"but i was a based heterodox thinker" seems to be the rallying cry of the reactionary centre when encountering actual Schmittian politics

so many of these people thought they could ride the counter-woke tide without acknowledging the reality of the new era of politics we find ourselves in

i'm sorry: you chose to ride this tiger - my sympathy is limited

I mentioned a fear of Hanania Democrats in the post Trump era, and got some pushback for being ridiculous, but, at least in elite circles, it is a thing. Being able to accurately see Hanania is a great litmus test.

If you went back in time and told Gordon Brown's government that "In 2025, Bill Kristol will be to the social left of the Labour Party currently in government", they'd think you'd gone mad

They’ve nullified the 14th amendment once already, they don’t care what the constitution says, only what their political allies want it to say

Chicagoans will pay $76 per person this year for police misconduct settlements.

"These are not puritanical attacks. They are credible allegations that the party must acknowledge and address: that Democrats are allies of Republican hawks like Liz Cheney, valets for private equity, and hopeless incrementalists on social justice." newrepublic.com/article/2039...

Lord, I see what you have done for others.

The constitution is colorblind unless you want to discriminate against nonwhites. Then it’s fine apnews.com/article/supr...

Halle Berry is the funniest and most correct person on the planet. Doing hater shit, HONEST SHIT, just before Hair Gel If It Became Human shows up is 🤌🤌

what's bleak is that is that if there was ever a time for the secular movement, it's now, but uh, you have people like Jimmy Concepts moving their way over to the right

it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.

must emphasize again that the government and courts have not only attacked trans rights built in the last 15 years and that were *explicitly envisaged as part of the Equality Act they are using to attack them* but forcing a rollback of *decades-old* policies by individual groups.

it is a very close parallel to the attempt by the Trump administration to weaponize civil rights laws *against* women and non-whites, for instance

Bill Cassidy is a board certified gastroenterologist who worked in the charity hospital systems in LA for un- and underinsured patients. He treated many who had liver disease and cancer from HepB infections acquired before the preventative vaccines! Just an unbelievable failure of legacy.

I'm sorry, but I will not let this go. These kinds of words end in horrific consequences. Once a group of people is allowed to be talked about like this all bets are off. Seeing immigrants of color and trans people talked about like this is NOT a side issue or a distraction.

Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃

散歩する犬🐶 Good morning. It's Masuke, out for a lively walk again this morning. Masuke seems to have more energy on cold days.

I’m genuinely surprised it took so long for us to get Trump. It’s apparently extremely easy to hack the press in the US.

The transgender experience in the UK right now is basically just waking up to discover what else you've been banned from.

It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK. The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented. And the result is endless horror.

"True centrism has never been tried."

just for anyone who lost track; The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

It's journalist omerta

I think its more than a coincidence that 1. Elites crash out on X saying shit that is both utterly depraved and utterly insane 2. There is no apparent news value in reporting on this 3. A large number of commentators have stayed on X and say we are bad for not joining them

Adversarial collaboration is such an interesting idea! Despite its very intuitive appeal, a common opinion is that it is extremely difficult to actually do. I'm excited to see an actual example in the wild!

New paper in press at JPSP! An adversarial collaboration focusing on a large-scale test of how strongly implicit racial attitudes predict discriminatory behavior. Pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

This has been my whole freaking life. Every time Republicans take power people are like goddamit this is awful, they get voted out, then two years later people are like hmmm Republicans again

おはよー good morning お外みてたー

If you only got into Harvard because of who your dad was, that’s something tests should measure, not something it should avoid measuring

The journalist who romanced an antivax activist whom she was covering, and who helped him get into office where he wrecked the American public health system, wouldn’t trust her body to just any remote chakra realignment worker.

My latest newsletter is about how centrist pundits got the lessons of the 2024 election wrong, and how the politics of 2025 exposed them.

By the way, this is one of the reasons the press is starting to turn on the administration. They were promised access and instead are being sidelined. Yes, I know.

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got inspired

I wrote much of this several months ago, about Ezra Klein's response to the Kirk assassination, and then never ended up publishing it, but I think this UO "controversy" is a such a perfect example of how TPUSA et al actually advance conservative power that I decided to revive and rewrite it.

i think a lot about how the collapse of reconstruction was in the event a result of macroeconomic mistakes by republicans--the panic of 1873 leading directly to the corrupt bargain of 1877

this is good www.laborpolitics.com/p/sewer-soci...

shhh, he is the best option we have right now. a corrupt incompetent is better than a malicious but effective guy.

The other thing about the OU student who wrote the bad essay on God-given gender roles is that she herself is rejecting those religious ideals about femininity by going to college, playing a sport, and having a mother who is a media personality and lawyer for Jan 6ers. Trad for thee but not for me

How is this not smiling

One of my favorite Monterey lifers, the Long-billed Curlew! I used my own photo for a reference, I was lucky enough to capture it after a successful hunt. #BirdArt #SciArt #ArtYear #AnimalArt #Watercolor #FineArt 1/2

They demonstrated pretty conclusively that they understand how to cover pardons as if they are huge scandals when they ran multiple days of banner headlines and scolding op-eds and follow ups when Biden pardoned Hunter exactly one year ago. They just choose not to for trump because they like him

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

The following is a picture essay that reflects on a personal experience that informs my own understanding of what it means to lose your freedom of speech. folukeafrica.com/losing-your-...