Meredith Conroy

This is too real

Conservatives being shocked at the logical endpoint of their ideological commitments would be funny if it wasn't so costly to everyone who cares about democracy, equal rights, common decency, etc.

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.

They are openly saying this.

Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

this is also not at all "terminally online" humor, like the caption says. this is actually the least online humor of all.

I don’t think we spend enough time pointing out that these people are unwell. I don’t know what has happened to make them think you can ban “woman” (beyond sexism) but whatever it is, it’s deranged.

sex criminals stick together

We took the parking lots away from the kids!!!

Actually yes.

Mia is wonderful, and you can read her feature today for free!

When I was like 11 years old, and my dad showed me the driving route to get to my cousin's house for Thanksgiving, I essentially redrew a straight line from our house to their's and said "this would be faster, though?" I felt like a genius. Im glad AI is bringing adults that level of unaware joy 🫥

Unfortunately, there is a straightforward logic to this. According to the data we've got, the people leaving the R coalition absolutely reject Trump's substantive policies. He has no hope there. Where he has more potential in holding onto them is sexism.

open.substack.com/pub/youngmen...

There was a time when it was my schtick to dissect politicians publicly engaging in dick measuring contests. But fascists suck the fun out of everything.

But also, is cotton candy measured in blocks?

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

White House removed video using Sabrina Carpenter song

Sabrina Carpenter is now the president

This piece does a good job breaking down how the actual process of boys’ gender anxiety actually gets triggered in academic settings. There’s a tendency to treat “provide & protect” masculinity as positive, but to be maintained it requires a femininity that needs protecting.

This man with blue-ing skin is definitely a hobby horse of mine.

A lost generation of news consumers? Survey shows how teenagers dislike the news media You don't have to tell Cat Murphy or Lily Ogburn about the attitudes of young people toward journalists.

Survey says: We are in trouble. I understand frustration with news institutions but filling the void with news influencers and news avoidance are no viable solution in a democracy. apnews.com/article/news...

Not all that strange! It sucks to defend a pedophile, and it sucks to be in the minority. The combination is shit.

An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign

Loser shit

The media is an easy target. Democrats and Republicans distrust (and hate) "media." That shift is part of a larger conspiratorial, anti-institutional turn in the U.S.

Wow, they are even gamifying this with a leaderboard. Congratulations to Bezos, whose capitulation clearly worked.

@leedrutman.bsky.social great post!

Look, women no longer do shit for free is actually at the root of a lot of social disruption. The question is whether you think the solution is women going back to being unpaid and unprotected by their own labor.

‘Rush Hour 4’ in the Works at Paramount at Trump’s Request "Rush Hour 4" in the works at Paramount after prodding from president Trump.

I see we've entered the making-movies-for-the-strongman phase of democratic decline.

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Big new survey from Pew on Latino Americans' views of Trump's second term

www.pewresearch.org/race-and-eth...