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this is the best it's going to get for them until they leave power. right now, as you are reading this.

Devastating piece on the human toll of Kavanaugh Stops.

Especially infuriating to know that rich white guys like Brett K can simply close their eyes to the human suffering their racist jurisprudence has unleashed.

"Events have their own mysterious logic" yes, wow, who could have imagined that "we must purge our beloved volk of the communist profiteers and race traitors who use cosmopolitanism to degrade the Fatherland" would just end up being antisemetic, truly just the world-spirit moving as it will.

The main thing I want you to understand is that if you're like an unironic Bluesky liberal the people who control the heights of American culture and the intelligentsia genuinely despise you and would prefer the company of fascist pedophiles.

The Status Interview – Or How To Write Up a Senate Purge List Over the last couple days I’ve argued both that the denouement of...

"Think of it another way: You’re new management coming in to turn around a failing company. You want to sit down with every employee right after you take over to see if they’re part of the solution or part of the problem. That’s the Status Interview. Here are the five questions."

Thinking about this again.

If nothing else comes out of the backlash to Trumpism, let it be a renewed commitment to small-r republicanism. This should be embarrassing. It should be shameful. You are a free citizen of a free republic, act like one for God's sake.

The opinion desk is, with a few exceptions, staffed by dullards and reactionaries. Senior leadership has been on semi-open crusade against trans people. Star reporters covering Trump have seemingly held back info for books; those from the politics section openly launder right wingers as sources

I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons

The wealth of the New World disapered into the pockets of Flemish, Walloon and German mercenaries trying to fight the Dutch.

Spanish colonialism bridged the gap between religious medieval warfare and the racialised nationalised conflicts that would come later.

You can really understand a lot of the outrage and contempt from the press at Democrats seriously trying to contest the GOP in redistricting and legislative brinkmanship as the equivalent of those 19th century anti-suffragist cartoons attacking women for pretending to be men.

I have been wondering for a while what a post-Trump GOP even looks like and I think we're starting to see it.

You made them feel guilty and they'll never forgive you for it.

If we ever create a society that has eliminated material needs and hierarchy I do think it'll have a very different relationship to criminal justice than ours, but you're also positing such a different world at that point that I don't think you have much to contribute to politics right now.

Every time the democratic machine churns into gear so wealthy home owners can grind basic housing and affordability policy to a halt, that’s doing politics the right way. It’s not the substance but the form that ultimately matters, never forget this. Lol.

Genuinely hilarious that the only way we’re going to get actual functional YIMBY housing policy in our large cities is through Red Plenty Socialists and not the Abundance guys lol

Matty negatively polarizing himself against YIMBYism the second it started to get mainstream attention in the Democratic Party was both incredibly hilarious and inevitable.

Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

Honestly I've been negatively polarized against Catholicism lately because everyone keeps doing the "wow they're so woke" routine with them while pretending every Protestant is Matt Walsh. They still hate abortion and gays and women!

every week every single ranked SEC team plays another ranked SEC team somehow and then you look at the big ten to see ohio state and indiana both playing purdue for the 3rd time this year

These are Mississippi and Louisiana, respectively. They are the two Blackest states in the country. It is not anywhere approaching parity. There is no mythical huge bloc of voters being suppressed that allows Republicans to win elections here

What do you mean by this? Someone said the Republicans win in the South due to voter suppression and I said that wasn't true. You said there was a parity between white and Black people in population in the South and that wasn't true. What do you even mean?

“But I never thought the enemy would be ME!” cried the leopard after running for office as a member of the Friend-Enemy Distinction Party

Many Southerners view all of the racism and gay-bashing and women-hating as the point of voting for the GOP. You have to understand that many people willingly decide to do evil things because they think they are right. Stop attempting to exonerate them

This is not true. Republicans win in the South because a majority of voters choose them, not because of "voter suppression." They win ~90% of white voters in much of the South and there are more white voters than Black voters because there are more white people than Black people

Republicans are able to win because they make a pretty clear majority of voters. The racial polarization in the Deep South is insane. Gerrymandering and voter suppression are part of the equation but not all of it.

Also, in the course of other atrocities in Yemen, his forces bombed a *school bus full of kids* with a U.S. PGM.