i was just saying to a friend a few days ago that trump's public opinion collapse opens up the field of possibilities in ways that are truly unpredictable. it is one thing for a president to be this popular at the *end* of their turn, but not even two years in?
Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater.
Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
The full version of the Frederick Douglass "I would unite with anybody to do right" line is even better than I knew.
One of the central projects of liberals in the Obama-era was coming to bipartisan bargains with Republicans. Today, they’re rightly calling for implacable opposition, writes Toby Buckle
Leo really is saying that we're terminally online and need to touch grass.
Yes. There's some obvious context-dropping between the clip I saw and the things people are quoting. And to be clear I want Schumer to resign.
Me, a moral realist who has spent decades arguing against cultural relativism:
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The whole hardcore atheist to islamophobe turn was seminally instructive event in 21st century liberalism. Reason without egalitarian values proved both morally and epistemically constipated.
I'm Buridan's Ass between making a joke about Mamdani going full shitlib by appearing with Obama and one about Obama getting back to his "radical madrassa" roots by appearing with Mamdani. So I'll settle on earnest cringe by concurring: I love this so much.
Plenty of nonsense there! Just not, by the grace of god (natch), maga.
Yep! I went through my New Atheist phase in college (a bit before the term took off). I thought these guys were the smartestt guys in the world.
There simply is no level of liberal or progressive you can be as a Muslim and still not be seen by Sam Harris as a threat to society. He has a very soothing Rational voice though. I hear his meditation app is good.
Never forget that Sam Harris is calipers-and-Bell Curve levels of racist against black people, but he is Rivers of Blood-and-nuke the Middle East levels of racist against Muslims.
This was shit we were fighting twenty years ago. More than that, actually.
Excellent summary of the American political scene and the role of liberals in that scene. With warnings for our British friends.
And the Lord said: Behold for I have made man.
And the angels replied to the Lord: you screwed up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety.
Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+
Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism
And it's not close
liberals have become much more agressive, pushing for sweeping reforms & 'nuremberg 2.0'
my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
It's probably just because I'm a 40-something American man, but this looks like a lot of fun!
This is crazy. Just open-air larceny.
(alongside images of the US, megaphones, Liam Conejo Ramos’ bunny hat, and signs that read “NO ICE WAREHOUSE,” “SHUTDOWN DETENTION CENTERS,” and “NOT HERE/NOT ANYWHERE”) NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION STOP ICE WAREHOUSE DETENTION APRIL 25, 2026
On April 25, join a local event in defense of immigrants in your community. As the regime buys up warehouses to convert into concentration camps, it’s critical that we come together to oppose the literal warehousing of people in our country: www.mobilize.us/disappearedi...
Republican Just War Theory: "It's just war. What's the big deal?"
Outstanding essay
I hear people say "late capitalism," but folks we are just getting started.
Re Trump and Iran:
Is there a single, long German word for "a recklessly foolish enterprise from which you're so desperate to extricate yourself that you give in to the other side but still insist on pretending it's all been a great victory"?
Is the guy even tan though? Do we know?