I wrote this nearly right years ago and conservatives keep proving me right.

The best way to understand right-wing legal doctrine is that if conservatives want it to happen, then it's cool, and if liberals want it to happen, then it's illegal.

The problem is that the only solution conservatives can envision is more prisons.

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This is part of the reason why I've lost a lot of faith in the "Texas is gonna turn blue any minute!" theories. The Texas Democrats are a pretty feckless bunch.

To quote former football coach Dennis Green: "They are who we thought they were."

"Equally damning is that the Times, the Post, the Wall Street Journal.. haven’t chosen to make one singular story the dominant framing device of the past 6 months: The Trump administration is teeming with despicable gutter racists and President Trump and his cabinet are having them call the shots.."

nobody can possibly predict what the labor market is going to look like over the next 40 years, it's impossible. better to get some broadly useful mental skills, and that will be a lot easier if it's something you're interested in like history, literature, etc

"Research, valuable not in itself but for some ulterior purpose, will be of little import except in so far as it is transmuted into common knowledge. The history that lies inert in unread books does no work in the world." -- Carl Becker, American Historical Association presidential address, 1931

This is excellent from Ganz. I agree wholeheartedly. We need leaders who excite and inspire with their rhetoric, not who try to campaign by solely sifting through the chicken bones of polling data.

Crucial to the pronatalist worldview is the reality that children are only considered desirable so far as those children and their care needs can be used to constrain women’s dignity and prospects.

Ah, this must be the president of the working class I keep hearing about.

This is true, but it's up to Congress to defend their constitutional turf. I'm not holding my breath.

Pretty dispiriting to watch the Ivies, the ostensible bulwark of the academy, cave to authoritarian extortion.

just spoke to a very nice man from the paper named isaac. had a good conversation about my orphan crushing machine. he really let me go in-depth on all of its exciting new features. good bit of press for the orphan crushing industry

This is indistinguishable from 14 words, Aryan Nations discourse.

Why is it these kind of stories seem to drop every week but it seems to never hit a level where major media adds them up and declares a pattern?

I love this prompt. Let's go.

shockingly good politico piece here.

Exactly. I know that what happens in NYC reverberates across the nation, but Houston elected a blue-dog Democrat for mayor and there was a noticeable lack of think pieces using this "face of the party" framing. But also that's a dumb article written by a right-wing idiot, so the intent is clear.

Times editors: lots of people are yelling at us, so obviously we made the right choice here. Maybe the fact you are competing with Chris Rufo for scoops should be a wake-up call.

Buddy, let me tell you that the American Party name has a pretty checkered history!

You shouldn’t say this about anyone because it’s depraved and evil but what makes it even more stupid is that Texas has more democrats living in it than almost any state not named California so even with crass sociopathic views of humanity you’re fucking over the people you think are on your side

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.

This is absolutely *wild* to me. Nearly a quarter of people are taking out seven (7!) year loans to be able to afford the car payments. The average monthly payment is roughly $750!

Correct, and small-business owners (or franchisees of major corps) are often the drivers of local reactionary politics. Here's a great example of this phenomenon in the character of Mattress Mack, a local Houston furniture tycoon: newrepublic.com/article/1794...

Correct, and small-business owners (or franchisees of major corps) are often the drivers of local reactionary politics. Here's a great example of this phenomenon in the character of Mattress Mack, a local Houston furniture tycoon: newrepublic.com/article/1794...

This piece from May provides essential context for the big bill the GOP just passed. To some extent, the bill is just the latest example of bad GOP policy making. It is that, but it's also part of a broader ideological project to dismantle the New Deal state. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump is both a culmination of and an accelerant for the far-right movement.

How I managed to live my life and not see this absolutely epic piece of internet culture that illustrates audio of LBJ ordering pants is beyond me. There are still tears in my eyes from this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_m...

There's a part of me that believes this is all posturing and that the GOP will pass it on July 4th to give Trump what he wants, which is a big media circus where he can say that he's bringing freedom back to America or whatever.

That's because moderation has been damn near winnowed out of the Republican Party.

Trump drives the news. He’s the most powerful person in the country and he shapes everything around him. But he’s also a devout consumer of far-right TV that does nothing but lie. It’s very possible he thinks Medicaid is untouched, at least for the people who matter to him.

I would call my representative buuut 🙃

a political elite class that hates its own voting base isn’t really democratic in real sense, they’re just aspiring aristocrats. we need to show them all the fucking door

Gutting health care to fund a police state. Not great!

“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...

it is the Imperial Judiciary when courts say that presidents can’t unilaterally overturn constitutional text, and the Proper Order of Things when courts say that your rights rest on the whims of who happens to be in office

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

Just absolute monsters.

As SCOTUS gets set to remove all kinds of rights from the people, it’s important to remember why the Right LOVES to make law via SCOTUS. It allows them to frame it as natural, inescapable, AND to avoid having enacted it. They get to avoid responsibility as a party.

I do not care for AI evangelicals. They insist upon themselves.

Research on "millionaire migration" shows that it rarely happens and that states could raise their top tax rates way higher. www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

This rules.

You gotta love how being burdened by student loan debt isn't seen as a massive structural problem that needs solving but is instead offloaded as an individual error deserving of contempt.

This is your brain on reactionary centrism.

"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents. www.startribune.com/what-should-...

Man, I'm not a New Yorker, but I felt this part in particular. My entire life has been shaped by 9/11 and the far-right forces of Texas, and I've been waiting a long time for the break of dawn. Seeing Mamdani win gives me hope.