A.R. Moxon

One big asymmetry that Dems enable: Republicans attack Dem VOTERS as evil, enemies of the state and now, per Trump, a problem for the military to get rid of. We have one politician who called some of them deplorables and one who said they were weird and people behave as if these are the same

Took a peek. First comment I see: “ please, for the love of God remove these dumbfucks from my party.”

My response: Building a broad coalition at a big tent does not seem like the animating passion at play.

brooklyn diddy detained

brooklyn dad desolate

I’m sorry WHAT??

LINK HAS BEEN BANNED?

WTAF @jay.bsky.team

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

The television will not be revolutionized.

I am working on a novel but the next book will be essays.

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

I am still a pulp fiction girly, but it is a close second

Did you catch this moment in the Ezra Klein/Ta-Nehisi Coates interview? Coates is explaining how Martin Luther King preached love and was murdered for it—"love can get you shot." Klein's response? He ... TikTok video by Professor Liz Bucar

Religious professor about the hollowness of Klein and his secular Buddhism. Meditation for self actualization; ignoring ethics and service to others. She has a full essay as well.

I did see that!

"And I think it is an extraordinary indictment of the character of our nation's thousands or millions of Ezras Klein that they set himself in opposition not against the violence currently being done but against the struggle." This right here.

Many such cases. Shoulda been Sandler.

A ★★★★½ review of Inglourious Basterds (2009) Bown JOOOOR-NO. You couldn't make this movie today, too much Nazi-bashing, which is very polarizing and divisive. Anagram is "Bad Sunrise Urologist"

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is still, in my opinion, very good. boxd.it/bgWhab

You'll get your choice of one of my two available books right away; then when the next book comes out (hoping for June 26 but let's see) all founders get it automatically provided they've told me where to send it. So potentially 2 free books in year 1.

more than a little bit

It is meant to be "the fact of the interview." It's a typo.

@juliusgoat.bsky.social has a way of laying out the words for the things I'm choking on.

"In the Klein world, moral clarity about abuse is polarizing, and polarization, not abuse, is the problem to solve."

Exactly this, on the Klein/Coates debate:
"I think it is an indictment of intentions of those who seek to draw the boundaries of discourse so that they maintain peace with those waging war, instead of working to establish peace for the first time on behalf those against whom war is being waged."

"You can't defeat bad ideas by adopting them. You can't grow a coalition by selling out its members." Another useful piece from friend Moxon.

'When Klein scolds that "we have to live here with each other" he is making a statement about who it is he is getting ready to live with & who he is getting ready to live w/out, and...he is ignoring the fact that when it comes to supremacists all of us have been living with them already all along.'

⭐️ Such good writing.
“The Republican proposition is mass immiseration, mass expulsion, mass control, & mass murder, aimed at an increasing number of us...
We will never truly oppose [or prevent future] political violence if we can't see the violence & its causes clearly & say clearly what they are”

ah jeez, that's the one that goes in the email, so I can fix it but it's already sent

It's just something I'll have to occept.

Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, and Don Ameche in Cocoon (1985).

Today I cross the Brimley Line. Here's a recent photo of me hanging with my boys.

so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.

On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Saying “the border was a mess” is a quick shortcut to me ignoring you forever

I suspect a party platform of 1) turning back every Trump action and policy, 2) arresting every employee of ICE for involvement in or abetting of crimes against humanity, would do very well.

Today, I drove an hour and a half with my wife and a couple friends to pick up a neighbor who was summarily, inexplicably arrested by ICE at a check-in ten days ago and then just as inexplicably released, 100 miles from home today. It was a happy occasion, all things considered, but...