Former Roberts clerk too

Obviously Republicans think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want, but I think this is genuinely just a pathetic attempt at intimidating liptak bsky.app/profile/masn...

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

Palantir's Manifesto Is as Subtle as a MAGA Hat Palantir's 22-point manifesto is nonsense, writes Dave Karpf. But it at least it is short enough to be clarifying, he says.

So much of Silicon Valley has reached the conclusion that there is money to be made from American authoritarianism, writes Dave Karpf. With its ‘manifesto,’ Palantir wants to remind you that it reached that conclusion first, he says.

This is genuinely one of the foundational copes of the modern conservative movement, a stabbed-in-the-back narrative about why the US lost Vietnam

Love that our DOJ has seen fit to take on the role of Chris Crocker for white supremacists: “leave Nazis _alone_!”

This is just horrific. The gender critical movement along with the British press bullied her out of her job at the NHS and now they doxed her after she fled the country and are continuing the harassment and defamation. These people are absolute monsters.

I mean, allow me to suggest the guy who genuinely believes Tim Cook put him in charge of Apple, like a toddler being told he’s driving a boat, probably is going to struggle to navigate the most difficult diplomatic conundrum America has faced in my lifetime, negotiating against a hostile nation.

Ah the classics

Tim Cooked

Famously, science is uninterested in the scientific method.

I know several people who have had the flu this year, and they described it as the sickest they have ever felt. My sister developed pneumonia.

MAGA Rep. Threatened to Call Pam Bondi to Block His Own Arrest Washington police attempted to arrest Representative Cory Mills for alleged assault.

This guy also needs to resign, but MAGA isn't pushing it because it will lose them the last vote they need for a 218 majority in the House.

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Corporate centrists are absolutely obsessed with the idea that defeating fascism is dependent on extremists “coming to their senses” when in reality the people moving away from Trump are becoming more extreme and will radicalize their followers if material conditions aren’t addressed.

The main thing is, Trump does not even understand the concept of winning a conflict because his soupy brain can't get beyond the killing. You just kill a lot of people and then you've won. It takes very little in the way of brainpower to realize that even killing is supposed to be a means to an end

i've got bad news for you alan. 57% of republicans under 50 have a negative opinion of israel

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Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Guys we need to take this super seriously. This is going to be a disaster down ballot for everyone sympathetic to Epstein.

Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”

The hidden power keeping wages low For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality.

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi

New World Screwworm flies are doing that thing where they eagerly rub their little legs together. Drought plus warmer weather north, yum yum

Republicans, for their part, have cast the push for a new map as a Democratic power grab. “Richmond liberals want to eliminate competitive elections in Virginia,” says an ad from Virginians for Fair Maps, the main Republican-aligned outside group in Virginia.

A more correct way to write this is: "Republicans, who famously love gerrymandering in every other case, are flooding Democratic and Black voters' phones and mailboxes with ratfucking mailers and texts falsely claiming that Obama, Spanberger, and the DNC are against the ballot measure."

The press is intent on whitewashing Republican agency out of everything.

when i say that a significant part of the erosion of press freedom in the US is just preemptive surrender by the legacy political press themselves:

… so… what’s the overlap between dudes that think this is awesome & dudes who complain women won’t date them…?

Another correction of the record: this narrative about trans people being too pushy is complete horseshit. Anti-trans stuff came about because the right-wing discovered that it was a lucrative and effective wedge issue, that’s it. They blanketed the airwaves & gave people like Stock careers

it's at least cosmically funny how some folks in the admin were clearly setting up to blame israel for this debacle and then trump is like "oh nonono i made the decision to do this all by myself"