Denny Carter

they keep rambling on about "gender fluidity" and whatnot. total fiasco.

"My vision is them all getting paid."

-@patrickclaybon.bsky.social, labor thought leader

YouTube video by ModernLanguageAssoc Justin Fox Deposition (Part 3) in MLA-ACLS-AHA Lawsuit about the NEH

Watching the DOGE boys try to describe their mission and define DEI is tremendous content

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I thought we were allowed to eat food in America. Guess not.

yeah intentionally ruined a good thing

how much lobster can one man eat

ah well, nevertheless

Report: President Donald Trump Is Giving 'All The Boys' Dress Shoes That Don't Fit Right | Defector It goes without saying that there is a great deal of Psychology going on in Donald Trump’s second term. None of it is especially complicated, because the people involved are without exception clammy, ...

I wrote about The Florsheim Affair, and what kind of man wears the ill-fitting dress shoes his weird boss gave him to work. defector.com/report-presi...

My theory that the line will never go down as long as Wall Street's special boy is in power is about to be tested.

I didn't. Maybe I should.

He's been the most efficient, yes. There's no one stat that satisfies every fanbase's priors.

The secretary of defense is doing a holy war. Time to pack the kids' lunches!

The Score was a letdown. I kept saying to myself, yep, everyone knows that. This is obvious. Nothing really illuminating.

Just barely, I guess.

