Wait, hold on, was I the only one that was raptured? I’ve been in a big empty white room for the past 24 hours waiting for everyone else to show up

autism is not a "problem"

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

Monday: The Workman's Curse Tuesday: The Day of Bastards Wednesday: Heavy is the Burden of Sisyphus Thursday: The Second Day of Bastards Friday: Business in the Front, Party in the Back Saturday: Me Old Ham, My Good Time Charlie Sunday: Fairweather Friend

Don’t like this!

It’s Wednesday Friday

Protect Trans People Always Protect Trans Kids Always

The media company that can figure out how to produce news or news adjacent video content without relying on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, broadcast TV, cable, or corporate streamers will make a billion dollars and probably help save American democracy — or exist long enough to document its end

The difference between right wing think tanks and left wing think tanks is the right wing ones want to convince you they believe in something, the left wing ones want to convince you they believe in nothing

Man, the hypocrisy is blatant and aggressive and I don’t think statements about how “we all have to live together” are going to be enough for most people

“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞 👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT

Fighting the malignant influence of The Groups by making more Groups

I have once again decided that I am not afraid of these losers

And ICYMI, here's my text story from last week: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

It's important to point out that this is openly fascist and authoritarian and thus extremely dangerous to the civil society of the country while also pointing out that the lack the manpower both at a law enforcement and legal level to carry this out at scale.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

The broader project is pretty obviously fash, but from one moment to the next the model is clearly running the whole country like an unusually insane HOA.

I think the think about the propaganda push around Charlie Kirk that I find most unsettling is that the whole strategy of raising the salience of this guy's death kind of depends either on hoping no one finds out about his life or assuming the ideological gloss will hold up under that scrutiny

Free speech on campus unless it upsets the governor www.chron.com/politics/art...

Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Washington Post’s commitment to personal liberties does not extend to employing people who criticize gun violence or accurately quote, without comment, Charlie Kirk’s words

BUT NOT LIKE THAT, DIANE

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Just saw a cybertruck hauling a dunk tank

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

Honestly who needs state media at this point

A literal government agency sending emails to employees telling them to watch out. @kenwhite.bsky.social

the permission structure created for a bloodthirsty maga rampage the last two days by mainstream media, all before any facts were known at all, deserves some real introspection by the entire industry

this is fundamentally about america's liberal elites not having the courage of their convictions, if they have convictions to begin with. they fetishize endless discussion and discourse and refuse to simply act.

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

They're doing an interesting (and deeply dishonest) two-step here, by pointing out that the *victims* of political violence have run the ideological gamut as a proxy for "extremism on all sides," but failing to note that the *perpetrators* of that violence mostly come from the right.

He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

It is so viscerally repellent that it is turning normies into Blue Anons in my work chats lmfao, they're lighting social trust in news on fire with the only people who read the news

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

I wonder if Ezra Klein would have also written such a nice eulogy about Father Coughlin

Ok, I will say one thing today - I think today marks the death knell of the idea of the “liberal” mainstream media. If you still think that mainstream media is liberal leaning, you are not actually seriously engaging with it

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up

Washington Post saw how much conservatives distrust mainstream media and went “bet, we can also make liberals distrust the mainstream media”

We live in a golden age of bait

Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.

Was thinking if this will be the first time public hair is brought up in a congressional hearing and then I remembered Clarence Thomas and got very depressed

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

the reason bosses oppose work from home so strenuously is not because they think it doesn't work but because they think it's an awesome privilege that should be reserved for awesome people (like bosses), not given away to their ingrate employees

i just looked up the win probability graph from last night's bills-ravens game. granted you don't want to put too much stock into probability models, but it really does put buffalo's comeback into a new perspective

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