An added wrinkle to this pattern of mass disassociation is that the President is permanently disassociated...he can say "Mamdani is a terrorist who must deported" one day and then the next day have a chummy photo op with him in the White House. His words & his actions are totally unlinked.

out of power, republicans spend every waking minute calling anodyne things impeachable and democrats can't make themselves regularly say the same about war crimes, self dealing or dementia

not a single Democrat has mentioned the fact that the Trump administration is committing serial felonies by stealing the power of the purse from the legislature

One thing I love is the percentage of “journalism” devoted to pretending this kind of gutter racism is some benign, rational other thing that only the white people midwestern diners and staffers at right wing think tanks can truly understand bsky.app/profile/pale...

On the topic of all-time greats in the genre of satire. I am strongly of the opinion that "A Person Paper on Purity in Language" should be taught in every linguistics program at a bare minimum, if not in every Intro to Writing.

Gonna start styling my pronouns with a . instead of a / As a treat. he.him

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

I honestly can't believe how terrible Hebrew phone keyboards are, especially compared to Japanese keyboards. It almost feels like a joke.

Most people say you shouldn't kill and eat your neighbors. Jeffrey Dahmer disagrees. Is this just a question of perspective? Our ironically detached reporter with crippling daddy issues writes about it.

holy shit

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

Liberal Currents has quietly become one of the few outlets taking male supremacy seriously, either as a foundation of Trumpist fascism or as a system of oppression in its own right.

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

FYI: I am going to stop summarizing Supreme Court decisions on here as they come down. One comment has been plucked out of context of all my reporting, misread, and used as the basis of a mean-spirited pile-on. I am not going to subject myself to this. If this was your goal, then congratulations.

CA’s $20 fast food minimum wage raised fast food prices by only 3%. The reason minimum wage increases keep not reducing employment and barely increasing prices is monopsony power. www.nber.org/papers/w34990

They're calling it the Inverse Six Days War.

This is delusional, and reflects a level of disconnection from knowledge about internal American political debates that actually explains some of Israel's behavior over the past few years. The Iran War is going to harm Israel's standing in the US, on right and left, like nothing else ever has.

Shitbag conservative lawyers have been a plague to the rule of law for as long as it's existed. In the Talmud, when Rabbi Eliezer argues before the supreme court of Judea that "the Oven of Akhnai" isn't *technically* legally an "oven" per se, the Pharisees banish him for it.

As long as Republicans like Ted Cruz continue to call it "the Democrat Party," Democrats should feel comfortable using another name for the GOP like "the Pedophile Party"

Can't stress enough how basically banning people from renting single family homes (which is the flip side of banning companies from renting them out) is basically economic redline with lefty vibes (only the well off can live in suburbs). Sadly I think that is why it is so popular.

Ben Gvir's equivalent in US politics would be literally if the leader of the Aryan Nations splinter group The Order were elected to Congress and given a cabinet position instead of dying in a shootout with the FBI. It's difficult to explain how much of a supremacist extremist Ben Gvir is.

Really cool how the NYT insists that Zohran Mamdani saying Israel should “exist as a state with equal rights” means he’s gonna turn the Battery into Bełzec any day now while a bunch of bona fide Hitlerjugend get to Name The Jew and it just means they have some questions about the Israel lobby

NYTimes has spent years breathlessly repeating claims that objecting to the treatment of Palestinians is antisemitic, but when right-wingers say they're “J-pilled,” NYTimes calls this "slang for skepticism of Israeli influence." Where's the "J" in "Israel"? Might that "J" mean something else?

I'm generally skeptical of Magid's claim that "BDS proponents are responsible for normalizing Settler violence by flattening all Israeli living into one umbrella of occupation" but boy oh boy is that thesis really panning out here when "Track AIPAC" is going around flagging J Street donations

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

that "my internalized beliefs are natural and neutral, yours are bizarre impositions" thing, common among nerds I suppose

The difference between centrists and reactionary centrists is: Pelota is not actually demanding that members from Rhode Island or w/e embrace drilling, while Matty, Slotkin, and MGP demand just that.

I hope one thing that’s becoming apparent with the folks who go after any actually successful progressive politician like AOC or Mamdani “from the left” is that they’re just wreckers; nobody will ever be “good” enough for them.

Shot / chaser

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

I shit you not the main villain of the newest Nightwing arc is car-dependent infrastructure

among other things this is a great example of a point others have made which is that when elite journalists talk to republicans they talk to fellow elites who are republican, not actual rank and file republican voters. this is a choice.

The U.S. is not fighting like a nation, arguably; it’s fighting like a disembodied Air Force

Wake up babe the Pope just said that Trump isn’t going to heaven

One of the most odious developments of the last two decades is the adoption of "woke" language by certain sections of the right wing and of hawk foreign policy think tankers when discussing stuff like this. If you object to bombing Iran they invoke "local voices"— aka conservative Iranians from LA.

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

This is so nauseatingly Un-American

They’re using drones and ballistic missiles and shit from their uniformed armed forces. Insurgency isn’t when Muslims do a good job.

Corporate ownership of single family house rental Discourse makes me insane because none of the neo-Brandeisians are willing to come out and say "I think that lower middle class SFH renters should be evicted and forced to live in apartments so that upper middle class families can buy those houses."

It's amazing how thoroughly Israel and the Gulf states cozied up to Trump, and he's like "thank you for all your support, as reward, we put hardliners in control of Iran and gave them the Persian Gulf as reparations and now we're gonna peace out"

So many law review articles and he just tweeted it out

Shaul Magid: The most important thing to know about American Jewish politics since 1967 is the life of Meir Kahane. Everyone: I think you might be overstating your case, Mr. Magid. New York City, 2026:

Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy

A very Trump 2 sequence of events here: 1. Trump creates problem 2. Senate resolves problem, exercising constitutional authority of Congress 3. House GOP rejects solution 4. Trump takes unlawful steps to "solve" problem, seizing the rightful authority of Congress with the assent of the House GOP

Yes, and I think that kinda just proves OPs point in a way. Zohran is doing generational work when it comes to the crank realignment. As Republicans are leaning fully into "We are idiots and we love being idiots," Zohran is dragging the left flank towards "We do things."