Elizabeth Picciuto
@epicciuto.bsky.social
Writer. Fiction editor. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Long Islander by birth, nature, and habit.
This thinking is related to the RW’s affinity for sneering at empathy and vice signaling. And even JD Vance perversely glorying in getting booed. If people despise you for what you are saying, you must be telling the truth, because why else would you say something despicable?
"Only good guys lie, because the brutal truths of reality are inconvenient for their ideology. Once you become evil, you embrace those truths and don't lie because the brutality suits your purposes" is something a lot of people seem to believe despite it *clearly* being propaganda for Team Evil!
February 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
This thinking is related to the RW’s affinity for sneering at empathy and vice signaling. And even JD Vance perversely glorying in getting booed. If people despise you for what you are saying, you must be telling the truth, because why else would you say something despicable?
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Congrats Secretary Hegseth, you've finally accomplished what multiple generations of hippies trying for over 50 years haven't been able to do to the MIT/Harvard ROTC consortium.
Making military dumber: Pentagon cuts ties with Harvard University, ending all military training, fellowships and certificate programs. apnews.com/article/harv...
Hormone Hegseth only has use for dumb warriors who don’t know about the world and can’t think for themselves.
Hormone Hegseth only has use for dumb warriors who don’t know about the world and can’t think for themselves.
Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, discontinuing military training, fellowships
The Pentagon says it will cut ties with Harvard University, ending military training, fellowships and certificate programs.
apnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Congrats Secretary Hegseth, you've finally accomplished what multiple generations of hippies trying for over 50 years haven't been able to do to the MIT/Harvard ROTC consortium.
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Curling is amazing, it's like snooker, bowling, skating and housework rolled into one inexplicable sport :)
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Curling is amazing, it's like snooker, bowling, skating and housework rolled into one inexplicable sport :)
I love watching the Olympics and absorbing the arbitrary standards. You end up watching a sport you are only dimly aware exists, frowning and saying, “Oo, that guy from Norway had his knees greater than 90 degrees, now he’s bronze at best.”
February 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
I love watching the Olympics and absorbing the arbitrary standards. You end up watching a sport you are only dimly aware exists, frowning and saying, “Oo, that guy from Norway had his knees greater than 90 degrees, now he’s bronze at best.”
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It's back! Today's NYT Connections - Official Plug McSassy WRONG ANSWERS
February 7, 2026 at 1:50 AM
It's back! Today's NYT Connections - Official Plug McSassy WRONG ANSWERS
Okay I’m watching the Olympics and a bunch of Italians are dancing to Prisencolinensinainciusol and I’m losing it
February 7, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Okay I’m watching the Olympics and a bunch of Italians are dancing to Prisencolinensinainciusol and I’m losing it
For the first time in my life I have penis envy.
The skier, who’s competing for Team Great Britain, wrote “fuck ice” in urine—using the wand that God gave him—and posted it to Instagram.
www.jezebel.com/im-team-gus-...
www.jezebel.com/im-team-gus-...
I’m Team Gus Kenworthy This Olympics
The skier, who’s competing for Team Great Britain, wrote “fuck ice” in urine—using the wand that God gave him—and posted it to Instagram.
www.jezebel.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:12 PM
For the first time in my life I have penis envy.
I was just thinking today how much more trad my lifestyle actually is than the majority of trad influencers. Husband works full time, I WFH part time and am a caregiver/mom who cooks, gardens, etc.
odd feature of our time in how many liberals and progressive are bog standard monogamous family types--Serwer, Bouie, Hayes, AOC, etc--and how many Traditional Family Values conservatives are fuckin drugged up perverts
February 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I was just thinking today how much more trad my lifestyle actually is than the majority of trad influencers. Husband works full time, I WFH part time and am a caregiver/mom who cooks, gardens, etc.
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A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."
So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."
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welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up
February 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up
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We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 AM
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
it would be nice if the NYT stopped writing articles that try to address the anticipated objections of their most unhinged right wing critic or at least that also anticipate the criticisms of the most normie resistlib critic
Have no fear, New York Times is ON IT.
February 6, 2026 at 4:20 PM
it would be nice if the NYT stopped writing articles that try to address the anticipated objections of their most unhinged right wing critic or at least that also anticipate the criticisms of the most normie resistlib critic
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I saw that Trump polls -40 on Reddit and finally sat down and made us a subreddit, please join if you're active over there www.reddit.com/r/LiberalCur...
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Read us at liberalcurrents.com
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February 6, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I saw that Trump polls -40 on Reddit and finally sat down and made us a subreddit, please join if you're active over there www.reddit.com/r/LiberalCur...
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Good man
Former NFL star Charles Tillman says he walked away from his FBI career after refusing to take part in an immigration operation he couldn’t stand behind.
“I want to be on the right side of history when it’s all said and done,” Tillman said
Read the full story: www.theqgentleman.com/post/2026-02...
“I want to be on the right side of history when it’s all said and done,” Tillman said
Read the full story: www.theqgentleman.com/post/2026-02...
February 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Good man
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It's as if the Nixon Tapes were broadcast on the radio in real time.
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
It's as if the Nixon Tapes were broadcast on the radio in real time.
I love Bluesky finance posts, they’ll be like “KMX down $30B for VFTC est 37% after hours” and the replies will be like “cackling, the worst people in the world are coping so hard!”
February 5, 2026 at 9:53 PM
I love Bluesky finance posts, they’ll be like “KMX down $30B for VFTC est 37% after hours” and the replies will be like “cackling, the worst people in the world are coping so hard!”
Who would be a good person to write an essay about the moral depravity of centrist pundits?
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Who would be a good person to write an essay about the moral depravity of centrist pundits?
They seem unaware Epstein was convicted well before MeToo??
This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.
February 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
They seem unaware Epstein was convicted well before MeToo??
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Trayvon Martin would be 31 today.
February 5, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Trayvon Martin would be 31 today.
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This was reported earlier but still important: The FDA removed a webpage that warned consumers about potentially dangerous products and therapies marketed as autism treatments.
www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
FDA Removes Warning Page About Dangerous Autism Treatments
Autism researchers question motivations for latest HHS changes, including the new IACC
www.medpagetoday.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:27 AM
This was reported earlier but still important: The FDA removed a webpage that warned consumers about potentially dangerous products and therapies marketed as autism treatments.
www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
The thing about shifting your hard news coverage to appeal to conservatives is that the entire population of conservatives willing to confront a fact they don’t want to hear is already reading the Wall Street Journal.
February 5, 2026 at 1:15 AM
The thing about shifting your hard news coverage to appeal to conservatives is that the entire population of conservatives willing to confront a fact they don’t want to hear is already reading the Wall Street Journal.
sending copious notes to the writers of this season, a golden idolatrous statue metaphor is just too literal www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/t...
‘Don Colossus,’ a Golden Statue of President Trump, Waits for Its Home
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:38 PM
sending copious notes to the writers of this season, a golden idolatrous statue metaphor is just too literal www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/t...
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My little guy has an extra pair of eyes to glare at you even more.
February 4, 2026 at 9:08 PM
My little guy has an extra pair of eyes to glare at you even more.
They tell themselves that smothering moral qualms they might have is What Is Necessary, while leaving why it is necessary thoroughly undetermined. That way, they get to guiltlessly relish being bad for its own sake.
this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway
Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?
Vance: For what?
Vance: For what?
February 4, 2026 at 8:53 PM
They tell themselves that smothering moral qualms they might have is What Is Necessary, while leaving why it is necessary thoroughly undetermined. That way, they get to guiltlessly relish being bad for its own sake.