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thinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"
January 3, 2026 at 3:22 PM
thinking about how, in the Russian history elective I took in HS, every time a tsar was facing domestic weakness the teacher would turn to the assembled students and ask "so what is it time for?" and we would chant "stunning territorial annexation!" and she would respond "well, DUH, girls"
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Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.
February 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Maybe the most illustrative sentence about what’s going on that I’ve read in weeks.
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The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.
February 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.
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"The beloved bard of Black America’s struggle against police violence," writes @dancharnas.bsky.social, "will take a stage erected by a partnership that effectively sidelined Mr. Kaepernick. Anything that he does or doesn’t do on that stage will either be undermined or underlined by this history."
Opinion | Kendrick Lamar Can’t Save the World. Why Do We Expect Him To?
Now that he’s performing at the Super Bowl, it seems like he’s inherited a no-win situation for all the conflicted expectations that await him.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
"The beloved bard of Black America’s struggle against police violence," writes @dancharnas.bsky.social, "will take a stage erected by a partnership that effectively sidelined Mr. Kaepernick. Anything that he does or doesn’t do on that stage will either be undermined or underlined by this history."
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As a listener of both this and Southlake, can confirm: he ain’t lyin’.
Not sure we intended it, but if you go back and listen to “Grapevine,” it plays like a preview of what’s happening today
The embrace of Christian nationalism, the making of schools into battlegrounds, the relentless attacks on transgender people
It’s all in here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
The embrace of Christian nationalism, the making of schools into battlegrounds, the relentless attacks on transgender people
It’s all in here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
Grapevine
News Podcast · 8 Episodes · Semiweekly Series
podcasts.apple.com
January 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
As a listener of both this and Southlake, can confirm: he ain’t lyin’.
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“Biden will now be remembered as the champion of the working class who lost the support of the working class for his party,” writes Peter Coy.
Opinion | The Tragedy of Joe Biden
He didn’t get the credit he deserved on the economy.
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“Biden will now be remembered as the champion of the working class who lost the support of the working class for his party,” writes Peter Coy.
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Just try on for size: "I cook because I like it."
Or "I don't cook, because I'd rather spend that time playing a video game."
Maybe not every personal preference is about your moral superiority to everyone else on social media.
Or "I don't cook, because I'd rather spend that time playing a video game."
Maybe not every personal preference is about your moral superiority to everyone else on social media.
January 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Just try on for size: "I cook because I like it."
Or "I don't cook, because I'd rather spend that time playing a video game."
Maybe not every personal preference is about your moral superiority to everyone else on social media.
Or "I don't cook, because I'd rather spend that time playing a video game."
Maybe not every personal preference is about your moral superiority to everyone else on social media.
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This is being turned into inter-generational war, but really, I think the social pathology here is about social media. There's something about social media that causes people to try to spin basic human flaws (too lazy too cook) as if they're superheroic feats of superior logic.
as someone on the zoomer/millennial boundary i feel there's a legit problem with people not knowing how to purchase groceries
January 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is being turned into inter-generational war, but really, I think the social pathology here is about social media. There's something about social media that causes people to try to spin basic human flaws (too lazy too cook) as if they're superheroic feats of superior logic.
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Obama wins 53% of the popular vote and a statute that passed with a Senate supermajority is treated as some kind of illegitimate abuse of the legislative process. Trump wins 49% of the popular vote and Democrats gotta hand it to any ludicrously unqualified crank he nominates to a cabinet position
this urge to launder rfk jr. as “just a guy who is right about a few things” is such a perfect example of how liberals are people who won’t take their own side in a fight
January 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Obama wins 53% of the popular vote and a statute that passed with a Senate supermajority is treated as some kind of illegitimate abuse of the legislative process. Trump wins 49% of the popular vote and Democrats gotta hand it to any ludicrously unqualified crank he nominates to a cabinet position
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people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization
November 21, 2024 at 5:17 PM
people who have never experienced open racism — or open bigotry of any sort — do not appreciate the way it can be psychologically destabilizing. and on the main, it actually isn’t healthy to be so resilient and thick-skinned that you don’t react to slurs and dehumanization
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It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety
November 21, 2024 at 6:34 PM
It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety
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Trump’s campaign is almost entirely identity politics and it’s extremely effective!
November 2, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Trump’s campaign is almost entirely identity politics and it’s extremely effective!
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these people hate children and want them to suffer. they target trans kids because they think can get away with it but they’ll destroy any child’s life if they believe it will serve some greater good www.yahoo.com/news/mom-tra...
Mom of transgender girl athlete says Florida's investigation has destroyed her daughter's life
A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her transgender daughter to play girls high school volleyball assailed those who outed her child, saying Tuesday that the ensuing ...
www.yahoo.com
June 20, 2024 at 12:47 AM
these people hate children and want them to suffer. they target trans kids because they think can get away with it but they’ll destroy any child’s life if they believe it will serve some greater good www.yahoo.com/news/mom-tra...
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even after all these years i still don’t really understand what trump supporters see when they look at trump www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/u...
Politics Without Trump? His Youngest Fans Barely Remember It.
