part of the reason i've got such contempt for the doomerism around "they don't think they'll have to win an election again" is that this belief — which i agree some of them hold — critically endangers the entire project, it doesn't strengthen it. they are incapable of shifting strategy or pivoting.

Good for Berman. More of this please

PSA for the fellas: Every woman you know has been in a room with a Pete Hegseth (sometimes drunk, sometimes not) who raged at her for not being instantly charmed by, or acquiescent to, him—like Hegseth rages at reporters—and had to do a quick calculation about getting out safely. And a lot didn't.

What Anime or Manga changed how you looked at the world or guided your career? I'll go first: Neon Genesis Evangelion It was my first introduction to Existentialism and ironically helped in ny Christian deconstruction. I'm a better chaplain because of Eva.(LOVE Eps 25-26) youtu.be/KkcH9Jr_AB0?...

billionaires are CATEGORICALLY people who are comfortable making selfish, cutthroat, cruel decisions for personal gain and to the detriment of functional society. i do not recognize the legitimacy of their demands and i will have nothing to do with them 🤷‍♀️

people hate him. he stands for everything evil. just fuck that guy. reverse everything he did. make it impossible for him or his kind to ever hold power again.

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies. This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week. This is almost everything the government is doing.

We don’t talk about just how many things Reagan broke nearly enough.

“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”

I made a thread on why it might be helpful to more closely examine ourselves and our fandoms, especially in light of our current moment. 🛟 This isn't just for nerds and sci-fi people, but encourages all of us to see how we sre engaging with ideas. 🧠 It seems harmless, it is not. It matters. 🩺

Reconstruction 2 is going to require a level of seizing assets that I am very comfortable with but you may still need to work through

This seems silly to say, what with everything going wrong and evil rising, but I think we need to change how we see ourselves and our fandoms. Over this last year I have been giving a lot of thought to how many people openly and clear-eyed embraced and accepted evil. People might be lying... 1/13

"As with so much of what has gone wrong in the past 10 months (or years), this chaos can be laid squarely at feet of SCOTUS. Here, they’ve allowed him to continue collecting hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs despite multiple lower courts ruling it's patently illegal." — @lizdye.bsky.social

YES. Again, THIS is why conservatives have always had an issue with sex ed classes. It’s not because of God or whatever; it’s because children who understand and can articulate how their bodies work can sound the alarm when an adult violates them. PedoCon theory at work.

My interview with @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...

RIP to a damn good guitar player.

Bad news for Hegseth, it turns out the Pentagon is a big bureaucracy filled with people who got there because they know how to fight bureaucratic battles and they will wait for you to lie about something then leak details about it. Who knew?

It might be a good idea for some reporter to ask the Trump administration why they apparently think all American adults are using cocaine. Are they just extrapolating from their own circle or

It is outrageous that Marc Rowan stood at the UJA Federation dinner (a memorial for Wesley LePatner) and said about Zohran: “He is our enemy.” Who’s trying to make Jewish New Yorkers safer – and who’s fanning the flames of hatred? 🧵 ejewishphilanthropy.com/marc-rowan-d...

SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.

I know: he’s a racist authoritarian who’s running a militantly racist government constantly doing and saying racist things, carrying out a highly militarized campaign of ethnic cleansing and also doing anti diversity crackdown all over the place. And yet…his racist rhetoric IS getting worse, somehow

It's remarkable to see the entire political landscape treat a 9-point margin in a special election as exactly what it is: a serious warning sign for the GOP. This is a sea change. After Jon Ossoff lost #GA06, the media, the GOP, and even many Dems sniffily dismissed it. But it was a harbinger.

This is why I'm generally unimpressed by people describing how they use LLMs in academic work. Writing can sometimes be time consuming/painful because *you don't really know what you're trying to say*. The labor of thinking stuff through is part of the science and shouldn't be outsourced.

Pete Hegseth says he’s going to court-martial me for saying the same exact thing he said 9 years ago. What changed for Pete? Well to start, he spends all day thinking about how he can suck up to Trump. When Trump says jump, he says how high.

Hi. If you are a Democrat taking anything else out of tonight’s results in TN other than it’s a big hopeful sign and we should all be working our asses off to recruit in all of the House seats we can then I have no time for you. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics

Please tag me if you see any anime that appears to plainly be using AI transcriptions for closed captions. That's CLOSED CAPTIONS (SDH) for ENGLISH DUBS, not subtitles for Japanese audio. I wanna publicly keep track of some of these and start holding platforms accountable.

I'll just note that whether Hegseth specifically ordered the 2nd shot or not, is irrelevant to his culpability under the law for issuing the unlawful attack order in the first place. He told the Admiral to kill everyone on the boat. That itself is murder under US law and international law.

What has happened today from both DOD and DHS absolutely is further advancing the position I laid out at Law Dork over the weekend.

The one thing Donald Trump has always and will always be afraid of is the truth. And right now, he’s scared.

I can’t promise that this is the first time a Canadian publisher of a beloved children’s book series has publicly condemned the bloodthirsty US secretary of defense’s use of its imagery to smirkingly defend heinous war crimes. I mean who can say.

I said this four months ago and I — along with others — have been saying it for years before that and now it seems that what we expected to happen is actually happening and people with stars on their chests who absolutely should’ve known better are going to learn the fucking hard way.

this is going to be a fucking shitshow, lmao

Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up. If we had clean air in public spaces. Respirators in healthcare. Free masks for those who need them. Better tests & treatment. Paid time off. We would all be healthier.

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

DAILY DEMS DOING THE WORK, MAKING NOISE, AND FIGHTING BACK Day 307 Glad to be back, but definitely needed that time off. All four of these stories made me so excited when I first saw them. I hope they do the same for you! I mean, you’re more reasonable than Doomerella, right? 1/

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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

This was handed in for a PSYCH CLASS & when the prof said she didn't use empirical sources but rather submitted op-ed she whined about religious liberty + prof got suspended. I was a *Religious Studies* major; in my time she would have been rightly BBQ'd had she dared to hand in this absolute drek.

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

“Liberty and Justice for *all*” is right there you dinguses.

Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

not to belabor the point but any idea that the DHS goons make up a force as casually violent and numerous as the SA/Brownshirts really does have to contend with the fact that they are routinely stymied by a bunch of unarmed community members, even operating in force

I like how they didn’t fall into “Department of War” cargo cultism on Capitol Hill. It’s going to look absolutely ridiculous in hindsight and better haters than me should be screencapping people’s LinkedIn posts celebrating the absurdity.

Bluesky flagged this person’s entire account, so that every post they make is behind a veil of “rude” which, ironically, seems like a pretty rude way to moderate, especially when I already FOLLOW this person.

Murder is an offense under Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. With respect to civilians, they have to contend with the federal criminal laws punishing murder on the high seas (18 U.S.C. § 1111) and conspiracy to commit murder outside the United States (18 U.S.C. § 956).

Northwestern University now discriminates against Trans people, in academic life, sports, and in healthcare. They gave in to the fascists and are denying Trans people existence in their school. They might as well shut down, why remain when you abandon your values?