The ultimate problem with the "working class" umbrella is that it has become equated with "ignorance" and "culturally insular", which is frankly an insult to the swaths of laborers who are educated, open-minded, generous, & understand the real barriers to class mobility aren't ability or virtue.

Rape cult

If you are playing soccer, and you're adhering to the rules of the game, and the other team suddenly closed fist breaks your nose and the ref doesn't red card them, honorably adhering to the rules of soccer after that does not make you a better person. The games over, start breaking noses back.

I for one am game for that

If I were an aspiring dictator I would simply not alienate and insult all my top military leaders

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office. I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

“Big tent politics” works for the right because the right has no principles. Klein being all moony and covetous about this does nothing but reveal that he thinks democrats should also say they’re going to do things that they have no intention of actually doing.

i genuinely think donald trump didn’t realize this was ai and thinks he said this himself

We are a government ruled by viral video fiat now. You aren't even allowed to research which viral video has whipped the regime into a mania and how they came to believe it, because the research of the systems themselves is viewed as "censorship." This how you end up randomly invading Portland.

“A tyrant is relaxed enough to forgive his subjects for failing to love him, provided they do not love one another. He does not ask them to help him govern the state; it is enough that they have no intention of managing it themselves.” -de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Juan works in Fresno CA picking grapes to be made into raisins. He shares he earns 35 cents for each sheet & can make 400 - 450 sheets in a 12 hour day in temps of 100+ if the grapes are good quality. He has a young daughter to support and he takes any work he can. #WeFeedYou

Gonna have to teach everyone from scratch that the president isn't your boss, he's your employee

No matter what this meeting is about, Pete will always be a National Guardsman assigned to a Civil Affairs unit who got a bunch of crusader tattoos in his 40s because he wants you to think he's a cool, war-criming operator instead of an extremely online wife-beating loser

Liberalism has atomized & Balkanized the national community & robbed us of a common national project, no one trusts anyone anymore. We’ll fix this this by forcing your coworker Raul to carry his papers everywhere for random questioning, closing your closest hospital, & bankrupting the local college

I cowrote this week’s Tale Foundry video, take a look! youtu.be/I0Ls_lHj2CM?...

Hey, whatever you do, don't call these street thugs who are snatching up immigrants and violently assaulting women "Nazis" because that will hurt their poor little feelings.

The moment institutions start saying "no" is the moment it crumbles. These people are not serious, they are not hardworking, they are not smart. They are coasting on luck, and institutional cowardice. The moment institutions stop enabling them, they will fold like cheap camp chairs.

Another thing that comes through here is that Sunstein just absolutely refuses to take racists at their word. If someone espouses free markets and white supremacy than the free markets are foundational to their philosophy and the white supremacy must be incidental. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

the most popular misunderstanding of Elon Musk is that he thinks strategically, deep into the future the truth couldn't be more different, his most consummate skill is at finding another way to keep kicking the can down the road, no matter where it lands, and then finding a way to do it again

the through-line between Elon Musk's family and business dealings is the endless management of public perception, leading down a path of narrowing options by endlessly avoiding crisis you endlessly avoid catharsis, thus creating shambling, unkillable monsters like Errol Musk and "Full Self-Driving"

I suspect we are, probably for our own mental health, underestimating the degree to which the Trump administration is dominated by the worst swingers imaginable

everything about this @jamellebouie.net video is spot on, but I particularly appreciated the observation that the Trump admin is attempting to create a real-world version of AI slop as part of their propaganda efforts.

This is what I been saying. MAGA is fascist. Trump is just evil. All fascists are evil, but not all evil people are fascist.

“Your first mistake was thinking I was a sheep 😈 now stop calling me a sheep or I’ll have nightmares 🥺”

Noah’s got a great point here - Trump doesn’t “believe” in anything, in the sense that any sane person who isn’t a malignant narcissist could possibly comprehend. It’s a useless exercise to try to determine what he “believes”

not to get too political but look at this

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

the essence of conservatism is to object to knowledge because it leads to policy

“Decide what the American people think?”

No it doesn’t. That’s literally why we made PBS.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Better late than never

something to keep in mind is that everything the right is currently doing to trans people is just what they have wanted for decades to do to gay people; they just can’t get away with doing the latter right now

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

lol the AI made his face bigger

His brand of it is particularly garish but all authoritarianism is basically government by spoiled child. No capacity for or interest in any principles. People who are nice to me get treats, people who are mean to me get abuse. I get what I want or I cry and thrash. Embarrassing

So which is it? Was he a political actor of real life consequence or a mere private citizen speaking his mind?

apparently doing this to sorghum too, shifting purchases to brazil. i hope brazil uses the money to make bolsonaro's prison cell moldier.

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

What’s creeping me out is that I thought if anything the vibe would be republicans biting the bullet and saying “yes, Charlie Kirk said all those things because they were true.” It never occurred to me that they might try to claim he never said what he said many times, on video

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

Posobiec - whose ties to white supremacists are legion - wrote a book last year called “Unhumans” in which he labeled half the country UNHUMAN It is language designed to inspire political violence yet our cable news channels have made him a talking head about political violence

This gets to something that as a former stand-up I recognized but couldn’t name. A 31 year old professional content creator baiting 19 year old amateurs into the format of his choice isn’t debate, it’s crowd work. It’s debate-shaped crowd work farmed for content.

I know this is besides the point but the #1 research supported way to "get rid" of homeless people is to give them homes. It's called Housing First and it works everywhere it's tried, just like UBI.

The message should not be that political violence is bad because it targeted a good guy who was “practicing politics the right way” (which Kirk definitely was not). Political violence is bad because it inherently corrodes the democratic polity, because it makes democracy impossible.