Erin

It does remind me that "actually it's a communal cultural output" was part of Robin Thicke's legal argument in response to a plagiarism lawsuit from a black musician

I think Gaby del Valle's response to a previous intervention on immigration & labor is worth reading here, de Boer making left-wing anti-immigration interventions on this kind of basis isn't new gabydelvalle.substack.com/p/the-spirit...

IIRC (Frances Coppola showed me it but I have lost the link) their idea for schools guidance for trans kids included the idea that it was discriminatory to not treat trans kids the same as anyone else in their birth gender

No need to rub it in our faces like this

Living in the version of California from the Bad Guys movies: I want the governor to sign this landmark housing bill that will make California affordable but she's just disappeared for several days and nobody can reach her

A bunch of people in those MAGA intellectual circles have convinced themselves conversion therapy didn't work before because they didn't have modern science available and we need to just try again. This will end in the usual way.

even when Kennedy is doing the thing he has long wanted to do criticism has to be couched as "this isn't what President Trump would want!"

I think it really fits the book's style tbh, the long repetitive lists of forbidden names, crimes from across the water, etc.

I'm only really familiar with Eve Tushnet in terms of the "Side B" people though, I read some articles by her on the topic a few years ago

ahhh ok, that's interesting - I was talking to my raised-Christian-and-queer partner about this and I think an interesting thing for me growing up in rural Ireland is that our christian schooling etc was far too squeamish to broach the topic so we avoided the theological homophobia

were you in the ex-gay movement or you were like, the first wave of people against it in those spaces?

A recent YouGov poll shows Labour in single digits with "life sentence without possibility of parole in the phantom zone for Keir Starmer" being the most popular policy among voters of all parties

I would believe that these guys would think it changes something, “coding error” is a funny excuse though

Being able to afford expensive burger in 2011… the very notion

they don't even have a problem with violent or predatory men judging from who's in the movement

Devin Leonard's history of the USPS is also a good fit for audiobooks imo, I think its called neither rain nor snow

The Power Broker is a great fit for the format, I also really liked Ghachar Ghochar, Convenience Store Woman, and Milkman

Wonder when they’ll get to the point of arguing the NHS discontinue any medical transgender provision because it facilitates violating the Supreme Court order

I don't see a lot of enthusiasm outside of hardcore MAGAs for the Obama investigation tbh

also sounds like the circumstances of the Delaware election might have played a role (the Dem who resigned was very bad at the job)

6-2 is a supermajority!

a lot of them were already in trials - the bird flu mrna vaccine is in phase 3

The debate must go on, the concerns are legitimate, etc etc

Paul Foot observed a similar dialectic between Enoch Powell and the far right of the 1960s at the time

Can't believe you weren't watching The Good Fight, where she tore it up as Lucca Quinn

Reminds me last year I ended up in a vaccination waiting room with a Scottish man who explained that NI was Scottish bc they’d all moved there after the Irish moved away “because of the violence”

New in the New York Times today: Trump shows unprecedented virility in negotiations with Harvard

in the new movie Wayne's dad is like a reformer, so he would prob be an anti-Cuomo type guy

He's mostly tweeting about Gaza & anti-Thiel stuff, but in an unhinged way

not quite as disastrous as it could be (Visa waiver countries exempt) but god they are completely insane