Some people think the only way we can get people to turn against Trump is to pander to racism, and call that "respecting them". But thinking that people are incapable of coming around by moral persuasion isn't respect, it is treating them like beasts to be appeased

Actual Muslim organizations in the UK are unequivocally decrying the terrorism in Manchester and mourning the dead without asterisk. As opposed to masturbatory performative Bluesky let's-bomb-Walmart twats who see an opportunity to be edgy.

why are sexologists invariably complete freaks?

if your response to this - a basic statement of sympathy about an attack on a synagogue - is to bring up Israel, please delete your account

I swear to god anyone in the comments who agree with all the bad faith criticism of Natalie here can just block me, save me the trouble of having you try to nail me to a cross at some later time for some imagined act of insufficient activism

people really need to just stop inventing “person X derangement syndrome” as a defense of people they like, just fucking talk about what you think people are getting wrong

I can tell the GLP-1 is working because now rather than eating half a pizza and wanting more, I eat half a pizza and feel mildly nauseous

"the Democrats are weak, corrupt losers who transparently believe in nothing" is a horrific perception for the public to have of the opposition party under a noxiously unpopular president, and Democratic leaders have thus far evinced zero interest in rebutting any part of it

if Dems cave on social issues and continue only pursuing marginal economic changes, what exactly is the appeal of the party at that point? Defending democracy? Defending a democracy where your only options are slightly different subsidies and more or less polite suppression of undesired groups?

I really don’t get the business model of those shitty mobile games that advertise everywhere, like how are they making enough money to make up for the insane number of ads they push

somehow mixing weird goldbug woo about only gold being real money with transphobia, kind of impressive

feels genuinely hard to see antiwoke people as motivated by anything other than crass self interest, which feels both genuinely evil and is something that isn’t easily amenable to moral persuasion

foolishly have been spending some time on twitter again and forgot that “cis” is auto tagged as hateful

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

so many ways I wish I could dress that I just don’t feel comfortable with because of all my belly fat

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

the most unbelievable aspect of star trek is that holo-addiction is a rare problem

cautiously hopeful, though it definitely looks more actiony than my personal preference

Is the movie about killing Charlie Kirk gonna be called “Puppy Girl Afternoon“?

Are we gonna have to hear national media try to explain boymoding to the public?

I think Cal might be ok this season

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Man Erza Klein is having an insane fall off, just completely unable to adapt to the reality of the present moment

US politics is basically unrecognizable from where it was in 2012

I absolutely hate how much the US has turned into a voltron of various grifts

pretty sure declining birth rates are gonna be the fascist drumbeat for the rest of my life and I don’t really see any solution that isn’t ugly and corrosive to individual liberty

Cal has a good freshman QB who is foolishly giving me hope the Bears won’t suck this year

It is so intolerable to me that we are ruining people’s lives because Stephen Miller has a hard on for suffering. Every single person deported should be returned to America, made a citizen, and should be allowed to kick Stephen Miller personally in the balls. I hate that man so much.

trans girl: "I got an F..." friend: "Aww" trans girl: "...on my driver's license" friend: "Oh yay!"

There are still good, kind, decent people in the world You just need to know where to look www.newsweek.com/florida-loca...

you are the problem with the democratic party, please fuck off

Got a big skin tag removed this Monday and although I basically new it wasn’t cancer, it is always nice to get mail from a doctor that says, it’s not cancer

Israel always pulling the abusive boyfriend thing where, when they do something terrible, they bring up the time they were SAed as a kid like that is an excuse

looks like Gen Z in the US might be the high water mark for college graduation

I kinda feel like we are dealing with a long decline in the effectiveness of shame as a social tool, it always worked primarily by socially isolating people, but people can now pretty effectively always find other people to bond with over the shamed trait

Am I in a war zone? No, it's just the air and water show

I don’t think I am ever going to work on a truly greenfield project

starting semaglutide, let's see how it goes

Fucking fascist enabling rag

social media and constant camera use has made running away from your past much harder for people and I think that is probably bad, harder for people who made mistakes or who are just associated with people who made mistakes to get an honest reset on their lives

I don’t think Will Stancil has solved the hard problem of consciousness

It really is unbelievable just how the world is just letting this shit happen

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

I hate Searle, but I hate stupid objections to his arguments even more

kind of cursed how AI will seem to confirm things written in science fiction about it because things we say about it in such fiction is part of the training data

AI improvements overtime seem like making slow improvements on half remembered dreams with dream like approximations that get closer and closer to resembling something real