One-time buddy of Matt Stoller:

I want you to promise me you'll completely revise your worldview and drastically change your media consumption habits when January gets here and the invasion still hasn't happened

The Lord, seeing “borders” and “citizenship”

Good example of how someone who traipses into the left for non-serious reasons will just as easily traipse to the right when the incentives change

Exhibit #268 as to why you shouldn’t get too attached to “leftists” whose entire worldview is really just unfocused anti-establishment blathering

People complain about Christmas music but I quite like they we have this weird seasonal canon of songs that spans 60 years of recording history and a dozen different genres

Nexus of transnational organised crime - Trump, Netanyahu, Putin. They play triangulation games.

Digitizing archives should be a way bigger priority in the world of academic history than it currently is. If something only exists in its original physical media, there’s no telling how long it will exist at all

Everyone saw Jackson Hinkle jump to having millions of followers by going further into into antisemitic conspiracies then his mainstream rivals and wanted a piece of that

Jake Paul got wrecked but he was fighting a former world champion. Tate’s loss seems more embarrassing

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

The reality is that only a strong European effort can make a Russian re-invasion of Ukraine impossible

It's difficult to read this and conclude that the 100+ non-police casualties were all armed combatants at the time they were killed

"Footage raises questions" is never a good sign www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-wes...

I’m no boxing expert but the one thing I know is that if you’re gonna get hit, make sure it lands squarely at the bottom of your chin, where your face is the strongest

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We’ve created the self-regarding allegedly erudite child-molesting monsters from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Don’t Create The Self-Regarding Allegedly Erudite Child-Molesting Monster”

“Ceasefire”

"Most sexual abuse—most rape—most pedophilia—is not committed by strangers. It's committed by people you know. Trusted authority figures." (from July) www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

Dictators actually all suck! www.tiktok.com/@liberal.cur...

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Anyone who claims Trump is building an ‘economically integrated’ hemisphere needs to have their wallet inspected

Pouring out a Moose Drool for Tester’s incredible run in a Red State

At first I thought this was another improvised MLRS which would have been way cooler

1994-2001: US disarms Ukraine of nuclear warheads & intercontinental ballistic missiles After 9/11: Ukraine sends over 5,000 troops to a "war on another continent" to help the US. 18 die. 2014: Russia invades Ukraine. 2025: US - "It's not our war. It's a war on another continent."

This fundraiser is already 8 months old. And still almost 430k UAH is needed. I don't think there can be any Christmas miracle so it will be closed this year. Just a reminder there is no such thing as a small donation. If each of my followers donated a 1$ - fundraiser would be closed. #UaView

Things are falling apart. There isvs clear downside to the U.S. declaring ceasefires no one has agreed to - sometimes they call your bluff

The key point on Abundance - the politically consequential opponents of building stuff are almost entirely on the right.

I have no dog in the ‘conductors on trains’ fight (when in doubt do what France does I guess?) But this manner of talking matters. Disparaging swaths of the country as well as education advances Trumpism even if it’s used against Trump

I do find it amusing to see TWU accuse people of “neoliberalism” when they endorsed literal republicans in congressional swing seats

The only problem with the Anthony Joshua - Jake Paul matchup is that there’s too many first names in that billing

We are all Guelphs now

another point made by others but which is true in my experience as well, is that many conservatives don’t want the small town experience, they’re misanthropes who want to live on a compound out in the middle of nowhere but also want the fire department and post office to come out there on my dime

Btw Denmark has a universal healthcare system; “people reject modern medicine because they can’t afford it” theory takes another hit

C’mon investigate conflict 2: electric boogaloo

What did you think “how to blow up a pipeline” was? A book? A movie?

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

More generally, the inability to distinguish good/bad from better/worse is the illiteracy plague of our time.

Social democrats are fans of Keynesian economics which does not hold a view that the rich get rich by making people poor. Many of Mamdani's policies involve some kind of business stimulus--cutting regulations on small businesses for example. Increasing ease of carts. So the picture is not apt.

He rides on the coattails of the serious left-communitarians of the 80s

Almost every Matt is a mix of good opinions and bad ones (the exception is that mine are all good and Matt Walsh’s are all bad). But you judge a Matt by which opinions they highlight when given their biggest platforms. NYT inches are still a precious commodity & MattY wastes them

Oh no this guy doesn’t belong in a nursing home

Having gone back and forth with the people in the comments here, I regret to inform you that we’re never getting rid of the USA PATRIOT ACT

Every time I hear about the deal Russia supposedly offered Ukraine at Istanbul it gets better and better

Conservatism means “no more Big Brother”? No, Conservatism means “No, more Big Brother!”

Efficiency wages!

All things electric frankly the U.S. is falling behind. Fortunately protectionism is known to improve innovation and competitiveness right?

The more we see of Chinese EV's the more we realise just how shit and out-of-date Tesla really is. "Ignore that! Look over there! Fake robots and a Mars mission which will never happen! Please believe me, don't tank my fraud!"