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Here's to neighbors that speak other languages. It's especially awesome when they teach your kids to speak those languages too! #AmericanDiversityFTW

You don't have to be anarchocapitalist to be libertarian. "Leftism" proper does not have a dimension of "individual morality", yet our "left" is completely obsessed with individual morality/agency, to the point of sacrificing collective causes for theatrical displays of individual moral protest.

And I'm again bang the drum that just calling yourself a leftist doesn't make you a leftist. Calling yourself something does not make you that thing. The US left is politically libertarian & morally individualist; it does not engage the "amoral" dimensions of philosophical leftism very much at all.

Including why the non-Scotus federal judiciary has not failed, despite facing unrelenting public attacks and unprecedented individual threats.

Exactly. SCOTUS would point out (within its total 2-3 sentences of reasoning) that POTUS would suffer irreparable harm if he couldn’t hold gilded era style balls asap. Whereas the people’s interest in preserving the WH is speculative and diffuse.

You know who the real freeloaders in this country are? Not people who rely on SNAP, but corporations whose business model depends on wages so low that taxpayers have to feed their workers.

Just to clarify something here, did we expect better from Douthat? I thought he was always like this.

Bull, everybody knows the GOP has a majority and could have used the nuclear option at any time. Open govt and release the Epstein files, GOP. It's 100% on you.

I think some people are too young to remember when healthcare discourse was SATURATED with people suffering or even dying because their insurance wouldn't cover "pre-existing conditions."

The GOP wants you to go back to that, because the GOP hates you.

ROTFL <3 <3 <3 it.

No, the "consensus" is bullshit. People are just relieved for a break from the intensity of the violence and are wish-projecting.

For real if Ds take ANY policy lessons from '24, then Ds misunderstand the assignment. That was not a policy election; it was about broad strokes of reality: the downstream effects of 40 years trending toward oligarchy + completely unconstrained/uncontrolled tech disruption (AI and social media).

To be fair, that GIF is appealing. Allison Janney with snacks FTW.

The reality of Florida, not so much.

The only sign that this post is satire is the notion that John Roberts would give an interview.

Immigration is good and we need to say so. It is in our best interest when people want to come to this country to make a better life for themselves. My family story is the shtelt to the American dream in three generations. Other people should have this opportunity, too.

Well at the very least he would worry about the optics of it and choose a white woman instead. His brand would be advanced by choosing one of those Eastern European trad wife influencers.

I'm going with "no."

Someone get me a flamethrower.

No dispute of the data, but the problem is American day-to-day life is very stressful & the media knows using data to tell folks their experience is wrong is a bad idea.

We should talk about why reporters prefer "data lies" to discussing the real reasons why American daily life is so stressful.

I'll take a Lebanese prix fixe over "fine dining" anyday. And now I'm hungry.

Great. So what are you going to do about it? There's no punishment for these people other than Article 1 action, and you aren't even trying to get Republicans to turn on the petty dictator they're sacrificing our Constitution to.

I know I'm supposed to be paying attention to all your awesome court reporting and legal analysis but I really just need to say how cute your doggie is. 😍

Yay!

K-pop, of course!

But have you seen Kpop Demon Hunters? Where is our week-long thread on ramyun and kim chee?

Has anybody identified the guy yet? Has any attorney offered to represent the victim here pro Bono?

(taps mic) Bari Weiss is practicing politics the right way

I think it's because he actually makes logical arguments for his left politics but they are so used to step-skipping utopian emotional propaganda they think reason is centrism.

I am always sort of curious where this image of Secretary Mayor Pete as a like arch-Carvilleite comes from because it seems unrelated to anything he has said or done in his career, he would be the most left-wing president since FDR and is the guy they send on Fox News to fight in enemy territory

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him