Fuzzy Dunlop

Last time I was in Los Angeles someone told me my hairstyle was...

one of the really useful takeaways from fukuyama's political order books is a clear conceptual understanding of what corruption *is* in its fundamental nature. and the answer... is patronage networks organized on personal connections! corruption is *inherent* in these discretionary systems!

The Hard Hat Riot is the single most important and consequential independently organized labor action in post-Gilded Age American history but the entire left-of-center has deliberately chosen to completely forget it because of how utterly embarrassing it is to us

Kind of funny, in an Ancient Greek Hell kind of way, that this guy handed Trump the presidency in 2016, and as a reward Trump is kicking him in the teeth forever. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

This, but also, as a liberal I believe in freedom and human rights for all people, all around the world. That translates into rooting interests in elections where freedoms and rights are on the ballot, as they often are.

not a person w/ a child here, but seems manifestly obvious that the cheesy emotions of parenting are like, what allowed us to develop as a species. We’re built on such cheese.

the biggest presidential scandal in history but the political media largely acts as if it's not happening. hasan piker has received more mainstream political media coverage over the last 6 months than trump's connections with epstein has

My most joyless leftwing opinion is that any homework that is, explicitly and obviously, homework for parents is bad pedagogy, unfair on parents, particularly on mothers, bad use of the teacher's time and bad for social mobility.

I note that everywhere the right wins now, they push for some mix of wars of aggression, looting and destroying the public realm, impunity for corruption and war crimes, roasting the planet with hydrocarbons, deforestation, destroying public education, ethnic supremacy and McCarthyist crackdowns.

Congratulations to the world's new champions of liberty, the...*squints*...Magyars and...*squints again*...Serbs.

LA has permitted 4.2% of the 57,989 extremely low-income units it projected it would need by 2030. Rents from these households don't cover operating costs, so developers avoid them. thelalocal.org/housing/los-...

Unforgiven. “It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he’s got and all he’s ever gonna have.” “Yeah, well, I guess he had it coming.” “We all have it coming, kid.”

You can go ahead and tell that Duolingo owl that if a chest has 7 gems in it, he doesn’t need to waste my time making me click and doing animations about it and stuff. I’m good. It actually cost me more gems to watch that than I got from it.

'Milfsama Bin Laden' and 'a bug deal down by the docks' had me heedlessly howling in a sleeping house @morecivilized.bsky.social

Pro-ICE conservative blogger Samuel Sey, a prominent figure on the evangelical right, has himself been arrested and held for potential ICE deportation.

Elon Musk is spending hundreds of millions to elect Republicans, an unprecedentedly huge amount from one person, and it’s a lot less than the value of contracts his companies got from this government he paid to elect and worked in. Many reports say “his own money,” few note unprecedentedly corrupt.

fascist: queer people are a mortal threat to our country liberal: I disagree with what he says but I will defend to the death his right to say it queer person: *gets murdered* liberal: liberal: look I never specified WHOSE death

Design for a cigarette advertisement - early 1930's #artbots #magritte

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

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seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

I know I’m repeating myself but a Harvard BA with no other education is about the most dangerous possible attainment level.

If you were waiting for your sign to donate to an insurgent campaign for Congress in Missouri...this is your sign. I'm current polling 5 points ahead of 14 yr incumbent Ann Wagner in a seat held by the GOP for 34 years. I need you now. We can take this across the finish line and change Missouri.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

he was on his way to a vivek ramaswamy commercial shoot

"never ask about a baseball or hockey player's politics" remains undefeated

1 in 4 Americans is dealing with chronic food insecurity right now and food banks are overwhelmed, so at what point do the dumbest assholes you've ever met give up on the "oh you're a communist? interesting, I guess you love bread lines 😏" talking point

i think it would be great with the holiday season right around the corner if we skipped the "how to avoid talking about politics with your kooky uncle" articles and got a bunch of more useful "how to talk to older family members about setting a family codeword in case of phishing attempts" articles

"There should be horses pulling carriages in Central Park" is a perfect Trump position. Essentially none of his business, basically inconsequential, but squarely in the category of "tacky late-20th-century NYC tourist experience," which is the most completely developed part of his brain.

Airbnb hosts stripped of their ability to make the people paying them also do a bunch of chores

The Vivek ad is what happens when an amoral outsider must prove to a political movement centered on protecting abusers that he’s on their team:

If you use ai generators, I hate you.

@jenashleywright.bsky.social went truffle hunting in Tuscany for The Observer and all I got was lovingly made gnocchi with freshly shaven truffles upon her return. observer.com/2026/10/truf...

One thing I came to realise over the years is that the press isn’t really used as a way of convincing the public, so much as a disciplinary tool within our political and media class. Here is the party line, here is what we do to anyone who goes against the party line. Go against it at your peril.

Everything these guys do to avoid the billionaire’s’ tax is going to radicalize people to vote for it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...