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It's good that public sentiment flipped as soon as people saw the consequences of the things they thought they wanted, but we have a serious problem if we're going to keep cycling through this process forever.
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
It's good that public sentiment flipped as soon as people saw the consequences of the things they thought they wanted, but we have a serious problem if we're going to keep cycling through this process forever.
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It is so lucky for Democrats that this kind of discourse is no longer on Twitter where the national media and politicians would see it. Better for it to be sealed off in this asylum. This is genuinely just insane.
Robert Byrd seemed to genuinely repent for his past and spent decades atoning for it, to the point where the NAACP mourned his death as the loss of a civil rights champion. People can indeed change.
But there's no sign of a similar arc of sincere repentance and reckoning in Platner's case.
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But there's no sign of a similar arc of sincere repentance and reckoning in Platner's case.
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I do not think dixiecrat segregationists are the bar we should be aiming to clear in 2025
Also Byrd unreservedly repented from his previous views, Platner has nothing but excuses about how he didn't know it was a nazi tattoo bu if he did it's not a big deal anyway
Also Byrd unreservedly repented from his previous views, Platner has nothing but excuses about how he didn't know it was a nazi tattoo bu if he did it's not a big deal anyway
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It is so lucky for Democrats that this kind of discourse is no longer on Twitter where the national media and politicians would see it. Better for it to be sealed off in this asylum. This is genuinely just insane.
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my lukewarm take is that normal people don't like the east wing being demolished and at some point they're gonna see a list of all the corporate donors for the ballroom and blame them for it
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
my lukewarm take is that normal people don't like the east wing being demolished and at some point they're gonna see a list of all the corporate donors for the ballroom and blame them for it
I agree they aren’t in tension with each other!
I don’t agree that everyone who isn’t ready to cancel Platner and endorse the 79 year old filibuster lover is a leftist Chauvinist!
It’s also wild to complain it’s a false choice when your framing is literally setting that false choice up.
I don’t agree that everyone who isn’t ready to cancel Platner and endorse the 79 year old filibuster lover is a leftist Chauvinist!
It’s also wild to complain it’s a false choice when your framing is literally setting that false choice up.
It's not about Berniebros--its about the false notion that social justice and economic populism are in tension with one another. I want a better choice than picking between liberal feminism and leftist chauvinism
Whatever you think about the Platner tattoo situation- glad we can go back to the toxic Bernie bro narrative as we attempt to build a movement against fascism in this country. Eyes on the prize.
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I agree they aren’t in tension with each other!
I don’t agree that everyone who isn’t ready to cancel Platner and endorse the 79 year old filibuster lover is a leftist Chauvinist!
It’s also wild to complain it’s a false choice when your framing is literally setting that false choice up.
I don’t agree that everyone who isn’t ready to cancel Platner and endorse the 79 year old filibuster lover is a leftist Chauvinist!
It’s also wild to complain it’s a false choice when your framing is literally setting that false choice up.
Whatever you think about the Platner tattoo situation- glad we can go back to the toxic Bernie bro narrative as we attempt to build a movement against fascism in this country. Eyes on the prize.
In general there are many Democratic and leftist men who feel they could have 60 Platners elected across the country if they didn't let themselves be emasculated by the woke scolds and feminists they associate with the failures of the Democratic establishment making them hesitant to let Platner go
October 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Whatever you think about the Platner tattoo situation- glad we can go back to the toxic Bernie bro narrative as we attempt to build a movement against fascism in this country. Eyes on the prize.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
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Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."
October 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."
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Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.
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When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win
everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco
October 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win
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after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet
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Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
October 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
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This is evil. There is nothing Christian about this.
The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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October 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is evil. There is nothing Christian about this.
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This is an evergreen, but if Joe Biden had given a speech like this, every reporter in America would’ve had their head exploded. Instead, we get shrugs.
September 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is an evergreen, but if Joe Biden had given a speech like this, every reporter in America would’ve had their head exploded. Instead, we get shrugs.
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Yesterday The Intercept posted the piece I wrote for them to X. That account has 800K followers. As of now, the post has 5,500 impressions, 8 likes, and the only reply includes a Pepe the Frog image and the n-word.
So yes, seems like the algorithm is working as intended!
So yes, seems like the algorithm is working as intended!
