“Trans women in sports” isn’t a material problem with a range of solutions running from liberal to conservative. It’s a moral panic engineered by the right, and giving ground only makes the purveyors of the panic more powerful. “Immigrant crime” is the same way.

“Trans women in sports” isn’t a material problem with a range of solutions running from liberal to conservative. It’s a moral panic engineered by the right, and giving ground only makes the purveyors of the panic more powerful. “Immigrant crime” is the same way.

Yes! I think that the fact that the rich actors in SAG and their broke peers have aligned interests despite their disparate circumstances is an important and illustrative truth.

To be clear I mean that the rich actors in SAG *and the broke actors in SAG* have aligned interests. Not that all the actors in SAG are rich.

Yes! I think that the fact that the rich actors in SAG and their broke peers have aligned interests despite their disparate circumstances is an important and illustrative truth.

Turns out the U.S. contained just as many contradictions in the 20th century as it does today lol.

AI as speculative exercise about the nature of sentience and AI as allegory for the other are both piss-poor frameworks to be applying to the present moment.

“Has anyone thought about what the steam loom thinks about-“

Shut the fuck up!

W/ apologies to Asimov and co., 20th century sci-fi seems to have turned a great number of ordinary nerds into credulous marks for Silicon Valley horseshit.

I doubt he’d admit it, but it does seem like Klein thinks the Black political tradition is fundamentally at odds with his idea of liberalism.

The frustrating thing is that Coates kept saying “we have a framework for how to think about this moment” and Klein seemed resolutely against drawing any lessons.

who can forget our favorite song, talk nicely to the boer

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

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So this two-person shop has become a load-bearing element of Chicago's coverage of what's happening with the ICE raids. The least you can do is support em: unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

It is absolutely vital that no one ever be let off the hook for any of this.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Makes me feel ever so slightly optimistic about our prospects. Fellas, is it wise to build an entire movement out of freaks who are loyal because they’re too incompetent and personally odious to access the halls of power without your aura of protection? Also you’re old and going to die soon.

“many are saying that I crushed it, actually”

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

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