This is exactly the phenomenon I was discussing in my thread yesterday (will attach below). Even if you can show a video is faked with AI, some people just don’t care - as long as it supports what they want to believe.

This is an important lesson for universities and media outlets that nobody is going to learn; the affirmative action conservatives your institution hired have nothing but contempt for you, the second they take charge they will show you precisely none of the respect and deference they demand.

I know Bluesky is the backwater lib bubble that will never matter in a million years or whatever but it's funny to note that the Washington Post has its Walgreens Bari Weiss podcast over here farming rage views because their engagement on YouTube is so bad

From Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.

yes. correct.

This has been such a persistent issue with the @nytimes.com in particular, and criticized so often, that you really can't see it as an oversight anymore, but as a deliberate policy of contempt towards other media outlets.

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this is a good example of what I’m talking about when I say that people like stoller are completely irrelevant on the platforms that actually reach people. he thinks that if you’re not on X, you’re not anywhere. meanwhile, half of americans get their news and politics from youtube and tiktok

When the Great Defunding started in 2025, the European Union introduced a "bold" program to attract top scientists from the US, funded at the tune of about ~$500 million spread over 3-5 years. In 2024, the NIH allocated almost twice as that per week.

It's just that the media loves to highlight "rebellious" GOP electeds whose acts of rebellion are basically meaningless. bsky.app/profile/mich...

What was a moment in world history where the book burners were the good guys

Eric Trump on a US state visit to China "could raise questions about potential blurred lines between the government and the Trump family’s business interests." What an odd journalistic convention — refusing to state the obvious, instead hiding behind others hypothetically noting a mere possibility.

& it's one more vote for dem control of the senate in normal circumstances, i could understand someone sitting this one out, but these aren't normal circumstances

I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.

The entire premise of this guy's piece, like so many "Dems need to stop talking about [issue]" pieces, is built on a version of the Democratic Party that doesn't exist. They're already doing the thing you're telling them they need to do. They're already largely ignoring this issue in campaigns.

They can't even find a new guy to write this toddler-brained article about

Also if a pundit sees anything on the Internet they don't like that thing becomes the position of "the left" regardless of what rando was the source. Republicans are enacting Jim Crow 2.0 and hanging with Nazis but calling them on it is inappropriate.

Celebrating a new addition to the "Thomas L Friedman Hall of Fame" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

Hegemon behavior is apparently crying to the mods when people don't do what you tell them

The reactionary centrist panic about the scourge of the mean "illiberal" college radicals must continue, irrespective of the facts on the ground.

It really is inexcusable that the NYT maintains a "free speech on campus" reporter who DOESN'T COVER OFFICIAL, POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED CENSORSHIP OF SPEECH ON CAMPUS. At some point you're actively deceiving the public, no?

Never forget

"If this university is truly committed to free speech, future speakers should be required to listen to You're Wrong About and If Books Could Kill episodes about their work and provide the student body with good faith rebuttals to these arguments before delivering their remarks."

I’m tired of the dishonesty of this entire debate. The folks calling for “perspectives different from their own“ are shutting down Women’s and African American studies because they hate differing opinions. Marginalized folks had a small foothold, and powerful people decided to push them out.

As usual, here is the evidence of the trend the Atlantic wants us all to worry about: -a ballot measure that hasn’t been approved. - an existing policy being reaffirmed - a state doing a study to think about doing a thing

Personally I think Jonathan Haidt should be exposed to the challenging perspective that Jonathan Haidt sucks

How are we still doing this

Love it when journalists ask tough questions like “uhhh are you sure about that?”

Doing a @mtsw.bsky.social on this but if Biden had said he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation in any context it would be the driving narrative for days (if not weeks) with second and third order stories along with being the only thing other elected Dems were asked about

Indeed the media instead framed this phenomenon as a huge problem rather than as a policy success, putting a lot of negative attention on e.g. fast food prices and other areas where rising working class wages caused inflation in consumer prices.

This is very much in keeping with the elite "free speech" movement of the last decade, which has almost exclusively been focused on questions of hierarchy and institutional fealty, and the reassertion of authority by superiors over their inferiors.

It would be incredibly funny if I could pass the WaPo Opinion podcast's subscriber count on my channel's first day on YouTube.

The way this book talks about trauma survivors is so insane

One thing ChatGPT is good for is a quick “smell test.” “Does this claim make sense on its face?” Doing that smell test here, in the top 5 psych journals, “non-drug treatments” outnumbered drug treatments in the past 5 years. chatgpt.com/s/t_6a049549...

i wish more people were more critical of Gabor Mate bc some of the shit he says has absolutely no basis in reality.

I'm always so confused about the thought that the medical establishment only wants to give you drugs. Every time I go to the doctor they want me to cure myself by talking a walk and eating a piece of fruit.

Putting scare quotes around “experts” is so fucking funny. Yeah dude sorry I listened to public health academics rather than 24-year-old podcasters who told me to take zinc and horse paste!

The central reason that trust in health professionals dropped during covid is that the president intentionally and explicitly used doctors as scapegoats for the economic damage the pandemic caused. What irritated overly online center-right pundits is a smaller factor.

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

i do think it's a legitimate issue that the democratic party is in an abusive relationship with the national press

This is partly harris's fault for opening the door by embracing trump's No Tax on Tips bribe to the culinary union and partly their stupid fault for not realizing that she fucking still lost. We're never gonna beat republicans at the stupid tax cut game! Wtf are you doing!

How come whenever someone fails to kill the president, the whole conservative establishment blames us for correctly labeling him a fascist, but when trans women are murdered there isn’t a single call to “tone down the rhetoric?”

Part of the problem: there are no Dem-aligned media organizations that can run a story into the ground the way Fox News could back in the day, and force everyone else to run second-order stories on how politicians/etc are reacting.

This was most apparent with the Clarence Thomas scandals. All Republican politicians refused to play along, calling it a hoax and smear campaign, and media stopped mentioning it shortly thereafter. Very few prominent Democrats were willing to attack Thomas on it.

Making a fuss is so low class. So low road. We are above all that. Fighting to win is so vulgar.