I have just experienced cataplexy

my immediate thought on seeing it was ‘why are we taking the ‘AI summary’ at face value’

Please stop posting that bullshit thing about Melania Trump plagiarizing from C J Cherryh. It’s AI-generated and not true.

Stop trying to argue with the logic of the right. The right purposefully employs inconsistent logic to specifically in order to make people show it is above consistency. It is purely about dominance. And it also has the added benefit of getting its foes obsessed with arguing instead of fighting.

You don’t understand, Joe Biden was President during the initial COVID outbreak, the fall of Saigon, the Thirty Years War, and the sack of Constantinople in April 1204. Facts are just facts, you can’t argue with facts.

Absolutely

I have believed (since my boys were born) that we do not own our kids - they own us. We are responsible for giving them the tools to create themselves, not trying to make them into us.

You got me a bath bomb? Didn’t one of those kill Marat?

Correct, and @tnh.nielsenhayden.com has been saying much the same for years. The Ken/beach parallel is perfect.

I have always believed this. No matter how strongly you feel about it, your child is not your property.

No one should get violent threats. But if you’re gonna change your vote because of it, you should resign. I’Ve been getting violent threats all week and not only do I have no intention of shutting up, I think it’s evidence that we need to say it louder

the best way to earn the respect of political enemies who think you’re irredeemably immoral scum? well, have you to tried sacrificing your allies to them?

This is 100% correct. Watch the whole thing.

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

JESUS: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani CHATGPT: you’re completely right. And I want to thank you for holding me accountable. It looks like you’ve somehow got nailed to a cross

I would scarf these down in the car

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

Political candidates are NOT “all the same.” One might be disappointing, or even a truly awful leader, but another might be a nightmare-level dystopian apocalypse that destroys democracy, the rule of law, the very notion of facts and reality, every established human right, & the entire world order.

So many people turn out to be cowards. Even people who have the sort of money that I always thought gave you the power to disregard this kind of pressure.

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month everyone!

I saw goody proctor celebrating charlie kirk’s assassination

Bluesky labeling a historical photo of a black man with scars on his back "self harm" is peak Bluesky moderation.

Insitutional democrats have been trying this play ever since the start of the war on terror: to treat their political opponents with almost limitless good faith. you can’t do that unilaterally, they’ll eat you alive.

Klein explicitly says his project is to dishonestly portray the true nature of the right for his readers in hopes that helps foster some common ground to heal our nation. This didn’t work for Obama and it’s not gonna work for him.

Spotted on Mastodon. Some great thoughts on resistance. Share.

Do you know what the NYTimes said after Malcolm was assassinated... "The world he saw through those horn-rimmed glasses of his was distorted and dark. But he made it darker still with his exaltation of fanaticism. Yesterday someone came out of that darkness that he spawned, and killed him."

I am advocating for you to be killed but I am using my inside voice you must debate me this is called democracy

This is what I’ve been thinking for a while.

Debate is a hobby. It’s not a thing you do to understand another person. Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.

Today's essential read. Deep dive who Charlie Kirk was. His history. and his rivalry with Nick Fuentes. and who the Groypers are. and why everything is so scary weird right now. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/who-was-ch...

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Pete, buddy, you are walking on the tightrope that puts you in Adolf Brand territory. Misogynist Gay is a bad place to land and you’re edging up on it with this men’s rights adjacent shit. Stop believing everything you think and stop digging.

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

Super weird that the guy who was Practicing Politics The Right Way somehow magically seems to have a following so racist against Black people that him getting shot by a white person in the whitest state in USA results in 7 Black universities receiving terror threats. What's this got to do with us?!

“Doing politics right,” baby

Literally all he did was the most basic part of his job and it was enough which raises the question of just how useless his counterparts have been

and all it took was threatening to prosecute feds who broke the law

A fabric store owner told me that her monthly expenses divided by her foot traffic and her markup works out to $25 purchase per visitor. I always need something. Thread, notions, buttons. The store would close without paying customers

This was probably meant less than seriously, but if followed it would greatly reduce traffic into bookstores and lower sales across the board.

The sharpest post I’ve read all morning.

The best you can say about, for example, ezra klein's piece on Kirk is he had absolutely no knowledge of kirk whatsoever because he has never bothered to pay attention, and certainly never listened to any of his critics who are not worth listening to. People like black college professors, gay people

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

My Bluesky seems to be missing the “like this times ten million” button

“our president’s laws”

another of the things I will keep saying is that we have an elite impunity problem and nothing will improve until and unless we change that

In the last week of the 1936 campaign, FDR reminded a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden that "organized money" was "unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!" And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college. This is, in fact, good politics.

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