A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

When there’s a lot of hand-wringing over how Farage got elected in a little while, this will be the answer. When you ask people if they want fascism or diet fascism they’re never going to pick the low-calorie version

you are about to see the nation’s beer distributors—aka “the toughest lobby you’ve never heard of”—lose their fucking minds

thinking of the Saber doll again

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

i'm going to keep running around doing my little science projects, but "elites driven mad by mean posts" is basically the only theory you need to explain this young century

Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:

Hang on bro I think I hear my mom’s leitmotif

reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan

I think what I love about this is how perfectly self-refuting it is.

No one feels attachment to place, no one feels rooted anymore, it’s destroyed social cohesion. Also, fuck your local newspaper, You Are The Media Now, eat from the same frictionless everywhere and nowhere algo-slop that everyone else does, let the guy in Uttar Pradesh rage bait you for $200 a month

Liberalism has atomized & Balkanized the national community & robbed us of a common national project, no one trusts anyone anymore. We’ll fix this this by forcing your coworker Raul to carry his papers everywhere for random questioning, closing your closest hospital, & bankrupting the local college

Recurring gripe of mine but it is incredible how National Conservatism is supposedly built around decrying lack of community, common project etc, while turning every “hate your neighbors” dial they can access up to 11. Make your professor terrified to say anything, don’t trust your doctor, etc

you signed up for a website whose entire value proposition is your opposition to the government with the same email address you use for netflix, which has your home address

incredible that the Abundance guys took a dead-simple idea (it's better to talk about a future where there's more things and it's good) and made it toxic in part by being the whiniest dweebs.

very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive

To my prior post's point, I highly recommend reading this excellent essay from Shibley Telhami, a Palestinian-American pollster and Marc Lynch, a professor of international affairs, on the pitfalls of recognition as a mere Hail Mary attempt to preserve the two-state framework in a one-state reality.

the total capacity of the DOJ is, if you push it, perhaps 70k cases a year. even presuming that they will go after a list indiscriminately, you want to put your ticket into the government oppression lottery, because it is strictly better that they spend it on a NTB in a blue city than anything else.

anti-vax is one the most toxic political positions in america but it hasn't usually been covered like that because one segment of the population where it *is* somewhat popular is among business and media elites.

Aside from being a signum efficax of Yarvin's personal stupidity, this is also just factually incorrect. Slaveocracy was always aggressively expansionist, and correctly and presciently felt threatened by free states and countries. Some CSA leaders also had plans for a trans-American slave empire.

huge news but the fight isn't over as they're still maintaining a relationship with the IDF outside of this service being pulled, but this is legitimate living proof that the BDS boycotts get results

how is the I Think BDS Is Bad And Ineffective For Serious Leftist Reasons contingent doing on this fine thursday morning?

Moore’s indeterminate artist is also Delany’s “the”!

From 1969 to 2008 John Margolies photographed the eccentric roadside architecture and ephemera of the US. @librarycongress bought the lot, a total of 11,710 colour slides, and lifted all copyright restrictions on them. Here's our highlights: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...

I'm a reporter not a political strategist, but one answer to the question of "What can the opposition do?" is "Use the extraordinary investigative powers members of Congress have even when in the minority to get new information courts and journalists can't get."

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

historically, the worst bet conceivable is on perfectly monotonic trends for 40 years

Direct military intervention by NATO member states against Israeli aggression is promising. It'll stay symbolic if Israel wants it to stay symbolic. I think they could go either way

Sometimes you read an article that makes you feel like... idk... 15 years ago, some of us got on an express train and saw what was on the tracks ahead. And now we're on a call to the people on the slower train, now approaching, and they cannot comprehend the landscapes we describe as familiar.

So the poverty rate was lower during a period of the pandemic when the economy was in fact not great. And it's because the government showed they actually could provide a generous safety net. The Manchin and the GOP killed it. Like there is a great leftwing story here that Jacobin just misses.

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

I used to have this sometimes when I’d read a piece of classic literature for school and I was like “oh, *that’s* why.”

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

Why does this 11 year old, who absolutely has the best excuse to not know about Japanese internment (being 11), still have a better more intellectually rigorous response to learning about it and seeing the fact she hadn't been taught yet as a disservice than most adults I know in similar situations?

Like it's not great the international system depends on swing voters in Wisconsin every four years but uh the European Council depends on Orban not being an asshole or any one of a number euroskeptics HoG/HoS not torpedoing everything, it's the 60-vote senate on steroids

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

this archetype remains undefeated

A year before his death, the artist Howard Pyle set off for Italy, leaving unfinished on his Delaware easel his final painting *The Mermaid* — a profoundly haunting work of art: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pyle-mermaid

Gantz claims that recognition of Palestine is an affront to the 'democratically determined consensus' of the State of Israel which rejects such a state's existence. Israel rules over 5,000,000 people who do not have the right to vote.

Porco Rosso / Savoia S-21 full-size airplane replica ♥ Displayed at "Studio Ghibli: Architecture in Animation" 2025 exhibition (Tokyo). Moving to Aichi park on November 1.

I love Itch and I think this stuff is actually the fault of capitalism & probably they are also just trying to scrape by? I only make like a couple hundred dollars a year on there but, like many people working in the arts, I survive on a paper thin margin so It would be awful if itch went away

Tits out for the Grand Army of the Republic

Weird how Charlie Kirk’s killer is not even a news story anymore

Artists, quote with something silly!

Unlike Trump, Lula's UN address offered a “positive and unifying vision of the multilateral system, of international law and of norms that uphold human dignity and human security. As far as I could tell, Lula was the real leader of the free world today.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Detainees shot and killed by sniper at an ICE facility and already the Vice President and DHS Secretary are making it an attack on ICE and not a killing of people in ICE custody. www.wfaa.com/article/news...

The Whale God (1962)

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air