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‘Perhaps it’s time for all of us to face up to what the victims of empire and colonisation have known all along: for generations, humanity’s hopes for a better future have been built on a gross distortion of history.’
David Wengrow on ‘rules-based’ order, from the blog
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
David Wengrow on ‘rules-based’ order, from the blog
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
David Wengrow | Against the Grotian Tradition
The World Economic Forum in Davos is ending with talk of a rupture in world affairs, a collapse of international law, a...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 4:05 PM
‘Perhaps it’s time for all of us to face up to what the victims of empire and colonisation have known all along: for generations, humanity’s hopes for a better future have been built on a gross distortion of history.’
David Wengrow on ‘rules-based’ order, from the blog
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
David Wengrow on ‘rules-based’ order, from the blog
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
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I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
I agree that we can’t make Alex Pretti a Benedictine monk because that’s a trap, but we can talk about the good things we did because people will see and hear them and think “I do those things too”
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
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USA Hockey quietly updated their policies suspending their Transgender Athletes Eligibility Policy and banning trans hockey players from many teams and programs
More: thehockeynews.com/womens/other...
More: thehockeynews.com/womens/other...
USA Hockey Bans Transgender Athletes From Many Teams And Programs
USA Hockey recently approved a new Participant Eligibility Policy, which included a ban against transgender athletes from all programs "restricted by sex" in the United States and suspension of their ...
thehockeynews.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:47 PM
USA Hockey quietly updated their policies suspending their Transgender Athletes Eligibility Policy and banning trans hockey players from many teams and programs
More: thehockeynews.com/womens/other...
More: thehockeynews.com/womens/other...
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Harrison Browne: “USA hockey has quietly barred trans people from participating in hockey safely. Myself included.
The policy stipulates that sex assigned at birth is the eligibility to be followed by ALL leagues. Even recreational adult leagues (BEER LEAGUES).”
The policy stipulates that sex assigned at birth is the eligibility to be followed by ALL leagues. Even recreational adult leagues (BEER LEAGUES).”
January 23, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Harrison Browne: “USA hockey has quietly barred trans people from participating in hockey safely. Myself included.
The policy stipulates that sex assigned at birth is the eligibility to be followed by ALL leagues. Even recreational adult leagues (BEER LEAGUES).”
The policy stipulates that sex assigned at birth is the eligibility to be followed by ALL leagues. Even recreational adult leagues (BEER LEAGUES).”
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I talk to MAGA voters a lot. They are open and honest about supporting mass deportation. They think it's a good thing, and they support the mission of ICE.
The language they use to justify it and to excuse the horrors, is *exactly* the same language that centrist Dems use to justify US policing.
The language they use to justify it and to excuse the horrors, is *exactly* the same language that centrist Dems use to justify US policing.
When was the last time you talked to a Trump supporter about how happy they are about all this? I experienced this the other day, and the advantage they have is how morbidly stunning their alternative reality is. They hate being called Nazis, yet refuse to see why violent terror forces are wrong.
January 25, 2026 at 4:51 AM
I talk to MAGA voters a lot. They are open and honest about supporting mass deportation. They think it's a good thing, and they support the mission of ICE.
The language they use to justify it and to excuse the horrors, is *exactly* the same language that centrist Dems use to justify US policing.
The language they use to justify it and to excuse the horrors, is *exactly* the same language that centrist Dems use to justify US policing.
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U.S. Catholic bishops recently banned trans care throughout the church's sprawling healthcare systems.
@davidforbes.bsky.social delves into how this fits the institution's long history of hatred and abuse, a direction that has not changed despite its recent p.r. shifts.
It's time to fight back...
@davidforbes.bsky.social delves into how this fits the institution's long history of hatred and abuse, a direction that has not changed despite its recent p.r. shifts.
It's time to fight back...
U.S. Catholic Bishops Launch Attack on Trans Healthcare; It’s Time To Fight Back
While headlines were giving the Catholic church hierarchy plaudits for symbolic gestures in support of immigrants and a papal lunch with trans people, American bishops passed a major ban on trans heal...
transnews.network
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
U.S. Catholic bishops recently banned trans care throughout the church's sprawling healthcare systems.
@davidforbes.bsky.social delves into how this fits the institution's long history of hatred and abuse, a direction that has not changed despite its recent p.r. shifts.
It's time to fight back...
@davidforbes.bsky.social delves into how this fits the institution's long history of hatred and abuse, a direction that has not changed despite its recent p.r. shifts.
It's time to fight back...
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“They only use genAI for internal use”
“It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”
“It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”
December 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“They only use genAI for internal use”
“It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”
“It’s just for generating some ideas, it’s not even really more efficient”