there's a portrait in RFK's attic that just keeps getting younger and better-looking

moreover, by centering the bad-actor to this extent, rather than focusing on the network that she exploited to great success, we're reinforcing the "bad apple" theory — which is just so obviously nonsense at this point. everything about a piece like this is just not on the level, frankly.

i mean this earnestly: i think profiles like this are, effectively, a manifestation of a broader corruption. the catty cheap-shots are kind of a vaccine to make you think the piece is hard-hitting or unsparing, but the truth is someone who is wildly and flagrantly unethical is depicted as a maverick

i cannot express how weary i am of media elites profiling each other and writing with an affectation of disdain or contempt but doing it subtly enough that you can't prove a seeming compliment is intended to be shade. it's not some kind of clever subversion. you're not a novelist. just stop it.

Olivia Nuzzi got sent in to do a profile but it turned out she wanted to fuck the subject so we sent in Jacob Bernstein to profile her and it turns out he also wants to fuck the subject

I work on a large team. I work with all kinds of code I didn't write but do I understand, and I maintain it just fine. Why? Because one of the reasons I am paid a lot of money is to develop an understanding of that code. Seriously, it's a baseline skill for any kind of professional software dev.

I am only a vegetarian, since my cultural background made that almost impossible to begin with, but I do think this is true.

Lol, lmao, things of that nature

They think you’re stupid.

More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.

Looks like Le Samourai imho.

a lot of you could stand to follow Marshall's attitude here (which is very close to mine) and more importantly, get your friends and family to share it

It’s so funny how I personally went from a fairly pragmatic institutionalist to personally hating 95% of the Senate caucus in mere months.

When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza

10 Senate Dems, most of whom won’t even run for re-election, decided tonight to destroy the unity and momentum we had from Tuesdays wins. We can and very likely still will win in November but this was incredibly selfish

i think a lot of dems are unaware of just how much they're demoralizing their base, to the point of advocating *against* democrats, whenever this stuff happens. the conspiracy theories aren't true, but they're easy to believe, especially when conveniently amplified by an algorithm

Expel the yes votes from the party and cut off all their access to fundraising, then remove Schumer from leadership. Anything less is mealy-mouthed coward bullshit.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

All across America last week, Dems showed up and generally kicked the piss out of the Republicans who are hellbent on destroying our country and our freedoms. To have a bunch of squishy, out of touch Senators completely sell us out just as the Republicans were starting to crack sucks.

The Democratic politician is the only mammal which is also an invertebrate

Senator Schumer has failed to lead this party in one of its most critical moments, and Americans will pay the price. It’s time for him to step down from leadership and make way for a new generation willing to fight for the people instead of the powerful.

any democrat who does not want to catch shit for this can demand chuck schumer's resignation from both leadership and the senate over it.

Blame *all* Democratic incumbents for this surrender. Not just the ones voting for it. The others could have voted to remove Schumer long ago and install a leader capable of formulating a strategy and holding his people together. They were content to stay with a proven loser.

Not a single senate Democrat should be politically safe from this day forward. Not one

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

Listening to these 8 Dem Senators explain their vote convinces me that they are either idiots or liars. Either is plausible.

Why didn't Tom wear the Ring as he makes passionate love with his wife, so he can force Sauron to watch. Sauron, who is a virgin, who never had a gf and was dismembered and reduced to a giant eye would realize he is nothing compared to Tom, whose girth is beyond even Eru Ilúvatar's comprehension.

Yes sir comrade Kristol. All power to the Neoconservative Front for the Restoration of America.

it is insane to describe a local government official as neoliberal

to quote @slacktivistfred.bsky.social, vampires fear the cross *because* it is powerless.

Revenge is the sweetest joy next to getting pussy

SHIVERS - I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

You’re excited for Mamdani. I’m excited to talk about literally anything other than NYC for the foreseeable future. We are not the same.

The only person who looks bad here is you.

anyway I do not support all journalists, some of you are very dumb.

"Who looks as though he has been given a bomb to hold"

Kat Abugazeh’s campaign has crossed a threshold where the risk she’s taking is significant enough and the actions admirable enough I sorta am past caring if it’s a publicity stunt/brand building exercise or not, it’s still brave and worthy of respect.

I'm just gonna say if trans rights are your #1 or top 5 voting issue, then getting Janet Mills elected, proving that standing up for trans rights is not a loser but a winner, should be your number 1 priority in 2026 and having her lose to a beefy masculinity caricature would be a disaster

something i realized recently that isn't immediately obvious is that technology development actually has an "antisocial" bias, in the sense that you only need as many collaborators as it takes to get the thing over the line, and everybody else to just leave you alone ie it's inherently subversive

Leftist writers are all such cheap dates, any white man who says fuck a few times becomes a populist vanguard of the people’s revolution.

Absolutely fascinating, must read thread.

I would rather watch a fragment of underdone potato for two hours

The most natural endpoint of accelerationism is just collapse, not revolution

platner also had numerous reddit posts defending this. he's a real disingenous piece of shit