It will take years to undo the regime, but it will take decades to undo this Court.

While the rest of the country reels from canceled flights, the President of the United States is scheduled to meet with a dictator and then take the day off at his resort in Florida. (Source: CNN).

Trolltalitarianism (noun): government by 4chan incels

Rural Americans who have never set foot in NYC every other day: “I don’t care what those New Yorkers do. NYC isn’t America.” Rural Americans after Mamdani’s win: “Look what they’ve done to my city!” Imagine being from Brooklyn and caring about who the mayor of Branson, Missouri is.

The research proposal vs the final draft.

Excellent thread. Definitely worth a read (along with the piece she links).

Remember: tomorrow, Dem leadership will still find a way to f*ck this up by striking a shutdown deal. They will have learned nothing from tonight.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Last night, I dreamed that I was explaining the movie, The Two Popes, to Mel Gibson. I’m not sure where that falls in the sequence of events in the Book of Revelation, but it can’t be good.

Many books will be written analyzing his judicial philosophy using big words but the bottom line is that Brett Kavanaugh is just too fucking stupid to be on the Supreme Court.

"More importantly for automakers’ bottom lines, the financial penalties for not meeting fuel efficiency rules have all but vanished. Those regulatory savings could eventually offset the cost of tariffs." I mean, who could have foreseen this? I ask you: who among us? www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/b...

Magda Goebbels’ first marriage was to Günther Quandt, himself a committed Nazi. But she left him in 1929, and shortly after began a relationship with Goebbels that led to their marriage in 1931. Most people think it was the ideology, not Goebbels’ “charm,” that drew her in. Just a little factoid.

Look for the helpers.

God damn…

When my child comes to me someday and says, “You never took an interest in the things I cared about,” I will show him this picture of me and my wife doing our very best to be an Enderman and TNT from Minecraft without any frame of reference for either one aside from a picture.

Who the hell is out there eating the god damn shells?! Show yourselves!

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books: www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

The number of people who have just completely caved to postmodernism is alarming.

I watched portions of this interview and let me tell you: hearing Tucker Carlson attempt to defend (watered down) liberalism to Nick Fuentes’ self-admitted identity politics was wild.

I mean, aren’t these all basically the same thing? Or can my theorist mind just not comprehend what’s being asked here?

Andrew has a £20,000 Navy pension, and his salary as trade representative was £250,000 a year. He was sacked in 2011. His mother have him £1 million per year in gifts. But he is a lot richer than that. It is well known privately that he makes money as a bag man for gun runners and other criminals.

It won’t matter, though. None of them will remember this when it counts. A negative approval rating doesn’t translate to a positive one for whatever milquetoast person the Dems will pick in 2028. We’re in a constant grievance cycle, with no signs of escaping it.

Listen, I’ve lived through at least two bubbles. There is no way that this is sustainable. apnews.com/article/nvid...

None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"

My yearly invited talk at the Library of Congress was just canceled. Not objectively important, but probably tells us how long our friends in the public sector think that the shutdown is going to last.

if public funding for scientific research subsidized the rise of an oligarch scammer who then bought an election and cut all the scientific research funding, of what use was it?

Cutting off food aid while building a ballroom for dinners for billionaires is the 2025 equivalent of "Let them eat cake." www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/t...

“Stairs leading up to no clearing landing” is the perfect symbol of the regime.

I’ll add that her considering a re-run is totally on brand for the Democratic Party and has been for decades. Dems are obsessed with “It’s X person’s turn,” even when they have no record or (worse) a losing streak. For other current examples, see the WI Governor’s race and WI 3rd District.

SNAP benefits are about to expire for millions. Health insurance costs are about to skyrocket for millions. Food prices are rising. The government has been shut down for 25 days. What is Trump focused on? Tearing down a section of the White House to make way for a billionaire-funded ballroom.

Once again, ask “Has Obama done something? If so, it’s probably a reaction to that.” In this case, it’s almost certainly the Obama Presidential Library.

Huh, turns out Arendt was onto this too. From "The Alliance Between Mob and Capital," Origins of Totalitarianism, Chapter 5.

I guess once you turn 40, the spam texts are no longer from “hot Russian MILFS who wanna meet you” and just dudes from Ohio who want to go fishing.

[Brooklyn edgelord moved to spittle-flecked rage because his Chipotle burritos are not personally chauffeured to him below cost] "I hardly think that ordinary working people care about the senseless desecration of treasured national symbols"

Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...

I love that this is literally just we realized we weren't connecting with Black people so we tried talking to more Black people and Black people like us much better now

Every second is a new impeachable offense

Political theorists for the spice.

A girl in my son's grade at school and her friends were injured in an antisemitic attack in my neighborhood on a Jewish holiday on the anniversary of October 7. Not great. patch.com/illinois/sko...

Lately, the only reason I watch clips like these is to figure out which layer of hell Marco Rubio is in this week.

My Gen Z students, when asked, think this is an entirely normal thing to do. And that’s part of the problem.

The issue with Jacobin-style Marxism is that loyalty towards the prophesied revolutionary subject while it is being birthed replaces accountability to the live problems and responsibilities of a coalition. So e.g. Platner can be failed but he can’t fail.

All these people are saying “wait to you think he’s REALLY a Nazi,” and my response is “no I think it’s more likely he’s an irony-poisoned edgelord douchebro, another group that’s absolutely ruining the fucking country.”

I can’t tell which is worse: the incompetence or the absolute weirdness of these people.

The entire premise was a deeply held belief among conservative influencers that America's senior military officers yearn to do memes.

She’s not wrong. It’s great to see people act, but behind it is the nagging feeling about translating it into real mobilization. The regime has shown it doesn’t care about the opinion of >49% of the country, but the *system* that supports and protects it *would* care about, say, a general strike.

While we’re at it, I’ll just toss out the US Marine Corps Raider’s insignia for review.

Yeah, because those four groups are historically notorious for working together.

I didn’t realize that “Dems shouldn’t run a guy with a nazi tattoo” was a hot political take.