This is a very good discussion. Coates pushes Klein on important points, especially - "Maybe it would help if you define the “we.”

kudos to @adamserwer.bsky.social who wrote the piece that gets at the core of what's been happening over the last ten months. regular people are standing up, at real risk. elites are folding like cheap umbrellas www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

What have the Romans ever done for us!

World's tackiest people build tacky junk.

People seem determined to remember Charlie Kirk as a devout Christian. This includes mainstream and liberal descriptions of him and not just MAGA hagiography. But look, the things he said about people were in direct contravention of Christ’s teachings. It’s deeply perverted to suggest otherwise.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Given what we know now, it's hard to see how any parent would entrust their children to these folks ever again.

Such little, little people.

🚨TENURE TRACK POLI SCI JOBS🚨 Yes, "jobs" plural. TCU is hiring two assistant professors, to begin in Fall of 2026. 1) American Politics, with a preference for Gender and Politics. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista... 2) Public Law and/or Judicial Politics. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista...

They've lost the 9yos

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War. "Portrait of Frederick" joins "Portrait of Delia," both hanging in the same museum together for the first time in history.

A case of an actual pivotal voter (or 2)!

What's the Dunning-Kruger equivalent for someone who thinks they will outsmart Chotiner?

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

IT IS TIME.

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

Irony is truly dead.

trump is underwater on tariffs by 20 points (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data?open=...) that means he's negative in 40 states (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-is-u...) this is a good opportunity for democrats to show how they fight for working-class voters (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...)

We’re suing the Census Bureau to force the release of critical LGBTQ+ data. Failing to release the data = failing to include LGBTQ+ people from policy decisions impacting health care, housing, employment, education, and more resources. So we're demanding accountability.

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

Kimmel is back on Tuesday: DISNEY: "We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday."

Two thirds of Americans are not Trump voters

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Weird seeing mashup of church in service & political convention. People holding Kirk & Turning Point signs during worship songs. So gross.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Premise is there's numerous former Trump supporters (a) with a change of heart (b) who will change back if Dems don't flatter them. There are trivially few such people, if any. In reality, Dems need to win back nonvoters. They won't do that by trying to placate Trumpers, they'll just look weak.

Viva la Revolucion.

2. The answer to what ails us from all the center-y white guys in Democratic politics cannot constantly be - ask everyone but people who look like them to give up fundamental rights. That’s actually not how you build the Democratic coalition that has won in the past.

I resist getting caught up in pundit thought bubble politics bc most of them have never actually worked on a campaign but fine here goes… 1. Pro-choice policies are very popular - the polling doesn’t actually support Klein’s supposition. Frankly we should run more on pro-choice platforms.

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

Iowa farmers are in the field right now and they are losing money on every bushel of beans they harvest because of Trump and Hinson’s tariffs. Farmers are mad:

Don't need to hear one more 'Bluesky is an echo chamber' post ever again. Meta is scraping parents IG 'back to school photos' of their daughters in schoolgirl uniforms and using them in ads to entice men to sign up for Threads. It's all pedos and perverts running the country. All of em.

the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

The most dispiriting thing to me right now is the immense level of cowardice I see all over, at all levels.

Tell me you know nothing about Kansas (and Missouri) politics without telling me… (Kansas has a pro choice Dem governor and resounds defeated an abortion ban referendum)

Every. Time.

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

Again, just to be clear here, Siebert's replacement will take office with a clear, virtually explicit, mandate to prosecute people who have committed no crime

U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson voted against honoring “the life & legacy” of Charlie Kirk on Friday, saying that the conservative activist “resurrected dangerous prejudices of a dark past." “The fact is Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric was divisive, disparaging, & too often rooted in grievance,” he said.

BREAKING NEWS: The group voted to require people who want a shot to be briefed on harms and benefits and tried but failed to pass a requirement for a prescription.

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...