Tucker has as much blood on his hands as anyone in this government & he's trying to cheaply win forgiveness & with it the chance to spill more

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.

The interview he did with the Economist really did solidify for me that the media is extremely unprepared and also that the center left to left really does need more Mandanis, not even in an ideological sense but just who are willing to say that he premises of certain questions are stupid

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一体いつからトランプ政権に「軸足」があると錯覚していた？

The current Sulzberger has made calculated decision to turn The Times into a Vichy rag. No one who loves democracy and the rule of law should be supporting it.

lol yup, I ran out of space

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The ungracious and ungrateful dog!

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

Democrats getting more backlash for attempting redistricting in Virginia in response to completely unprecedented GOP powergrabs than Republicans have gotten for gerrymandering for decades is extremely grim shit ngl.

Okay, so Faine asked why this is the case. My theory: there is a Calvinist streak a mile wide when it comes to how a lot of the more militant COVID conscious people approach these questions.

Virtue is supposed to be its own reward, proof of your worthiness; to complain is to prove one's sinfulness.

May it be His will

same with ‘surely the protestors are all paid off by (((soros)))’. they really think they’re the ‘silent majority’

many if not most republicans think this, too. it’s implicit in their whole ‘surely Dems got a bunch of illegals to vote for them’ ‘surely Dems rigged the mail vote’ shtick. they can’t imagine that there are that many people out there that hate their guts and believe their own propaganda on this

unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can

I'll simply say again that for Shlaes to resurface in The Economist at this moment is an indicator of an ambient concern that Rooseveltian policies and politics are increasingly likely. The thing about the New Deal is, it was *immensely popular.* That's terrifying to certain people

It’s Montreal Monday!

Shlaes is a hack who has been pushing this shtick for twenty years. Incredible that she’s still around

Was lucky enough to get an invite that August lol

It’s whole thing was that it was free /and/ offered a gigabyte of space when at best you were getting like a tenth of that maybe. Plus it pioneered conversations view for email. Was also announced on April Fools’ Day 2004, so ppl thought it was a joke at first

is there significance to the Italian bit?

Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social • 18m >unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade What did he know? Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net • 32m ›European cruise lines are the only ones willing to run the Hormuz blockade Someone help me I think I'm having a stroke

Stranger than fiction
Clause?

Tired: Corporations are people
Wired: Oil barrels are cruise passengers

iirc netzero had a free tier but it was terrible. yahoo mail was also free but very limited

Maybe the most depressing conclusion I’ve come around to in the past decade (and there are many) is that trying to teach & promote widespread “critical thinking” has been a complete and catastrophic failure. Most of the population is not capable of it, and it is socially disastrous when they try.

We may need to eschew historical comparisons of this kind as a sort of reflexive rhetorical tick. And why not? Let’s make a new track

問題なさそう、コーヒーはまだ正義だよ

"they caught a picture of the bullet in flight that didn't kill the president" is some goddamn cyberpunk shit

do not forget that we the people have the power to chart a different path than this