In The Absence Of Earnestness, Fascism Thrives A society can function, I think, with a certain percentage of its population endorsing and identifying with an anti-social approach to life. What, you might ask, is this percentage? As a spreadsheet guy I should be able to tell you something precise. I'll go with ten percent, just for round figure purposes (maybe it's 50 percent, who know). I think, however, that there is a threshold of anti-social folks that, when breached, can send a society down a dangerous little path. > **Become a****Bad Faith Times supporter****today and get access to the BFT discord community. BFT is a reader-supported publication.** Anecdotally, based on my interactions at my kids' schools and the grocery store and at restaurants and bars, I think we're well down that path. What I'm saying is that everyone is so fucking rude. The irreconcilable private space created by the brain-killing machines in our pockets might have something to do with this. It's never been cool to care. Detachment is and always has been far cooler: The moody, leather jacket-clad malcontent leaning against the school lockers taking a long drag from a cigarette is worlds cooler than the jocks and cheerleaders and nerds and scholars engaging deeply with their interests, pretending – in the squinted eyes of the leather jacket smoker – that these things matter in the cosmic vastness of existence. In the heyday of microblogging on the site formerly known as Twitter, it was cool to observe the carnage of our pre-fascist moment than it was to engage in the politics and movements that could have (maybe) fended it off, or lessened its impact. I'm as guilty of this as anyone else. For years my Twitter bio embarrassingly included the term "happy nihilist" (I was neither). What the fuck does that even mean. What a humiliating thing. Yes, It Is Virtue SignalingMy belief that schoolchildren should not be mowed down by automatic weapon-wielding madmen is unshakeable, unwavering. Many describe my long-held stance against mass murder in U.S. schools as “resolute.” I have never once considered I could be wrong on this issue, or that I need to stop for aBad Faith TimesDenny Carter Practiced detachment – telling those who care that they're wasting their time – has always been a badge of honor to varying degrees. There is a generational aspect to it: No subset of postwar Americans was more committed to cool detachment than Gen X, while millennials – particularly the older versions – came up as earnest, slightly annoying counterparts to Gen X. This is best reflected on Bluesky, a veritable retirement home for folks born between 1980 and the early 90s. Sometimes this earnestness hardens into scolding and the kind of politics that are not helpful in pulling people away from the vast power of the fascist algorithm on X and various Meta products. Mostly Bluesky millennials came of age in the almost sickening do-goodism of the Obama era. We helped get the first Black president into office and we liked to believe the game was over, that the right had lost the war. No generation has been so tragically wrong. At heart I have always been annoyingly earnest. I get the sense this is not a beloved quality of mine among some folks who otherwise tolerate me in real life and online. For a long time I tried to cover that earnestness with a mask of nihilism because it's never easy to be willingly vulnerable. Nothing Matters always got me a hell of a lot more positive and reinforcing online engagement than Shit Matters And You Should Feel Bad About Pretending Otherwise. There was incentive in the late Obama years and early Trump years to convince yourself and others online that nothing, in fact, mattered. The war was over anyway. The bad guys had lost. History was over. If only. Shamelessness: The Key To A Post-Truth SocietyWhen ignorance is a virtue, truth dies. In a way, so does society.Bad Faith TimesJohn Fosberry Jr. The vacuum created by this retreat of earnestness was filled with the most hateful, revolting people in the country. They were all too happy to fill that void. And now we have blackpilled young men posting neo-nazi memes on officials federal government social media accounts. It's their own version of virtue signaling. I was recently reminded of something I wrote back in 2016 about virtue signaling after getting shredded on Twitter for posting a selfie from a D.C. rally to save the Affordable Care Act from Republican annihilation (thankfully John McCain used the ACA vote as a fuck you to our stupid fascist president). From my first blog, a site I started to drum up sales for my coffee table book, 96 Ways To Rise & Grind (it didn't work): > But here's the funny thing about virtue signaling: the folks on social media who decry virtue signaling are, in fact, signaling their virtue. They don't do this in the same way I do because many of these people don't believe in anything and fancy themselves above politics – removed from the muck and mire of using government to enforce a political agenda. The anti-virtue signaling crowd believes it's virtuous to look down on politics, that dirty word. My response would be that no one is too good for politics, and if you think you are, you're likely a privileged asshole. Seven years later, in 2023, I was once again blogging about virtue signaling after the governor of Washington state signed one of the nation's strictest gun control bills into law, leading to a predictable psychological meltdown of the entire American right. > These Second Amendment fanatics charged gun-control advocates with “virtue signaling” in the days after Jay Inslee signed the bill into law. It’s an unintentionally funny thing, accusing your political opponents of signaling their virtue because they believe school kids should not be regularly killed by guns designed to destroy the human body as efficiently as possible. You can almost hear folks on the right ask in a sniveling voice, “You think you’re better than me because you’re sickened by the mere thought of children being murdered in their classrooms? You're worried about your own kids being slaughtered like animals in their school? Does that make you a good person?" And the answer, as it usually is when the right accuses the left of virtue signaling, is yes, we are better than you. I have never understood this line of attack. If one signals their support for a cause, doesn’t that mean they have done the necessary evaluation and believe that cause is righteous and good, or at the very least better than the opposing stance? ### The Virtues Are Going To Be Signaled Very Strongly Woke 2 – the turbocharged progressive ethos emerging from the horrors of America's first experience with tyranny – is going to be bursting with the sort of earnestness and virtue signaling that defined the early Obama era. Woke 2 will surely be more grizzled, more cynical, angrier, and perhaps wearier than we were in 2008 and 2009, and even during Woke 1, which emerged in response to the dangers of Trump's first term. And it will be full of signaling pro-social virtues to friends, family, and total strangers on the internet. The virtue signaling won't be limited to regular Americans embodying the backlash against the fascist assault on their communities. There will be much virtue signaling among the elected officials waiting patiently today for their chance to fuck up the fascists having a good old time right now. I think of House Representative Delia Ramirez saying during a recent congressional hearing on ICE abuses that she has "no respect for the inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol" and promising one day soon prosecute those in DHS who have committed crimes against the American people. I think of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker telling Kristi Noem, who oversaw the federal government's content-centric terrorism campaign against the good people of Minnesota, that she doesn't "get to walk away" from her many crimes against the country. I think of Senator Ron Wyden telling Noem: "See you at Nuremberg 2.0." All of this constitutes virtue signaling. The virtue: Re-establishing the rule of law because it's good for a country to have laws. A Washington Post survey recently found the US is the only country in which the majority of residents say their fellow citizens are "bad." I could see well-meaning folks rejecting the kind of anti-social posturing that has proven so reliable in boosting one's social media clout over the past decade and positioning oneself as Above It All. I could see Americans virtue signaling in ways some might find distasteful or over the top, and some of it will be more straightforward and appealing to political normies: I oppose American concentration camps! I don't think the president should have his own paramilitary unit! I think Congress should exist and the Supreme Court should abide by the constitution! I think government officials should go to prison for breaking the law! I'd hope that folks who want to emerge from the competitive authoritarian swamp in which we live today would learn to tolerate the virtue signalers among us. All of the above virtues, I think, are worthy and deserving of acknowledgement and even praise. Young folks especially should have their pro-social messaging reinforced. Tell them yes, that's good and you should keep saying it. It doesn't take much. I can think of worse societal trends than people – particularly young people – saying, "I approve of this good thing and I want credit and adoration for that." To care about people and institutions and to express pro-social is not cool. It won't be cool during Woke 2 just as it wasn't cool during Woke 1 or during the 2008 presidential campaign and the two years after that, before the Republican Party finished its transformation into an explicitly fascist party that has no place in a democratic republic. My request for the cooler, anti-fascist folks among us: Let the woke virtue signalers do their thing. Let them unapologetically – and sometimes annoyingly – support good policies and politicians who have had quite enough of this fascist bullshit. Let them virtue signal even if it bugs the shit out of you. We need to get below that aforementioned anti-social threshold, and fast. Fascism thrives in the absence of earnestness. It can't survive an earnest environment. Let's kill it with virtue signaling. _Follow Denny Carter on_ _BlueSky at @dennycarter.bsky.social_ _._

