this dude is doing to American Beauty what finance bros did to American Psycho which is: completely miss the fucking point

Someone rreeeeeaaaaally missed the point of that film.

I guess this was always going to be the endgame.

I had no idea

Bari Weiss, I believe this is your moment.

"maybe marjorie taylor greene has experienced a genuine change and wants to do good things now" give me your bank account information and number immediately there's no time to waste

to be clear, i also do not think it is necessarily true that adopting a laundry list of progressive positions is an instant win either. i think you have to do the work of discovering what it is that voters want in a direct and engaged way. and i think that voters want moral leadership.

Good thing no one wants to replicate Labour's strategy in the US! Hang on, I'm being handed a piece of paper...

US Democrats, still:

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

My god.

Yall are NOT getting me to read Lizza.

True story. Via @xkcd.com

I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”

ANYONE in this party look at UK Labour in order to avert total annihilation challenge. Level: impossible.

Dr Oz isn’t mincing words, he’s stating the regime’s eugenicist goals loud & clear “Want to drop the cost of healthcare in America? Get healthy” Where does that leave disabled and chronically ill people? We can’t “choose” to get healthy. They have no plan for healthcare. Their plan is eugenics

I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.

(I'm sure there's a better term for it than "social discipline," but once I realized that so much baffling behavior was just an attempt to publicly discipline others for going out of bounds, especially around gendered expectations, it got a lot easier to spot and counter or ignore.)

As I said, a cover up so evident, Chris Coons clocked it on Morning Joe.

Two things can be true: informal systems of retributive justice or corporal/capital punishment would be *vastly* worse than today's system, AND we should not let a failure of imagination or hope extinguish the idea that prisons aren't an inevitable feature of human society.

Squaring the circle of "how do you protect everyone without immiserating* some" is a maybe impossible task but I view it as anchoring to universal human dignity rather than inevitable trespass against that dignity. *including the kind of vigilante "justice" murders the post above is advocating.

The MTG pivot is a good dragnet for identifying the most gullible people in all of mankind. Also, it's cross-political. You can identify the easiest marks left, right, and center here. A very easy, inoffensive, diverse way to identify our society's finest wallet inspector customers

It is the norm.

Once again, I have to point out how obviously inorganic the entire anti-trans backlash is. A handful of billionaires are astroturfing the whole thing with enormous amounts of cash.

IMO MTG and others on the right who choose to abandon Trump are doing so with the intention of going further right. They are not somehow on our side, they are on Nick Fuentes’s side.

ACIP has posted a draft agenda for their upcoming meeting on 12/4 and 12/5. Alarm bells are blaring. They are going to spend the entire first day talking about the vaccine schedule. There is no evidence whatsoever that there is any danger whatsoever with the current vaccine schedule.

Before ACA, I regularly had patients who bought insurance they thought was "best for them". I've seen $50k annual max, $500k lifetime max, plans w/ no Rx coverage, plans *carving out* cancer treatment, plans that denied leukemia treatment because prior iron deficiency anemia was a pre-existing. /1

9/🧵 What does this mean for Democratic strategy? All those debates about choosing between identity politics and economic populism? False premise. Young working-class voters with low racial resentment aren't choosing. They're ready for Medicare for All AND Black Lives Matter. Lean into the tide.

6/🧵 Why does conventional wisdom miss this? We confuse electoral swings with attitude changes. Gen Z shifted 6 points toward Trump in 2024, suddenly pundits say they're "the most conservative generation in 50 years." Only 42% of Gen Z voted. We mistake turnout shifts for ideological transformation.

Fight for power to, not power over.

they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit

somebody brought this up once in the context of Florida voters in 2000 and it fucked me up so much just the cascading effects on our whole society from losing such a tidal wave of queer people

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else

Newsom is the front-runner right now in exactly the same way Jeb! was the front-runner in late 2013. He has ZERO juice, but he is catnip to the juiceless opinionators who are the only people gossiping about “who is the frontrunner right now.”

it is wild that Labour is doing exactly what the reactionary centrists recommend and is absolutely destroying its base of support as a result, and yet reactionary centrists in the US are just utterly silent about the complete failure of their program.

I don’t mind the idea of AI doing my dishes because that’s the stuff I want to be disrupted. But it doesn’t have to look human to do this! Look at our little roombas. They do a good little job, and should they turn evil, and it would be hard for them to punch us in the face.

The caricatures of progressive candidates by moderate Dems just reinforce GOP talking points. Remember the viral story about high school students identifying as cats and demanding litter boxes in bathrooms? I heard that story first from moderate Dems who believed it. It was a made up right wing meme

Seconded.

And @aaron.bsky.team calls this a “threat”

It’s still extremely disturbing how poorly scoped the team’s understanding of the word “threat” is. Consult a 1A lawyer, please.

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

“The working group seems to be wrapping up a highly contentious policy point rather quickly despite evidence that seems to present a complex situation with no true indicator of whether or not there is an inherent advantage or disadvantage to transgender athletes”

<record scratch> You may be wondering how I got here. It all started with the first black president.

Also, how badly do you think men act? If all the men you know have done abhorrent things on this scale, what does that say about you? I'm not gonna pretend everyone doesn't have a past, but like, seriously think about what you are normalizing. Most men are not this bad, and I hate men! LMAO

Everyone else is touching on the Nazi allegations, so I'm just gonna say that dude being a rape apologist means he's statistically likely to be covering for a rapist, if not statistically likely to be a rapist himself. I do not break bread with men who condone rape. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

This is painful to read. She was a hilarious, sharp, brilliant, courageous person. She changed the way I thought about disability and power. What a grave loss.

America 2025 in a single photo.