Adrian Daub

alongside the corrosive buildup of richly deserved but fruitless rage at so many powerful and shameless people another cumulative toll of these years is the dysphoric experience of simultaneously envying yet reeling from the ability of stone cold monsters to give so few fucks about anything

Love 2 live in a world where the real checks and balances are the cognitive decline within the unitary executive

They genuinely believe the reason Iraq and Afghanistan were disasters was because of woke

Weirdly not what you said when your goons gunned down protestors in this country

I think the fact that so many people who dislike BlueSky are reposting a weird person making an unpopular and insane claim about Jamelle Bouie as a sign of some deeper trend is probably more telling than the weird and unpopular claim. Noah Smith suggests it is a cultural norm that enabled fascism.

“Work” 😂😂

“Merits” 😂😂😂

Accusing Jamelle Bouie of "exaggerated nastiness" and "hateful, uncharitable commentary" is absolutely insane.

Someone in Stanford's finance hierarchy keeps querying what the "business purpose" of going to an archive is. Maybe if I lied and said I went there to train an AI we'd have less of a language barrier?

A scanned image of the first page of a legal document on letterhead from Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, dated February 27, 2026. It is labeled "Opinion No. KP-0518" and addressed to Mr. Darrel D. Spinks, Executive Director of the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. A portion of the first paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "mental health care providers" licensed by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council."

A scanned image of the second page of the Attorney General Opinion document. A section in the first full paragraph is highlighted in yellow, which reads: "[f]or the purpose of transitioning a child’s biological sex as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child or affirming the child’s perception of the child’s sex if that perception is inconsistent with the child’s biological sex."

A scanned image of the third page of the Attorney General Opinion document. The text discusses various statutory and dictionary definitions of the terms "health care provider" and "health care". There are no highlighted sections on this page.

A scanned image of the seventh and final page of the Attorney General Opinion document, showing the "SUMMARY" section and the signature block for Ken Paxton. The entire summary paragraph is highlighted in yellow, reading: "The definition of a “health care provider” in subsection 161.701(2) of the Health and Safety Code unambiguously encompasses the professions regulated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council. Any licensee that facilitates the provision of unlawful procedures or treatments that aim to transition a child’s sex are thus forbidden from receiving public money in support of those efforts and, separately, risk revocation of their licenses to practice."

Texas AG Ken Paxton has declared that it is illegal for mental health providers and therapists to treat trans youth. It means that trans youth will be denied access to any mental healthcare that isn't conversion therapy. Paxton also threatens parents of trans youth with child abuse investigations.

ASTRONAUT 1: Wait, is “the campus left” just a fantasy object the center right can displace their cognitive dissonance on?

ASTRONAUT 2 [cocks his gun]: Always has been.

I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous

You could pitch that sentence to several important newspapers and get it printed

Das Völkerrecht hasst man aus denselben Gründen, aus denen man das Asylrecht hasst: weil beide für die Schwächeren da sind, und für die hat das Land der Dichter und Denker mittlerweile nur noch Ekel übrig. Hätten sie mal nicht so schwach sein, oder ihre Schulen in unseren Bombenhagel bauen sollen.

Er hat natürlich Recht, die einzig logische Lehre aus der deutschen Geschichte ist das Zerhäckseln des Völkerrechts.

(For people not familiar with the iconography: that would be one (1) SA man between two rows of policemen looking the other way.)

A cartoon from "Vorwärts": "The SA Man Ruled the Street" showing a single SA man walking down the street while two rows of police are lined up on either side of him with their backs turned.

"The SA Man ruled the street" -- cartoon from Vorwärts, January 24, 1933

Oh look it's the "fetch" of Democratic politicians

Oh, I'm sorry, was my pointing that out "revenge" @nypost.com? Or just "cancel culture"? I'm having trouble keeping up

Thank you for making it explicit: if you assert that you have rights as a member of a minority group, the @nypost.com understands this as you taking "revenge"

"actually, there was no school, it was a school they bombed themselves, there was a military base beneath a school - all these things are 100% true at once, but also one thing's for sure, they were Iranians, and so isn't it rather suspicious that you care about whether or not they live or die?"

This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

Board of War is Peace

X as a website encourages people to do bigotry for likes and affirmation and this is the people who identify as left wing on there have decided it is morally acceptable to indulge in bsky.app/profile/bfis...

im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization

“Students demanded the firing of a teacher for being a well-known sex pest (he wasn’t fired). The government is forcing universities to end certain departments, stack faculties with professors the government likes, and is abducting students for writing op eds. Who is to say which is worse?”

“Mean lefties on social media and government censorship boards are the same I run the American Council on Education.”

“In his speech, he also criticized the closure of Columbia’s gates, an action that has restricted public access to campus for over two years.

'It is easier for ICE to walk into a dorm than it is for me, a Morningside Heights resident, to walk across campus,’ Northrup said.”

I think this is ultimately the tree to bark up on the present authoritarian capture of US media. the tilt within legacy media is pretty unmistakeable (news deserts + right wing oligopoly of major outlets) but it's hard to see how the strategy holds up without the right wing state in the background

It Can Now Be Plainly Said: Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off. Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.

This is unfortunately quite persuasive, above all the point that, yes, SCOTUS may strike down whatever election powers Tr*mp arrogates to himself -- but in the case of tariffs, that took almost a year, and I'm sure the merry band of plotters around Tr*mp have noticed newrepublic.com/post/207138/...

Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.