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These texts are only leaking because people on them are distancing themselves. As you say: "I do not regret to inform you that we're going to win."

i am at the midwest climate resilience conference and i will tell you this…it is 1000% better to be in a climate space full of scientists doing adaptation work than a usual climate conference full of tech bros trying to make their fortune these people are literally getting their hands dirty

More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in any other conflict in history. The EIC at Reuters, Alessandra Galloni, joins us to reflect on the last two years of covering the war on Gaza. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

could do with a lot less open advocacy for ethnic cleansing in global politics tbh

Just read the article and saw the photos and all I have to say is that there has to be a reckoning for this.

I'm still not sure what the right read of this affair is but in general I am reminded of my concern that state bureaucracies that actively select themselves into the green quadrant 3 here are feeding their societies into a woodchipper

The Republican Party’s efforts to entrench its power despite unpopular policies expose how deeply its strength depends on undemocratic institutions and on a brazen disregard for the very norms that sustain democracy itself.

The Great Barrington Declaration remains one of the best-timed confidently-wrong statements ever published. Usually there's some wiggle room in the data when it comes to science, medicine, public health, etc; it's rare to make a big generalized assertion that is instantly proven wrong.

The lobbyists are right, and that's part of what makes the current situation so bizarre: a majority of Congress has decided to make themselves irrelevant. Not just for policy, but even for corruption! That's historically unusual, politicians typically understand the benefits of having power.

The "factual background" begins with something irrelevant and erroneous. Dallas is not in Oregon, and the Dallas shooting wasn't connected to any ICE protest. If that's enough for the President to federalize a different state's National Guard and deploy them elsewhere, then the power is limitless.

I mean this is viscerally upsetting because it's really genuinely him treating the white house like it's his own personal property; he's the king and it's his palace. No other president ever thought like this, even if they were a fucking horrible person, because it goes against our founding creed

I agree. Make the courts say it. "Gosh, whaddayknow, yet another circumstance where no person, entity, city, or state can enforce the law, the President does whatever he wants despite explicit instruction in the Constitution he follow the law."

One big anti-woke tax we have to pay comes from the evisceration of environmental regulation and the attacks on private-sector ESG. The costs of pollution, toxic emissions, and environmental destruction don't go away, they're just externalized away from the destroyer and onto society as a whole.

The centrist democratic position between 2006-2016ish was all “lean orgs!” And I kept saying, “oh yes sure make it easier for stable institutions to break.” We need to own how much our bleating about bureaucratic efficiencies created an easier-to-capture university.

In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements. In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.

Huh. Where did this “young“ Republican get the idea that racism was ok, or he didn’t have to pay bills? www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

It is propaganda for the left to accurately report on the propaganda for the right.

House Republicans are getting paid handsomely for their cushy no-show jobs, as long as they look the other way and ignore the sex trafficking operation that's tied to the boss. Classic mob tactic.

A big part of the problem is the national political media refuse to show what’s going on.

Still appalled at how paltry and terrible the NYT coverage of the protests were and how nobody there feels any responsibility to address the criticism. This was not something that caught them off guard. This was many levels of decisions.

Everybody has to tighten their belts if the wannabe king is prioritizing his hedge fund buddies and his global fascist alliance

I, for one, am tired of living in a lesser Tom Wolfe novel.

Ironically, the current head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division which is supposedly committed to combatting antisemitism on American campuses was embroiled in a controversy in college involving antisemitic stuff her conservative campus newspaper published. bsky.app/profile/seth...

all the right wing shit they see is so extreme that their milquetoast right wing centrism now codes as hard left to them, they are the self-appointed arbiters of the acceptable left bound of the Overton window

this is accurate along multiple dimensions they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left

one of the reasons I don’t really like to get into even silly sounding conspiracy theories is that the answer to “fun conspiracy or antisemitism” is almost always “antisemitism” it is the ugly ur-conspiracy at the bottom of most of these rabbit holes

See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue

great piece from @adamserwer.bsky.social on the “anti-woke” tax that americans now pay as a result of conservative identity politics run amok.

Trump has -ordered that new federal structures be built in the “classical” style -paved over the Rose Garden -ordered that 2 DC Confederate statues be restored -proposed a triumphal arch in Arlington -demolished part of the WH to make room for his $200M ballroom talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-c...

the level of contempt and disdain i feel for these chuds is really unhealthy

This is why I’ve been complaining about people acting like extreme misogyny is a new phenomenon caused by the online manosphere 😤

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster

so this is kind of [apologies in advance] the fukuyama theory of pedocons. people crave not just power but recognition. but recognition only *matters* when it comes from a genuine human other--which is to say, someone who might also decline to respect you. for the powerful that's a *problem*

One of the main vectors of modern anti-vax is a Google cofounder’s ex wife using the fortune she got divorce to promote people like RFK Jr.

It is so fucking bleak that they’re still calling transphobes in the UK ‘brave’.

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

One thing about saying Democrats should do this or that messaging is that there's nowhere to do that messaging right now. Major social media platforms work for Trump, the networks are scared of him (or taken over by his lackeys). Dems can say whatever they want but there is no megaphone effect.

Also worth noting that he wrote that poem to amuse his children while he was waiting in line at the bank, and now every day someone is trying to tell us that you need AI to tell your kids a story. Skill issue.

A building isn’t as important as the people his administration has murdered but there’s something breathtaking about seeing them literally demolish parts of the White House. I can’t stop looking at it

Free speech is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

The Young Republicans of New York appears to have been mostly a dine and dash club for grifter racists. At least three incidents of stiffing hospitality bills: "a former Donald Trump campaign staffer alleged the group owed $7,000 to Redneck Riviera, a bar and live music venue in Nashville"

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

We must now all rally behind America’s Team: Shohei Ohtani

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

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