A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west
New research shows how incentives in the modern media ecosystem help explain rising division and negativity
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.
My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...
“Proper” and “improper” syntax and grammar are real markers of class divides. But those divides are less important than the one between those who want to communicate with people, and those who want to communicate their own superiority.
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“Proper” and “improper” syntax and grammar are real markers of class divides. But those divides are less important than the one between those who want to communicate with people, and those who want to communicate their own superiority.
“When accounts online call a long-time pro-Palestine organizer like Zohran a “Liberal Zionist,” it doesn’t just reek of absurdity — it smells of foul play…it does the work of hasbara and empire: it divides and conquers and sucks out hope.”
saharhabibghazi.substack.com/p/not-every-...
saharhabibghazi.substack.com/p/not-every-...
Not Every Critique of Zohran Is Legit — A Guide to Kill-Joys
Notes on hasbara, anarchism, and genuine critique.
saharhabibghazi.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“When accounts online call a long-time pro-Palestine organizer like Zohran a “Liberal Zionist,” it doesn’t just reek of absurdity — it smells of foul play…it does the work of hasbara and empire: it divides and conquers and sucks out hope.”
saharhabibghazi.substack.com/p/not-every-...
saharhabibghazi.substack.com/p/not-every-...
🎵life is a highway
it divides and destroys minority neighborhoods
it divides and destroys minority neighborhoods
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🎵life is a highway
it divides and destroys minority neighborhoods
it divides and destroys minority neighborhoods
Imagine being such a loser that your loserdom is now international news. This is yet another step in the humiliation ritual that is the Conservative Party
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Imagine being such a loser that your loserdom is now international news. This is yet another step in the humiliation ritual that is the Conservative Party
I continue to think one of the biggest divides on this site is between people who understand that the last time we had a good, relatively easy way out of all this was Nov 5, 2024, and people who still don’t.
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I continue to think one of the biggest divides on this site is between people who understand that the last time we had a good, relatively easy way out of all this was Nov 5, 2024, and people who still don’t.
As his party divides sharply over whether to end the government shutdown, Fetterman appears to be offering an olive branch to critics by stating a position on which they share common ground.
In an emotional excerpt from his new book, Sen. John Fetterman said he should have dropped out of his 2022 senatorial race while severely battling depression after his stroke.
John Fetterman said he ‘should have quit’ Senate bid in an excerpt from his new book
John Fetterman gave an emotional look into his struggle with depression in an excerpt of his new book Unfettered.
www.inquirer.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
As his party divides sharply over whether to end the government shutdown, Fetterman appears to be offering an olive branch to critics by stating a position on which they share common ground.
"What unites us is far greater than what divides us."
- 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘭-𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘢
- 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘭-𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘢
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"What unites us is far greater than what divides us."
- 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘭-𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘢
- 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘭-𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘢
I am in NH and this is 100% BS.
So the answer is "yes". This divides the democratic party. Just ask any progressive.
So the answer is "yes". This divides the democratic party. Just ask any progressive.
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I am in NH and this is 100% BS.
So the answer is "yes". This divides the democratic party. Just ask any progressive.
So the answer is "yes". This divides the democratic party. Just ask any progressive.
And night divides the day,
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
And night divides the day,
there is no political proposal that more divides the tiny percentage of us who live and breathe politics and literally *everyone else* than politician salaries
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
there is no political proposal that more divides the tiny percentage of us who live and breathe politics and literally *everyone else* than politician salaries
So I ask- how do we begin to turn this craziness around? Stop being mad for decisions made to open the government that divides us. We need leaders to step up to make changes. This is not party politics.
People are suffering. Rise above 💙
People are suffering. Rise above 💙
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
So I ask- how do we begin to turn this craziness around? Stop being mad for decisions made to open the government that divides us. We need leaders to step up to make changes. This is not party politics.
People are suffering. Rise above 💙
People are suffering. Rise above 💙
He divides the world into “takers and makers” and then accuses a person of having a zero-sum mindset.
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
He divides the world into “takers and makers” and then accuses a person of having a zero-sum mindset.
"Labour risks a migration politics that divides society into the fully entitled and the permanently probationary. In this hierarchical system of belonging, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals."
theconversation.com/labours-plan...
theconversation.com/labours-plan...
Labour’s plan for migrants to ‘earn’ permanent residency turns belonging into an endless exam
In this hierarchical system, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals.
theconversation.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Labour risks a migration politics that divides society into the fully entitled and the permanently probationary. In this hierarchical system of belonging, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals."
theconversation.com/labours-plan...
theconversation.com/labours-plan...
A war divides their people
November 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A war divides their people
There is more that unites us, than divides us
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
There is more that unites us, than divides us
Yeah, I just don't think the extremes of internet Discourse/yelling on the subject are going to represent actual political divides
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yeah, I just don't think the extremes of internet Discourse/yelling on the subject are going to represent actual political divides
This is at Arizona State University, and in the five or six years I've taught it, the course almost always evenly divides between creative writing majors and non-majors.
November 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is at Arizona State University, and in the five or six years I've taught it, the course almost always evenly divides between creative writing majors and non-majors.
I mean I thought the subsidies were a stupid ask but I was at least partially wrong! whether or not it was the best possible ask Democrats were actually making it work as an ask that divides and inflicts political damage on the GOP. until they randomly decided to give up because...(???)
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I mean I thought the subsidies were a stupid ask but I was at least partially wrong! whether or not it was the best possible ask Democrats were actually making it work as an ask that divides and inflicts political damage on the GOP. until they randomly decided to give up because...(???)
"There is so much more that unites us as Virginians and as Americans than divides us. And I know in my heart that we can unite for Virginia's future and we can set an example for the rest of the nation."
Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger
@abigailspanberger.com
Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger
@abigailspanberger.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"There is so much more that unites us as Virginians and as Americans than divides us. And I know in my heart that we can unite for Virginia's future and we can set an example for the rest of the nation."
Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger
@abigailspanberger.com
Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger
@abigailspanberger.com
For any who think about both online child safety and polarization in the U.S. This report from More in Common shows strong cross-partisan support for digital protections - and suggests that it's an issue that help bridge divides.
moreincommonus.com/publication/...
moreincommonus.com/publication/...
November 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
For any who think about both online child safety and polarization in the U.S. This report from More in Common shows strong cross-partisan support for digital protections - and suggests that it's an issue that help bridge divides.
moreincommonus.com/publication/...
moreincommonus.com/publication/...
One of the most striking things about this moment is that the most meaningful divides are not between liberalism and leftism, but between those who take fascism seriously as *the* threat, and those who don't.
It explains the bordellos of strange bedfellows we're now seeing.
It explains the bordellos of strange bedfellows we're now seeing.
Bill Kristol sees conflict as a means to achieve political goals. The Professional Take Havers see conflict as the political goal.
The difference between how @thebulwark.bsky.social approaches "trans issues" and how the prestige mainstream intelligentsia/punditocracy does is fascinating, and I really think a lot of it comes down to the difference in how people's worldviews were shaped and the milieu they've been marinating in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
One of the most striking things about this moment is that the most meaningful divides are not between liberalism and leftism, but between those who take fascism seriously as *the* threat, and those who don't.
It explains the bordellos of strange bedfellows we're now seeing.
It explains the bordellos of strange bedfellows we're now seeing.
In a fear-mongering hit piece, the Washington Post Editorial Board calls the newly elected NYC mayor “Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani”:
November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
In a fear-mongering hit piece, the Washington Post Editorial Board calls the newly elected NYC mayor “Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani”:
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM