@mehdirhasan.bsky.social it would be very helpful if you would publicly retract this and acknowledge that you were wrong. we desperately need Platner to step down now, and you have a very large audience.

Let me be clear, fuck Ryan Grim specifically. Fucking hack.

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

Relieved for all werewolves that there isn’t a full moon tonight. Enjoy the fireworks fellas

Pretty good time to impeach this guy if you can get the legislature back in session www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Trump: communism is vewwy scawwy! The “communists”:

Some thoughts on Trump v. Barbara for the 4th.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/our-revolu...

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

one thing we touch on a bit here is that the argument that racism was essentially solved and therefore required no further intervention was popular among reactionaries as early as the 1870s

In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

His "best effort" was pulling an executive order out of his ass with no build-up or media push for it beforehand, and he still got 4 justices to agree with him. The plain text of the constitution was upheld 5-4. This is unsustainable, so what is your plan to actually defend the constitution?

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

That's right.

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I dunno, maybe if the rest of the world also adopted historians' compulsive citational practices, and footnoted everything, we'd have a better information environment

5-4 on Birthright Citizenship means it can go down in the future with a different composition of the court.

Another brainpan-tumbleweeds banger from the least essential columnist in America www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

we all make jokes about how woke 1 went too far but woke 1 was extremely, absolutely correct about how much these people were dogwhistling, absolutely correct about the direction they were going in, absolutely correct that how their beliefs were not compatible with a free society

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I’m tired of people calling Black voters moderate. No, they are *risk averse*, and they’ve got 407 years of reasons for that. My guess is they, like lots of other Americans, now see the risks of inaction and of the status quo.

crazy how DSA romped in one of the Blackest electorates in the country and all I hear is they are supported by white gentrifiers newrepublic.com/article/2123...

Trump put his image/name on new passports, U.S. Institute of Peace, national park passes, banners with his face on them in Wash DC. and named a class of battleships after himself. On Day one of next Democratic President these ALL MUST be removed along with any other Trump images in White House!

next journalist who interviews vance about his faith should ask him about his role in ethnically cleansing his co religionists

I do not remember this degree of spine and chest-thumping with respect to fascists being elected, but socdems? LET SLIP THE HOGS OF WAR

vote blue no matter who you centrist fucks

the thing about primaries is winning them means listening to and appealing to democratic base voters. and it’s pretty clear that much of dem leadership and their favorite pundits and consultants fuckin hate democratic base voters.

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

Given the millions of dollars it has now repeatedly thwarted from all sorts of interests — pro-Israel and real estate lobbies, billionaires, and the Democratic party establishment — New York City Democratic Socialists of America could be the nation's most powerful organization

“U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton has amassed holdings worth at least $1 million in startups tied to the defense sector while serving on the House Armed Services Committee. Those private investments — not available to average investors — have risen sharply in value, according to congressional filings.”

This puts the lie to centrist argument to "move to the center where the voters are"- This shift was not organic- young Republicans didn't shift like this on their own, it was driven top down from the movement influencers. That's why they're called influencers!

The answer is he took the party very far right from where they've always been in the attempt to court right wing voters, and then inevitably lost all their left wing support without gaining right wing support. All of the individual issues people are saying here are examples of that.

Low-key liberal accomplishments coupled with high-profile policy concessions to the right and aggressive conservative virtue signalling — this is exactly the strategy moderates have recommended for Democrats here, of course. Didn't work too well. Maybe some lessons there.

it's funny because almost all the replies are variations on "he governed like a right wing reactionary and pandered to Reform"

It is absolutely true that Dems need to win swing voters to win elections. The misdiagnosis is that swing voters are “moderates.” They are not. They have almost entirely incoherent politics. You don’t win them from the middle. You appeal to your base with conviction and hope swings like the vibes.

“The left has abandoned patriotism.” This was outside Delaney Hall, right before ICE RAN HER OVER with a car.

there are certain ideas that are really narrative features of American politics more than actual truths. conservatives are patriotic despite their claims that America has degenerated, they're tough on crime despite embracing many criminals, they're free marketeers despite anti-competitive practices

specifically, urban socialism is the ideology of a Democratic party that is willing to fight as hard for the (good, positive) wishes of their voters as the Republican party is for theirs (bad, regressive)

it's true that AI is wrong and looks like shit, but personally the most repellent part of it is that the people who use it of their own accord are doing it because they believe what rich people say and do what rich people tell them to do

It appears Grok killed the schoolchildren in Iran, in tandem with a US military under Pete Hegseth who DGAF. Remember when Anthropic said 'No' to Hegseth's demand that they allow the DoD to use Claude to kill autonomously, with no human oversight? Check out this timeline:

Mamdani: And when we win these elections.. let it be heard by every pundit who sees a Muslim last name and tells that candidate to prepare a concession speech. Let it ring in courtrooms that mistake the Voting Rights Act as a suggestion, not the law of the land.

Spain’s electricity bills have decreased due to its commitment to renewable energy, reducing the influence of fossil fuels on electricity prices.

Damn look it's exactly what we said would happen

It must be so cool to live in a functional republic.

Donald Trump’s claim that “help is on the way” for Iranian people was always bullshit. He's a pathological liar who knows nothing about foreign policy. Now thousands of innocent civilians and 13 Americans are dead. Everyone is worse off because of his reckless, illegal war.

I cannot stress how pumped I am for this upcoming episode of If Books Could Kill.

I do not know whether this is like Society Members or Speakers/Guests At Society Meetings or whatnot, but I also dont know how much of such a distinction even exists? it is very hard to find out anything tangible about how this organization works.

daaaamn london

As a wise and sophisticated person with taste and class, my view is that every society has slop for picky children and it is all delicious. Bring me your kare raisu, your esquites, your aloo paratha, your croquetas. I will stuff it in my face and ask for more, showing it the reverence it deserves.

Wow, the abundance movement was bankrolled by self-interested techbro billionaires? Wild. Anyway,