Particulars of Israel-Palestine aside, it's a bit surreal seeing a mayor get grilled on foreign policy while everyone shrugs when the actual president appears to be throwing darts at a map blindfolded to decide our next war. Sorry, Cameroon. Nothing personal.

I learned recently that Matt Walsh has *only* worked as a pundit, first in radio then online, and it felt like "why are you even allowed to have opinions? Who are you to opine on things? You've done *nothing* with your life!"

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interesting looking study of South Korean protest techniques. www.amazon.com/Against-Aban...

I participated in building Biden’s Official White House website, and given that it was an official government resource, the restrictions on political messaging were considered deeply important and severe. This is a joke. It of course breaks the law, but deeper, it breaks the very spirit of the law

huh I did not know that "guys" literally does come from Guy Fawkes, via the guy (a stuffed dummy) -> any oddly dressed person -> any guy

seeing a lot of people misinterpreting this, this is before and after working as a GP.

I would bet hard money the US birthrate falls again in the next year, quite likely faster than normal.

Appreciated @whstancil.bsky.social going back and forth particularly amid a pretty disgusting harassment campaign that doing the interview could escalated. Thought this analysis of Musk's behavior was worth pulling out slate.com/technology/2...

this was exactly the point Labour made back in the day when fighting for salaried MPs in the UK - not paying politicians makes it an indulgence of the upper class.

Which is a big part of why landlords/lawyers/business owners are overrepresented. Not a lot of other people can afford to take a $50k job that’s full-time for three months and then off the other nine months

You've gotta love Oz catching the Hippocratic Bat-signal. I'm serious, I swoon for Action Doctor Mode.

as I've pointed out before, many states barely pay their legislators.

We know from scientific research that up to 75% of intersex people with varations of sex chromosomes never become aware of this during their life. You, a boring cis woman, might find yourself in the man section of a DHS holding facility and being charged with fraud just by traveling to the US.

if you want actually interesting reading on gender, employment, parenthood and American life, strong recommend to Jennifer Sherman's THOSE WHO WORK AND THOSE WHO DON'T, about a former logging community in California.

Putting aside Pelosi the speaker/leader for a second: Pelosi was one of the most queer friendly politicians in american history. When gay politicians in the 80s refused to talk about AIDS, Pelosi did. When no gay elected official would even talk about the trans community or trans rights....

one of the early warning signs that Heritage was going full Nazi was that all their sane foreign policy hawks quit years ago when they started defending Putin

as far as I can tell Cenk's main position is that anti-semites are his allies.

the tell here is that Americans once again elected a rapist

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

no, no, he meant "National Islam"

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

There is a weird Protestantism that hangs about contemporary academia. We have festschrifts for retirees but absolutely no customs to manage losing SO MANY from our communities before we reach that point. There is no churching when contracts are renewed, no Placebos when careers are lost.

in fairness if I had to work with JD Vance I would probably long for the Politburo

“Mommy! Mommy! Ouch! Ouch! Ouch!” — Leia Kahl, as she was overwhelmed by immigration agents’ tear gas. Leia’s age: 2. Via @natashakorecki.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

one of the funniest things about all this is that when you read about the history of men and warfare it is an endless series of internecine feuds between the biggest fucking prima donnas you've ever heard of

In my brief time as an op-ed editor (<year), Brettbug Stephens argued Ashkenazis might be genetically superior, & Tom Cotton called for violence against George Floyd protestors. Some of us were constantly pushing back. I met with Sulzberger multiple times. Lip service was given, nothing changed.

It has been my duty as a historian to record how smelly Che Guevara was. Honestly one of the stinkiest dudes in history. He was immensely proud of this & once showed off a pair of underpants he’d been wearing for two months. They were so filthy, he won a bet that they could stand up by themselves.

looking forward to more hard-hitting journalism from the times like "Does the Negro Belong in the Modern Office?" and "Do Homosexuals Have a Place in Schools?"

my "women are bitches for reporting me to HR" interview in the New York Times is raising a lot of questions already answered by my interview.

The UAE is suddenly trying to distance themselves from the genocide they’re arming and funding now that the world is scrutinizing them. Remember, it’s only authentic “Dubai Chocolate” if it’s made by slaves in the country funding the RSF.

One of us has been rejected multiple times by the NYT Opinion pages

'85 year old retires' should not be a remarkable headline. She served long, honorably, and mostly well, I hope she gets to have a happy and active retirement.

Helen Andrews believes women are a problem because they keep calling her a terrible, abusive colleague to HR whereas men take the more straightforward approach of going on C-SPAN.

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Their bestselling market is apparently women who buy their botanics (Lego plants) and the company would prefer if kids bought stuff!

one of my favorite things is that if you look at Lego ads from 15 years ago they were still trying to market sets like this as for kids, and now they feature pictures of guys who have good accountancy jobs.

sci-fi nerd starter for ten: given the U.S. threats of war in Venezuela and military murders in the Caribbean, which largely-forgotten author of the 1980s am I publishing a piece on this weekend?

as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed

When your "I'm not antisemitic, it's just that ..." defense is "if we push back too hard on antisemitism I might have to eat dinner with some Jews and that would contradict my faith" ... You're not beating the rap guys

Americans, you could have this.

sometimes i forget just *how* crazy the US suburban fear of cities can get.

reuters have been doing great investigative reports of late

remember, your subscription dollars pay for this!

it's like bars, if you have pro-Nazi politicians in your party it's a Nazi party.

Incredible reporting from @carolinehaskins.bsky.social about a school Mark Zuckerberg opened on his Palo Alto compound and operated for years with no permits, permissions, anything at all

but again we have to ask: how much do they actually believe this and how much is kayfabe? are they actually so delusional as to think a decades-old joke is a threat?

The voters wanted Trump's economic management and they will get it good and hard

yet again this week has reminded me that Americans vote for too many things.