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It was hard to convince Americans torture is wrong as a moral principle during Bush's term, and that was with the debate about whether torture makes us safer. I'm afraid for a portion of Trump's base, that calculation matters less. Idea of torturing undocumented immigrants may even bring pleasure.

I think this speaks to a real moral degradation in the American right. They used to feel like they needed to justify sadism via higher principles or ends/means. Now, they don't care at all: the sadism is the point. It enforces hierarchy when that is all that Trump is willing to offer.

I think its ableist and problematic to call them dummies

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Quixotic move

Teenage boys are bombarded with ads to “undress anyone” and there’s zero political will to stop the sex crimes.

The permitting reform “debate” is a sterling example of some misguided liberals inventing a reasonable conservative position to engage with that simply isn’t held by any conservatives with the power to implement it.

this is a good illustration of how much the particular pathologies of the people in charge matter even if the forces pushing them don’t rely on individuals donald trump has been evil don quixote for years, hating windmills is one of his most deeply held beliefs, so we don’t get to have wind power

bobby petrino and jordon hudson have the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time

Is there room on this coaching staff for Hugh freeze

I had thought during the games that maybe they should have some bowls running opposite as a contingency but the FCS was hosting semifinals (including a historic rivalry) and the people complaining didn't flip over to it.

Right, the biggest flaw with WAR is that it's being applied to binary election outcomes. Casten's seat is probably D +7-9, the marginal value of him being D +3 vs R +3 is very low. It's like insisting sac flies are low EV when there's a runner on third and no outs in the bottom of the tenth.

Tapper is a dum dum

the centrist data boys are just sad because being a huge asshole with an overt ideological agenda isn't inherently a hard limit on your non-Takes empirical work being taken seriously, but they've pushed it to the point where nobody trusts them not to have twisted the data to reach a preferred result

people still read Matt Bruenig's policy papers, you all have managed to become seen as acting in considerably more bad faith than Liz Bruenig's Other Half, are you proud of yourselves

Great hire for them. Environment cannot possibly get more toxic so it's actually all upside

Haaahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahha As nearly every person has been saying on this website in the last 24 hours. This woman is infinitely in over her head. It’s YOUR listing schedule. YOU Put it out. If it wasn’t ready YOUR staff should have figured that out and brought it to

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"Without realizing that Trump is on the joke." They said it, not me.

Under Trump, all the powers of the presidency are sold for the right sums... and this is particularly true of regulatory powers, the pardon power and the control over federal criminal law enforcement. For the right sums, you can have anything.

going to the hague for being the guy who showed mr. beast CUBE

I do appreciate how each new Mr Beast thing becomes more dreamlike, as if it’s a profane parable whispered into your subconscious by a demon

what’s up fam, this week we’ve got something really special for you, this is our biggest contest yet, it’s LAMENT CONFIGURATION WEEK

so how many of these signatories are in the epstein files? Chomsky, Brooks? A lot are also just morally bankrupt in other ways (lmfao olivia nuzzi signed), also fucking bari weiss is on this list

I appreciate folks following the breadcrumb trail and not trying to jump to conclusions, but I’m not bound by those rules and I think “a media toady nuking a story about American concentration camps” is pretty self-explanatory

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.

I am being very serious when I say that all I ask is that Mathew Yglesias treat Richard Hanania with the same level of respect and courtesy that he treats Michael Hobbes.

Damn, he was also awesome in generation kill

the bryce young contract year will tear society apart

I think one of my 2026 resolutions is that I'm gonna start being more mean on LinkedIn

It’s funny because Elon Musk (dick broken) could remake a tiny piece of his image very easily by sharing what he knows about Trump (dying) and the Epstein files and donating money to feed all the children he cut off funding to starve but he’s too racist and demented.

It's fun how every pundit completely misread the anti incumbent anger in the post COVID inflationary period as everyone suddenly loving racism

I’ve been on the internet too long

The group chat

The group chat has decided their defense isn't about the facts argued by Sean but by that he scores lower on some made up metric.

This is why I'm really starting to hate the data bros. Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue." Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues" Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"

First half review

Bama-Oklahoma died (points 🤮) so Miami-A&M could live (anti-points 😍)

In my next life, I'm going to set up a think tank full of politicians dedicated to telling journalists how to do their jobs better.

negatively polarizing yourself so hard against Sunrise teens who annoyed you six years ago that green capitalists write public missives explaining in excruciating detail how you're a dumb fraud is impressive work though ngl

Incredible words from real boxer Anthony Joshua after he knocked Jake Paul the fuck out lol

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

I understand why but it’s very funny that losing a playoff game would theoretically increase a coach’s chances of getting the Michigan job

I like when reporters are like "what are you gonna do when we ask you some dumb bullshit question hmmm?" Very savvy

I’m currently outside of the Kennedy Center: