This is a beautiful piece of writing - because it’s so clear and fundamentally about being human, together. South African friends who grew up under apartheid have said the same. Call it out, name it, shame it- the hateful rhetoric and the actions that follow. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

So much “male loneliness crisis” discourse, never “why are women just as lonely yet don’t act out in violent/insane ways”

Now that Trump authoritarian gambit against Kimmel, he is now going against Comey and I have to defend him……

But Abundance look literally don’t tho like that is a pivotal thing, the fact they don’t like NIMBYs and sprawl

This is the governor liberals are tripping over themselves to praise btw😒

I don’t think this contradicts anything Jones said tho: 2019-2022, progressivism seems ascendant and companies were eager to jump on the bandwagon 2023-2025, there was a conservative backlash and companies followed the wave, fucking all of us (the erosion)

Abolishing ICE is just minimal human decency.

Also, Democrats have run many pro-life candidates in the South over the last 20 years. They almost always lose. This is not some novel idea! The fact that leading figures in the party are suggesting this is an original thought further illustrates the problem. abcnews.go.com/Politics/mis...

Unusual to see this degree of racial polarization in voting among congressional Democrats. Many, many white Dems in safe districts voted to praise Kirk. Black members largely voted against, although Jeffries also was in favor.

It’s so condescending to red state Dems when blue state liberals offer these asinine suggestions “run heterodox candidates” bc it assumes 1) red state Dems were too stupid not to try this already (it rarely works) and 2) ignores the reality of polarization changed everything

People keep talking about tech firms in relation to the H1-B $100k fee but it’s gonna really sink universities.

Ngl this is very silly to say when Abundance straight up has led to tangible results on the policy level Unsurprisingly the 2010s YIMBY movement (a movement that actually used to be way more bipartisan/invested in Republicans) is a useful example here

These blue state pundits have never talked to a red state Dem in their lives- else they would know we have already tried this multiple times and the results are middling to failure

As someone from a former red state, this conversation is always so idiotic bc why do blue state pundits like Yglesias and Klein think red state Dems haven’t already tried this????? Sometimes they over-perform (Osborn) but often it’s a massive failure!! Do these pundits think we’re idiots?!?!

Twitter was by far the platform outright claiming the shooter was a groyper and making crassjokes about it while BlueSky was way more cautious and focused on criticizing the MAGA response so what the fuck is Nate on?

This is so clear the toxic nexus of media/elite class signaling we all must performatively mourn Kirk bc identifying w/ Kirk professionally plus our society’s love of/infantilizing of whiteness I fucking hate it here

Paul: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28 Charlie Kirk: “Black women don’t have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot.”

Ben Smith has been such a loser

Good thing that the Dems were being collegial about unanimous consent all this time.

I hope Senate Dems wake up every day and realize they are directly responsible for our country burning to the ground Sacrificed the democratic agenda for fucking nothing: Republicans never cared about norms, why did you

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Right wingers trying to equate Carr threatening ABC w/ their license to shut down Kimmel to Biden pressuring FB to take down COVID misinfo that was *actively killing ppl* which FB knew- bitch bffr “Biden folks jawboning social media companies to take down content” - loser behavior

congress has to clamp down on venue shopping and the shadow docket, like there is a need for a judiciary act in far more ways than just the make up of the constitutional court

I really wish Dems would take the lessons from ‘06 and start planning their legislative agenda and building political will among the caucus *NOW* bc we didn’t in 2018-2021 and got a clusterfuck and the work needed to be undertaken now is much more expansive and vital

“Take Trump literally and seriously” ppl have been vindicated every day for a fucking decade

we need a congressional majority and president ready to do the largest restructuring of federal power since 1865 or at least 1933 (definitely larger than post watergate era) and a DOJ willing to impose consequences for those who've violated their oaths and the law

Nate Silver and Ezra Klein posting idiotic Republican apologia takes back to back are actually useful indicators of how a plurality of millennials almost backed Trump in 2024 Gen Y will not save us LMAO

Most insane part of all of this esp w/ how liberals have played right into their hands

Literally was off social media for the day and logged back into this shit

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.

I am bad at predictions but I'm going to make one anyway. I think the Trump admin and Republicans are going to get worse, making even more dramatic authoritarian moves at a feverish pace and this will code to many as increasing strength. But in fact they will be losing popularity and control.

i do not think that "should we execute joe biden for treason" is a debatable proposition. the answer to that question is "no." that admits no further argument. my job is to frustrate the ambitions of anyone who publicly argues for this position by whatever means possible.

I will never not be pissed at everyone who told Dems and others liberal-aligned post election to not resist but stand down bc Trump won the popular vote All of this: his ensuing unpopularity, his authoritarianism was utterly predictable and you gave the permission structure for capitulation

Comparing this moment to 2017……

It can't be said often enough: the contemporary US right simply does not accept the background presumption that "we all have to live here together." They want to eliminate liberals! They're very vocal about it!

And it sucks how much elite signaling is needed bc the utter absence of it is why 2025 feels so much worse than 2017 even ppl are protesting just as much, likely more

It’s been eight fucking months, man

genuinely not great how little resistance they has been in elite civil society

Respectfully I think this is too charitable. It's not like the survival of Disney depends on any particular merger going through. Its executives already have generational wealth. They're unquestionably in a position to tell Trump to eat shit and they've chosen to collaborate instead

Liberals who said ppl shouldn’t say anything negative about Charlie Kirk (even quoting his own words) need to take a long look in the mirror bc you gave the Right an opening to trample on civil liberties Denying Kirk’s words solved nothing and was actively harmful

I can't find it, but earlier this year, somebody tweeted something like "normies voted for trump because they were sick of woke media. All the smart people said the president had no control over this. But it turns out the normies' model of the world was more correct."

They pick on trans people precisely because they don't think we're dangerous on the whole relative to other groups.

If I live in a world where Bottoms gets to sleepwalk to being governor bc ppl were stupid about Abrams……..

Geoff Duncan is going to be the 2026 gubernatorial candidate who is going to have the worst media coverage to vote share ratio And the political media class will handwring about this not realizing Duncan failed *precisely bc* the media class identifies w/ him so much

GADems 2026 GOV field is Exhibit A of why you need to consider fundamentals as mattering most in an election: 2022 was unwinnable for GADems bc of fundamentals of an unpopular Dem prez & pop. GOP gov Bc now we got party stars who ran then seen as anathema instead of good candidates in bad races

Deeply hilarious that ppl were begging Abrams to not run again, she didn’t, and this is now the GADem governor field LMAO (Tbh think Duncan is overrated solely bc the primary electorate won’t forget he is/was a Republican- Bottoms or Esteves are more likely atp)

Guys, they're not upset because Charlie Kirk died, they're upset because they're terrified they're going to be the next target of stochastic violence. She spends the whole article talking about how the proliferation of the videos is what upset her.

They murdered about 10% of the population of Gaza.

honestly just horrific stuff

I've noticed news articles about the looming 2026 #ACA premium hikes claiming that "average" increases will be 18%. This is based on a @kff.org study from last month, but that's not what it said. It said MEDIAN rate hikes will be 18%. AVERAGE increases? 23.4%. acasignups.net/25/09/03/exc...