the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)

hi rhetoric instructor here, this is a very smartly constucted statement that leads with reasonable sympathy, guides the reader to the more pressing issue, and concludes with a clear value statement.

guess who's also getting savaged by the most unpleasant people alive bsky.app/profile/abdu...

Zohran is good, almost everyone in the replies here should be locked into a portable toilet and set on fire.

I was told New Yorkers in DSA ain't backing this up enough, so let me say: good statement! Nagyon szép

it's the combination of being tuned in to grotesque atrocities as they happen and being completely impotent to do anything about it bsky.app/profile/inte...

oh yeah plenty of '1 paragraph talking about 10/7 3 bashing Israel'

had Hamas stuck entirely to hitting IDF bases, which they did pretty successfully, this would be an argument you could credibly make

the Warsaw Ghetto uprising did not target unarmed civilians you freaks

“10/7 was bad and everything that followed in aftermath was worse” is a perfectly moral and popular position. it’s more or less the American consensus on 9/11.

a lot of people who boiled their brains with IDF atrocity footage and believe that only Israel killed civilians on 10/7, a thing Hamas doesn't even believe, are extremely mad Zohran is like, normal.

Abigail Spanberger is going to have a supermajority to work with if they don't walk this back ASAP lmao

btw the real backbone of the Virginia House GOP caucus is members from like R+5 Tidewater districts full of military families who could absolutely lose in a bad year, they're basically extinct downballot in inner NoVA and quickly dying further out (this will accelerate Stafford and Spotsylvania tho)

I encourage you to push this talking point, buddy

I count like twelve or thirteen Republicans who start sweating profusely in the no fed backpay scenario and a majority are from outside NoVA, because if troops are included then unpaid federal employees are concentrated in every single R-held swing district between Richmond and the Atlantic Ocean

it was not a weekend news dump and now they’re making up a thing about how they’re going to withhold back pay, which is just straightforwardly black letter law now. they got nothing and Vought is having the worst work day of his life right now.

Not gonna lie, I think a lot of this is the death of forum culture. Menswear guy feel so special because he is posting to that long forgotten cultural norm.

My favorite thing about the robes on the left is they look like Santa robes, and my second favorite thing about the robes on the left is *the justices and their clerks also called them "Santa robes"*

People are mad about inflation so let's direct inject a shit ton of extra money into the economy to chase the same amount of goods

An interesting range of interpretations here but what jumps out at me most is that sharp economic downturns seem to be associated, with some lag, with the far-right cannibalizing the center-right and thereby threatening democratic systems.

Some implications, perhaps, for democratic system design.

you can almost see him crying as he types this knowing it’s not breaking through

Incredible power move by Fox producers to make Miller sit through AOC calling him a manlet

Recruiting numbers from Jan 2024 to March 2025, showing them being broadly steady (with a fair bit of variation), with no huge 'Trump surge' in recruitment.

Now Hegseth and his fellow travelers believe that Trump will unlock a reserve army of ultra-fit masculine skinheads to fill the ranks, solving the recruiting problem - a thing which does not appear to be happening and a casual glance at demographics suggests probably cannot happen.

This isn't something he did, but it is important that you watch this

Force ghost Jedi Eric Adams in space

please send me your candidates for the weirdest things Eric Adams has done in 2025

proud of my friend Colston and everybody else who took part in the flotilla and hope they are released soon and unharmed. also he was editing pieces from the boat right up until the Israelis kidnapped him 👑

Coalitions are a funny thing

Trump take whiskey

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

All Dem governors should stand in solidarity with Pritzker and say they will withdraw as well if this demand isn’t met.