September 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Yesterday The Intercept posted the piece I wrote for them to X. That account has 800K followers. As of now, the post has 5,500 impressions, 8 likes, and the only reply includes a Pepe the Frog image and the n-word.
So yes, seems like the algorithm is working as intended!
So yes, seems like the algorithm is working as intended!
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People on here will see Trump ranting about deploying the military and go "that's the ballgame" like these people didn't lose a staring contest to Jimmy fucking Kimmel days ago
September 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
People on here will see Trump ranting about deploying the military and go "that's the ballgame" like these people didn't lose a staring contest to Jimmy fucking Kimmel days ago
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We’re already living through Trump’s crackdown on the left. Troops to cities, ICE targeting, mass firings, higher ed, media, science, etc.
They don’t have some big cards they’ve been holding back.
They do, however, constantly try to pretend they have more to scare people into acting as if they do.
They don’t have some big cards they’ve been holding back.
They do, however, constantly try to pretend they have more to scare people into acting as if they do.
If you're writing about how Stephen Miller's going to use this as a pretext for going after the left I think it's incumbent on you to say how he plans on doing that. Otherwise it's just scaring people into submission before he's done anything.
September 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We’re already living through Trump’s crackdown on the left. Troops to cities, ICE targeting, mass firings, higher ed, media, science, etc.
They don’t have some big cards they’ve been holding back.
They do, however, constantly try to pretend they have more to scare people into acting as if they do.
They don’t have some big cards they’ve been holding back.
They do, however, constantly try to pretend they have more to scare people into acting as if they do.
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If there's one thing I wish I could get every earnest liberal to understand, it's that, from the point of view of an authoritarian psychology, efforts to persuade, to "reach out" & "find common ground," are *viewed as evidence of weakness*.
September 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
If there's one thing I wish I could get every earnest liberal to understand, it's that, from the point of view of an authoritarian psychology, efforts to persuade, to "reach out" & "find common ground," are *viewed as evidence of weakness*.
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These are concentration camps designed to torture undesirables. There is no other word for what is happening here
Another detention center faces called out human rights violations as families detained there are fighting over water.
This is why they deny entrance to congressional oversight.
This is why they deny entrance to congressional oversight.
June 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
These are concentration camps designed to torture undesirables. There is no other word for what is happening here
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This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.
Netanyahu says Israel won’t stop the war until Trump’s plan to remove all Palestinians from Gaza has been implemented, calling the idea ”so correct and so revolutionary.” www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Netanyahu: Implementation of Trump’s Gaza relocation plan is condition for ending war
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May 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.
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The fact that some people insist on trying this strategy- over and over and over again - even though it doesn't work demonstrates that its advocates are committed to *the strategy itself*, not to winning or accomplishing anything.
my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
The Hard Calls Dems Must Make to Regain Power
Democrats want to win over more moderate voters. But are they willing to adopt moderate positions?
www.thebulwark.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The fact that some people insist on trying this strategy- over and over and over again - even though it doesn't work demonstrates that its advocates are committed to *the strategy itself*, not to winning or accomplishing anything.
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An absolute must-read. David brilliantly weaves it all together. "The goal isn’t prosperity—it’s obedience."
Trump's tariffs aren't just economics: they're a cultural purge designed to destroy white collar & knowledge work, deskill the country, force men into blue collar jobs & women to marry MAGA men, and render us all unable to resist fascism. My latest:
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Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge | Washington Monthly
Trump's blunderbuss tariff policies are a declaration of war on the half of America that didn’t vote for him.
washingtonmonthly.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
An absolute must-read. David brilliantly weaves it all together. "The goal isn’t prosperity—it’s obedience."
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Trump's tariffs aren't just economics: they're a cultural purge designed to destroy white collar & knowledge work, deskill the country, force men into blue collar jobs & women to marry MAGA men, and render us all unable to resist fascism. My latest:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/t...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/t...
Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge | Washington Monthly
Trump's blunderbuss tariff policies are a declaration of war on the half of America that didn’t vote for him.
washingtonmonthly.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Trump's tariffs aren't just economics: they're a cultural purge designed to destroy white collar & knowledge work, deskill the country, force men into blue collar jobs & women to marry MAGA men, and render us all unable to resist fascism. My latest:
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/t...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/t...