"liberals are out of touch with Real America" is and always has been a propaganda psy-op to help conservatives, pushed by the media outlets they control and their sleeper agents inside outlets that they don't.

It’s very funny to include the “far left” here when the DSA mayor of New York City just ran an entire campaign on affordability and making cities work while his main opponent ran on Israel, a country almost 6,000 miles away

That's right

There's one trait where economists clearly outperform the other social sciences: Hubris.

This is an exceptionally good episode

i haven’t listened to beshear much, but given his success i guess i assumed he had some charm to him and didn’t talk like a total hack.

...they are doing a litmus test about Hasan, a moderately popular Twitch streamer....THIS WEEK!

When the administration is actively restricting science, then it's impossible to do the large size, long term studies that would counter the anti-trans narrative. They can't risk being proven wrong.

People truly seem to forget that trans communities have long had a very antagonistic relationship with WPATH, whom we have seen and continue to see as a major force of gatekeeping.

One of the most incredible things about people buying into this moral panic is believing that there is anything in the American healthcare system outside of an ER that is done quickly.

Besides being a bad answer it completely fails the “speak like a normal human being” test. People hate that shit! At that point the substance of the response barely matters, you’re already a phony.

"litmus test" is just consultant speak for "having beliefs"

this is a good thread on what this whole NYT vs. AMA thing is about as well as a summary of what's actually happening with trans youth care, which is that transphobes are trying to claim something is happening when it's simply not

Gender is so delicate that we must act as though the whiff of doubt requires a draconian crackdown.

Dems think they're clever with these answers, but they are just increasingly alienating people, because 1) It is obviously genocide, agreed upon by the major reputable international organizations (HRW, Amnesty, etc.) and 2) A supermajority of Dem voters believe it's genocide

Terrible answer from Beshear www.politico.com/news/magazin...

this is exactly the issue.

"since I moved here in 2016" lmao

I read the entire section on gender affirming care of my Medica insurance plan when my kid came out as trans. To say there aren't a series of flaming hoops one must leap through to get care, each one taking time and money, is entirely ignorant and silly.

As the parent of transgender child, I can testify that the standard of care was EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE even before the recent moral panic. I cannot stress this enough. EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE. Anyone who says otherwise is completely uninformed or blatantly lying. Period.

It's really this simple and lazy. The NYT bought into transphobic hysteria that children were being given surgeries at the drop of a hat and subsequently saw a brief glimpse of reality as a change. Pathetic shit.

This is one the biggest holes in transphobes "arguments". You think the same docs who tell perimenopausal women to just take ibuprofen are handing out hormones & surgery to kids like Halloween candy? It's just a completely absurd way to think.

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The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

I literally just relistened to the You're Wrong About three-parter on cancel culture, where @michaelhobbes.bsky.social references this magazine cover. Great miniseries about one of the more embarrassing features of modern existence.

It’s such a laughably bad argument for the war on Iran to say “The people there want regime change.” I want regime change in the US, and I 100% do not want the US to be bombed. F off with garbage arguments.

A predictable #NoKings take from Jeremy Peters: A small turnout will be ominous, a large one will be meaningless, all protests from the left are merely a "primal scream," and none of them mean much. The NYT has always loved protests as history but hated them as news. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...

Extremely good episode

I happened to attend this school during this time, and the teacher who (allegedly, but the evidence seems pretty clear to me) abused members of the outdoors group was my biology teacher (before his leave and ultimately suicide). Lot of unanswered Qs from that time, this series has been eye opening

This is fucking amazing. As basically the same age, and from a little north of Seattle. The inappropriate nature of student teacher interactions hits hard. These fucking dudes.

Remember when conservatives said Obama was a narcissist because he used the word "I" a lot in speeches

Why does the fawning media always call these stains on our democracy “a first” like Trump broke the four-minute mile as opposed to the Constitution

“Every $1,300 New York City invested in building bike lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to one additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” That’s a better return on investment than some direct health treatments…”

Really enjoying this so far! Basically, what if you went back 20 years later and re-investigated "the incident" from your high school. www.kuow.org/podcasts/focus

The fastest growing and shrinking counties in the US www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Are there any problems in the country right now larger than the words people to your left are using

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These people are such pathetic whiners

Leave me out of this

Important update from the dumbest motherfucker you follow on social media

I have no idea why the Atlantic chose this godawful headline for this article. It's actually pretty good, and about precisely what Claire is describing. Basically university administration and Trump efforts to suppress campus protest have worked. It's very very bleak.

Not so marvelous news. ~95,000 scientists have left the federal government since the Trump regime took over.

It’s always bothered me how readily people seem to see “Believe Women” as the start of some terrifying, socially disastrous ~slippery slope~ ending with us wreaking havoc on innocent bystanders. Is this threat so compelling, so viscerally realistic, that disbelieving us is the only viable default?

“But this is the Millennial mantra—I am the captain of my ship, the author of my life, the protagonist of reality.” idk about protagonist of reality but other than that… yes? if i am not the captain of my ship and the author of my life, then who is? why would i give those roles to someone else?

Abigail Shrier is one of the most dangerous hacks of our time. What a truly abhorrent grifter.

Feminists have rightly pointed out that women are not believed by doctors when they say something is a problem for decades and yet these "feminists" who are reactionary anti-trans campaigners want to pretend like they're the real champions of women.

Helen Lewis, I think, still considers herself a feminist. It's a very bad idea for feminists to claim that what can't be seen doesn't count. Trauma from abuse or sexual assault can't be measured in a lab. Feminism has been built on the idea that taking women's experiences seriously is important.

I covered this story for Defector because it falls under two of my beats, Amazon's Reacher News & Views and Suburban Brain Disorder. defector.com/suburban-hom...

Meritocracy is back baby