Ross's "conservatives must be above informal judgment, or else" goes hand in hand with Trump's "conservatives must be above the law, or else". If society will not accommodate them in all their unpleasantness, will not "say thank you", they would choose a state of nature & the war of all against all.

An insightful read showing how some parents become radicalised into ‘gender critical’ transphobia when their child comes out as trans. Here, one of the most unhinged leaders of the ‘Mom’s for Liberty’ movement is interviewed, along with their amazingly well-adjusted non-binary child…

Buried details: the 18% of kids whose identities shifted over the course of the study were overwhelmingly between binary trans and non-binary or vice versa. The number who shifted between binary cis and trans was very low indeed - out of a subset of 254, precisely *one* kid shifted in this way.

The failure to reckon with this balance is a big part of what led to our current predicament. "Free speech is when the left shuts up" is a core tenet of public discourse.

we're in a national crisis because everyone hates conservatives so much nobody will date them and their families refuse to talk to them; but also we're in a national crisis because our institutions are liberals who don't realize how out of touch they are with the overwhelmingly conservative public

This is very cool but it's very long so set aside some time.

Conservative men are apparently pretending to be liberal and then "coming out" to their progressive girlfriends after dating for months

After Douthat says Trumpism is pressuring institutions "to do the right thing," his first example of that "right thing"—the "civic purpose"—is resegregation in higher education

The Cinnabon at the Eglinton subway was a tractor beam

I _seriously_ need to watch this video… bsky.app/profile/mich...

Spotting Cinnabon from across the food court

They probably should have

God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more

This was somehow a flash in the pan headline in all the chaos last week, but throwing out there that at this rate this would be in the vicinity of 50k people vanishing from the face of the earth over the remainder of the term. And this is before they use that newly allocated $75B to fully scale up.

Disney adults, I owe you an apology, I wasn’t really familiar with your game.

right. he is failing in this moment for precisely the same reason he succeeded in others. no one is the right person for every moment.

does anyone know what this actually means? like obviously andreesen horowitz as a major investor having a hand in controlling the algorithm isn’t good either, but that’s not quite the same as how i would read control by “the united states”

Do I have this right: snopes' read on this exchange is that because Charlie Kirk's 'main' point is that you can't quote scripture unless you endorse 100% of god's instructions per biblical canon, he isn't REALLY advocating executing gay people, because that's just an incidental detail

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

"What changed? In short, everything but the science ..." Yup. All the VSPs have decided that climate politics is old news, boring, woke, etc. But climate change is still out there, just as bad as ever.

pundits spent the last decade warning america that lefty wokeism was our generation’s chief danger and now that it’s indisputable that rightwing fascism is and always was the real threat, they have to remove political valance from the word “woke” so that they can pretend they were right all along.

It's the same exact thing that happened with youth GAC, Republicans lied that doctors were giving out hrt and surgery like candy, demanded "common sense" policy for guardrails like psych evals and waiting periods over years WHEN THOSE EXACT GUARDRAILS EXISTED FOR DECADES

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This is so fascinating

The answer to this dumb question is NO

At this fragile moment in history, any noise you make as a politician towards legitimizing these bullshit concerns is just you helping usher the human race down its slippery slope to pure authoritarian control. We’re equal or we ain’t, that’s it. Gay Panic 2 sucks just as much as the original.

Hyygestank

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Klein is, for whatever reason, fumbling for parts of the coalition to throw overboard for the sake of accommodating authoritarians — the sake of “living here with each other,” to use a line of his this week. But it’s other people’s liberties he’s bargaining over.

Feeling the need to post this spot on @michaelhobbes.bsky.social idea again. Don’t even give them direction, just fund them.

Quoting Leviticus at Ms. Rachel then making fun of Pride Month is obviously a virulently anti-gay message. Kirk is favorably talking about Old Testament punishments for gay people even as he’s doing so to troll someone.

I’m partial to mispronouncing this scanner at my airport

the american right has been getting away with this plausible deniability shit for so long that they don't even have to do it anymore to be mainstream. they can openly say vile shit and the "liberal media" will find some way to make it plausibly deniable.

See, artisanal, also.

People keep "debunking" the claim that Charlie Kirk wanted to stone gay people to death but I'm pretty sure he meant it.

It has happened numerous times now that I come across a Charlie Kirk quote that is so extreme I'm convinced it's fake, then I check and it's real. ca.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-c...

Never change Yascha www.persuasion.community/p/beware-the...

lol cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_ful...

Why does visiting Copenhagen always put me in this exact mood

*nodding and pointing upward sagely*

“Reconsider their boundaries” come the fuck on

Bizarre thread. He seems to be saying “listen to marginalized groups about whether to register for the protest” but marginalized groups have a wide range of views on this! It isn’t useful advice without specific arguments and evidence about the issue at hand.

Is there a sadder place in human civilization than the Smoking Cube at international airports

There is the way they want you to pronounce this and there is the way I say in my head every time I go through security

This is so good. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters

We need money and political will to do those things Bruce, not smarter computers www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/18/h...

Freedom from government censorship polls with 90% support. There are no "broad divisions" on this, except perhaps in the newsrooms of big corporate media.