89% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Republican governor and two Republican senators 23% – percentage of disaster aid requests Trump has approved for states with a Democratic governor and two Democratic senators www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

The ONLY reason why you've heard of Robert E. Lee is that he chose to resign his commission in the US Army and take command of an army of rebels, who hoped to establish an independent slaveholding republic. He was a fervent Confederate nationalist, who was willing to give his life for this cause.

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

Part of Trump’s mass appeal (and of why he’s so dangerous) is that he really seems to share Joe Barstool’s worldview that there are no complex problems: Everything has a simple brute solution, which previous leaders were somehow too stupid or weak to deploy.

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

Still sort of astonishing how the men of a political faction so obsessed with masculinity will dutifully debase themselves and betray their principles to adopt the biases and obsessions of an 79-year-old demented clown -- in this case by performatively smearing the U.S.'s closest ally.

Conservatives spent years complaining about ”safe-spaces” and “liberal snowflakes” only to turn around and show they are absolutely terrified of ideas they don’t like (“racism is bad” “gender is fluid”) and willing to use state power to avoid the slightest discomfort. The snowiest of flakes.

Donald Trump won in 2016 and 2024 because anti-system voters flocked to him. Democrats need a strategy for competing with anti-system voters in 2028. This is, in some ways, a very strong case for nominating someone like AOC over Newsom. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/meet-ameri...

This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

"tired of some of their admiration for [insert lefty or left-leaning political and cultural figure]" explains a solid three-quarters of the last decade of american politics

switch it out with this when he goes to the loo

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

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