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yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
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related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
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Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates."
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
No, Progressives Don’t Want “Purity.” They Just Want Some Courage.
When left-leaning Democrats complain about corporate influence, it’s not a “purity test.” It’s a demand for a better politics.
newrepublic.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates."
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
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MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
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The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The last month of the anti-Mamdani campaign was an absolutely shameful undertaking, an attempt to rip the city and Democratic coalition apart and I'm very happy to see it failed.
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Party policy positioning just doesn't, and can't, work the way that some are treating it as.
Even if we stipulate that parties could pick up votes from changing their image by changing policy positions, the last part of it just doesn't work that way.
Even if we stipulate that parties could pick up votes from changing their image by changing policy positions, the last part of it just doesn't work that way.
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Party policy positioning just doesn't, and can't, work the way that some are treating it as.
Even if we stipulate that parties could pick up votes from changing their image by changing policy positions, the last part of it just doesn't work that way.
Even if we stipulate that parties could pick up votes from changing their image by changing policy positions, the last part of it just doesn't work that way.
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Political party policy positions are simply not chess pieces that experts in public opinion can shuffle around to maximize vote totals. Parties take positions because party actors care about those policies, and also (less relevant with death penalty) because voters want solutions to big problems.
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Political party policy positions are simply not chess pieces that experts in public opinion can shuffle around to maximize vote totals. Parties take positions because party actors care about those policies, and also (less relevant with death penalty) because voters want solutions to big problems.
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one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans
Duh. Those of us on the ground last year actually speaking with middle class/working class voters and who heard from these voters every single day the same - “Trump is an asshole, but Democrats are out of touch” - could’ve saved my new political party a lot of time & money producing this “report.”👇
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans
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the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
October 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles
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Can’t remember who said it but Bari Weiss’s one and only skill is convincing the dumbest rich people to give her money.
Lord save us:
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
The Bari Market
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
puck.news
September 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Can’t remember who said it but Bari Weiss’s one and only skill is convincing the dumbest rich people to give her money.
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seriously, there is no evidence whatsoever that Weiss is capable of writing a news story, much less running a news organization. the actual quality of the writing at The Free Press is barely a notch above AI slop.
September 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
seriously, there is no evidence whatsoever that Weiss is capable of writing a news story, much less running a news organization. the actual quality of the writing at The Free Press is barely a notch above AI slop.
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RIP CBS News
Lord save us:
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
"Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
The Bari Market
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
puck.news
September 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
RIP CBS News
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Cuomo is Trump's preferred candidate and yet a whole lotta big Democrats can't bring themselves to endorse Mamdani. The party needs to be cleaned out, starting with Schumer and Jeffries.
“.. a way to clear the field in November’s mayoral election and damage the chances of the Democratic front-runner, Zohran Mamdani ..”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/n...
September 3, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Cuomo is Trump's preferred candidate and yet a whole lotta big Democrats can't bring themselves to endorse Mamdani. The party needs to be cleaned out, starting with Schumer and Jeffries.
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Cultivate within yourself the utmost possible contempt for the far right and only then will their behavior become comprehensible and predictable to you. They’re animals masquerading as people
August 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Cultivate within yourself the utmost possible contempt for the far right and only then will their behavior become comprehensible and predictable to you. They’re animals masquerading as people
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They hate vaccines not because of any knowledge or experience they’ve had with vaccines, but because it’s a useful vehicle for otherwise-shapeless anti-establishment resentment, directed against people they enjoy attacking (experts, the educated, diverse institutions of higher ed, foreigners, etc.)
August 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
They hate vaccines not because of any knowledge or experience they’ve had with vaccines, but because it’s a useful vehicle for otherwise-shapeless anti-establishment resentment, directed against people they enjoy attacking (experts, the educated, diverse institutions of higher ed, foreigners, etc.)
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You cannot actually understand the right’s beliefs or behavior if you take their political claims at face value. But those beliefs and behavior make perfect sense and become very predictable if you understand it’s just a pretext to indulge in subrational, emotionally rooted anger and paranoia
August 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
You cannot actually understand the right’s beliefs or behavior if you take their political claims at face value. But those beliefs and behavior make perfect sense and become very predictable if you understand it’s just a pretext to indulge in subrational, emotionally rooted anger and paranoia
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It’s not that Klein doesn’t take the right seriously.
It’s that people like him take the right TOO seriously.
They examine right-wing beliefs as an extension of valid policy objections, rather than almost entirely arising from the right giving people permission to indulge in inchoate resentments
It’s that people like him take the right TOO seriously.
They examine right-wing beliefs as an extension of valid policy objections, rather than almost entirely arising from the right giving people permission to indulge in inchoate resentments
Real pattern that Klein doesn't take the right seriously, but what is it? Why does this keep happening? Does he agree with them because he's friendly with them, does he not understand their power or how they work, or is he playing dumb for some reason. (or is he dumb?)
Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized.
It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.
It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.
August 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
It’s not that Klein doesn’t take the right seriously.
It’s that people like him take the right TOO seriously.
They examine right-wing beliefs as an extension of valid policy objections, rather than almost entirely arising from the right giving people permission to indulge in inchoate resentments
It’s that people like him take the right TOO seriously.
They examine right-wing beliefs as an extension of valid policy objections, rather than almost entirely arising from the right giving people permission to indulge in inchoate resentments
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The Republican Party is filled to the brim with deviant, malformed sex pests & predators. People really ought to talk about it more.
The recently selected chair of a North Carolina county Board of Elections was charged for allegedly drugging ice cream from Dairy Queen with MDMA and Cocaine and giving them to his two grandchildren
NC county elections chair accused of putting cocaine, MDMA in granddaughters' ice cream
The chairman of the Surry County Board of Elections was charged after Wilmington police said they found evidence he placed illegal narcotics in his granddaughters' ice cream.
www.wral.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The Republican Party is filled to the brim with deviant, malformed sex pests & predators. People really ought to talk about it more.
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Honestly one of the most disgraceful pieces I’ve ever read.
They’re not making the slightest pretense of doing anything but weaponizing a federal agency against Trump’s enemies, and the New York Times’ response is “Well played, sire!”
August 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Honestly one of the most disgraceful pieces I’ve ever read.
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Actual human communication is dramatically more complicated that. Democrats have, without exaggeration, driven American democracy into a wall by outsourcing their brains to this class of hucksters, who pretend to insight but who have never successfully changed the public narrative on anything.
August 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Actual human communication is dramatically more complicated that. Democrats have, without exaggeration, driven American democracy into a wall by outsourcing their brains to this class of hucksters, who pretend to insight but who have never successfully changed the public narrative on anything.