The struggle over history, from Wounded Knee to Thanksgiving to ICE detentions, is not a debate about the past. It is a struggle over who defines America and whose humanity matters. buff.ly/rZBKFDj

CENTRISTS: It’s our job to work with the right, meet them where they’re at, at the end of the day these are still Americans THE RIGHT: We believe some people should do whatever they want and everybody else should be subjugated with guns

This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

i'm sorry but i hate this shit. i like genre films a lot. it's like, the whole premise of my podcast. but there's nothing about being a fun and light genre film that means it must be poorly constructed or even lack an actual protagonist.

They truly believe this! Like when they arrest a noncitizen who committed a crime years ago and has been out of prison for a decade, they put out a press release claiming they saved the public from a serious threat, even if the person has been law-abiding for years and is a random ex-con doing well.

How the fuck is new tech not selling stalling innovation? Isn't their job to innovate to justify the purchase? I thought capitalism breeds innovation how is this poor people's fault? Im sorry no one wants the AI slop box you made fuck you

Wow can’t wait to try the vulgar roast mode on grok I hear when you ask it to do a vulgar roast it’s insane and vulgar and you can make it even more of a vulgar roast and it just keeps getting better wow

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Why is the priority of the economy not to house the homeless and ensure everyone has good healthcare?

“The repeal of airline responsibility laws will continue until morale improves!”

1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths 2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them

There was civilization in the Americas before the settlers arrived. The other work being performed here is to erase that and present settlement as the arrival of civilization instead of the annihilation of another

also, “politics is bottom/top not left/right” might work as a slogan but is shit as analysis. who is the bottom? who is the top? who constitutes an “elite” and who belongs to “the people?” these are important questions that have to be answered.

all i can say is that we are going to win

This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year

He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Not going to read too much into it, obviously Trump is the worst man alive, and is going to revert to saying the most odious shit imaginable in like an hour, but it's funny that this is coming a couple hours after 90 democrat losers voted to say "socialism is bad" for no reason.

really looking forward to the meltdowns from everyone who thought Daddy Trump would dress down the big bad socialist instead of hyping up his new best friend the Cool Mayor how do you not know how this guy works by now

only 98 democrats are not absolute cowards and can explain that to their constituents, all the others need to go, and ofc all GOPers, thats 75% of the House that are gaslighting grifters

If the Republicans have decided that they want to die on the hill that troops should obey illegal orders and that encouraging them not to is a threat to Trump's defense policy, then I say let them.

it's okay if it never bursts, which is of course how bubbles work.

Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld. Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.

Let me get this straight: The Trump admin. is taking in billions of dollars from tariffs—which are paid for by Americans in the form of higher prices—and are now talking about giving the money back, but people shouldn’t spend it? What is the point of all this?

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

God this guy is such a disgusting bloated whiny loser baby

“Ozymandias, now there’s a name…they say he’s always been remembered folks, they’ve never forgotten him. More and more people are looking on his works and despairing!”

you might think that a basic universal moral idea is you defend the weak against the strong, but no, you would be wrong!!

The Department of Unsubtle Metaphors continues to exceed expectations

Alfred Hitchcock's cure for fascism

We should reboot journalism completely. Start from scratch. They should get those old timey hats and a pencil and figure it out from there

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

Holy shit reverse MeToo is wild

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

the “critics” are objectively correct

What abolishing the state meant to anarchists in the past.

all of the absurdly talented writers whose careers have imploded through no fault of their own over the past decade plus of media consolidation and olivia nuzzi gets soft focus profiles for her memoir about fucking a fascist crank really makes the blood boil

Fucking Krabby O’ Monday’s-ass country

It’s as if it’s Disney’s goal to degrade its own brand. American capitalism is just lopping off its own limbs for the bbq

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

One of my favorite pieces of political writing ever

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent