“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
~ Frank Wilhoit
I just published an uncharacteristically long piece on what conservatives' response to the Lindsay Clancy case really means. I hope you'll take the time to read it—I think it's important
Their job isn’t to be correct. Their job is to push a narrative that’s beneficial for those in power, and as long as they do that, they’ll be given a platform.
there is an entire industry of people who give their opinion or predict how things are going to go and their entire job is to be correct
are they ever correct? rarely. are there repercussions for being wrong, the thing they are being paid not to be? haha no, no there are not
Here is part 61 of the running list of Republican Party sexual predators. Please read through all 61 of the lists for links to news articles, local and national, and court documents concerning these members of the Republican Party and conservative religious orgs.
dailykos.com/stories/2026...
"'The world's become too crazy for even my conspiratorial powers,' Mulder tells Scully sadly. What good is truth when leverage is lost and crime carries no consequence?"
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-truth-...
Clavicular, the Looksmaxxing guy that is only 20 years old and a complete mess, OD'd on his Kick live. He's in the hospital. This is who's out there influencing kids. We need some serious mental healthcare in this country.
The job of an op/ed page is not to only publish the "right" opinions. If a topic, policy, or decision is in the news / under discussion at the highest levels, the op/ed page at a national newspaper should be publishing pieces that make the case for that policy or decision. Even if the policy is bad!
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
Of course they’re devout Christians:
““We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina Moran Lopez. “Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason.”
A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump.
A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.
Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.
“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.”
― Carl Sagan
Anti-abortion activist Lila Rose tries to dress up her comments in the language of compassion, but the violence her views would inflict on pregnant people is just under the surface.
Surgery for ectopics, not medication. C-sections or induced labor for doomed pregnancies, not abortion. Grotesque
An infant in New Mexico has just died from listeria.
Public health officials think it is because the mother drank raw milk during pregnancy.
I can imagine this family’s pain.
Please, please don’t drink raw milk. It is of no benefit whatsoever.
This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.
"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."
people.com/ballerina-fa...
1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
Whenever people suggest to heal the divide by meeting the right halfway, they should specify the number of violent deaths that they think would be acceptable for “unity”.
Nick Fuentes urging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota: "Bro, do it. Do something. Just stop chickening out. I'm just tired of the idle threats... Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. Please just kill them."
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."
Christian nationalist pastor says that wives must submit to their husbands with "a sense of fear, and trembling, and awe ... not only in things she agrees with, but in everything": "She belongs to him. He owns her."
Stephen Pittman, a 19-year-old man accused of setting fire to Jackson’s only synagogue, Beth Israel, declared that “Jesus Christ is lord” after the judge asked him if he understood his rights in federal court today.
@nickjudin.bsky.social reports + AP:
One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
The world produces enough food, yet billions lack access to healthy & sustainable diets. A new EAT–Lancet report presents a science-based approach to improve health, safeguard our environment & provide for a projected 9.6 billion people by 2050.
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Religion teaches children that authority figures can make unprovable claims that they have to believe unless they want to get in trouble.
It rewards obedience and conformity, and discourages critical thinking.
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
Antivax and anti-public health were in the ballot in 2024. They’re not springing this on the public by surprise, they campaigned on it—along with anti-science, and at the highest level anti-truth—then a plurality elected them.
Some explicitly voted for it. Others didn’t care. But this was a choice.
James Dobson can no longer do evil on earth, but we still live with his zombie: his network of "family policy council" lobbying groups
Most state laws against abortion, gay marriage, or trans healthcare have their roots in Dobson's network. Its power is vast, yet it is little-known 🧵
It’s blindingly clear at this point that the protestors in Los Angeles are in fact helping to prevent a fascist takeover, and the pundits who suggested that protest is counterproductive were being either stupid or actively malicious.
They describe their perceived problems and it genuinely feels like they're saying shit like "Lobsters are taking over the Vatican, and that's why we need to bomb the coast of Maine!" And millions of people are reading this, believing absolute nonsense.
A lot of people think men with violent beliefs need empathy and connection to be led away from them.
But it’s honestly the opposite. If they can hold those beliefs AND people start treating them better than before, they have no incentive to change. It’s seen as proof that misogyny works.