I've never once watched Kimmel, but nonetheless: eat shit, nazis

Thanks to the Texas Tribune for this comprehensive, fully reported account of the firing of the Texas A&M Instructor for teaching “gender ideology.” www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

useful framing

Argentina, a tale in three parts:

Françoise Hardy

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"From what I can tell, executives at these companies are making a simple statistical mistake that is imperiling their decision-making: They are assuming that all U.S. adults, in 2025, look like U.S. voters in 2024."

STEPHEN MILLER: you have no idea what you have awakened. we will save the West. we will turn darkness into light. we will rise like a phoenix from the pit of fire and EVERYONE ELSE AT THE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS GAME TABLE: ROLL THE FUCKING DIE ALREADY

Free-market reformer needs a bailout.

good

imho the pyrotechnic display for Trump was a real revealed-preference moment w/r/t who the event was effectively for and w/r/t who the participants effectively regard as their lord and savior

WE COME FROM THE LAND OF THE ICE AND SNOW FROM THE MIDNIGHT SUN WHERE THE HOT SPRINGS BLOW

I mean, I think we collectively are going to need to invent some better Voight-Kampff tests for surveys

Also family structure is almost certainly at least partially downstream of inequality that originates outside the family unit

family structure is *not unimportant*, but family structure cannot account for or offset economic and/or racial inequalities that originate from outside the family unit

“They studied 51 populist presidents and prime ministers who were in power between 1900 and 2020 and found that after 15 years, GDP per capita was 10% lower when compared with a plausible nonpopulist counterfactual.”

have a moral spine, man

happy 68th b-day to Nick Cave The Birthday Party @ First Avenue (Minneapolis, MN, 6 April 1983)

AFAICT, part of this is that many of our elites exist in spaces where they have more direct day to day contact with folks to their left than to the MAGA right; this deeply distorts (via availability) their assessment of where the biggest macro-level threat to an open society lies

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

I don’t think anyone left of Pinochet said anything as savage about Kirk as referring to his funeral as “a time of whatever.”

An open endorsement of hate - precisely what you do not want the President to do after an assassination when messages from leaders disavowing violence are especially important www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

It rocks that he’s doing this on his stupid fake social app. More downfall of the republic shit, incredibly serious stuff, horror show historymaking abuse and he’s yelling at her likely accidentally online when he should be doing his corrupt bullshit in private but he’s too dumb to figure it out

I really do not think that the 65-70% of the US electorate that is not hard MAGA is going to look at this kind of thing and be able to relate to the aesthetics of it socially, politically, or religiously

Pioneer Press article gift link.

No breaking open the Malort until we see moving vans

Classic! youtu.be/YH7IcMoJ-pM?...

pasta alla norcina #poliscicooks

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

oh. Cool

This doesn’t NOT happen, and some of the biggest weirdo influencers are converts, so I get it. But I think white urban flight, “becoming” white in general, the collapse of the Catholic ghetto, and loosing of old cultural bonds (ie, being Irish American = being Catholic) are more essential.

I am begging the nation’s elites — political and otherwise — to stop believing that Donald Trump is popular and retains the mandate of heaven

this record goes hard

Keep in mind there's nothing preventing the US from doing nonlethal searches and seizures. The Coast Guard and sometimes Navy often does this. In the time between the 1st and 3rd deadly US strike, sailors from the USS Jason Dunham stopped and searched a ship. The strikes are a deliberate choice.

more from Pulp @ the Armory [09.20.25]; truly a top-shelf performance

My statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

does this fall under “free markets” or “personal liberties”?

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

“…as trust in institutions has declined, many Americans began to view polished institutional statements with suspicion—seeing them as potentially manipulative, overly cautious, or influenced by corporate or political interests.”

that's right

down the road at the Pulp gig tonight half of Jarvis Cocker’s between song banter was about hoping he’d run into Dylan and what he’d talk about with him

Live, laugh, paint it black

Making it all the way through the six flags parking lot and realizing you left your wallet in the car

got the tickets from some fucked up bloke in Camden Town

Probably several impeachable offenses in this truth social post alone.

’Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes

No, it shouldn't be just another Saturday. We demand our leaders to treat this like the abuse of power it is.