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Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

The Disgraceful New Rule in Women’s Tennis 50 years of progress undone, just like that.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social Blistering editorial in Slate on USTA's rolling back nearly 5 decades of progress on trans equity in professional tennis going back to legendary Billy Jean King standing up for Renee Richards right to compete as a woman in 1977.

I wrote in @TheAtlantic 10 years ago, pre-Trump, that Somali immigration to Minnesota was proving an assimilation failure. America's Immigration Challenge From theatlantic.com 7:09 AM • 12/12/25 • 37K Views

Good to know that David Frum is always on the wrong side

Haha that sucks so much

Nobody:

Absolutely nobody:

Not a single feminist:

Least of all standpoint feminist epistemologists:

The Jacobin:

Sir, that farm was raided by government agents who disappeared people and their families can’t find them

Atlantic editor: So?

Sir, a woman screamed racial slurs at black people and said “I am a racist” as she was doing it

Atlantic editor: This calls to mind the brave words of Cesar Chavez-

The Atlantic embracing worker rights only when the most racist person in America has been affected is maybe the most The Atlantic has ever Atlanticed

Read Theweleit's Male Fantasies, or something, I dunno, but this shit should be reserved for a therapist, not uncritical boosting by Douthat in the NYT

'To be pro-working class, a company shouldn't consider firing a worker when she becomes globally infamous for saying racial slurs while wearing your company-mandated clothing, behind the counter at one of your stores', my dude, to be pro-worker, let them unionise and HR can sort it out w/ a rep

Yay! Something nice!

It's so cool Jeffrey Goldberg became editor-in-chief of The Atlantic in 2016 and then drove a 152-year-old magazine directly into the ground, past the mantle, and bored right into the outer core

Is it 'prepare to get emails and pipe bomb threats' or something cute, like a professor with their dog, or perhaps an adorable parrot?

there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”

i also believe in building a better world for workers. i also believe that all people are entitled to respect and dignity and that there ought to be social sanction for those who openly degrade others. you call me a “n*gger” to my face and i am not going to smile and shake your hand.

BREAKING: Judge Blocks ICE From Re-Detaining Abrego Garcia Sua Sponte and Nunc Pro Tunc In a dramatic series of overnight...

My full write-up:

In a dramatic series of overnight developments, the Trump administration took extraordinary steps to try to re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia within hours of his court-ordered release, but a federal judge stepped in and blocked the move.

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Oh come on this guilt by association thing has to end, what are the odds that both Bill Clinton and Donald Trump and Woody Allen and Jared from Subway and Jimmy Savile and the Yellow King are ALL horrible criminal creeps????

It’s so wild that “a random online leftist said something I found annoying once” is legitimately a huge driver of modern politics in a way that “online right-wingers with significant sway over powerful people say literal Nazi things” isn’t and likely never will be

It took Kołakowski being exiled from Poland for him to write a three-volume set dissing Stalin, starting with the Presocratics (not to imply the last volume is good or anything). Modern reactionaries project their concerns over 'degeneracy' because they are poor imitations of their predecessors

Almost half of the non-European population of New Zealand is Maori. There's no way to pretend that this kind of racial thinking in that context is anything but exterminationist.

It's remarkable how perfectly this awful story is similar to The Dreyfuss Affair, from the banishment to a cruel tropical prison to the world's worst and stupidest people refusing to let it go even for decades after he was freed.

We just cancelled <all> federal area studies/foreign language funding at universities nationwide to ostensibly “save” $86M. How much of that did we waste on this one authoritarian farce alone?

Will the right-wing pressure groups outsource and automate their white paper production to LLM mills, thereby cutting off their historical talent pool of aggrieved and resentful ex-academics? Or will the authors go that route? We’ll know when the white papers start sounding like b2b copy, I suppose

The scholarly ammunition factories filling emergency rush orders from the authoritarian regime

100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.

To clarify, this David Miller (Oxford, philosopher of immigration) is a different trash David Miller from the ex-Bristol sociologist and antisemite David Miller, and also different David Miller than the very kind philosopher of science from Birkbeck David Miller that passed away relatively recently

Actually a totally different David Miller!

Book Review: Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration by David Miller - LSE Review of Books In Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration, David Miller defends the ability of states to control their borders and exercise the right to exclude immigrants on the basis of com...

Remembered earlier today the academic David Miller, who has dedicated his career to developing the intellectual architecture for systemically monstering and excluding migrants. Thankfully, some excellent reviewers of his work recognised this way back in 2016 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Today in “Dudes Rock”:

A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.