Curtis Evans post on Bluesky plz

I think I've figured out the Stancil obsession. To 90% of the left, he's just another progressive pundit with some good ideas and some less good ones. To the other 10%, he epitomizes all that must be purged from the movement, and they can't believe that isn't glaringly obvious to the rest of us

Jimmy Kimmel is basically a Podcaster who is far more talented than Joe Rogan (who was, remember, Kimmel's replacement on "The Man Show") but constrained by network TV and an outdated variety show format. Whatever streamer picks him up and positions itself as antifascist in doing so will make bank

Stancil is getting hate for his "fuck it, come at me" stance toward fascists because it's an easier stance for a high SES white guy to take. But...isn't that what we want high SES white guys to be doing? In that way, it seems strange to hate on the guy doing it and not the many more who aren't.

Late nite network variety is a terrible format with no raïson d'être in the streaming era. Maybe Kimmel (and Colbert) can get back to doing things that actually let them be funny

Kind of amazing that in the course of a mere a century, America went from a country that refused to election a Catholic president due to bigoted suspicions of influence from the Pope to a country that I'm pretty sure would straight up trade its sitting president for the current pontiff, no backsies

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

They really want Kirk's shooting to be their Reichstag fire, but they are going about it much too overtly and haphazardly. It will fail this time but be prepared for them to keep trying, and for each effort to be less self-defeating than the last.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Blueskyism is an allergy to reactionary centrists substackers typified by the reaction to Jesse Singal, because of how said substackers undermined the solidarity between marginalized groups and the PMC that was the engine of progressive power 2009-2021, to the benefit of no one but the far right.

if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media

True story

It's hard to know what transgressions represent the crossing of a major line these days; this is one of them. Profiling Latinos is now the law of the land.

This is the result of a decades long mass propaganda campaign for Palestinian dehumanization, a central element of which is bad-faith accusations of antisemitism for anyone who challenges it. Now we need to talk about it without said discussion devolving into a genuinely antisemitic shitshow.

TIRED---Bluesky: Ugh, is it time for sportsball AGAIN?!? WHILE TRUMP IS TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY?!?! INSPIRED---Bluesky: making fun of Kansas State being unable to move the ball is ableist

The Habsburglar is a product of the inbreeding within Macdonaldland

Gwi-ma the demon king in Kpop Demon Slayers is clearly the Bizarro version of Orpheus's guru from The Venture Bros. (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) and I'm very confused why more people aren't saying so.

Out: an ax murderer is looking for your sister. Do you tell the truth that she is home? In: Matt Yglesias is a bad philosopher but may go into journalism if you tell him that. Do you tell the truth?

Comparing Newsom to Emmanuel Macron makes clear why Newsom isn't the man for the moment despite his legitimately good pushback on Trump. They're both corporatist neoliberals, but Macron is honest about this fact, and doesn't pretend that he'll fix all your financial woes. Whereas Newsom, like /

all the people carrying water for gavin newsom means the american people learned absolutely nothing from 80's s teen comedies and the need to save the local ski lodge from a slick property developer who wants to build condos

Is the Trump admin really going after classics, though? Their vision of the humanities is a propagandized version of western civ/great books courses (Chicago having one of the most famous). But classics is obviously a part of that course!

you can't say (correctly) "Vote Blue no matter who" and then desert the idea when a left-winger wins, and party leaders even encouraging or winking at opposition to Mamdani at this point are fools

True enough, but by this logic, I can't wait until they try Philly. They'll get run out of town by an army of kids throwing a combination of batteries and the most cutting burns you'll ever hear.

I get it principle, at least if I grant that corpses are carcasses. But they want you to send your animal away to be euthanized and over my dead body am I letting my dog spend her last hours on earth scared and alone with unfamiliar people.

if you’re a straight dude trying to figure out how to get laid, the people you should be listening to are your friends who are women, and if you don’t have any friends who are women, you should probably be focusing on solving that problem before you try to solve the getting laid problem.

This is reasonably being dunked on because it's framed in terms of men getting laid, but the fact is that providing public shared spaces where people can meet potential dates is very much a political issue and we should all support more socially conducive physical environments.

My $.02 has always been that you should only date within your academic field if you are willing to accept the consequences of a bad breakup fallout. In that light, this piece sounds like it's saying "yeah there are consequences for others, but not me. I'm built different. Some might even say better"

In the alex rails thing, aren't they kind of "weak players" by their own light? "The key to success is being able to maintain professional relationships with partners no matter what, and, with the exception of the seventeen people on my mortal enemies list, I have done this admirably."

This is what Vizzini meant when he said the biggest blunder in the book was starting a land war in Asia.

Just now citing @noamchompers.bsky.social back in a draft I'm writing--sorry it's not gonna be in Nous, though.

RIP to one of the best satirists America ever produced

Mom: I read an interesting article about why Europeans hate ice more than Americans. Me: Mom, what?? Tons of Americans hate ICE? Mom: Not what this article says. Me: Do you know how many more people are saying "Abolish ICE" than a year ago? Dad: She's talking about ice cubes in drinks, Jeremy.

How devastating it must be to learn 1 there is a real person named Pizzaballa, and 2 He is very disappointed in you. Really makes me wish netanyahu could feel shame. Cardinal calls Israel’s policy in Gaza ‘morally unjustifiable’ after visit www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

1960: I'm worried Kennedy will take orders from the Pope 2027: we are so lucky Vance just takes orders from the Pope.

If your take about Israel/Palestine/Gaza does not include an end goal of being able to hang out with Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis, and Palestinians on the same beach at the same time, you're doing it wrong.

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.

Dear Adobe, I promise you I will *never* want an AI summary of a philosophy paper that I just opened to read.

Too perfect

who let slip the dogs of war who, who, who

Played Sid Meier's Colonization yesterday. I figure, if you're gonna play a video game where you do evil shit you'd never do in real life, might as well go for broke.

Lots of people (incl. Musk) want a GOP that marries brutal anti-immigrant & anti-LGBTQ policies with smart, technocratic management of the economy in a way that just can't possibly exist because the technocrats are overwhelmingly convinced by evidence that immigrants & LGBTQ people are good

One of my favorite things about my (admittedly quite imperfect) alma mater was the public intellectuals it produced who do really good things, e.g. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @davelevitan.bsky.social from my time there. But fast forward ten years and we get this guy. What the actual fuck happened?

We'd all be a lot better off if the default meaning of "A.I." was, once again, Allen Iverson

Typical middle school bully: um, ever heard of a JOKE? Typical new bluesky user: joke, what the fuck is that, are you attacking me, do you realize the country is under threat

Finally got to say the words every Jewish-American academic dreams of saying: "Mom, if you want to argue with me about this, you need to read my paper first."

The main effect of the Nuremburg laws of 1936 was to turn Jewish and other "undesirable" German citizens into stateless wards of Germany. It helped form the legal prewar basis for sending people to concentration camps (once war broke out, no legal excuse was needed)

Gotta disagree here. One of trump's very few non-awful qualities is that he is genuinely too terrified of nukes from a childhood of bomb drills in school, that he won't start wwiii