Western civilization includes Just War Theory and the Laws of Armed Combat.
Those aren't PC niceties, they're the legacy of centuries of philosophy, religion, tradition, and the accumulated lessons of bloody experience.
Hegseth doesn't champion Western civilization, he rejects the civilized part.
I needed that laugh, thanks!
From @perrybaconjr.bsky.social:
"The Democrats are in danger of giving away one of the most important perches in American politics, particularly with a radical Republican like Donald Trump in the White House, and one that they should easily own: the California governorship." trib.al/HUipm6R
No mention of the intense and almost universal pushback they've faced, no mention either that NONE OF THESE PEOPLE IS AN ACTUAL HISTORIAN.
Absolute whitewashing.
Which goes to my point that it's not really abt these ppl. It's about the STRUCTURES that elevate them.
This is what they are doing to NORWEGIANS, y’all — the very immigrants Trump claims to want more of. Imagine what they are doing to everyone else.
“Rowling has made it abundantly clear that she thinks attacking transgender people via the legal system is a worthwhile cause and a good use of her vast personal fortune…there’s no way to watch this show without supporting Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting…”
Fuck — and I cannot stress this enough — off.
Has the NYT ever quoted an “independent” critical of Trump who turned out to be a Democratic Party county chair or some such?
These “mistakes” and “oversights” pretty much only happen in one direction.
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Happy Palm Sunday, y'all! 🌴
And honestly it’s infuriating that people are put in the position of being told they have to vote for Nazi tattoo guy, or Collins will win and D control of the Senate cannot happen. Find and run better candidates, good lord.
Really appreciate this thread Eric! I’ve been saying for ages that the purpose of primaries is to test candidates before the general. Platner has failed the test but people who don’t want Mills just refuse to find someone else. Dems are failing voters by not giving them better choices.
TL;DR, candidates like Platner happen when nobody wants to do the hard thing and run a campaign against an entrenched incumbent
Still, if somehow Platner beats Mills in the primary and then beats Collins, and it’s a big IF, then it is a massive indictment of the national and the Maine Democratic establishment: basically everyone was afraid to challenge Collins and the party had an outdated idea of what is “electable.”
But this comes before Collins, the NRSC and the Senate Leadership Fund drop a money bomb on Maine the way they did to Sherrod Brown, Tim Ryan and Bob Casey. And Lord knows Collins will try and hit Platner for his baggage (and maybe some stuff we don’t know).
FINALLY! A terrific thread on Platner.
The DC and NYC’s elite media crowd/pundits (or hardcore leftists) who want to discount these ultra normies - are doing what the far right always complained about media when cover protests in 60s-80s - media forgetting about “silent majority”
This is the silent majority being visible and loud.
Philadelphia Inquirer front page, 3/29/2026: "No Kings Rallies Spread Message Far and Wide"
NYT front page, 3/29/2026, featuring a lazy and stupid journotorial by GOP hack Jeremy Peters: "Will Primal Scream of 'No Kings' Echo in Voting Booths"
Inquirer 1, NYT 0
The marches had no shortage of skeptics. In Oxford, Miss,, Cass Rutledge, a first-year law student at the University of Mississippi, walked through the No Kings protest and around the town square on Saturday and questioned why people thought Mr. Trump was acting like a king. "He is, you know, a duly elected president who won the popular vote and the electoral college in a landslide," Mr. Rutledge said. "And so I'm a little bit confused on how he's acting differently than any other president." He pointed to the stalemate in Congress over the SAVE America Act, the Republican-driven bill to tighten voter identification and registration rules, which Democrats have called an attempt to suppress turnout based on false claims of voting fraud. Mr. Rutledge said that Mr. Trump was "going through the process" to try to get the legislation passed.
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The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.)
But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.
Early 20th c political cartoon depicting suffragettes as dowdy middle-aged women
In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.
Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest?
Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything."
A short 🧵:
Thank you for making No Kings 3 the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen. #NoKings
@crampell.bsky.social you were speaking yesterday on the Bulwark podcast about what the ask was
Protests are terrific for raising awareness and building connections, but they're only the first step. If you want to follow through, check out this video and link up with your local organizations to do the important work ahead.
Autism is largely caused by combinations of genes, and its true rate in the population has not meaningfully changed. Any environmental influences occur by birth.
Vaccines are good actually.
Disabled people are intentionally underresourced and denied services by eugenicist public policy designed to limit expenses by allowing people to die, even if there's great suffering in the process.
Something I will say is that local media coverage of No Kings is vastly different than national media. I've had issues with some media here in Boston today, but by and large they are accurately capturing the scale of the protests and how significant they are.
Unserious people: We need to hold a general strike immediately!!
Serious people: we need to create community first, sustain it, organize it, push it forward, and then hold a general strike
There are people on this site dramatically underestimating the degree to which many many “Normies” have been radicalized by the second trump era
Are they commies now? No. Is it all super defined by strict ideological commitments? No, they’re normal. But liberal voters are now fucking furious…
