This sounds like an awesome way to get all of your generals in a room together so they can network and figure out how best to undermine you.

My hot take is that I: both believe that the government should regulate and facilitate digital IDs ~AND~ the government should protect the rights of its citizens to engage in some activities online anonymously.

"The Christian Nationalists' relationship with Jews is kind of like the The Incel's relationship to the manix pixie dream girl. They love the idea of the people, but they absolutely despise them as they really are." — my girlfriend, unprovoked

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

Since the headlines can’t be honest, I will do the work of clarifying that this article illuminates how ICE is routinely kidnapping children as a method of extortion

re Harris and Buttigieg—I'm not a Buttigieg fan, but the way homophobia often works is that people discriminate against gay people on the basis of the idea that other people are homophobic. 1

"Almost 20% of fully transitioned kids changed their mind about their gender identity at least once in the next seven years" is something which sounds almost meaningful until you release it covers anything from "fully detransitioned" to "mtf switches from she/her to she/they"

"Religion is bad. Forcing the brain to consider fake things as true is harmful." Internet atheists really are never beating the "has only ever heard of Post-Enlightenment Reactionary Christianity and Islamic Nationalism" allegations.

like i was saying

Okay the conservative argument on abortion and birth control being bad for women is based on bunk cherrypicked science, and the link between vaccines and autism is based on bunk cherrypicked science, and the anti COVID vaccine stuff is based on bunk cherrypicked science. But this one is legit!

Jews are in fact allowed to push back on the claim that Jews killed Jesus? like, that's an antisemitic conspiracy theory. saying "it's biblical" doesn't change the fact that it's an antisemitic conspiracy theory. it's kind of doubling down on the antisemitic conspiracy theory, in fact. 1

H1B thing is just example 486 of how republicans can't deal with Real Problems. The system is flawed, it is a Real Problem. They are not interested in reform to do things like streamline the process and reduce the potential for fraud, they are interested in being racist to Indians.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

he was a racist piece of shit.

On a root level, Russell Vought is right that we are living in a “post-constitutional time.” The Roberts Court systematically rewrote the Constitution to dismantle bipartisan progress, cripple democracy, and divide us. Now they’ve unleashed a tyrant they can’t control, even if they wanted to.

i think one thing people have a hard time grasping is that the central figures of the trump administration are not bad as in "the worst republican blowhard you know," but bad as in "the worst people you have ever heard of." donald trump is a serial rapist whose best friend was a pedophile.

Seems wrong to characterize the Kimmel affair, as I’ve seen some people do, as “corporate censorship.” The but-for condition was a direct threat by the FCC chair; that’s state censorship.

Founding a Jewish denomination called Urbanist Judaism that exists to be the polar opposite of Conservative Judaism: No Halakha is binding except for the negative commandment that you can't drive on Shabbes under ANY circumstances, and ESPECIALLY not to shul.

Thinking of Ultimate Spiderman when Harry Osborn gets an AI assistant that is trained exclusively on data from his dead dad, and all it does is talk down to him and push him ever-closer to going completely insane.

Undersiscussed contributor to sprawl: all of the tax, regulatory, and safety exemptions that contractors get for building homes they intend to live in. We need to start figuring out how to give those out to mixed-use construction.

HUGE NEWS: Governor Newsom just signed into law our bill to ban ICE & other law enforcement from wearing ski masks & other extreme masks. The No Secret Police Act (SB 627) will help stop the masked secret police who are kidnapping people in our communities. Show your damn faces.

Are we about to have state law enforcement arresting federal law enforcement?

Maybe the most discouraging thing about Trump II is who on the left is organizing. In 2010, motivated by a perceived tyrant, the Tea Party took over the GOP from its right flank. In 2025, motivated by clout, Ezra Klein and the Abundance crew are challenging the Democratic Party… from its right.

but his main thing is really that he hates fascism and racism and he is pretty fearless in saying so loudly to the worst people on earth, over and over.

some people in qts acting like this is weird for will to do this...this is will's whole thing. he got threatened by the fbi; he's been doxxed and got credible death threats because he just kind of loudly and relentlessly denounces fascism. 1

Abundance is dead. Its really difficult to see how something that requires support from entire Dem coalition works when its two biggest boosters (Klein and Thompson) only care about appealing to Ben Shapiro and Richard Hanania

Not to put too fine a point on this, but if you want to learn something from Charlie Kirk, remember this: He sought out debates with liberals, but the point of those debates was not to earn the approval of his interlocutors, it was to build the power of his organization and movement.

The fundamental problem is that a moral argument for liberalism would definitionally serve as an indictment of conservatism, and that would not earn the approval of Douthat or Shapiro or Spencer Cox, which seems to be the point of this exercise.

They’re calling it the most over-played hand of all time

Nobody is more craven than the tech-right crowd, who are willing to throw their principles and every single part of the US economy under the bus as long as their precious AI companies get their exemptions—first with the tariffs and now inevitably with this H1B visa fee.

The new $100k/year H1B fee is pure economic self-harm—workers making **5 times the median US income**, who contribute massively to the US, would still basically be unable to afford this fee Oh, but never fear, the White House reserves the right to dish out exemptions as favors!

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

The extension of this is that "popular media" and "religion" are fundamentally the same thing

Hakeem Jeffries consolidating his position as one of the most vulgar antisemites in all of congress by voting to martyr a guy who is on the record for blaming jews for genociding white people

Tragically, Will Stancil is actually the closest thing this age has to a moral paragon because he was exposed to people being mean to him on the internet without becoming a Trumpist out of spite, a test which seemingly every other major Discourse Generator online has failed.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

One point I try to make in here is that Trump and Stephen Miller are trying to eradicate the very idea of legitimate guilt and innocence. All prosecutions are just a power struggle, there's only winning and losing, there's no such thing as justice. It's all power all the way down.

The transphobia really makes people forget that this is — regardless — just an insane braindead take which most people hold for absolutely no good reason. "[Adams] says students whose sex at birth differs should never be allowed to use the bathroom at the same time" Why? Literally why?

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

Damn, I was NOT familiar with Will's game.

this is will's google scholar page, if anyone thinks it's relevant to this

The "Look, I just *really* care about anti-semitism and I also just so happen to *really* care about the NYC mayoral election" folks sure are being real quiet about this administration, for the second time in 4 months, arresting the only Jewish NYC mayoral candidate.

Over on #DarkBlueSky we ignore this crap. Sign up for a rally. Don't sign up and just go. Just don't do this navel gazing bullshit

Also, notice Trump's complaint here - about the news, about Kimmel - IS NOT anything to do with Charlie Kirk. It's that he was personally criticized. He's not even hiding it! That's what this is all about. "Are you allowed to criticize the president?"

I only support Post Office banking if they're allowed to actually function as a bank. Usually people who support Post Office banking are like "and they'll charge no interest! It'll just be a building that holds your money and does nothing with it!" Like 13th century papists trying to ban usury.

Textbook shit happening right now.

The fundamental animating grievance of contemporary U.S. conservatism is a black man raised by a single mother in an economically disadvantaged situation who lived in the South Side for a bit was intellectually capable of envisioning a scenario where he did not end up ruling a nuclear superpower.

JD Vance, Ben Shapiro, and Ted Cruz were the poster children of the "Never-Trump Republicans."

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs