American Civil War one of the least morally ambiguous armed conflicts in human history lol

The American Revolution is good, I like using it too, and they're related. But it would be insane in this moment to not eagerly embrace all the fantastic imagery and symbolism and emotional weight and historical resonance of the Union, Lincoln, Douglass, Radical Republicans, and all the rest of it.

I can't believe they cancelled the illustrious Lawrence H. Summers for the "crime" of being pals with one of the country's most notorious pedophiles. Wokeness run amok!

Unfortunately, now that one party is more or less pro Handmaid's Tale for Real, Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social is no longer allowed to imply that it's a bad thing.

what's up @brianstelter.bsky.social

Counterpoint: it's fine for Universities to cut ties with people for being sex creeps. In fact, it's a positive good. Far too many women avoid academia precisely because of shitheads like Summers. Add to the fact that his code name for her was "peril", likely in reference to "yellow peril"...

nice “joke” but have you considered that even when i recognize attempts at “humor,” i reject them and instead read things both literally and in the worst possible light? do better you piece of shit.

If Republicans are smart, they will pass DC statehood. Because if they don't, the Revolutionary Democratic Party of ten years from now will carve DC into 250 states

It's an incestuous group of little freaks

the nuzzi coverage is a real insight into the utter perversion of the press corps

As far as I can tell, the current story of the labor market is that people aren't getting fired at notably higher rates, but also most companies have dramatically reduced hiring. So basically the market is sort of frozen

Can any British politics knowers tell me whether Labour acts this way because they take the idea that triangulation wins elections as an article of unshakeable faith? Or do the majority of members actually agree with it?

The political elite can be divided into two groups: those who think that while a socialist government would be less than ideal, a fascist government is the worst thing that can possibly happen, and people who think the exact opposite

I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.

the audio book engineer when it's time for her to record the RFK Jr. stuff

Straight news

I'm okay with these guys likening themselves to Prometheus as long as we do the whole myth. No stopping halfway

I need someone to break down the possibilities for Larry Summer's career. Maybe overconfidently into three equal probability outcomes? Anyone know anyone who can do something like that?

Sorry, but is this "peril" as in "yellow peril"?

We can debate whether dunks are the right strategy but we are not "adding" any of these fuckers into the coalition

There's a Pokemon Indigo League episode (the one from the 90s) where an adult doctor hits on basically every girl, including Misty, who is canonically 10 years old I think?

The only way this stuff makes any sense is that she's blackmailing Trump

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Who knows if it's Epstein but the next Dem admin needs to spend a lot of time and effort figuring out exactly what happened with Kavanaugh's debts

We love income cliffs, don't we folks

Unrelated, but one of the most emblematic of "dumb gun laws" is from the same statute: 922(r) specifies that, while you can own certain semi-auto rifles/shotguns off a list subject to importation ban, they have to have at least 10 US manufactured parts (off a list of 20)

For my econ folks, this is the Rubin of Imbens and Rubin

Definitely wouldn't want to harm woodland creatures

Your regular reminder that if Southern whites voted like Northern whites, the deep South would be the bluest region in the country

Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?

There is basically nowhere to stream the English version of the Totoro soundtrack, much to the dismay of my 3 year old

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

It's wild that my mother and I seem to have completely different and largely contradictory memories of what my childhood was like

One of the more idiosyncratic things about Bluesky, which I’m sure dampens its growth potential but whatever, is how many accounts otherwise strictly focused on American politics will, once a week or so, pop off with a little porn. As a treat. Kinda weird! Kinda fascinating!

If I type "ephebophilia" in my browser is gives me the red squiggles and suggests "pedophilia" as an alternative, lmfao

Not to lay my cards on the table but I think this narrow focus in online discourse on who deserves to be rewarded really elides the actual societal value of the education system (teaching members of society important stuff that it's valuable for them to know)

Economics literally teaches that 3) is correct, even though there's no evidence for it. One of the many ways in which the field is extremely ideological, even though they like to pretend they're the only positive social science left.

He's kinda limiting the options we have left for justice here, isn't he

According to Getty these girls are 13 an 15. If you think it's okay for an adult man to have sex with one of these girls you should be stoned to death

When I'm dictator I'm going to mandate that all teenage characters in videos/movies/TV shows/etc be played by people exactly the correct age. No more 26 year olds pretending to be high schoolers. Everyone is going to internalize what a 15 year old actually looks like

If cocaine were a person

The motto of Woke 2 is hopefully: more Ruby Bridges and more Ruby Ridges

can’t really express the level of contempt i have for what is just a form of solipsism. “the things that annoy me are the only things that exist and also the worst things imaginable”

I saw a post (different app) the other day where someone said that the big difference between they and their husband is that their husband always wants to know how things work and they couldn't care less, and in fact sorta hate knowing. I think the latter type of person is how you get anarchists.

It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.

I mean, you don’t know this, no one knows this, the range of possible outcomes is wider than we can foresee, both good and bad