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"Let the psychotics take over. They alone understood what was happening." – J.G. Ballard, *High–Rise* Proud middle-aged GenXer. Wikipedia administrator and local Democratic Party official here in my part of upstate New York. GO DEEP STATE!!
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When you move fast and break stuff, remember the stuff you break can also move fast and, maybe, break YOU: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Wait. Wasn't the Brave New Era Trump ushered in supposed to end cancel culture on campus and promote free speech? Again, more proof that what really bothers conservatives isn't the canceling, it's *who's doing it*. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

"Woke Right" is now *here*. Democrats and progressives need to keep using this pejorative incessantly, indiscriminately and make the other side wear it like a scarf no matter how much they try to run away from it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Another interesting take on the fundamental arbitrariness of trans athlete bans:

News stories like these are why there's really no point in trying to write satire some days, when the world does it better than you can. Read the whole thing: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hmm. Funny how this article comes out once NY Dems showed some serious backbone. And without lifting a finger, they've got Senate Republicans suddenly nervous about the thin margins in the House. Maybe that bill won't even need to be voted on ... www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Since when is an indictment *not* based on "a one-sided and partial presentation of the evidence"? That is *exactly* the point ...

If nothing else, this is a good way to tell which of the accounts you get notified as new follows you want to follow back ... or, rather, *don't* want to: www.fastcompany.com/91274247/its...

I've been meaning to share this interesting take on Trump for a few days, since I first saw it in my feed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This article has some good points about how the way we do economic statistics is misleading, and how that may well have been a large part of the reason Trump got returned to office. Changing these statistical methods could be a winner for Dems in the future: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Another contrarian take worth reading, suggesting that there might be more downside to Dems using the upcoming government funding crisis to hold Trump over a barrel, however badly the base wants this to be a knockdown dragout: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

If we still lived in an age (one I can remember; it was like 20 years ago) where Important People in both political parties counseled against doing things like this because the other party could, as a New York Democrat I'd be doing it too. But we don't, so I'm not. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

If you take out the almost obligatory uses of "woke", this Fox News piece praising Trump's appointee to head DOJ's antitrust division would fit in just fine on a progressive website: www.foxnews.com/opinion/pres...

Apparently the term "woke right" has been around for a little while on that side of the political spectrum, but it's interesting that George Santos now feels comfortable using it

Funny that the Republican "cancel culture" outrage machine has stood by silently while *Emilia Perez*, its director and star, get treated far worse by "woke" media than Paula Deen or the Duck Dynasty guys ever were? I guess it always was about *who* was being "canceled" ...

It's nice that Rand Paul has shown some integrity recently, remembering that "libertarianism" means that tariffs are bad no matter who imposes them. But, still, progressives should keep in mind: "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy: no more, no less" www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-03-08

Yet another group of people who gave their hearts to Trump only to find out just how quickly he throws them in the trash once he doesn't need them anymore. Why isn't the media giving this more attention? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...