a marxist atheist college professor and ACLU member was giving a lecture on vaccines when a brave marine stood up and said "There's no reason to give a baby that's almost just born hepatitis B."

me, on stage, with one of those teeny microphones, giving a ted talk and behind me on the slide in big letters is 'there's no reason to give a baby that's almost just born hepatitis b'

man what the fuck

genuinely crazy to me how unitary executive advocates read the vesting clause as granting a huge scope of essentially royal "inherent" powers. one would think that if the framers intended to give the president royal authority, they would have just said so.

call your boomer parents and share the good news

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

C-52s

Explaining basic facts about the awfulness of Donald Trump and his associates makes you sound like an insane person with an axe to grind.

if we want to become a nation of laws again in a sense beyond nominally, all of these people have to go to jail and it's gotta be illegal for the president to post ideally, we just wouldn't let people this incompetent be president, but you can't have it all

Down 2.8% over 5 days is a “collapse” now lmao

Whatever your feelings on communism and anticommunism, I think we should all agree no left of center candidates should have a KGB file in the future for the simple reason the USSR was dissolved on December 26, 1991 and the KGB did not keep files on twelve year-olds.

This is a risk I am willing to take

the best way to understand klein, matty, et al is as doing an impression of 'reasonable person'. because it's less an actual ideology or stance than a certain kind of affect, they end up laundering reaction regardless of what the actual facts are. this can get you incredible professional rewards

utopia deferred www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxb0...

lol

Look if Donald Trump was actively trying to destroy american economic dynamism for a generation what would he be doing differently versus what he is doing now

honestly 2020-era Sohrab and John Milbank should be treated as postliberal dril tweets

America. 2025. Oil on canvas.

Many of us are numb to it, but almost every day he publicly confesses that he is at war with our laws and Constitution.

If you ever published for the grey zone you should be blacklisted professionally and socially from leftist spaces

Joe Biden can be a tragic hero, depending on your feelings about Big Fiscal, but his failure to deal with Trump adequately will dog us every day until all of us die

At every level, they’re telling you to take the knee with them for the dead nazi youth leader. Business executives at every practically every national media organization think the median American is a cow that will go to the pasture if given no other choice.

nobody ever goes away

it's really unfortunate that the most powerful, well-funded and visible vehicle for resistance is staffed almost top to bottom by cowards and losers

what the fuck are you talking about

absolutely evergreen www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoVi...

the protest security argument is another example of a very tired strategy from the last decade: arguments and decisions are made on the basis of how something could hypothetically affect an imagined person marginalized in some sort of way, without ever specifying how/if harm is actually occurring

I've lived in both a full blown autocracy (China) and one of the great resistance states (SK) a) if you were *actually* practicing security, none of this would be on this highly visible public platform. b) courage is an important part of resistance, organization is an even more important part

Wildly illegal, unprecedented, and authoritarian things that would have ended most previous presidencies, now happening daily

fierce look from melania today

most conservatives' understanding of george orwell amounts to 'what if the government were bad' and that's it

I don’t actually think we’re at this point, but if a person believed the federal government was going after individuals who sign petitions or attend indivisible rallies, then harm reduction can’t be the primary goal. If we were really at that point everyone would just have to be brave together.

Proactively discouraging people from lawful and peaceful mass protest because of some inchoate ostensible fear is an act of cowardice and should be subject to social sanction People signed SNCC petitions in Alabama in 1960, it’s fine to provide a liberal group with your email address in 2025

Is this bad

So elites and institutions have totally capitulated but it's also significant how many what I would call social movement entrepreneurs of the last ten years are just sort of sitting this one out, or just complaining and flogging their podcast

i do think a lot of traditionally really important civil society organs are de-legitimizing themselves and boy that's not great

detestable flatterers, cringing toadies - these are basically pathetic people

we have known vance was a liar bereft of conscience since the debate - but we should also remember that conservative accusations and idee fixes are almost always confessions and statements of intent

Mahmoud Khalil is free right now because they don't actually have the juice to crack down on all dissent.

what a typo

The elite lib civil society institutions that have by and large thus far capitulated really *really* need to not respond to this by further doing so. The Trumpists lack the competence or capacity to face down mass refusal to cooperate... but if everyone just pitches in and does their job for them 🤷

i do think if there *is* democratic + civil liberties backsliding combined with a recession, that is not going to be good for the admin it won't be good for americans either but it'll be worse for the admin

me (buying things using my credit card): ha ha fuck yeah yes me (getting credit card bill): well this fucking sucks what the fuck

Coke Zero

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

The best apology possible is March to the Sea caliber lawfare against everybody even tangentially involved and the networks which fund movement conservatism