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oh my god

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One way that anti-feminism has been conceptually collapsed into a stand-in for all other political grievances is through the feminization of the state, which is cast as a scolding mommy for doing things like requiring milk pasteurization.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

trump is the manifestation of both constitutional mechanisms and anti-constitutional politics. he couldn’t survive without both.

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Something @adriandaub.bsky.social said that I keep thinking about is that the anti-woke pundits’ work has provided the Trump administration with a plan for who to target.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

There are several lessons from Canada for UK politics The biggest, most obvious lesson is likely to be widely ignored in the UK media by Saturday morning! Don't think you could predict & project a 2029 General Election result from the polls 2025/2026. It would be difficult in 2027/2028!

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

I do not like the current tendency to moralize electoral outcomes: after all it leads logically to 'in defence of Adolf Hitler'. But in the strange case of Pretty Polly, it fits. He confused projection with reality as bad as the average SkyBlue user and was insufficiently patriotic during a crisis.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

the reason why these people believe in “the woke mind virus” and think of others as “NPCs” is because they have literally fried their brains in private group chats with people who share the same half dozen opinions

submitted 6 days ago • 205 comments

Lots of great details in @semaforben.bsky.social's latest; extremely helpful for mapping out who is influencing whom on the right. Have been thinking for a while that private groupchats are at least as crazymaking as public social media, and much harder to study.

submitted 6 days ago • 57 comments

Just so we're all clear here: the Secretary of Defense has been sharing classified war planning about Yemen in unsecured channels, and now the Houthis have enough intel that they can target US aircraft carriers & force an F18 into the drink. Not hard to connect the dots here.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

this isn't blood in the water it's an entire corpse

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

AOC being the most popular New York Democrat is as much an indictment of the NY Democratic Party as it is confirmation of AOC’s popularity

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Horrifying. Tragic. Terrible. people.com/virginia-giu...

submitted 8 days ago • 139 comments

You gotta admire Benjamin Franklin for conning Louis XVI into supporting the American Revolution on the pretext of “getting back at perfidious Albion” only for said support to bankrupt France, contributing to the French Revolution and hence Louis’s eventual execution

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that the courts are the only branch of government providing anything close to a check on Trump’s power really underscores just how much Congress has made itself irrelevant. It’s never a good sign for a democracy when the legislature kneecaps itself.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk said he'd step down from being Twitter ceo too and all he did was ad a woman as a figurehead who could be occasionally blamed while he still ran the site. Musk will only have his hands off the government when he's in jail or dead.

submitted 11 days ago • 57 comments

Thread describing planned Trump destruction of the State Department . Impeach. Impeach, remove, prosecute. It’s the only way to save the country as a free nation.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

We’re going to spend so much time rebuilding basic state capacity because of the stupid myopia of the fascists. Such a waste of time, resources, human capital, & credibility. All totally avoidable if Lisa Murkowski & 10 other Republicans simply grow spines & start acting like adults.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

reagan/bush judges: "this administration's shocking arguments would reduce the rule of law to lawlenssness" neocons: abolish ICE david brooks: communist manifesto Dem leadership, top liberal consultants/pundits: the latest NYT/Ipsos has Trump up +4 on immigration, +9 with noncollege men

submitted 15 days ago • 72 comments

i don’t want to belabor the point but it is worth noting that Biden’s underlying assumptions about the US political system were completely, categorically wrong and are likely what motivated his Administration’s “high road, consensus-oriented approach to Trump

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments