Love to hear the boos, but what the hell is it he's doing here getting the stadium audience to take an oath? Does anyone know what this was all about?

holy s**t wha the hell did I miss

When I was a young man "moderate" was used to describe a temperament more than anything else. Nine out of ten times today whenever I see "moderate" it invariably ends up meaning "mostly liberal but still uncomfortable with people who aren't straight white and cis."

This isn't the cause, surely, but it is worth noting that when I was at @ordinarytimes.bsky.social there was a big consensus among the generation behind me that renting was the wiser fiscal move and only morons threw away money buying a home. So I'm unsure generational comparisons work that well.

the NYT subbing in "liberal feminism" for "women" in that headline about women ruining the workplace really gives the game away. 1

OT1H, the 'satire' thing is probably small potatoes. OTOH, it's a great and illustrative example of how the right can say any obviously dishonest, disingenuous, and clearly false dumb-ass s**t and mainstream political reporters will just incredulously pass it along unchecked to their own audience.

Would it kill a single national television or online news personality to take a moment to learn what is and isn't satire.

It is a huge concern that so many of people who run this country have no idea how insurance works on even the most basic level.

Bonus: imagine how many federal crimes Josh Harris would be able to get out of if he did this.

TBF to him a bit, his adherence to conservative politics stems mostly (if not wholly) from his evangelical religious convictions, and letting that go should be pretty hard to do. The fact that he’s (and his wife) pried himself from that whirlpool is good, regardless of how much he has left to go.

Not snark: All morning long until just now I honestly thought this was Tammy Faye.

It’s such a good feeling when a cat “chooses” you

Imagine being in a political movement where these are the two options

Stephen Miller is about to say it is legal insurrection to not give the President the power to starve Americans.

trump desperately filing a last-minute bid to prevent americans from buying food

The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book

The aesthetics of American fascism are so ass.

Even so, good f**king riddance.

I'm neither an accountant nor a finance guy, but I'm a little unclear on how a company that doesn't have a trillion dollars can pay someone a trillions dollars.

💯👇. I'll go one further and say trying to bully Sydney Sweeney into apologizing for something she had no control over is downright anti-feminist.

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

This is likely going to be unpopular with my peeps here, but you can't make a woman - *any* woman - responsible for what a bunch of online Nazi choads she doesn't know said about her, and it's a bad sign that we've all decided to make her the villain in all of this.

A cool thing about american politics is that if you describe in a matter of fact way what people believe the people with the most power in the media industry think that’s rude

This is a really good overview.

Dr Oz is estimating the average American will lose about 400 pounds over the next year.

Oh no there’s gonna be a mistrial

what he doin ova der

Is this the Sharia law I was warned about?

The entire TYT universe makes more sense when think of it more as a group of professional content creators and less as ideological political advocates.

MTG preparing to learn the exact same lesson every other female politician who thought she could ride the misogyny of the Trumpets movement to any kind of non-subservient position of power have all learned before her.

"i mean the amount of bank I made on grift oh boy it would make your head swim"

In my brief time as an op-ed editor (<year), Brettbug Stephens argued Ashkenazis might be genetically superior, & Tom Cotton called for violence against George Floyd protestors. Some of us were constantly pushing back. I met with Sulzberger multiple times. Lip service was given, nothing changed.

From "we will bring down prices on Day 1" to "inflation is a relentless force of nature and we are just smöl beans uwu"

Part of the story of the Trump administration is the effort to demolish state capacities. Some will be very hard to rebuild and that is the point (thread)

Over on the Twitter the not-in-any-way-antisemitic blue checks are debating the thorny but totally normal and not-at-all-weird question of whether being invited to a Shabbat dinner by a Jewish friend of colleague is nice or part of part of some deeper sinister conspiracy.

Honestly, they should have stuck with the awful original, which had the virtue of being more honest. Andrews argument is that *the mere presence of women* is undermining professions and their norms.

The Phyllis Schlafly Grift™

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twitter really has become it's own separate universe

Terrible news: the Communists have won the Time Machine race.

Not a wheelbarrow, a specially modified T-shirt cannon

mamdani pushing a wheelbarrow of babies down 7th avenue and handing them out to strangers

What a weird post for the Athletic to have up top on November 5th.

I'm just gonna come out and admit it: I don't really get performance art.

twitter really has become it's own separate universe

Sadly, the easiest way to dodge any future self-reflection or accountability when none of the Mamdani stuff pans out will be to double down on the campus stuff.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

I may have shared this story before, but one of my first experiences with local government was as a teen. One of my friends was going to go speak on some pro-gay-rights proposal before the city council. This was deep red South Dakota in the aughts, so there was potential for some rage.

Your periodic reminder that in 2025 most extremists *are* seemingly regular people on Facebook.