Not writing off the possibility that Vance will start lecturing Church leadership about not being grateful enough or whatever. His Catholicism is about as sincere and well informed as Dasha Nekrova’s.
Like, do you guys remember when we found out that Jia Tolentino’s mother was a human trafficker? And then Tolentino lied about it? Her replies were smothered with peers saying “I’m sorry this is happening to you.” bsky.app/profile/grov...
I’m not sure if many people are fooled. Something more cynical is going on. Several—not all—of her defenders vary by ideology but come from the same profession. That’s my only rationale for why someone like Matt felt compelled to give a smarmy milquetoast defense of her.
A more snobby attitude of mine is how much it bothers me this works. To be frank, Weiss and the Free Press people always seem really obviously to be what they are to me - right wing shills. If anyone is actually fooled by the "I'm just a concerned centrist" schtick they seem incredibly stupid to me.
another thing Weiss does is give other very dull people a vehicle to spout bog-standard right-wing ideas and pretend they're being iconoclasts or innovative.
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
I’m going to be frank. Part of the appeal of BlueSky was never having to hear about Ex-Twitter’s main characters again. I don’t care how much money Bari Weiss makes. I just don’t want to be reminded that she exists.
she's made herself a handmaiden of a movement that loathes everything actually great about western civilization. fascism only cares about 'the west' as a form of racial identity and nothing more
There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...
right, that's the basic thing. the AI bubble is primarily five companies front-funding projected GPU spend to 2027 in 2025 -- and they're funding it out of profits, not debt. if it stops, the economy crashes and investors pick up the cheap profits from the participants over the next three years.
the other thing about "bubble collapse" is that it to the degree it happens it is going to look like "above-trend datacenter spend goes below trend for a while" not "Meta ceases to exist"
she's made herself a handmaiden of a movement that loathes everything actually great about western civilization. fascism only cares about 'the west' as a form of racial identity and nothing more
There’s a lot in Bari Weiss’ 2023 FedSoc speech that merits scrutiny but I think the Times did a disservice by closing with this quote — given what she says immediately after. fedsoc.org/commentary/f...
A lot of the music reviews of Swift are just as bad as her new album. There doesn’t need to be a sophisticated or middle-brow way of critiquing a pile of dog shit.
For instance, this is one of the few good pieces of reportage on Homelessness in the city because it was covered by someone who is actually from there. www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/s...
Had a conversation a while back with some friends. And you can usually tell which NYT articles about LA are good or bad based on who they assign the story to.
This was lazy reporting, and the Times would have done better for its audience exploring why so many Portlanders voted in DSA council. Article includes nothing from these voters. Describing Republicans in Portland as an “endangered species” is a choice. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...
pete buttigieg in particular said outright "if elected president, i will appoint an AG who does not believe the president is above the law." before january 6th.
Donald Trump is invading blue states; this does not seem like a good time to write dystopian fanfiction about an imagined version of the Democratic Party.
lol. Japanese users discovered that we have “Ghost Towns.” The name is a lot cooler than what they actually are: towns that are abandoned. And contemporary Japanese villages and towns have more of those than we do.
