"bipartisan unity"; "reaching across the aisle"; etc. etc. in us history this virtually always is a dogwhistle calling white people to unifty against Black people.

When antifeminists are called "women's groups" and the defense of women's rights is replaced with frenzied, libidinal hatred of trans people, who will work to liberate women from patriarchal violence, abuse, and control? Nobody, of course, and that's the point of the "gender critical" movement.

I cannot emphasize enough that 99.9% of the prestige media and elite intellectual debates about freedom of speech and intellectual inquiry over the last decade have been completely and utterly counterproductive, at best. Your understanding would be better if you simply didn't read anything at all.

the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.

Just want to reiterate: the operatives and politicians who do transphobic bus-tossing never account for how much pissing off their own base costs them not just votes but volunteer time, donors and even positive private conversations with friends, neighbors and coworkers.

If I had my shot at directing the Iliad, I would exclusively concentrate on Homer's "Heart of Rock & Roll" section where he names a dude from each city or island or whatever, the sights and exports of that place, then how that man died in war It would be shot entirely in slow motion and flashbacks

"As of Friday afternoon, more than 70 projects that had won an estimated $185 million in funding commitments had received these 'nonaward' ... That’s roughly half of all the active grants AHRQ had listed this week."

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

I am not sorry to everyone who has heard my ravings about Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed, during which I transform into Literary Weekend Update Stefon

read lede: oh that sounds cool read article: urghhhhh these fucking dork ass losers

as sad as it is to be stuck in the doldrums of summer sports now that the World Cup is over, the upside is no longer having to endure seeing Perry Johnson and his whole family of "Black Hole Sun" escapees every ad break

this fucking loser and his inability to get the fuck out of a scene

Excuse the qp, but I don't see the world in terms of optics and you shouldn't either. If the police are lawless violent thugs who ignore and even threaten the people's democratically elected leaders if they attempt to bring them back under control, they should be defunded, and we should say it.

This is ultimately the same story as the Kansas driver's license thing. The word of the United States government is simply no good if you are a member of a minority Republicans do not like. Lucy will pull the football. You can't live a stable life like this.

I appreciate the detailed list of the lies. I would just push back against the second line of this post. Lying by law enforcement hasn't "become" routine, but has long been a problem that has not been taken seriously enough. It's why, say, some DAs have lists of cops they won't put on the stand.

IMO I think the most serious proponents of ending US support for Israel will have to naturally come around to ending or dramatically restructuring our relationship to the Gulf states, Jordan, Egypt etcetera as well since these form the basis of the regional framework designed to benefits Israel.

A constantly frustrating thing about stuff like this is companies only take advantage of these rulings with the understanding that Democrats won’t rescind them a few years from now, and it would be really nice to believe Democrats will, you know, rescind these rules a few years from now

Michigan has over 10,000,000 residents, so this represents about 0.04% of the population

brother who the fuck are you

It’s always notable to me that the men who are the most likely to call feminists “man-haters” and complain about misandry are also the quickest to shout their belief that men are inherently violent animals who cannot be trusted

as a civil servant I must once again reiterate that knowing the names of government workers while they are government working is not and can never be doxxing everyone else's name is on the god damned publicly-available searchable pdf org chart - get on our level, you fucking loser piss babies

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the one thing you have to realize about the filibuster is it keeps both parties from basically taking hard votes on policy they profess but personally know would destroy them in the next election cycle removing it is a good thing, but there is a reason that Senators don't want to give it up

Michigan right now has the worst air quality in the country as smoke from fires in Canada and northern Minnesota continue to get pulled down across the Great Lakes.

"Killing Black kids is actually our policy goal, what's not clicking, Senator?"

If I was the Napster dudes I would never shut the fuck up about this and also gonzo journalism interview Lars Metallica for his take

More death in ICE custody. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva, a 45-year-old died in ICE custody July 13 while being transferred between detention facilities in Georgia. www.ice.gov/news/release... cc @radleybalko.bsky.social

On the heels of 12 state attorneys general filing suit over the merger of David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, the Writer’s Guild of America has issued a lawsuit of its own.

look man, if you don't want to do any actual work leading up to your retirement, I get it, but you gotta make way for someone who does if your job is even a little important

omggg

Okay! Strong certainty that this Spanish side will be more entertaining than the 2010 iteration

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

France is looking, how you say, trés mal

Whenever some NIMBY writes an op-ed, you should look up that person's address and figure out 1. how much they paid for their home, 2. what it's worth today and 3. how much they pay in property taxes. In this case: 1. $79,000 in 1983. 2. $1,000,000. 3. $4,800/year (0.5% of assessed value.)

whyyyyy go to Alexi Lalas for anything, let alone a substantive description of a play???? we have Henry for that, christ alive

you do understand ... that Black people are not the canary in the Coal mine anymore... you get that right? You're in the mine with us

love to read the moralizers on foodborne illness, as if fresh produce isn't a known vehicle for pathogens, as if your local mom & pop is more dedicated to standard safety and hygiene practices than Taco Bell, as if their supply chain is different and immune

Either everyone's human rights are safe or no one's are. The problem with fascism is not that we're not the ones doing it, the problem with it is that it harms people and that is immoral, unethical, the foundational sin of this blood soaked nation.

California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.

the electability argument is constantly being made by the people who lost to donald trump and george w bush a combined 4 times. maybe they dont know what the fuck they're talking about

Megan Rapinoe has it all right

Sometimes I think about all the Stormtroopers the ewoks ate.

I don’t think it’s a great use of time or energy to pretend you can reform the president‘s personal militia

If federal law enforcement officers are permitted to shoot people, cite vague concerns for "public safety," and get away with it, we're headed for a really dark place.

We’ve opened the strait that was never closed, ceasing a ceasefire for a war that was never a war, stopping Iran from charging tolls because tolls are illegal, all so Trump can charge his *own* tolls because *his* tolls are legal. This will hurt affordability which is a hoax anyway

In great news for Haley Stevens: www.metrotimes.com/news/uaw-sla...

The whole "we have to follow the polls on trans people" thing is so fucking frustrating because they don't even lie well I know for a fact you can ignore the polling when you don't like it because Medicare For All polls at 65% and yall don't do shit for it Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

'Black lesbians are brutalizing our beautiful fragile white heterosexual Caitlin Clark' is also part of this work and only marks cannot see it

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