Fwiw I think the “apologize for being white” thing is very clearly about making sure white people don’t feel an obligation to alleviate past injustices or make society fairer. Ultimately to do that you have to raise taxes and the billionaires holding Vance’s leash don’t want that.

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Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are." Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Idk he seems to be really into certain “purity” tests bsky.app/profile/theb...

That last uppercut was so telegraphed he practically put it on his google calendar and he still ate it face first bsky.app/profile/gadg...

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I think bigotry has become a kind of loyalty ritual among young republicans, it’s how you show you’re one of them www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Nerdpost alert: Played a green black mill deck this morning in magic arena and he was kicking my ass until he got greedy, played his win con (resurrecting all his dead guys) and milled his own deck and lost (hubris wins are so good)

Next Compact piece: Anthony Joshua only won because of affirmative action bsky.app/profile/chad...

I wrote about how the Trump administration won’t let Black people use MATH to prove racism exists. Apparently, only white self-reporting their own racism now counts as evidence of racism.

responding to “what do you think of Adolph Hitler?” with “I’m in favor of a strong executive” is advanced conservatism. these kids have perfected the craft.

Oh is this what jd vance meant by “demographics?” bsky.app/profile/joel...

simultaneously a good news story on McBride's deftness and a real shattering account of how many Democrats still need to get punted into a hole in the ocean www.advocate.com/politics/sar...

Very cool!

Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...

hey look at it this way. At least there's no second season of the acolyte bsky.app/profile/aman...

Crazy how all these places that are overwhelmingly white keep on refusing to hire white people because they’re white, other than all the other white people who already work there bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises. An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.” These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:

I guess some knowledge IS forbidden! www.chron.com/culture/arti...

And, really, what else is the point of government?

Metaphors getting ever more didactic bsky.app/profile/zach...

They booked a bunch of 14 year old models to come to a Mar A Lago party, told them to dress sexy and tried to ply them with alcohol.

The wildest part is when it leaks whatever fallout they were trying to avoid will be ten times worse. In its own way that explains quite a bit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

the "cancel culture" panic was mostly about the feeling that the Wrong People were controlling The Discourse, once the billionaires got their hands on the wheel speech magically became free again because they could decide who got platformed bsky.app/profile/pale...

The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them

weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Saying Texas isn't a Republican state it's a nonvoting state is cope www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

i was especially struck by these paragraphs, which rang very true to me. libs who grew up around conservatives aren't embarrassed to be liberals--or confused about what conservatives want. there's a certain kind of elite media man, on the other hand--

Simpler times

This is The Blecks fault bsky.app/profile/karl...

conservatives embrace disparate impact theory exclusively when it is (not) happening to them bsky.app/profile/anth...

Support workers, not slop. bsky.app/profile/prop...

I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855 quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...

"New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s 46-31% statewide favorability rating is up from 40-40% last month, and stands at 61-23% in New York City." That's a surprising amount of good will, given his rivals' vitriol during and after the campaign.

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

No thesis more vindicated www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622555... bsky.app/profile/rgoo...

Now that Trump has banned migration from 20 more countries, most in Africa, worth recalling this quote from Stephen Miller that we dredged up: "If you import the Third World, you become the Third World." newrepublic.com/article/2041...

good luck staffing up those rural hospitals bsky.app/profile/reic...

oh look a real unemployment problem

Want to circle back to this because they have gotten what they want and a big part of what they’re doing is justifying why we should continue pushing Black people out of public life regardless of who’s in office.

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Amazing how many articles are just “I’m a white guy who didn’t get the promotion I wanted and the only answer to this problem that concerns every single one of us is to re-segregate the workplace”

Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...

when you read this it is very clear that Wiles thinks she is flexing the administration's muscle. relatedly, it is also very clear that the White House is completely delusional about its standing with the public. they are high on their own supply.

Biden brought American manufacturing back but Trump is strangling it once again