H1B thing is just example 486 of how republicans can't deal with Real Problems. The system is flawed, it is a Real Problem. They are not interested in reform to do things like streamline the process and reduce the potential for fraud, they are interested in being racist to Indians.

the bargain of, let’s say, fairly stable, small-d democratic capitalism is that the average person gets better living standards and wages and doesn’t have to think very much about politics, and i think everyone involved in politics will come to regret the choice to change the terms of the agreement

Goals, TBH.

What movie do you consider perfect?

Enjoying the Stanford Game thus far. We should have played them before this.

You internalize that you're not special. The goal of your job is to become less special because your job is very dangerous and you could be replaced at any time. You clock in. You act competently. You consider your goal, and you work to attain it. You keep records.

I don’t know why yall are taking commentaries on liberalism’s future seriously from Ezra Klein when Jamelle Bouie is right there.

I think you could go good horror in like early 20th century rural fundamentalism or like snake handling churches, but suburban and urban contemporary evangelicalism really only lends itself to farce

Reading about the Albigensian Crusade. And man, did this bit strike me.

Doing a Sym-Bionic Titan rewatch. The show is massively underrated. (And all the character designs are wonderfully Gender)

Via @bmietana.bsky.social: Southern Baptist Convention breaks with the Evangelical Immigration Table —> religionnews.com/2025/09/18/e...

This raises an important point. Kirk getting shot is the first event that this regime has had to deal with that wasn't of their own direct making. If this is how they're handling it, What is going to happen when an actual tragedy or crisis occurs?

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A great deal of these churches do not allow conservative evangelical women to preach. Do you think they're going to let progressives speak?

"Politics is not the nursery." www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

Truly, anyone who said and clearly meant, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage” cannot be as one reel I just saw put it “a profound witness to the faith.” Church, what is you doing?

i despise these motherfuckers for making me defend jimmy kimmel

three years from now, if not sooner, having a track record of standing up for what is right is going to be both politically and professionally beneficial. that's not why we should do it. but it's not not why we should do it, either.

I will go to my deathbed, which god willing will be in like seven decades, absolutely hating these people for their sheer hubris and decadence. We had the world, and they are risking it all because they can't see past the bridge of their nose shoved up their ass

Manufacturing consent to memorialize and deify Charlie Kirk is truly the most astonishing thing we’ve witnessed from corporate media since Trump 2.0. They are just open collaborators with fascism and this should change how we think about them

American elites are deeply corrupt scum. Dimon fluffing the GOP Senate caucus today was a perfect example of it.

I saw the term "cis lesbian" out in the wild, and realized that it is also a viable geographic term because Lesbos is a physical geographic feature. For instance, from my perspective, Athens would be Cis-Lesbian. While Ankara would be Trans-Lesbian.

Junker ass junkers

Lol, lmao. Time to find out who gets pundit solidarity and who does not.

I honestly think the ongoing effort to whitewash Kirk and treat MAGAism like normal conservative politics is disrespectful to those principled conservatives who have publicly broken with MAGA.

I don't always agree with anarchists. But they have a point that we do not have consensus definitions of violence and order in this country. And I do not think we can have this conversation without addressing that.

Bluesky, the text website for people who can't read

Look do the centrist donor money vacuums have the right idea how to revive electoral fortunes for Dems? No! Do politics posters on this website have the right idea how to revive electoral fortunes for Dems? Also, no!

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

I refuse to use the German. But it is a question of who is considered part of one's community. Ideally, we simply structure a society where community membership is irrelevant to being treated justly and with dignity. *But* that will take a community willing to build and maintain that society.

Sorry to bring the hobbyhorse out again, but: this is another good example of “empathy avoidance”. The prospect of greater emotional investment needed to push for racial equality is scary to some people, and an attempt to connect can be seen as a demand for resources. (not a defense of it!)

As a (relatively) "sensitive young m[a]n," I can tell you why coupling is done online: it is because it is expected to be done online. Not "seen as" — expected to. There are implied social sanctions to approaching any real-life situation (besides, maybe, a bar or church) as a "coupling" opportunity.

Oh, the SOFA with SK is gone. We'll be lucky if they let a single E-1 from Eighth Army stick around.

Yeah people have a very unrealistic model of what victory is here. It is not a glorious renunciation. There will be no mass reckoning. Victory comes when enough people who could under even very slightly different circumstances support the regime don’t, for reasons you will likely find contemptible

i wonder what the process of coming up with and implementing this idea was like

Have you *ever*, in all the thousands of shootings in America, heard a word about a friend, roommate or partner of a shooter?

[me, the 6’2” older brother, putting my hands on my knees to speak to my younger brother, real dick-like] “see, there’s hope for ya!”

Me: "Oh yeah, our wardens are stepping down at the end of the year. I wonder who people are looking towards as potential replacements." *glances around congregation* "Oh. Oh no."

Interesting thread. Most people were, at best, vaguely familiar with Kirk. Even now, most people don't particularly care for him. And everyone, except the people who liked him, thinks gun violence is intolerable, disagreeing with him.

As our neocon comrades put it in what is somehow the only good newspaper left in America:

It is not even close. It’s just such a blatant and sprawling crackdown on the most basic of free speech rights and values that it should make it laughable for any of these morons to claim “free speech” as an issue ever again; but it won’t because collectively we don’t understand terms

the side that has a bigger and more malignant problem is the side that is threatening to use the full force of the United States government to destroy the lives of everyone who disagrees with them

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Someone posted this again today and I cannot believe how it’s just the skeleton key for like 75% of American politics

This is the culture of American business owners. "Don't be mad about how we treated you before, work with us going forward." That they stay where they are is a sign of deep societal sickness.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.