to prove i am immune to harassment, i have made a tactical decision to flash red and become stunlocked

one reason to insist on historically informed political analysis is to avoid the kind of punditry that takes Atlantic articles to be the only relevant context (or an audience that will fall for that)

We didn't need sound; we had faces

Hundreds of dollars for an installation that happens extremely infrequently??? Wow, what a burden. Let's say it's $360 extra and the range lasts ten years: I think a landlord can just eat the $3/month/range without too much trouble

everyone was yelling at Senate Democrats in March that exactly this would happen and they were right!

So, so many of our problems are downstream of this fact: conservatives are wrong about everything. They are wrong about what the problems are and all of their solutions are wrong. So every time they get a chance to implement them, things go horribly. But in order to avoid acknowledging this -

A top Mamdani adviser tells me internal data shows taking on Trump's authoritarian abuses resonates. It appeals to working class voters across all demographics, countering the frequent claim that this is a "distraction" from issues working people "really" care about. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

It's weird to me that, like. In New Jersey the governor race is all about the "affordability crisis" and it's somehow not an acceptable answer to say "Republicans don't know how to fix the affordability crisis because they don't know how to do fucking anything, they don't know how to fix shit"

To prevent "nibling" from being a too-cute one-off, we must extend the system it suggests. NO: "my aunt X is my dad's sister and my cousin Y is her son. Z is my grandfather" YES: "my psibling X is my pibling's sibling and my cibling Y is her chibling. Z is my gribling"

This is the main reason the ADL originally existed, and now they’re giving it up entirely because it made some right-wingers upset. They are no longer pretending to be anything other than a pro-Israel advocacy group. And they are prioritizing Israelis above American Jews.

Nicole … call me

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Blueprint poll: 1-Voters blame Republicans for the shutdown (which has been true of every shutdown in US history) 2-Voters see the threat of ignoring Congress's power of the purse as EQUAL to loss of health care subsidies, even though health care is the only thing Dems have been messaging

The endpoint of plenary and unilateral impoundment, like the *immediate* endpoint, is that whoever is exercising the powers of the presidency gets to use federal funding coercively to compel outcomes he doesn’t otherwise have the legal right to compel.

Damn Napster should've thought of that

David Bowie stars as the regional ruler in this movie in which the main character's spiritual journey requires them to reject as false a vision of comfortable domesticity: (a) Labyrinth (b) The Last Temptation of Christ

Not to put too fine a point on it, but: if you don't feel like you get to draw the line as a public thinker, why are you clutching so hard to the public pen? What do you think it's *for?*

"I don't get to draw the line" — you are a wildly influential journalist with an audience of millions, you absolutely do get to draw the line!

Guys who grew up in Irvine at basically the same time as Klein (me and @einsofasectional.bsky.social, namely) catching strays

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

I wonder if Bar Laika's website simply does not work on purpose, as an art thing

Jacques Tati's PLAYTIME, obviously. I may have misunderstood this question hold on

Think this kind of goes off the rails when it attempts to diagnose "signs of wank"; no actual attempt is made to establish that moralists about kids on the internet are perpetrating wank in the sense of the article, and prima facie they're a bad candidate! One might say that using such a disfavored

who's this "we"

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Bye-bye Mayor Cop, a piece of shit loser who sacrificed your neighbors to ICE so he could spare himself the prison term he deserves. He leaves behind a legacy of closed libraries, escalating unaffordability, off-the-charts police corruption. An oleaginous creep only liberal pundits could respect.

Snapple ad on the subway reading "sea moss belongs in the sea, not in your drink". Not sure about this strategy of directly addressing a particular demographic to tell it that it sucks

I love that the guy that threw his shoes at bush is into this

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

"Do you in all conscience believe that you can stand seeing mediocrity after mediocrity, year after year, climb beyond you, without becoming embittered and without coming to grief?"—if you say "no" to this Q and exit the academy you should at least be spared seeing it happen regardless. Alas,

the *problem* is that klein starts feeding that "empathy" back into his own principles. it's not enough to argue with the other side, you have to start by accepting what they believe. and let's just ask the pertinent question: did charlie kirk do that? is that how charlie kirk operated?

"It is strange that some theologians have difficulty accepting the precise and limited doctrine of papal infallibility, but see no problem in granting de facto infallibility to everyone who has a conscience."

A seedless grape that had the pectinaceous texture and grape candy flavor of a seedful grape would go so hard

2016: EC R 307 - D 224 / PV R 46.1% - D 48.2% on 60.1% turnout. “We lost very narrowly.” 2020: EC R 232 - D 306 / PV R 46.8% - D 51.3% on 66.3% turnout. “We almost lost.” 2024: EC R 312 - D 226 / PV R 49.8% - D 48.3% on 64.1% turnout. “We really got our asses handed to us.” Cool stories bro.

Actively and directly deceptive (though in this case for a slightly more understandable reason). He doesn’t want to admit to the interviewer, or, perhaps, even to himself, that the sort of politics he favours is a direct cause of the politics he hates, so he just lies about the causal sequence.

Klein is also obsessed with solving Democrats’ “condescension problem” but it’s not condescending to talk about how your political opponents are wrong! That’s kind of how it works.

this is fun

The endless search for magic words that will the debate - "talk about health care in this PRECISE way, talk about the cost of living using these EXACT words" - is going to be the death of us. This is not how politics works. Nothing has ever depended on Dems saying "because" instead of "unless."

Just got sent another Demo consultant's memo on how to win the shutdown. Spoiler alert: they want Democrats to focus on "costs" and "healthcare" and talk about how they're for smart budgets. Absolutely nothing about Trump being out of control. The consultant class should be shot out of a cannon.

I'm not saying length is the only thing I take into account in my movie-going life but why would I spend 162 minutes watching the unknown One Battle After Another if at the same theater I can spend 173 minutes watching the consummate masterpiece Yi Yi

I dig it emmettpalaima.com/CHAMBERS-HUM

Since Adam himself is no longer active here I take it on myself to post this

Essential context for what is happening in Portland and Trump's declaration of war against us. Note that it's *local law enforcement* accusing the feds of incitement.

clearly I am not following the right philosophy and/or psychoanalysis-related accounts because I have only now learned that Jonathan Lear has died

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

I heard an early version of this paper as a talk at Bratmanfest and found it unconvincing in the extreme

THOUGHTFUL RODNEY DANGERFIELD: my wife dont get no respect