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The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and I’m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

Yes on measure 50 ballot

Hey Californian- don’t forget to vote YES ON 50

(and to call @governor.ca.gov to bully into into signing SB79)

wizard frog is insane

Again breaking silence to post this. Important to remember cops literally kidnapped Blasio's daughter when he pushed them even a little.

Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) Curtis Sliwa: “Anybody who knows the history of New York City knows we’ve had socialists in elected office.” “Somehow life went on … I don’t fear socialists. I don’t fear communists. I say, leave it to the people.”

it's funny how Silwa hates Cuomo more than Mamdani

Also, part of why this framing is important is that US political media is incredibly reluctant to make values judgements about policies, but very willing to attack dishonesty and hypocrisy - which is theoretically value-free - and this is the most extraordinary political dishonesty in US history.

Having a job providing high margin services is way better than childhood.

been less online, but belated congrats!

one thing i think which informs ezra klein / derek thompson thought is this notion that liberalism won the war of ideas with facts and logic and not like a century and a half of intermittent warfare against the ancien regime(s).

american catholics just really want god to be evil

This is genuine secret police shit

I'll literally bring this up to PMC parents and you can literally see the reflexive rejection in their eyes *bc they don't want it to be true*

Also "how can we help high achieving students from stable households" is imo the least interesting thing to talk about when it comes to the topic

Absolutely annoying to have education conversations with other PMCs, esp parents, for this exact reason

I hate everything about this; it is very good and exactly what Dems should be doing

I think a significant contributing factor to our current national predicament is that for decades, when Republicans won elections, the Democratic party has fought tooth and nail to defend the public from the consequences of their votes

We need to fully fund mixed-use liminal third places

Going to some evangelical church in Alabama and get someone talking about demons in jack-o'-lanterns and then have the presenter be like "lmao do you even hear yourself [smug face]" is not outreach but it is pretty good in-group messaging to make people remember what we're up against

yes, because they are going to big audience conservative spaces (eg fox news) and dunking on smooth brained pundits. precisely the opposite of what klein has been doing (inviting reactionaries into big audience liberal spaces) and irrelevant to the kirk “debate me” college stuff

Before you post about American politics on social media, you should have to solve a Captcha-like “puzzle” and it’s literally just “Arrange these presidential elections by the winner’s margin in the popular vote: 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024”

Benny_Hill.mp3

hilarious that these pea brained internet nazis klein’s debating understand the dynamic perfectly but klein cant process it because his mind is just a bunch of live laugh love liberal platitudes on repeat

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Look at my opposition party bro I'm gonna end up in the camps 😭

“One who feeds a crocodile hoping to be eaten last”

gonna pocket this point next time politics I talk politics with bros

Physics was very successful but you simply cannot apply the highly theory-focused methods of physics to even like, biology, let alone the social sciences

Fundamentally I think everyone should just treat theoretical work as what it is: internal communication within a field that helps shape the questions it asks and directions it develops. There's no reason for anyone to be reading theoretical work in a field they aren't familiar with