if you want Jews to believe they do not need a state that is always and forever exclusively under the control of Jews, they have to believe that there can be other states where they are safe

a very insightful take I saw on the antisemitism/antizionism thing is that it is not sufficient for your antizionism to not be antisemitic, you have to be actively opposed to antisemitism because it is the most effective argument for zionism

Get Wydenpilled.

The antiwar movement is not left, not right, but a third secret thing (campist and partially funded by foreign governments)

Good news, there’s already a political party for you

"I didn't vote for him" does not absolve us of responsibility! We are a representative democracy, he is our president no matter how much you hate his guts. We are doing this to them.

Directing Graham Platner’s campaign

Heating contributes something like 4x the carbon emissions that cooling does.

It’s the men making me realize she had a point…

if you're interested in taking up a heterodox position, write an essay entitled "valerie solanas was right," boys. let's see how contrarian you really are

the ongoing defense of Platner tells me that plenty of men on the left hate women more than they love their supposed principles

Betraying American law to help… Iran

"Well excuse me that I liked the Nazi's stance on universal medicine"

Basically the "partial birth abortion" of birthright citizenship, in which ideologues who want to take away rights fail in their sweeping effort, then try pretending they just want to address some relatively small factor, when the goal is to erode the legal standard to ease the way for a total ban.

We could've had a POTUS who would lecture us about Habermas and Adorno and climate science.

What makes me so angry is that, yeah, some allegations are surprising. These weren't. Anyone who had experience with These Guys knew this was coming months ago, and it was just a collection of pundits going "he wouldn't do that, I know him, he's my bro" all the way to the bank

It’s almost as if rugged white masculinity really is just a desire for racist and sexist domination

Bernie's legacy will forever be tarred by his utter inability to vet candidates and staffers. Tulsi Gabbard, Briebriejoy, Cenk Uyger, John Fetterman, Graham Platner, the list goes on and on. One mistake is an aberration, two mistakes form a trend, five is a feature, not a bug.

My grad school advisor in 2008: Stop focusing on gender! Nobody cares about gender! Today:

Is this about soccer or 2024?

Here’s a finger for you 🖕

It’s amazing that the guy who said he loved killing in war and missed killing so much that he became a mercenary and do more killing and also has a Nazi tattoo is also not good to women. Who could have seen this coming?

you just know right now some collins staffer is looking at a file on his laptop called "Platner-nword--SEND-2026-09-15.mp4" and shaking his head sadly

Let's be fair to Graham Platner: this is the first time anyone with authority over him has tried to explain the concept of "no means no".

If you go off your ADHD meds while living alone you get to experience the “somebody keeps moving my stuff” parts of having a roommate without the “someone else pays half the rent” parts of having a roommate

Chris, am I right that the decision making everyone angry comes back to the plaintiff‘s attorney’s choice to not challenge the title IX definition of sex? That’s what I gathered from your article anyway, yet people still seem to blame her 🤷‍♂️

NEW: Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders. The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present. This Fourth, at Law Dork:

Years ago, a friend reached out for advice: she was in a chat group with nine women who had all been sexually harassed by the same colleague. Even with all of them having found each other, it took weeks for them to muster the courage to speak up, and they very nearly didn’t do it. This is why 👇

I've been doing sexual harassment and assault research and advocacy work since 2012. If there's one thing people need to understand is that everything, literally everything, is stacked against the victim. Every one who comes forward risks their reputation, identity, safety, and more. 1/2

If Jewish Gays do not feel safe at Pride, that's an Antisemitism problem not a Israel and Palestine conflict problem. Blaming all Jews for what Bibi and Hamas are doing, is pretty fucking disgusting and not very Pride like. Also, Tel Aviv is the only place in the Middle East that has Pride.

Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization

"It's always 'you're so autistic' and never 'thank you for sharing everything you know about the tradition of roadside crosses in Central and Eastern Europe'"

On a related note, it's absolutely insane how even with colossal oil wealth, Norway is only managing to remain at par with the US in terms of median household income (median, not average!). The US is wealthy enough to have free healthcare. Our issue is not voting for the taxes to pay for it.

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

Why would anyone bother to care, or work to improve, a country they utterly despise? My interest in reclaiming patriotism is born out of the fact that I’m as left as I am because I DO care about this country, and I would like it to be better. That feels patriotic to me. It’s not pretend.

One of the most appealing things about Zohran Mamdani is he’s a guy who clearly loves New York City and wants to make it better. The same idea applies to our country.

That would own me so hard guys

Days like this I could almost believe in God

We should have switched to "America the Beautiful" decades ago, because that song is better in every way: —easier to sing —original lyrics don't glorify slavery —not about war —written by a probably-lesbian college professor, which will infuriate MAGA —written in and about Colorado, our best state

Even setting aside how Keys was pro-slavery, what’s baffling is My Country ‘Tis of Thee was the original anthem yet we changed to Star Spangled Banner, an unambiguous downgrade Also America the Beautiful is right there tho my pick would be This Land is Your Land

Unlike the French, Republicans are anti-American

France remains our oldest and best ally, because they always tell us when we are fucking up.

Of course the author- who is Canadian- also pretends that the British Crown was a benevolent restraining force controlling the barbarous, bestial savages of AmeriKKKa from overrunning Indigenous lands. I would ask that he observe that Canada also stretches the entire continent.

Happy Dan’s kid’s birthday day!

celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle

No one can tell us medievalists that we're a bunch of irrelevants now. Not only is there a papal schism going on, but every smooth-brained bigot is reverting to 13th-century antisemitism, talking about usury and shit.

wish he weren’t here

This is the best of who we are and what we represent. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...