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"are Southern whites more racist than other American whites" is like the most tested question of all time in American history and the answer is yes extremely so
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"are Southern whites more racist than other American whites" is like the most tested question of all time in American history and the answer is yes extremely so
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up to the Civil War the South was an internal Cold War with the North that frequently became violent well before 1861. Its voracious need for slaves was a prominent contributor to early US imperialism in foreign policy....
I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
up to the Civil War the South was an internal Cold War with the North that frequently became violent well before 1861. Its voracious need for slaves was a prominent contributor to early US imperialism in foreign policy....
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Put differently: If you look at a group of voters with the same education, their level of racial resentment strongly predicts their vote choice. But in a group with the same level of racial resentment, educational attainment does not allow for a strong prediction of their politics.
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Put differently: If you look at a group of voters with the same education, their level of racial resentment strongly predicts their vote choice. But in a group with the same level of racial resentment, educational attainment does not allow for a strong prediction of their politics.
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I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I get why it happens but goddamn do I wish anything could hit as hard on the timeline as something that sucks that everyone hates written by or about the worst person you know. I wish something good or interesting was able to get anywhere near the traction some shit that sucks does.
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NEW: Chi Ossé, an ally of Mamdani, has filed paperwork to challenge Jeffries from the left.
Chi Ossé files paperwork to challenge Hakeem Jeffries from the left
The NYC City Council member said in a statement that Democratic leadership is "failing to effectively fight back against Donald Trump."
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November 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
NEW: Chi Ossé, an ally of Mamdani, has filed paperwork to challenge Jeffries from the left.
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"sympathy for some of the GOP's voters but contempt for their elected and appointed leaders" is the proper position for dem electeds, and instead we get "sympathy for GOP elected and appointed leaders, but contempt for ~Dem~ voters" it's truly insane fuck all these assholes
November 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"sympathy for some of the GOP's voters but contempt for their elected and appointed leaders" is the proper position for dem electeds, and instead we get "sympathy for GOP elected and appointed leaders, but contempt for ~Dem~ voters" it's truly insane fuck all these assholes
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"There are about a thousand of us" is devastating.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
"There are about a thousand of us" is devastating.
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I consider myself a prison abolitionist despite the very real and material challenges of that position. It's not a practical one day-to-day policy slate, but an anchor on a longer-term project not possible in the current context, contingent on social changes that are wildly unlikely in my lifetime.
I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.
"What about [form of abuse that is mostly de facto decriminalised right now anyway]?"
I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?
I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I consider myself a prison abolitionist despite the very real and material challenges of that position. It's not a practical one day-to-day policy slate, but an anchor on a longer-term project not possible in the current context, contingent on social changes that are wildly unlikely in my lifetime.
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at one point he sends an email which is just, explicitly, "I am going to extort sex from a junior colleague whom I explicitly know does not want to have sex with me, in exchange for career help."
larry summers is genuinely, deeply misogynist in a way which is not even captured by his public contempt for women
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
at one point he sends an email which is just, explicitly, "I am going to extort sex from a junior colleague whom I explicitly know does not want to have sex with me, in exchange for career help."
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"I'm sorry."
github.com/felixriesebe...
github.com/felixriesebe...
November 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"I'm sorry."
github.com/felixriesebe...
github.com/felixriesebe...
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Watching people pour through the released Epstein files and just thinking how much better things would be if reputible, responsible, morally centered journalists had been fully engaged with the Epstein story from the beginning.
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Watching people pour through the released Epstein files and just thinking how much better things would be if reputible, responsible, morally centered journalists had been fully engaged with the Epstein story from the beginning.
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This is, quite literally, the concluding chapter from years of vice signaling as politics. There is no better evidence for how putting Trump, a charlatan and moral void, at the center of our politics for a decade has resulted in the literal rotting of the soul and character this nation.
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
This is, quite literally, the concluding chapter from years of vice signaling as politics. There is no better evidence for how putting Trump, a charlatan and moral void, at the center of our politics for a decade has resulted in the literal rotting of the soul and character this nation.
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it was corrosive and cancerous to the body politic in a way that even GWB winning fair and square wouldn’t have been
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM
it was corrosive and cancerous to the body politic in a way that even GWB winning fair and square wouldn’t have been
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bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
bush v gore is the hinge upon which basically everything awful from the last quarter century swings on
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It really was like tracer dye running through our institutions. I remember my impression of the Democratic Party changing overnight when they decided the most important thing was maintaining the credibility of the lawless court.
i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It really was like tracer dye running through our institutions. I remember my impression of the Democratic Party changing overnight when they decided the most important thing was maintaining the credibility of the lawless court.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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It’s wild being an atheist while all four horsemen are running the government
October 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It’s wild being an atheist while all four horsemen are running the government
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“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. …There will always be one more thing.”
Imagine the things we could do with our time if we didn’t have to do this bsky.app/profile/chan...
I did my job. And then I did a job that never should have been my responsibility afterwards, sending emails and having meetings about how this was allowed to happen in the first place. Other women scholars had to spend their time explaining to Aspen leadership why this was not ok.
November 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. …There will always be one more thing.”