elite decadence (disney) vs popular anti-authoritarian vitality (disney adults)

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

Tylenol does not cause autism but *not* taking Tylenol can cause women to be truly miserable during pregnancy so you can see why the GOP is so gung-ho about this line of argument.

I'm teaching the Iliad this week and prefaced it by telling my students how emotional all these heroes be doing

It is only cancel culture if it is college students protesting genocide; otherwise it is just sparkling fascism.

Get in losers, we’re grieving

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

Charles Entertainment Boycott

CUNY is truly one of the country's great universities, perhaps the best one anywhere at delivering the American Dream, even today. If only the city recognized that, let alone the nation.

this is so awesome lmao

this exists it is called thinking

Cleaning from various podcast clips, Hall would seem to be the churlish one in the whole schism with Oates.

The headshot is sending me. She's the Joan Didion of soliciting dick pics from people who want to outlaw rabies shots

“We’re used to thinking of the fiscal crisis as the outcome of an over-generous welfare state or of larger economic forces. But the New York City’s flawed development strategies certainly played a role.” Kim Phillips-Fein and Daniel Wortel-London on NYC www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...

In a 6-3 decision SCOTUS finds that the first amendment specifically says you can’t be mean to republicans and that’s what George Jefferson and tom Franklin meant when they wrote it

American Catholic elites are so bad, man

One of my dreams is for Interlibrary Loan to have Amazon Prime-level logistics.

Early B52's go so hard

The aptly named Vanity Fair

ON BARI WEISS’S PODCAST AHAHAHA

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

When the Founding Fathers adopted the First Amendment, the censorship that kept them up at night was censorship or private citizens by the government. That's what they made unconstitutional. Not social pressure. Not social media pile-ons. Not hate speech. Censorship by the government.

I think one of Ezra Klein's big problems is that when he says "doing politics" what he actually means is content creation

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

Imagine capitulating to a president that is so underwater that he doesn't even have 50% approval with white people as a white supremacist

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trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

speaking as a mentally ill drug addict myself it’s been a real horrorshow watching what happens when one of us gets the unrestricted keys to the kingdom without having to get his head on even a little bit straight first

All timer

rewatched Nashville last week for the @tpnwicmfp.bsky.social pod and was left thinking about how 50 years after it was released, people still make facile assumptions about country music to prove some point about ~America~ www.dontrocktheinbox.com/r/6e532a50?m...

It's funny that Ta-Nehisi Coates actually pulled off the "retreat into the fortress of solitude so every time you emerge to say something it feels like a big deal" thing that Barack Obama tried but failed to pull off in his post-Presidency

The overproduction of NFL takes could not be better figured than in the current tush push debate

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

if I were a liberal and the right was going to do ideological purges regardless I would simply not make it easier for them by voluntarily leaping to endorse the supposed better angels of their pretexts

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

I am still doing penance to my ancestors for the time I let my bandmates convince me to get Taco Bell in Lafayette

Well I guess we have to pray for Trump's health for the next 3+ years now 🙏

“Like ‘Taken,’ but with an elephant”

Imagine that

yesterday/TIL Wendy Carlos was briefly but compassionately profiled by Casey Casem in 1979 following Carlos's Playboy interview she was essentially forced to do so people would leave her alone.

Istg the Emmys are basically monthly at this point

The reason affluent media people are such suckers for “civility” is that the actual content of most politics has no real stakes for them personally. If you want to find these people’s true political feelings, mess with their money.

Jonas!

Very belated realization: At the Drive In had Fugazi energy with hipster insider fashion plate rock dude vibes.

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Not one pundit who pops off about Higher Education being too radical or woke or whatever would survive 90 seconds in a classroom.