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The biggest problem with this complaint is the rudeness, of course, but it also commits a terrible sin of editing: conflating grammar with style. There is nothing ungrammatical about “it seems like”; it is perfectly valid English.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

I have been reading an awful lot of Jane Austen recently, and there is so much about Regency society that is strikingly familiar. The NYT is the paper of the genteel class, and while they may despise certain Trump policies as beneath their manners, they will always be more horrified of the rabble.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

That Times editorial we are collectively agog over can be explained, IMO, by realizing that protecting the status quo is the highest order goal for them. Trump is destroying the status quo, but so too might the resistance that can effectively repel Trump, and that is not acceptable.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

This is quite simply the most condescending thing I've ever seen the NYT put out. Its unreal.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

i feel like trumpcoin, and the fact that we never talk about it, is pretty emblematic of the way the press refuses to grapple with trump. it exists in order to pay him bribes. it expressly gives you political access. it does not pretend to have a licit motive. it was a one-day scandal.

submitted 9 days ago • 58 comments

They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination. “the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”

submitted 10 days ago • 47 comments

This is a great thread, and it’s why every time someone says, cynically “well, do you think the courts are going to save us?” I think, “not on their own, no, but we aren’t going to get saved without a real legal apparatus.”

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

alright, i'm asking in seriousness. do folks know what lynching is? do folks know the legal issues with lynching? it's actually more complicated than you think, and i'm not a legal scholar so i don't want to step out of my lane--BUT I'VE READ BOOKS.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

submitted 15 days ago • 160 comments

Shelly-Ann racing in her kid's Parents Day race at the school is the funniest thing I've seen all week LMAO

submitted 17 days ago • 200 comments

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

submitted 19 days ago • 211 comments

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 21 days ago • 177 comments

The Trump DOJ is preparing to end federal oversight of police departments responsible for: -- the "goon squad" in Rankin, MS, where officers routinely tortured people -- habitual and illegal strip searches in Mt. Vernon, NY -- the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Tyre Nichols, Ronald Greene & George Floyd

submitted 27 days ago • 13 comments

Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 28 days ago • 590 comments

they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern

submitted 28 days ago • 164 comments

This is correct. You will find no explanation for Trump's actions in economics or political science. You need to go deep into woke academic critical theory, and there it suddenly makes sense why white male nepobabies hate communal prosperity because it undermines their dream of personal superiority.

submitted 29 days ago • 35 comments

One of the may ways the Republic is collapsing is an abandonment of the fundamental deal: instead of hitting each other with sticks, we’ll decide things by voting. It’s imperfect and often sucks but it used to be better than the sticks. But it depends on a set of norms. /1

submitted 29 days ago • 31 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 31 days ago • 1035 comments

Confederate monuments were quite literally an effort to “perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” by promoting the Lost Cause work of white supremacists who wanted to rewrite the history of the Civil War and, yes, Reconstruction.

submitted 37 days ago • 60 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 38 days ago • 291 comments

I am BEGGING people to frame this properly. The issue here is not one colossal blunder where a reporter got info. The issue is it’s clear these people are all routinely ignoring the most absolutely basic security protocols, and WE HAVE NO IDEA what breaches this has already enabled.

submitted 40 days ago • 184 comments

The White House quietly released a Friday night EO that would eradicate privacy protections, make enemies lists a lot easier to assemble, and basically set the stage for a police state.

submitted 42 days ago • 77 comments

This sort of thing is truly universal; nobody likes to admit that their arguments simply weren’t convincing

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t believe this has to be said, but: You cannot tell the story of Jackie Robinson—as a ballplayer, serviceman, or human—without discussing our country’s history of racism. From Around the Horn:

submitted 45 days ago • 775 comments

Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 49 days ago • 234 comments

Every single thing described here as a consequence of a government shutdown is either (a) something bad that also will happen if this budget passes or (b) something bad Trump and Musk were already doing while this op-ed was being written

submitted 51 days ago • 5 comments

This is a grave and sobering admission: they are not pursuing the “WELL ACTUALLY he broke the law during protests,” they are bragging that they are deporting people for protected speech.

submitted 54 days ago • 97 comments

Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition. If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.

submitted 55 days ago • 41 comments

Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor. The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes! This is the power of representation.

submitted 58 days ago • 261 comments

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

submitted 65 days ago • 491 comments