaza starting on New Year’s Day. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

Just watched a Zoomer content creator say that her favorite camera makes things "look sexy, like the early 2000s".

Still mind-blowing that a top admin official was revealed to have taken $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from people looking for government favors, the reaction of the administration was "Whatever losers, this is how it works now" and bigshot news media said "If you say so, we'll forget about it"

megan mcmardle not being on here is one of the site's greatest blessings. importing her dumb takes via screenshots is like placing cursed soil in an enchanted forest and watching the trees shrivel to ash

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

DNA evidence is *very* extremely conclusive. There is a problem though: even though the odds of a false match are like one in a billion, laboratory error is not. It is illegal to mention this. www.cnn.com/2024/03/09/u...

NEW from me — I broke down Trump's claim on local right wing radio that the US carried out a Christmas Eve land strike in Venezuela, how he doubled down Monday, the subsequent media reports with no substance, the potential role of social media rumors about an actual fire, and how we need the truth:

A lot of people are trying to justify their own desire to surrender to Trump early in the year

A friend sent me these yesterday

We've learned in the past decade or so that forensic science and behavioral psychology are basically made up. Meanwhile, medical science turned AIDS into a manageable condition, developed a vaccine for a global pandemic, and is reversing Alzheimer's in mice

I was running late to a German class and almost sped walked into Robert De Niro, who was stepping out of his trailer. We made no contact and I only had enough time to think, "hey that's Robert De Niro he's really short".

Keir Starmer was the model for centrists and popularists who insisted that moving right on issues, especially immigration, is how you win at politics. Wonder if there will ever be any self-reflection here! Ah well nevertheless

harper’s letter 2 better be off the fucking rails

The Democratic party would win elections repeatedly if they competently challenged corporate power.

This is slavery.

"Hatebeak made its second record with Caninus, a band whose lead singers were two dogs." Budgie and Basil unfortunately went over the rainbow bridge so the band broke up There are probably a lot of singers who wish they could snarl like this youtu.be/DFzKgBfroAc

Important reporting. All of these impossible registry requirements do nothing to help victims and only make us less safe.

I am not reading that yet. It is still the holidays.

The NYT is an institution dedicated to laundering rightwing bullshit for centrists and liberals who don't want to stop going to certain parties

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It's in this article, though I got the idea of academic urban legends from the sociologist Ole Bjørn Rekdal, whose prime example was the idea that there is an exceptional amount of iron in spinach

This is why it’s so important to trace things back to the beginning whenever possible. I believe @rauchway.bsky.social calls these “historical urban legends”

You're not the audience for the MTG glow up happening because you (as an individual) would never be in an actual position to make common cause with her or to reject her in some nebulous "coalitional" political way. This is the elite speaking to other elites to shape elite opinion.

Absolutely wild watching every American media org incl progressive ones like NYMag remember Bardot as an animal rights defender and not mention her vicious racism Meanwhile this article from Le Monde English is how I found out she died It's hard to overstate how much American media fails Americans

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An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

My opinion of the New York Times is distinctly outside the mainstream among journalists. Most think NYT is mostly excellent journalism with some flaws and blind spots, I think it's mostly a vehicle for laundering right wing propaganda with some excellent people who put out good work.

Private prison company GEO Group allegedly made immigration detainees work for no pay. Now it's at the Supreme Court trying to prevent the detainees from suing. bit.ly/4pfafj2

at some point it was decided that what joe rogan says about a topic is news and i cannot emphasize enough that it is actually not

I feel like we’ve gone quite a few rounds of “this guy is unfortunately not the guy you want him to be,” and it never really sticks.

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My new AI company named Freddy Krueger is going to make all your dreams come true!

In retrospect, Combs repurposing a song written from the POV of a possessive lover to mourn Biggie may have been his way of telling on himself

We all know why they pick names like Sauron and Palantir