🎵But I would walk five hundred miles And I would walk five hundred more Just to be the man who walked a thousand mile To never ride in these cars🎶

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

At some point we’re gonna have to talk about a complete overhaul of the American system of governance. That point was like 10 years ago.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Sometimes I’m still unable to believe the Boks are this good. Truly thankful for this period of players.

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

I think it’s a delicate balance. Pointing out their stupidity and incompetence helps to undermine their attempts at instilling fear even as it risks inaction. I think it helps to realize that their stupidity is itself also very dangerous (as point 2 hints at).

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

This is obviously terrible. But… I have to admit that every time I see the abbreviation for the Bureau of Land Management, I immediately think of this:

It’s all so incredibly stupid

Ok, but I also want to see them win

There’s some real virtue signaling going on in the comments here. Of course Oct 7 did not happen in a vacuum, and of course decades of prior oppression led to that day. But, this is still a statement, from the leading candidate in the largest U.S. city, that centers the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Funny thing is, it’s not even world building he loved. It was language creation. LotR and The Hobbit were sort of a demonstration of his theory that languages needed myths and legends. The stories were just there to prop up his language creation!

Coates’s line in his discussion with Klein that “sometimes we lose” really stuck with me. Klein was talking electoral calculations. Coates was talking about those working for true liberation and equality. To me, this is so much of the difference. Where are we actually trying to go? And how?

Idk, man, if it’s easier for you to speak in Saudi Arabia than in the U.S. that might be a you problem

A lot of people making fun of Kennedy for blaming autism on Tylenol but en serio, how many of you talk disparagingly about autistic folks? because there’s a lot of “oh yeah he doesn’t know better because he’s autistic“ like it’s brain damage or something rather than a literal expression of diversity

Second look at Butlerian Jihad?

I don’t care what anybody says, this discussion of IShowSpeed’s name is peak journalism

A bit surprised to see Siya play this one. Means he’ll probably sit one of either Ireland or France?

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

Dear God, somebody help this child!

What will poor Eric Adams do for work? That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

I’m sorry, what?

One thing I miss about Rugby Twitter is the annual “Rugby vs American Football” argument with the obligatory Eben and Jonah Lomu references.

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

This feels like a pretty good encapsulation of the current difference between establishment progressives and non-establishment ones (“leftists” or whatever).

Eric Adams

Only now catching the Springbok game. Is Sacha the best player of all time?

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Hitler particles off the charts with this one

If you look at the study everyone is citing, left wing violence by their parameters is on the rise... because it's basically nonexistent in the US, and has a fraction of the body count of right wing violence. But sure, follow the headline, say dumb shit.

Holy shit, this is good

Michelle Wu is someone that I don’t see talked about enough. Unlike Mamdani, she doesn’t have a cap on which elected office she can hold. She’s also shown an incredible ability at balancing progressive ideas and pragmatic approaches. Would not be surprised if her appeal scales well beyond Boston.

Is the goal of 3D chess to lose?

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Went full dad joke for the lesson on Qohelet today. No regrets.

I’m sorry… “anti-ICE”?

If my writing about autism does anything, whether it be in my books, my columns or my reported stories, I hope it advances the idea that autistic people are whole human beings as they are with legitimate needs and inner lives that deserve to be told the same as other stories.

As sure as night follows day, the video has now been blocked in New Zealand by Sky NZ, who will also now receive all global ad revenue for the video for all the hard work they put into it.

How does anybody take this moron seriously?

The ending of today’s episode of The Daily really demonstrates that the NYT learned nothing from the critiques of that terrible Emily May piece.

As usual with conspiracists, if their theories were true the evidence would be overwhelming.

It’s about time. Evangelical Jesus needs to come get his people. They’re out of control.

Not me writing about Christian Nationalism just as Hegseth posts this absolute insanity… I didn’t need any more material, guy!

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Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise. That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump. My latest