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More of this sort of thing, thanks

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Real

submitted 382 days ago • 5 comments

As an addendum, the skywatch.blue maga blocker is a wonderful tool and I didn’t even know Vance had arrived because I have it turned on.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

In order to maintain ideological diversity, I make sure that 50% of my organization's hires are Trump supporters, even though only 2% of my applicants are Trump supporters. Here's why DEI at universities must be banned.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

increasingly obvious that congressional dems have seized on the "distraction" thing because it provides them with an excuse for doing nothing about any concrete issue and instead complaining about some general principle that they think plays well in focus groups

submitted 7 days ago • 35 comments

one of the things that always gets me about the "we have to make space for imperfect allies, patiently talk them out, not be so pushy" is - what does this actually mean in terms of an executable policy and political strategy? because 'individual conversations being more patient' ain't either.

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

thinking about how josh barro used to host "left, right and center" on a liberal public radio station, and he'd be "center" and liz bruenig would be "left." incredible range of opinions that's represented in elite discourse.

submitted 9 days ago • 60 comments

One of the pernicious legacies of neoconservatism - though not nearly as bad as the Iraq War itself - was it became impossible to express solidarity with oppressed people or to oppose dictators without being associated with warmongers. The latter doesn’t have to follow the former.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

wonder if one could construct a similar chart for news coverage, or social media posts

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Schumer stopped the Senate to announce that this happened, in the middle of debate on a bill where Democrats were collaborating with Republicans on crypto legislation. How you can compartmentalize these two things is beyond me.

submitted 13 days ago • 64 comments

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

submitted 14 days ago • 105 comments

Just not a useful discourse bc you're arguing in absentia with anarchists who are absolutely not reading your takes to decide their evening plans!

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

The fact that he needs to say this tells me things are about to get very bad

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

I feel a bit embarrassed sharing this, but I will anyway. Thank you, Greg. My approach has a name: pragmatism. (The philosophy, not the synonym for "centrist.") In pragmatism we set out to change what's gone awry. We run into problems. In treating those problems, our ideas get better, more useful.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

A huge part of stopping or reversing oppression is power plays by actors in the system who are more susceptible to public pressure and opinion. I wish it were due purely to moral awakenings, but more mercenary impulses often play a role, too. And knowing that can be useful.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Just want to express once again my contempt for all the mainstream and libertarian platforms that promoted this loathsome discount Goebbels. Shame on you.

submitted 15 days ago • 48 comments

a lot of journalists are refusing to acknowledge their agenda setting power in this moment. it is not surprising but nevertheless a real shame to see

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 15 days ago • 504 comments

Remember, as @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social just reminded me over at the other place, when Ted Cruz and a bunch of top Republicans got mad about Jade Helm in 2015. All mad conspiracy theories about a military takeover. And now they have nothing to say about the military on the streets of LA.

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

Yeah, as someone who's watching both sites, Barro is vastly overstating his point, and the more evident outcome has been center-left "intellectuals" palling around with Richard Hanania

submitted 15 days ago • 68 comments

this is definitely true, but does make me wonder how far you could drag these nimrods left by flattering them

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

this sort of gives the game away. the whole point of the LA deployment is relitigating the dispute (both political and cultural) that the right feels it lost in 2020

submitted 15 days ago • 100 comments

He lied about what was happening in 2020, too, but the Times sanded down the most jagged parts of the lies more than the Journal did

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 15 days ago • 1028 comments

Something worth noting is how the press is leaning into the framing that what’s happening in LA is a both sides issue or that they are riots. Even when the LAPD is saying it’s under control, suddenly for the first time in their lives the press is willing to ignore them

submitted 15 days ago • 79 comments

As a United States Senator advocates using military violence to suppress protestors, we face a crucial First Amendment question: will anyone try to use cancel culture against the editor who ran the call for violence? Greg Lukianoff, tomorrow in the NYT www.wsj.com/opinion/send...

submitted 15 days ago • 27 comments

Congratulations to all the very serious yet illiterate people who insisted the 2020 version was something other than what it obviously was www.wsj.com/opinion/send...

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

It's just a violent military crackdown on peaceful protestors, not something serious like a magazine editor getting fired for being bad at editing.

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

submitted 15 days ago • 23 comments

Wait. One of the main forces behind "The Harper's Letter," which to this day is held up as being a crowning achievement in support of free speech (which it never was) believes that the masses don't deserve free speech? How... unsurprising.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

submitted 15 days ago • 61 comments