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🧵I'm listening to a book by someone whose work I respect & as sometimes happens, was hit by ignorant & frankly antisemitic language around Jewish scripture & "the Old Testament God" that, whenever I hear it, I feel like my head's going to blow off. So. A thread! Fun!

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

it is hard for people not in the weeds of NY politics to understand that "the Brooklyn Democratic Party" is not representative of Democratic voters or national dems, but a corrupt ring of like 100 insanely corrupt people who have seized the mechanics of organizational control and won't let go.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

The world over, this is a movement driven by people who own car dealerships and work in HR. The buddy garrity right, burning everything down because they’re bored and 1 of their 250 coworkers wanted to be called “they.” There’s no punchline, that’s it.

submitted 15 hours ago • 9 comments

not everything is explicable in layperson terms, and not everything needs to be explicable in layperson terms. blaming intellectuals for anti intellectualism starts to look like blaming the victim at some point. 1

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

I've never seen it stated so plainly: Joyce can imagine herself as an author whose book event is disrupted by protestors so she opposes the protest. Can you imagine yourself as a fired federal worker or deported immigrant? Wouldn't you want people to take drastic measures on your behalf?

submitted 22 hours ago • 33 comments

Impossible to overstate how central the idea that I, personally, am the only person who has ever done an honest day’s work is to the conservative worldview. This one’s not new. It has always been virtuous, productive Me getting what I’ve earned vs the predatory Others leeching off me.

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments

A conversation around Elon's intelligence is a distraction from the fact that he was embedded in was explicitly designed not to hold him accountable. The same is true of Trump. They both benefited from a regulatory environment that let them enrich themselves while stealing from others

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

what people who don't play games don't understand about him paying other people to do things which he imagines himself as having done then fumbles remarkably badly in ways apparent even to total beginners when he takes control with his unearned confidence is that's all he's ever done with everything

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

In Noah Pinion's attic hangs a take that just keeps getting smarter and smarter

submitted 503 days ago • 31 comments

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

this rich asshole in st. louis pointed a gun at some protesters and become a right wing celebrity overnight. conservatives were so enthralled by a guy who threatened to kill liberals that he got recruited to run for senate and raised over a million bucks in individual donations

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

'luigi mangione being celebrated as a hero will lead to a valorization of vigilante violence' is one of those things that only sounds reasonable if you start paying attention to American vigilantism at the exact moment it targets someone with wealth and influence

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Going to start doing RETVRN posting for basic government functioning. Going “this is what they took from you” and it’s a childhood vaccine schedule and pasteurized milk without any manure in it.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Nate Silver has to believe that Nate Silver and people like Nate Silver are geniuses who deserve everything they got because otherwise he’s just one of a couple hundred guys who did some interesting stuff with baseball statistics and then claimed he was a data genius so could cover all fields.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Someone wanting MORE emails to receive: another red flag tbh

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Social Security has a payment accuracy rate of over 99 percent. Only 0.3 percent of Social Security benefits are improper payments, which are typically caused by mistakes or delays. That's better than any private insurance company. www.cbpp.org/blog/setting...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

people have been talking a lot of shit ever since that article came out revealing i make prospective boyfriends take the Song Era Imperial Service Exam before we date. that's fine. i don't have time for mediocrity. y'all can put up with some "leaving the provisions unguarded" type man

submitted 403 days ago • 4 comments

Elon is hiring criminals to work for DOGE because it is a criminal conspiracy

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

I need all my elected officials content in this format now and I never even watched sex and the city

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

submitted 24 days ago • 246 comments

Let's be very clear that Pete Hegseth absolutely has his job because he is a white man.

submitted 2 days ago • 132 comments

This is what obeying in advance looks like. The NSF fires 10% of its total staff in a move that went beyond what was requested by the current regime. The NSF is the flagship of US basic research infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

You cannot be pro-disability rights if you are opposed to reproductive rights. Bodily autonomy lies at the core of each.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Every vaccine already requires informed consent by law. This is pure antivaxx disinformation, now coming from the CDC.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

May I present some ways that we might ask for our users' sex/gender on our forms in order to comply with new EOs: codepen.io/buttermilkbi...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

I'm sorry but I'm just not going to be cowering in fear of these clowns. They suck and they are cruel but they are not God.

submitted 3 days ago • 286 comments

Okay so you know I like to remind everyone how the American immigration system has been cruel for a very long time. But loading people on flights to deport them to countries that they are not from, like Iranians to Panama, is not business as usual.

submitted 3 days ago • 86 comments

There's a transmasculine version of this. If someone assigned female can become a man, it means there's nothing so special or powerful about men. Each of us has the biological truth of equality between the sexes within us, as demonstrated by the ability of some to pass from one to the other.

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

CNN covers SPLC’s catastrophic decision to layoff its entire immigration staff in June. SPLC says it did so because they want to focus on “broad, systematic issues.” So why can’t SPLC executives explain how they plan to do so? www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Okay, so I’m finally putting a thread together: what is the deep-blue Delaware legislature proposing to do and why is it the most evil thing not directly involving Donald Trump happening in America today? legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/1...

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 4 days ago • 81 comments

Journalists, pundits, and others who remain fixated on the political climate at Columbia University around the Gaza war protests and antisemitism charges might want to note a series of recent interventions from different parts of our community in response to the Trump crisis 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment