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i do find it a fascinating assumption rightwingers are making that they should be able to walk into any daycare center and observe random peoples children whenever they want
December 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
i do find it a fascinating assumption rightwingers are making that they should be able to walk into any daycare center and observe random peoples children whenever they want
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International aid organizations are under absolutely no obligation whatsoever, legally or morally, to provide information about their workers in a territory that Israel has no sovereignty over or any right to occupy.
If you read the articles, they are blocking 15% of the NGOs until they comply with vetting the way all the other NGOs did. Let’s all use what God and your mama gave you: your brain, common sense and the desire to share truth.
December 31, 2025 at 5:51 AM
International aid organizations are under absolutely no obligation whatsoever, legally or morally, to provide information about their workers in a territory that Israel has no sovereignty over or any right to occupy.
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December 31, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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🎥 Mouin Rabbani says a 2-state solution is “attainable” but no longer “desirable.”
“Reason I say it's undesirable is because I think genocide has consequences. I don't think there should be a diplomatic resolution with a genocidal apartheid regime. I think it should be dismantled rather than...
“Reason I say it's undesirable is because I think genocide has consequences. I don't think there should be a diplomatic resolution with a genocidal apartheid regime. I think it should be dismantled rather than...
December 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🎥 Mouin Rabbani says a 2-state solution is “attainable” but no longer “desirable.”
“Reason I say it's undesirable is because I think genocide has consequences. I don't think there should be a diplomatic resolution with a genocidal apartheid regime. I think it should be dismantled rather than...
“Reason I say it's undesirable is because I think genocide has consequences. I don't think there should be a diplomatic resolution with a genocidal apartheid regime. I think it should be dismantled rather than...
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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
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Amb of Somalia to UN to Representative of Israel, at the UNSC: “To come to this place and lecture us on humanity, genocide, human rights, independence, and democracy—when we know what you are doing on a daily basis—is just an insult.”
December 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Amb of Somalia to UN to Representative of Israel, at the UNSC: “To come to this place and lecture us on humanity, genocide, human rights, independence, and democracy—when we know what you are doing on a daily basis—is just an insult.”
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People lining up to celebrate MTG or other GOP castoffs despite the damage they’ve done to vulnerable groups and democracy just shows how much they desperately only want their lives to remain the same and are more than fine sacrificing anyone and everything to get there.
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
People lining up to celebrate MTG or other GOP castoffs despite the damage they’ve done to vulnerable groups and democracy just shows how much they desperately only want their lives to remain the same and are more than fine sacrificing anyone and everything to get there.
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Matt Taibbi is someone who deserves to get legal advice from Caitlin Flanagan.
a lot of dumb dumbs at the Atlantic, but man, Caitlin Flanagan is on another level
December 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Matt Taibbi is someone who deserves to get legal advice from Caitlin Flanagan.
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Written by the father of a trans girl…
“When society tries to police and exclude trans girls, it ends up policing all girls.
Because transmisogyny does not just say, “Trans girls aren’t real girls.” It also says, “There is only one correct way to be a girl.””
“When society tries to police and exclude trans girls, it ends up policing all girls.
Because transmisogyny does not just say, “Trans girls aren’t real girls.” It also says, “There is only one correct way to be a girl.””
Why the War on Trans Girls Is a War on Girlhood
Excluding trans girls is controlling who can be girls, and who can't, further dividing children and causing harm
medium.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Written by the father of a trans girl…
“When society tries to police and exclude trans girls, it ends up policing all girls.
Because transmisogyny does not just say, “Trans girls aren’t real girls.” It also says, “There is only one correct way to be a girl.””
“When society tries to police and exclude trans girls, it ends up policing all girls.
Because transmisogyny does not just say, “Trans girls aren’t real girls.” It also says, “There is only one correct way to be a girl.””
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Over the past decade it's been fascinating watching Pinker realize that the idiots he's associating with are going to fuck up his life just a minute too late: Epstein, the "IDW," the "War on Science" book, this. There's something poetic about it. What rake will he step on next
Bari Weiss' first outing was such a raging success (read: utter humiliation) that she's making it a series with the likes of JD Vance, Ross Douthat, and Steven Pinker and a debate over whether feminism is bad. @bankofamerica.bsky.social is sponsoring; time to leave.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
CBS News Says Bari Weiss’ Town Halls Will Continue, With Sponsor, Despite Rough Start
CBS News will keep airing town halls and debates under the aegis of editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, despite lackluster ratings and ad support in her debut with Erika Kirk.
variety.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Over the past decade it's been fascinating watching Pinker realize that the idiots he's associating with are going to fuck up his life just a minute too late: Epstein, the "IDW," the "War on Science" book, this. There's something poetic about it. What rake will he step on next
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ICYMI bc I made this live pretty late yesterday. I’ve yet to find a single “save the children” social media ban that isn’t just a sneaky way for big corporations to make more money, usually while violating our privacy and making us all less safe.
I wish I were surprised to learn that Australia's ban on social media for kids under 16 was pushed by an ad firm to get the government to stop considering a law that would ban online gambling ads. skepchick.org/2025/12/aust...
Australia’s Social Media Ban is a Win for Gambling Companies
Transcript: Okay, so a huge content warning: this video is going to start out with depressing news, and it’s not going to get any happier by the end. Well, until the obligatory clip of my dog under…
skepchick.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
ICYMI bc I made this live pretty late yesterday. I’ve yet to find a single “save the children” social media ban that isn’t just a sneaky way for big corporations to make more money, usually while violating our privacy and making us all less safe.
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One funny thing about weird hair color is that it drives predators away for at least two years after you grow it out
December 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
One funny thing about weird hair color is that it drives predators away for at least two years after you grow it out
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I love that twitter nazis pretended the left was upset about Clinton being in the files and it turns out not even Clinton cares. I like to think someone had a chat with him and it was like "everyone already knows you're a fucking creep. this is your last chance to look good before you die"
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I love that twitter nazis pretended the left was upset about Clinton being in the files and it turns out not even Clinton cares. I like to think someone had a chat with him and it was like "everyone already knows you're a fucking creep. this is your last chance to look good before you die"
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my life got a lot better when I trained my brain to always read this guy's name as "Billy Pencils." "Oh, Billy Pencils has feelings about menstruation now!" "Old Billy Pencils is up to his old tricks again" etc
at a deep instinctive level they can't recognise popular ideas or take them seriously
December 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
my life got a lot better when I trained my brain to always read this guy's name as "Billy Pencils." "Oh, Billy Pencils has feelings about menstruation now!" "Old Billy Pencils is up to his old tricks again" etc
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We have a big problem: the media and punditry are overrun by people who are driven almost entirely by a desire to appear "openminded" and "contrarian." In order to burnish that image, they seek out conservative takes to endorse, carefully choosing ones that don't seem too MAGA (and thus gauche).
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
We have a big problem: the media and punditry are overrun by people who are driven almost entirely by a desire to appear "openminded" and "contrarian." In order to burnish that image, they seek out conservative takes to endorse, carefully choosing ones that don't seem too MAGA (and thus gauche).
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Every “harsh truth” the Elite want center-left to hear is exactly what right-wing Elite want to say.
Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.
"In Covid's Wake" Part 1: Lyin… - If Books Could Kill - Apple Podcasts
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 06/17/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Every “harsh truth” the Elite want center-left to hear is exactly what right-wing Elite want to say.
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Exactly the same thing trump does where he's obsessed with the notion that everyone has been "very unfair" to him despite succeeding wildly beyond what his intellectual limits would suggest is possible. It's pathological & all-consuming; they won't rest until they get the "We All Love You" prize
it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Exactly the same thing trump does where he's obsessed with the notion that everyone has been "very unfair" to him despite succeeding wildly beyond what his intellectual limits would suggest is possible. It's pathological & all-consuming; they won't rest until they get the "We All Love You" prize
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Love how Chatterton is like "yes Bruenig is right and Savage is wrong but this demonstrably false phenomenon feels true to me."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Love how Chatterton is like "yes Bruenig is right and Savage is wrong but this demonstrably false phenomenon feels true to me."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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So once upon a time, I got savaged on Twitter for saying that all a man in the games industry had to do to end a woman’s employment at the same company was sexually harass her. As soon as it happened, the timer began counting down. (Thread)
"The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school...The principal had doubts they even existed." 1/
And now one girl is expelled for fighting back.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
And now one girl is expelled for fighting back.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. She was the one expelled
A 13-year-old girl at a Louisiana middle school got into a fight with classmates who were sharing AI-generated nude images of her
abcnews.go.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So once upon a time, I got savaged on Twitter for saying that all a man in the games industry had to do to end a woman’s employment at the same company was sexually harass her. As soon as it happened, the timer began counting down. (Thread)
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Why does Trump want Greenland? “National security.”
Why should Trump’s ballroom vanity project proceed? “National security.”
Why is Trump killing the wind energy industry? “National security.”
Why does Trump hate the New York Times? “National security.”
The pattern is ... not subtle.
Why should Trump’s ballroom vanity project proceed? “National security.”
Why is Trump killing the wind energy industry? “National security.”
Why does Trump hate the New York Times? “National security.”
The pattern is ... not subtle.
For the White House, ‘national security’ is becoming the answer to every question
Donald Trump and his team have a go-to tactic intended to shut down debate over their goals. It's not working.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Why does Trump want Greenland? “National security.”
Why should Trump’s ballroom vanity project proceed? “National security.”
Why is Trump killing the wind energy industry? “National security.”
Why does Trump hate the New York Times? “National security.”
The pattern is ... not subtle.
Why should Trump’s ballroom vanity project proceed? “National security.”
Why is Trump killing the wind energy industry? “National security.”
Why does Trump hate the New York Times? “National security.”
The pattern is ... not subtle.
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if you don't play or follow golf (or just don't get why so many people love it) this probably isn't on your radar but it should be understood as both a naked land grab and an attack on a part of DC's black history
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
if you don't play or follow golf (or just don't get why so many people love it) this probably isn't on your radar but it should be understood as both a naked land grab and an attack on a part of DC's black history
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very specific to DC complaint here but when trump is threatening to take over the city's historically significant public golf courses so he can privatize them and make them another getaway for the 1% i don't think going "well maybe they shouldnt be golf courses to begin with" is helpful or realistic
December 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
very specific to DC complaint here but when trump is threatening to take over the city's historically significant public golf courses so he can privatize them and make them another getaway for the 1% i don't think going "well maybe they shouldnt be golf courses to begin with" is helpful or realistic
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This person analyzes American politics for a living
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This person analyzes American politics for a living
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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I'll think I'm used to seeing men wield sexual violence as a tool to reinforce their power, but it still manages to take my breath away. That's how I felt reading Epstein's letter to Larry Nassar about Trump. It's so transparent. So sick and twisted. And it's tolerated by far too many.
December 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I'll think I'm used to seeing men wield sexual violence as a tool to reinforce their power, but it still manages to take my breath away. That's how I felt reading Epstein's letter to Larry Nassar about Trump. It's so transparent. So sick and twisted. And it's tolerated by far too many.
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oh, should link Victor's piece too. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...
A Tent Big Enough for Bigots but Too Small for Critical Race Theory
Like so many of critical race theory's detractors, Matthew Yglesias fails to engage with the actual scholarship.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
oh, should link Victor's piece too. www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...