In Operation Desert Mirage, we will be taking an all-of-government approach to telling the President that we have already invaded Iran, changed the regime, and taken the oil. by JD Vance

Is it too early to call the Democrats’ State of the Union response a disappointing failure?

Is it too early to call the Democrats’ 2028 nominee an uninspiring candidate?

This one hits hard.

Everyone: "Let's throw all of our money into one huge pot so when someone gets sick they have the funds available for treatment." America: "Hey, that's exactly what we do." CC: "Then why is your healthcare so bad?" America: "Oh, we let businessmen steal 60% of the pool so it's not socialism."

“Patriarchy” has agents and beneficiaries.

Silly. You need ID (not “voter ID”) to get on a plane. Not “proof of citizenship,” which is what the SAVE America Act requires.

but this post isn't abt intersectional privilege. it's time to acknowledge that men - men - are the problem here. shouldn't be hard to do if you're actually invested in change.

🤡 Andrew Clyde is the clown who said Jan 6 attackers were tourists. Despite hiding behind a gun himself

None of this was inevitable. It was preventable. I have a lot more to say about this on my Substack👇🏾 open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...

It also put real people in an unnecessary position. Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo had to absorb the slur with dignity on a global stage. John Davidson is now facing backlash that basic editorial judgment could have mitigated. 5.

It has a trail through slave auction records, plantation docs, slave patrol logs, lynchings, and Jim Crow enforcement. It was used while Black Americans were hunted, beaten, jailed, and locked out of basic rights. That history didn’t evaporate. Words carry memory. This one carries bodies. 4.

This wasn’t live television. It was edited. Reviewed. Cleared. In that same broadcast cycle, producers removed a Black award winner’s “Free Palestine” remark. Yet n*gger made it cleanly through post-production. The N-word isn’t just offensive. It’s the most painful word in the English language. 3.

Yes, Tourette syndrome is real. It deserves understanding. But acknowledging that does not erase the historical weight of the word that ultimately went out to millions in a prerecorded broadcast. 2.

A Prerecorded Slur Isn’t an Accident BAFTA had time. Time to review. Time to edit. Time to decide what the world would and would not see. And that’s why this moment landed the way it did for so many Black viewers. 🧵

A reminder that years ago Putin figured out he could ally with the evangelicals here to spread Kremlin propaganda and promote fascism. And it worked.

🚨 'In the murky world of Russia’s hybrid war campaign, appearances can be deceptive – and, as the rector of Täby was about to learn, these were no ordinary “nuns”... but fundraisers from a notorious convent that supports the invasion of Ukraine with links to GRU.' www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/373b54d...

Singal's only evidence for this are statements from different orgs and a malpractice case which alleged the doctors didn't follow WPATH guidelines. That doesn't show orgs like WPATH were wrong, nor that it's naive to trust experts; it just shows Singal and NYT editors are dimwitted and dishonest.

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Republicans will grasp at the shortest straw and the dumbest end of an argument every, single time. It's because they're desperately unsure of how to politically survive their own president's constant losing at every turn and are flailing like fish out of water.

Republicans continuing to use the fact that someone worked in a service industry job when they were younger as an insult. I guess we can’t all go to Oxford like Kennedy.

Kristi Noem lied about an immigrant being a cannibal. Of course it was all made up nonsense. Normal people didn’t believe it, just like we didn’t believe Haitians were eating pets. This is part of dehumanization of immigrants playbook. Fear and hate is the point.

I am boycotting Trump’s State of the Union tonight. Instead, I’ve invited an Epstein survivor and constituent to attend, and I will be speaking at the People’s State of the Union.

This is what "Performative Nice Guy™" looks like. He's not actually nice, he just wants to look like one.

Who says it’s nothing, you?

Jack Hughes, on the USA men’s team laughing along with making a joke out of the women’s team: “Everyone is giving us backlash for all the social media stuff today…they are just trying to find a reason to put people down and make something out of almost nothing.”

My abuser was a conservative middle aged white man and he SA'd a dozen kids - it took years to bring him to "justice" and he got 6 months total jail time. American culture actively supports pedophiles and rapists.

I'm seeing more of these 'equal protection' bills every legislative session—and more cosponsors. (They just intro'd one in Illinois, of all places) Also: one of the gubernatorial candidates in Tennessee is an 'abolitionist', and the Republican party platform in Texas calls for equal protection

People HATE this one wow

Sorry, did any of the gay men in his circle say anything or step in to stop the sexual exploitation? Or did they go along with it, tolerate the sexual abuse of women and girls, and preserve their sex class solidarity with straight men?

I'm not naming these guys or their orgs because they thrive on attention, and because I'm already getting threats from their followers. (But they're not hard to find) I've been tracking 'abolitionists' since the end of Roe, and I'm telling you this is where the the anti-abortion movement is headed

It’s not “sexism” to make a basic feminist critique of how gendered power operates. Thanks.

No, it doesn’t.

Sadly, no. Sexual exploitation of girls and women is also ubiquitous among men who are oppressed or disadvantaged along other axes.

“What about the women who participate in men’s systemic sexual abuse of women??? Aha, checkmate, I have disproved your theory of male supremacy.”

I mean the phrase is also kind of flirting with antisemitism, but to me the idea that rape is a symptom of wealth, rather than of gender hierarchy, is a really transparent way to deny the ubiquity of sexual violence by men against women—which is everywhere, up and down the economic hierarchy.

Well, men without wealth and power rape, too, and some of them also traffic women. Money grew the scale of Epstein’s abuses, but it was gender that created them.

“The Epstein class sexually abuses women and girls with impunity.” “The Epstein class covers up sexual abuses.” “The Epstein class work together to punish people who speak out against what they’re doing.” Look, “the Epstein class” is men.

In the Epstein story, the rape and trafficking of girls has been made into a metaphor for the economic exploitation by the elites of the American people. But there’s also actual rape involved, and it’s not a metaphor.

Turning Point USA hosted an event in Alabama recently with two leading abortion 'abolitionists' - extremists who want abortion patients punished with the death penalty. Legislators in over a dozen states (and counting) have introduced their bills. This is no longer a 'fringe' movement

i don't think its goal was to raise fertility rates though? like isn't its goal to make it easier to be parents, a thing we do, a thing that the feminists want, because the burden of being parents falls disproportionately on women, and this can keep them from equally participating in society?

If I wrote about the condescending way that women without children are talked to and about by men with them, I would never work again lol.

Meanwhile I could hear his wife trying to take care of his screaming kids by herself in the background. 🙃

“some liberals blew confetti” (two people tweeted a joke and here’s a sentence from moira donegan)

In the name of offering equal time, our CBS News team will follow President Trump's State of the Union address with an exclusive phone interview with his part-time spokesman John Barron. by Bari Weiss

Whether it’s Trump’s immigration police killing civilians in the street or Democrats boycotting Trump’s State of the Union, both parties have gone too far.

The right has become incredibly dumb in a way that frightens me. Here's why I spent so much time promoting rumors about immigrants eating pets. by Chris Rufo

Immigrants from poor, non-white countries should not feel welcome in the United States. Except for my Malaysian mail-order bride.

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