I think on some level conservative NIMBYs oppose more housing because they dislike the idea of young people having more choices in how their lives are going to unfold

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

main economic message from the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it

As I was just saying. They will scale up random “schools” based on market speculation and then close them down when demand wanes. Thats the plan.

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

by Dean's definition of what a player has to do to avoid the foul, though (he basically said the defender needs to sidestep the QB before hitting him which lol ok) ... then the rule needs to be changed because that's impossible you just can't ever blitz the A-gap again under those conditions

"Bad guys are dying, I like it." Notch up another win for the 'Everyone is 12 Now' theory of modern American politics.

The pattern here is personalism. Trump views the federal treasury as a discretionary fund for dispensing patronage and largesse; he regards the White House as his private property; he regards DOJ as (literally) his personal lawyers, & the military & law enforcement as his personal security team.

I can’t stop thinking about all the hoopla over removing confederate statues and the phony appeals to “heritage.” But this is done without discussion. It was always about displays of dominance.

An aristocracy served by workers they don't have to pay, women they don't have to respect, wealth without labor, unpunished and rampant sexual violence, and a deity who sanctions it all

This should be an Iran-Contra level scandal and I don’t even know if it will make the front page in this news environment

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Dan Campbell confirms he was told by officials that the ruling to overturn Jared Goff's TD pass came from New York, not officials on the field. In other words, referee Craig Wrolstad was a good NFL stooge and lied to the pool reporter after the game

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

This because (I think) a solid core of the Trumpists are fundamentally seeking after dominion, not trying to address concrete grievances wherein achieving some portion of them hives off segments of the movement. The thrill of experiencing submission simply feeds the high, leads to yearning for more.

I'm starting to think we need to bring back a constructive form of shame, which @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social makes a great case for in this excellent piece: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

Social consequences for public bad behavior – including bad speech! – is how we "keep the temperature down". Sometimes social censure will overreach but that's better than violence! Thank you @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social! www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

was definitely interesting seeing the demand for "hard truths" about BLM and also the demand to carefully consider the "economic anxiety" behind MAGA overlap in time (and in some characters)

the core of MAGA government is giving resentful mediocrities to power to act as tyrants and dominate others

because, when you get down to it, there's just not that much to say about it. what trump stands for is evil, and self-evidently so. it's not interesting. there's no nuance to it. it is just every kind of idiotic belief which exists fuelling every kind of evil a state can do.

i really, really fucking loathe "steelmanning" as a concept. it is not my job to make the best possible version of your argument for you if oppose you, if i oppose you, i intend to attack both your shitty ideas *and* the shitty way in which you present them, because fuck you, that's why.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country.

This is also why there are a million articles about Trump’s appeal to forgotten working Americans and none of them mention that the actual secret to his success is “turning schizophrenics into a reliable GOP voting bloc”

Democrats are actively refusing to treat Trump’s military campaign against American cities as a crisis, because they’re in thrall to a bunch of idiot pollsters who tell them to only ever react to Trump across a tiny range of kitchen-table issues. The Democratic Party is a huge part of the problem.

seriously, there is no evidence whatsoever that Weiss is capable of writing a news story, much less running a news organization. the actual quality of the writing at The Free Press is barely a notch above AI slop.

man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

all of this makes total sense when you recognize that “freedom” here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and “tyranny” is when someone threatens that “freedom” or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals

wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.

Stephen Miller is completely full of shit, and he knows it. He's selling hatred of cities to people who do not live in cities and are scared of them.

“They’re throwing the entire federal apparatus at one father of three to prove that no one should dare challenge their authority.”

Whining about crime is super effective for right wing politicians because there's never going to be zero crime, so it's a good way to constantly sell total bullshit to the two dumbest groups of people in the world: republican voters and the entire media

I’m still confused what the median voter thought exactly they were getting lol

what's happening in Baltimore really gives the game away. a Dem major has drastically cut violent crime with a services-focused approach, even including police too, and none of these people give a shit popular.info/p/the-secret...

As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.

The lies please a certain demographic that is eager to hear them while the mealy-mouthed triangulation appeals to no one. You will always accomplish more in politics saying something, even something abhorrent, than saying nothing.

The reason the far right gets traction here is clickbait/controversy/support in the media, not because the left is silent. They say shocking things and get attention. Where people like, for example, @doctornerdlove.com (check him out!) say sensible helpful things and don't get the same.

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

very cool that the same chuds screaming about “unqualified DEI hires” are giving ignorant 23-year-olds the power to destroy federal agencies

Look, you can say a lot about Hogan's legacy: he was racist, he was terrible to his colleagues, he put himself above other people, he firmly believed in the supremacy of white people, he was a bad wrestler, his life was a net negative for society. That's it. That's the post.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

how nice to live in a world where there's no genocide in gaza and no fascism in the united states and the worst thing that could possibly happen is that college students call you rude names and you get a national newspaper column to share these very important opinions with the world