I really don’t think this is true. Businesses hate cronyism. But playing along is often the highest EV move - that’s why businesses do it. A reason that cronyism is so insidious is because it’s not really practical to expect businesses to act against their financial interest.

[Girl Dad logging on] I have done my best for feminism, unfortunately these dumb broads keep fucking things up. :(

The individual owner of the house I rented after college straight up stole our deposit. Never replied to any communication after we moved out, couldn't contact him any other way, not worth an attorney. That doesn't happen with corporate landlords.

This is an example of the Dem "mission statement" being missing. Oh, they're doing "lawless killings?" What I get from that is that your primary concern is following the rules. Why would we make the focus the rules instead of the murder of innocent fishermen?

This is the Trump team doing politics. They believe that their supporters like watching televised murder, because many of them do. You can’t fight that with “but international law says!!!” If you want to counter these atrocities, you must have your own moral frame.

One of the pretty clear problems is that the Democratic establishment can only conceive of intellectual persuasion. Emotional or moral persuasion is simply not a concern - and as a result they cede much of people's inner life and concerns to Republicans.

Their pitch for the Democratic Party seems to be identical to Wal-Mart. A place you kinda hate where you go when you want low prices. Inspirational.

Their pitch for the Democratic Party seems to be identical to Wal-Mart. A place you kinda hate where you go when you want low prices. Inspirational.

Well the Ryder Cup is not going any better for the US today.

It feels like if you’re going to offer political strategy, “is the group currently winning doing the things I suggest” is a question you should answer. And in this case, no, they are doing the opposite. Unpopular policies but with a clear moral argument. And it’s working.

Perry's comments in response are all good. One other thing that's the suffuses all of Klein's comments: He's scared. He's scared, he doesn't know what to do, and so we get pieces like what he wrote. He is scared of the power of Republicans and his instinct is to cower and accommodate. (1/2)

This is the Jon Stewart two-step. Pump yourself up about how important your thoughts are and how they challenge people or whatever. And then when faced with the expectations that come with that position, suddenly just a comedian again.

Look we are losing at golf but I would take Bryson in a fight.

US just getting absolutely wrecked by some of the best putting I’ve ever seen.

Ok that Justin Rose walk in was absolutely sick.

Ha I reread the @cartoonshateher.bsky.social piece about getting fired a lot and this seems related.

Every centrist op ed should be required to conclude with a paragraph on how whatever they suggest would address this problem.

Alright I’m up and watching the Ryder Cup. I’m sure things will turn around now. Right?

I missed this and my 11yo saw it and goes, "Act like ya been there, bro."

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Even if the story is true it’s why this immigration strategy is so appalling. Who would benefit from us deporting this man? Clearly he is an asset to the country.

There have been lots of bad things about this Ryder Cup so far, but making me cheer for Cantlay so often is right at the top.

This is, as far as I can tell, the only real summary of the ICE position about Ian Roberts.

All of the reaction has seemed to be something between dismissive and actively counterproductive. If Dems were struggling with women and the suggestion was "maybe they should hire more women for comms," it would be treated as obvious. With men it is derided? Seems like a problem.

RETVRN to anti-corruption. Make nostalgia slop work for us this time.

Aside from all of the insanity of the medical side of this, these recommendations are just a proposal to torture kids. Kids hate getting shots. And more than they hate doing it, they hate the whole process (being scared, being cold, thinking about how much it's going to hurt).

Also it’s easy to forget in the waves of nonsense, but they already fired Comey’s daughter. That was a story that was under the radar and you better believe it’s going to be back in the news.

Honestly cannot believe we are doing this again.

I went through this with my kid last year (much earlier, very early essay writing). He had learned the rote, structural way to do it, the way that gets you good marks on standardized testing. But it's striking how little it looks like any writing he has ever experienced elsewhere.

They look like they're about to demand the surrender of Paddington Bear to the authorities.

95% of the owners of these books are on this app.

This is also, among other things, an argument to let Israel proceed with genocide unimpeded.

The same person made both of these statements.

everyone knows what the issue is: the party is not led by partisans.

They are cowards and idiots, and they know that. The easiest possible lane for someone who wants to make waves as a Dem is just to say that, loudly and to anyone who will listen.

I want to write something longer on this, because it’s not just science. John Oliver’s show, which I really like, could be titled “here’s a thing that sucks that you’ve never heard of.” The admirable liberal instinct to improve things has instead convinced everyone that we live in a failed society.

It’s really important to see what happens after the slightest pushback. These cowards immediately moved into face-saving mode. They are the strongest force in the universe unless anyone in their path says “no thanks.”

Call me old fashioned, but aren’t both parts of this relationship currently, uh, married to other people?

It’s called a polycruel.

Alright Pritzker is officially the BlueSky candidate. I'm here for it, obviously.

Aside from everything else it's very funny that this post tacitly admits that government speech restrictions are different from social consequences. But he wants us to view his feelings as equally important to facts.

I wonder if some people don’t see that the opposite is happening now. We have lots of Americans pretending to be cruel jerks to fit in with the loudest assholes in their peer group. Most Americans really don’t think randomly murdering Venezuelans is good. People who do are bad - say that.

This is a fantastic piece on speech. There is a fallacy that free speech is orderly, and that the end goal of a culture of free speech is pleasant disagreement between well-behaved counterparts. That's obviously not true, because some people don't want to do that. And they have freedom too.

Texas has a defensive end named Brad Spence. That is not a college football player. That’s your buddy’s college roommate that fills out your charity scramble foursome.

I think approximately 43 people are watching this, but Arch Manning appears to have remembered how to play. And this is a lot more fun.

If you have money to give and want to beat Republicans, I suggest my friend Sarah Trone Garriott in Iowa against Zach Nunn. I can’t speak highly enough about Sarah, her character, and her electability in an R+3 seat. It’s a very winnable race with the right nominee secure.actblue.com/donate/stg-w...

There’s a certain logic to “I’d rather be minority leader than sitting at home.” It’s just that the values this demonstrates should disqualify you from public service.

My take on anti-abortion Democrats is they should go for it. If you want to run in a primary, do it. If you win, you should get the party’s support, because you have the support of the voters. This also, obviously, goes for Mamdani.

Utah returner finally did a thing I am shocked we don’t see more often. If the coverage team is standing right next to you while you wait on a fair catch for a punt…move around a little and run into them.