as a thought exercise for everyone reading ross douthat's latest missive in the NYT, i want you to think about sending an email to your entire company with the subject line "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?", then think about the over/under on the number of minutes/hours you would still be employed

ICE is a team sport for guys who would otherwise be school shooters

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

this shit right here is wrecker shit, as much as wrecker shit as any online leftist has done, if not more so. no wonder so many people are repulsed by anyone (rightly) saying 'vote blue no matter who', the most powerful elected Dem in the nation won't do it! it undermines the whole coalition! jfc

the divide between Martin and Jeffries/Schumer, Mamdani's fellow NY Dems, has been extremely noticeable. it's also a problem indicative of their fitness for leadership!

The idea that people are primarily upset about the genocide that both the Democratic and Republican parties are supporting - financially, militarily and politically - because the Chinese have warped their fragile minds with Commie beams, is apeshit stuff. Obviously insane crackpot shit.

The Better Things Aren't Possible Wing has declared Spanberger is The Future Of The Democratic Party with this transparently stupid line fed to one of their press familiars

Abundance is one of the dumbest things I’ve seen come out of liberal elitist thought. It is the Ben Shapiro “sell their houses to who, Ben!?” moment of liberal elites. Consider how we have an abundance of food and what happens to that food due to our economic system.

it's so funny to say that you're being oppressed for being white and conservative and you live in Humble

the only moral action is to abolish ICE and punish those who are members of ICE

It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything

Damn, I wish Springer could've gotten another one. Really good game though.

Three words: public-private partnership

"full employment + Covid WFH + BLM + MeToo broke the brains of so, so, SO many american elites bsky.app/profile/unav... "you can tell RFK and anti-vax are project of the elites because despite generous anti-reality softball coverage their views are still toxically unpopular bsky.app/profile/mtsw...

All MAGA does is lie bsky.app/profile/osto...

At this point I think it’s fair to say that most of the criticisms being lobbed at Mamdani are not out of genuine anger or surprise at any new revelations about him but are rather a transparently bad faith smear campaign to punish him for being a successful politician while Muslim

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

That’s what these people are mad about; that their risible, bigoted and reactionary attitudes are neither validated by the free market capitalist apparatus nor the general public. The advert shit is a stalking horse for a desire to legitimise race science as a normal technique of social governance.

Dems are working much, much harder at gaslighting people into forgetting Harris' right-wing, Cheney-oriented campaign than they are at doing anything to oppose Trump. bsky.app/profile/dave...

IT GUY WHO POSTS ON GRUNTSTYLE FB: Valhalla awaits us brothers ACTUAL ARMY GRUNT: what’s up TikTok it’s your boy Jesse27 today I’m doing the cinnamon challenge in my asshole ACTUAL SPECOPS GUY: (lying burned and dead in his car from a heroin deal gone wrong)

Pro-Israel talking points are basically contingent upon you never reading about anything that has ever happened. It is not like we revolted against the British in 1936, or were immediately suppressed politically by the Jordanians from 48 to 67 or engaged in civil war in 71, or fought Egypt in Gaza.

That's not what your numbers say. They say that he is very unknown nationally, which is not startling at all given how new he is on the national scene. Saving folks a click:

He won with lower turnout than he had before. I really wish people would stop framing this as if there was some Trump surge. There wasn’t. Democratic voters just stayed home

I believe in moderate, middle-of-the-road ideas like simplifying and providing healthcare for all Americans, raising taxes on the rich, and imposing sanctions on Israel.

It's going to be so amazing being alive in 2026 because the front page will say "BREAKING Mamdani Received Free Cheese Pizza From a Local Vendor, Calls to Resign Mount" and then on page 3 you'll see "Hegseth's Pentagon Rape Dungeon Raises Legal Questions."

I feel stupid for thinking "wow I didn't think they'd sink *this* low" about the people who currently run the Labour Party (always a bad assumption), but, deliberately trying to inflict a race riot against their own Asian and Muslim constituents? I mean... bsky.app/profile/theg...

This guy is completely correct here and the Liberals replying to him are super pissed at people who don't have goldfish memories and aren't members of Obama's "stan culture". No, sorry, I remember who Max Baucus was. You're not gonna bullshit me. bsky.app/profile/tals...

Here's the thing: I don't need my potential unlocked. I work just as hard as my parents did, earn the same wage adjusted for inflation, and they were able to buy a house, two cars and go on holiday abroad every year. I don't need to work harder or smarter, I need to keep more of what I earn.

I'm 3 decades into professionally observing, interacting with, and critiquing the news media. I've heard every alternate explanation there is for their behavior and while some contain some truth none of them, nor all collectively, explain way the basic fact that elite media favors the Right.

They *love* right wing protest. The more right and white and male the better.

Through the first few years of Covid, when public health rules enjoyed majority support, big media companies breathlessly hyped right-wing protests, portraying them as the majority. This, along with previous examples, is incompatible with a theory of the media as apolitically uninterested in protest

Hell the endless live shots of Trump rallies that hadn’t even begun yet in 2016 were yet another example of the media hyping outside-the-green-room politics from *conservatives*

I would note that this disdain points in one direction. These legacy media outlets have been quick to cover and hype tea party protests, anti-mask/anti-vax protests, and countless other examples of what they call “real Americans” engaging in protest.

I don’t trust anyone who uses the phrase purity test. It’s something someone who already has power and doesn’t want to share it says.

Americans don't know what Fascism is. The reason for this is because schools did/do not teach what the Nazis' beliefs were. The reason they don't is because if they did, they would offend the Conservative parents of those kids because THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THIS! bsky.app/profile/aman...

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

They don't have actual problems irt oppression so they need to make up reasons to feel aggrieved and victimized. It's why they're so obsessed with microaggressions and then mention this shit lol.

The whole internet loves María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan activist who loves democracy!

nobel peace prize goes to Trump’s little extrajudical murder supporting friend What a pack of fucking loser weirdos that panel is

She's a U.S. sponsored opposition candidate and the daughter of a steel oligarch. Machado champions the privatization of Venezuela's oil, power, and steel industries.

Oh, there's a new Guaidó. bsky.app/profile/conn...

Again there will not be a "schism". A bunch of Catholics will do what they've been dying to do anyway and just become evangelicals.

Sorry, no. Those of us who were here for the 2022 primary remember that Lamb's campaign was premised on his "electability" and attacking Fetterman for being too liberal, classic hippie punching. Malcolm Kenyatta was the superior candidate. Lamb has learned since then, but he's owed no apologies.

If Gavin Newsom will sell out one group of people for votes that don’t exist, he will sell out all of us. That’s not a leader, that’s a narcissist

Government by 12 year-olds theory: bsky.app/profile/real...

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

One thing I’d be nice if Schatz and others acknowledged is that even judging their hard right turn on immigration in Spring 2024 on its own terms it failed miserably. In July when Harris took over Trump led on “immigration” by 9pts, by election day he led 13pts. At best it, electorally, did nothing