yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard?
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...
i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people
“You’ve got a fear in me…I will let go my fear.”
shorter ny times: its our job to kneecap progressive democrats
all this stuff makes much more sense if you understand “anti wokeness” as a general backlash to elite accountability more generally, even if you have criticisms of left wing egalitarianism bsky.app/profile/kevi...
As an aside: the most influential Dem consultants all believe the best electoral strategy is to adopt a hostile posture towards the Dem base in the hopes that might convince this person to vote for Dems.
They get really mad if you say that won't do anything except depress lean-Dem turnout.
i wasn’t sure if they did this because she’s female or brown or progressive and then i realized the answer is “yes”
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
With more Leon Botstein/Bard connections in the Epstein files, I’m thinking about Sarah Gerard’s Carrie Carolyn Coco, which I reviewed for WaPo in 2014. Gerard contextualizes the killing of her friend Carolyn Bush within the larger culture of misogyny at Bard. (gift link: wapo.st/4arzzww)
another edition of our favorite game: what liberal media?
hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
#MeToo didn’t go far enough, actually
Ms. Omar, visibly shaken after the assault, insisted to her staff and security that she would continue. She asked for a napkin and told them: "Just give me 10 minutes. I beg you. Please don't let them have the show." Ms. Omar then turned the crowd. "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand," she said. "We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us." Someone in the crowd later thanked Ms. Omar for staying and continuing after the assault, which had shaken not only her but the entire room. "I learned at a young age you don't give in to threats," Ms. Omar said.
Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
Tweet from Columbia Jewish Alumni Association: "Maybe if Mamdani had grown up in NYC and not Uganda, he'd know that snow days are a cherished part of American childhood"
I think it's really bad that the group that claims to speak for Jews at Columbia University is so grossly xenophobic.
Also - Mamdani did grow up in NYC.
“And therefore, because of this failure, I will resign the immense public trust placed in me by the people of Long Island,” he didn’t add.
part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
man the stuff i am seeing on IG from
the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
Imagine going to this screening on a night like this one. The blood of an American civilian runs on a Minneapolis street. These people have no shame.
Fuck Tim Cook. He’s a Nazi.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:
“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.
This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
also when mamdani says affordability he means "your bus should be free and your rent shouldn't be allowed to go up" and when schumer says affordability he means "there should be a means tested tax credit you can get by mailing in the upcs from your cereal boxes"
school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
The world’s most surveilled, policed, and incarcerating country and we still get people saying we have to pay these guys to keep us safe which should really make you wonder what all that surveilling, policing, and incarcerating is for.
