Hochul promised to use clemency on a rolling basis when she took office. In 2025, she has freed just two people.

Obviously the all-time champ, though you’d have to get hit in reverse

people mock the excesses of 2010s SJ activism without acknowledging they were basically right about everything

This was a pretty good one

My basic points are: 1- that’s not easy 2- they’ve way overplayed their hand in year one 3- even if they fail they will hurt and kill a lot of people 4- throwing them out in 2026 and 2028 won’t be enough, we need to think about what comes after www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

New DFP poll finds that 42% of NYC Democrats would be less likely to vote for a Democratic congressional candidate who didn't endorse Zohran for mayor. And keep in mind this is 42% of all Democrats, not just 42% of Mamdani supporters! www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...

libsoftiktok is now the third most powerful branch of government after the president and supreme court

I simply do not need an update every four months on what this one jabroni thinks!!!

Sucks that a former public defender (who are heavily underrepresented on the bench compared to prosecutors) would abuse her employees, but this kind of mistreatment is all too common in clerkships

It is a really small touch but I love it when Artemis shows up to the Crossroads and you can duet with her. VERBS, PEOPLE! VERBS! SINGING IS A VERB! #Hades2

many people have already dunked on this take and the many ways it is bad, but one thing I'd like to point out is it's abstracted to the point of meaningless. MTG is not standing for "liberal democracy" and her vile hate campaign against trans people shouldn't be glossed as a mere "policy preference"

H.L.A. Hart and Lon Fuller keep arguing in my fanfic comments about whether Optimus Prime topping the director of Oldboy violates the ban on "vehicles in the Park."

truly one of the geniuses of posting

Randy Mastro, top lieutenant to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and current Mayor Eric Adams, offers "advice" to NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani: www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/28/h...

One of the best to ever do it

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is liberalism a set of values or is it a regime of institutions and processes? That an explicitly illiberal policy can be enacted through the process of liberal democracy is nothing new, and is in fact responsible for some of the worst crimes our country has committed against its own people

The Nuremberg Laws were passed. Jim Crow laws were passed. South Africa’s apartheid laws were passed. If that’s all it takes to clear the bar for “liberal democracy,” then “liberal democracy is not good enough.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

The musicians cancelling their concerns are trying to de-platform Donald Trump. That’s censorship and it’s bad. Greg Lukianoff at The Free Press

it's genuinely fascinating to me that "you cannot facilitate a genocide against a people and still expect their vote" is too advanced for some analysts to understand.

Tlaib told Michiganders to vote straight ticket in the 2024 election, even after her grandmother who lived in the occupied West Bank under Israeli rule died of old age and in the same year that Biden sent bombs to Israel to kill 18,000+ children.

hey at least you’re consistent

Hey I see Matt Yglesias wrote a "billionaires are good and you should be nice to them" piece

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you might think that the blame lies squarely with a campaign that was so relentlessly opposed to any support for Palestine that they refused to let a Palestinian-American *legislator* even speak at the DNC. but no Bradley is here to tell you that the real problem is voters are too fucking stupid

Americans when someone challenges the bipartisan Arab-killing consensus: wow, I hope you Arabs get what’s coming to you.

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

and even if you are not worried about dying, getting the flu *fucking sucks*. do yourself a favor and get vaccinated as soon as possible. (also mask in public! it works!)

not too late for a flu shot btw, flu historically often peaks in february and by all accounts it is pretty bad this year

"weaponazation"

It's way too early for me to be laughing this hard. 🤣

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

ultimately a lot of these guys have the personality trait where they encounter dipshit bullying (which is what a lot of anti-masking sentiment is) and their natural reaction is to make sure the bully thinks they are cool and shouldn't get lumped in with the rejects and losers.

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

LeMonde said, not on our watch

My contribution to the exercise discourse is find the thing you can do 4-5 times per week, everything else is secondary

Hahahahhahahahahahaha this is the worst! The worst! Anyone who cites this needs to get in the oubliette!

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

As long as you use good ingredients and bake it well there is basically no combination of cheese, bread, and tomato sauce that isn't delicious

as a (virtually) lifelong NYer here's the deal: all pizza is good. deep dish rules. detroit pizza is goated. lunch lady cafeteria pizza was a joy. the only dubious pizza culture is california because it tries too hard but even (most) california pizza is fantastic. grow up

People always cite "Arab Muslim and Christian members of Knesset" (they are almost all Palestinians) as evidence of the lack of apartheid but those very MKs themselves call it an apartheid state. Did Jim Crow stop existing because there were a handful of Black congressmen?

socialism is when your former landlord raises the rent after you move out

Finished our annual rewatch of Knives Out and I'm here to tell you it still slaps

The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”

ME: team rocket will never steal these rare Pokémon! Not unless they wanna take on me and my fully evolved Miss Cigarettes! MISS CIGARETTES: miss cigarettes