Democrats call Donald J. Trump dangerous. Republicans see him as revolutionary. For young Trump voters, he is just normal.
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2024 at 12:17 AM
even after all these years i still don’t really understand what trump supporters see when they look at trump www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/u...
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i think there’s a decent chance that this supreme court elevates the old idea that the “right” of states to exercise broad police powers trumps the rights of actual human beings to live and exercise their freedoms slate.com/news-and-pol...
Why the EMTALA SCOTUS Case Is One of the Most Infuriating Since Dobbs
This isn’t limiting the number of abortions. It’s just making the process worse.
slate.com
April 24, 2024 at 4:11 PM
i think there’s a decent chance that this supreme court elevates the old idea that the “right” of states to exercise broad police powers trumps the rights of actual human beings to live and exercise their freedoms slate.com/news-and-pol...
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In fairness what some of those people actually mean by this is “if you prosecute trump we will kill you,” but this us also a small group of people bsky.app/profile/osit...
April 24, 2024 at 3:07 AM
In fairness what some of those people actually mean by this is “if you prosecute trump we will kill you,” but this us also a small group of people bsky.app/profile/osit...
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I love this kind of issue because it’s one of those things where it makes clear right wing “freedom” talk is just about church and capital imposing themselves on everyone bsky.app/profile/mmas...
What an unsurprising turn of events that a lawsuit was filed within minutes of the FTC announcing the non-compete rule. And it was filed in the northern district of Texas. Of course.
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April 24, 2024 at 3:16 AM
I love this kind of issue because it’s one of those things where it makes clear right wing “freedom” talk is just about church and capital imposing themselves on everyone bsky.app/profile/mmas...
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Exceptionally warm March weather propelled Washington’s cherry blossoms to their second-earliest peak bloom in more than a century of records Sunday, reflecting the growing influence of human-caused climate change on the famed trees.
Cherry blossoms hit near-record early peak, a sign of climate change
Abnormally warm weather is speeding up the peak bloom of Washington’s famed cherry trees.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 17, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Exceptionally warm March weather propelled Washington’s cherry blossoms to their second-earliest peak bloom in more than a century of records Sunday, reflecting the growing influence of human-caused climate change on the famed trees.
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While in Boston in 1979, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey explained influence of Civil Rights movement on Irish Republicanism.
"There is nothing sadder to people struggling against oppression in Ireland to look towards Boston and see our people.. being used to oppress the black people of this city.."
"There is nothing sadder to people struggling against oppression in Ireland to look towards Boston and see our people.. being used to oppress the black people of this city.."
Bernadette Devlin Rejects Anti-Black Racism
“In fact the whole inspiration for our civil rights movement ten years ago came from the black movement of America.”1979: Bernadette Devlin #McAliskey explai...
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March 17, 2024 at 6:55 PM
While in Boston in 1979, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey explained influence of Civil Rights movement on Irish Republicanism.
"There is nothing sadder to people struggling against oppression in Ireland to look towards Boston and see our people.. being used to oppress the black people of this city.."
"There is nothing sadder to people struggling against oppression in Ireland to look towards Boston and see our people.. being used to oppress the black people of this city.."
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for all the navel-gazing arguments about whether Trump was a fascist the first time around, Trump 2024 is increasingly hewing closer to "standard" fascist rhetoric and aesthetics
March 17, 2024 at 10:03 PM
for all the navel-gazing arguments about whether Trump was a fascist the first time around, Trump 2024 is increasingly hewing closer to "standard" fascist rhetoric and aesthetics
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eg the "poisoning the blood" rhetoric, which is more straightforwardly eliminationist. last time around he was missing the redemptive violence and cult of youth aspects, but J6 fills the role of the first and (imo) the far-right tilt in Silicon Valley is coming to fulfill the latter
for all the navel-gazing arguments about whether Trump was a fascist the first time around, Trump 2024 is increasingly hewing closer to "standard" fascist rhetoric and aesthetics
March 17, 2024 at 10:04 PM
eg the "poisoning the blood" rhetoric, which is more straightforwardly eliminationist. last time around he was missing the redemptive violence and cult of youth aspects, but J6 fills the role of the first and (imo) the far-right tilt in Silicon Valley is coming to fulfill the latter
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Jacob is right but the reason it’s phrased this way is that conservatives are not allowed to acknowledge something *Trump* said was bad because he is infallible, so the reasoning has to be, “the libs will use this against you,” not “why are you saying monstrous things” bsky.app/profile/jaco...
He says things that are racist and dehumanizing, things that exclude some people from the universe of those entitled to respect, human rights, minimal decency.
Hitler also said such things.
They're not bad *because* Hitler said them.
That he said them is itself one of the reasons Hitler was bad!
Hitler also said such things.
They're not bad *because* Hitler said them.
That he said them is itself one of the reasons Hitler was bad!
March 17, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Jacob is right but the reason it’s phrased this way is that conservatives are not allowed to acknowledge something *Trump* said was bad because he is infallible, so the reasoning has to be, “the libs will use this against you,” not “why are you saying monstrous things” bsky.app/profile/jaco...
Aw shit, here we go again.
February 29, 2024 at 1:32 AM
Aw shit, here we go again.