Woke 2 is going to be fueled by virtue signaling. And that's OK.

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Learning more and more about Alzheimer’s

Kevin Dulcich!

For the baseball folks on this very fine microblogging website

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2026 NFL offseason moves tracker: Instant fantasy reaction to latest free agent signings and trades The Rotoworld team looks at what free agent moves and trades could mean in fantasy football for 2026.

Updated this just now.

-Rico Dowdle to Pittsburgh
-Kenneth Gainwell to Tampa
-JK Dobbins stays in Denver
-Travis Etienne to New Orleans
-Tyler Allgeier to Arizona

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NFL free agency news today on Bluesky has been tremendous. Last year at this time there was next to no breaking free agency news on here. Things change!

Ken Walker bested the entire Chiefs backfield with 33 vs. 22 explosive runs in 2025

I think phones have created an irreconcilable private space in a public space dichotomy due to the fact that phones hold and exchange info that, previously, would only be accessed in private spaces, and as such our brains have mapped a spatial distance of about an arms length away as "solely mine."

It's not quite pre-Musk Twitter but there are thriving sports communities on Bluesky. I even made a guide for sportsball enjoyers: badfaithtimes.com/your-guide-t...

Like @patkerrane.bsky.social I’m kind of a Dulcich sicko. He was quietly pretty good last year!

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I guess they really value him as a kick returner because they certainly don’t value him as a receiver.

🤔Almost every stripe...

Not the Black stripes!🦓

There was a lot of bad faith interpretation of surveys, that tried to say that even Black people's support of DEI was decreasing.🤡

That's a lie.

Black people were getting sick of performative DEI that doesn't do anything.

That's not "anti-DEI."

It's tough to exaggerate how awful KC's running backs were in 2025. Out of 65 qualifying backs, Isiah Pacheco was 63rd in explosive rush rate (3.5 percent). Kareem Hunt was 61st (8.2 percent). Pacheco ranked 57th in missed tackles forced per carry.

Ken Walker is Emmitt Smith in comparison.