The real mindfuck with the progressive/centrist split in the democratic party is that contrary to popular perception, it was the progressives who were far and away more reliable in their support for Biden's domestic agenda than the centrist wing of the party

Joe Manchin holding onto West Virginia was basically stealing a vote whenever a party line vote occured, but him being a coal baron signifigantly limited potential achievements as we saw

the people who stood by biden till the very end were mostly all progressives plus manchin and iirc fetterman!

Literally how? Saying you’re going to make a BioWare game without gay in this day and age is like saying you’re going to run a Taco Bell without tortillas or ground beef. I don’t even like anything BioWare’s made recently and I see the huge glaring flaw here.

The press basically regurgitated ICE's framing, which implied he has spent over a quarter century on the lam as a gun smuggler and schools are too dumb to notice. The GOP, which is basically an anti-Des Moines rural party here, has certainly latched on to that theory,

another related column here

i am reminded of when matt stoller lost his mind over this column, and saw it as evidence of my “pro-corporate” bias. he literally could not grasp the idea that the smallness of a business does not necessarily alter its relationship to production or to the workers it employs

the jeffersonian tilt of anti-trust is one reason, imho, some of its loudest advocates occasionally fall into a reactionary producerism, whereby the small business owner is always Good and anyone who seeks to limit their autonomy is Bad www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-proble...

“but it’s different on the TV” damn, Donald maybe you should sit and reflect about why that might be for a second

That's less people than my hometown and you've never heard of it.

the coal focus is such pure culture war stuff; even the fossil fuel giants aren't that keen on it.

We are going to have to purge harder than an bulimic teenager microtargeted by digital advertising to self-destruct by the time this is all said and done.

not to keep religion posting but the guy's name is basically "Mammon"

anyway read @eomproject.bsky.social

'we will cover a range of opinions from the far-right to the right'

I'm sure we all look forward to this new and bold direction:

You're entitled to believe that contraception and abortion are immoral, but if you can't put that to one side at work then you shouldn't be a sexual health counsellor.

Very funny that the writer of that Khan audio drama podcast yelled at me for making an assumption and then I find out his podcast sounds like shit for a totally different reason.

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Lamo TCW is using the anti-gay marriage straight "queer" lady as an example of the far left being unable to accept liberalism. Like you're technically right, but she's not important. Nobody cares about her except a very small circle.

I gotta say, I’m not sure that I care much that Scalia later apologized to Kennedy for his Obergefell dissent. But i always thought that Roberts’s dissent was much worse.

the idea that you could just pass specific bills on specific areas with simple majorities is just beyond the ability and comprehension of most lawmakers in congress it seems

I'm very proud of my Ludendorff edit of that one.

100% tariff on subs over dubs

Why... why does 375k seem low to look the other way on slavery?

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

Kamala wanted to build 3 million homes...

Content creators tend to think any spectacle is defensible if they can say health and safety concerns have been attended to behind the scenes, but that’s not really it imho. Mr. Beast’s whole thing is that his subjects’ desperation for cash allows him—a wealthier person—to indulge his sadism.

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

You do not get to draw the line for society. You absolutely get to draw it for yourself. If you are not willing to do that, you are abdicating one of your fundamental responsibilities and privileges as a thinking being. That is the one thing they can never take away from you.

Theory and practice

I love a good correction.

We’re not mean enough to men actually www.reddit.com/r/Ask_Lawyer...

Often studying history people will first learn that large amounts of their national mythology is a garbage contrived for bad or at least simplistic reasons. What they will often not learn is the necessary next step where they realise they've overcorrected just a bit too much

One challenge I face in parenting is I have one child who hears only what he is afraid of hearing and I have another child who hears only what he wants to hear. This makes it difficult to get them to willingly read accurately. Somehow, this website is the same challenge. With professional writers.

See, in the book "The Lathe of Heaven", the protagonist alters reality by dreaming, something which is only possible because he is perfectly average in every respect. Alas, the advent of social media has made it impossible for anyone not to be a freak along at least one axis...

I feel like Le Guin acknowledging that a better society would answer "yeah but like, do we really gotta? No? No..." is why she's so good.

It's easy to dream up a utopia if it's only for the Elect.

In fairness, I see the vision. “Goofy corrupt New Yorker takes over America despite widespread contempt“ is a formula that is, uh… not entirely unsuccessful.

Should unlikable people be able to survive in society? Should they be able to thrive? It's rare for dreamers of better socities to confront those questions, but I think they are the ones that matter the most.

Whoever has the lathe of heaven please for the love of God figure out how to use it with actual intention and give us the Star Trek utopia already.

Larry Goone has low-key sort of broken me. 59 year old Chicago suburbanite ‘sexcon’ small business owner that thinks that George soros pays protestors named that. That’s a caricature of a Trump supporter someone on here would make up. That’s not a real person. Maybe we do have the lathe of heaven.

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In fairness, the American people are largely devoid of substance and prioritize “normalcy” over legality as evidenced by them electing funni 1/6 man to make it 2019 again. So, you know…. Good messaging.

working on a piece for the NYT about how the Saudis restricting jokes about all religions shows a commitment to pluralism that should be rewarded