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People having a lot of trouble understanding how Dems behave as a party don’t understand the Democratic Party. It’s not a party united by ideology—like the GOP mostly is—it’s a bunch of constituencies in a basic (democratic) bargain: votes for government programs that benefit them.

Hello I regret to inform you that this has not been true of philosophy since at least the 1960s Do you know when the first large scale generative algorithmic syndicated photo service debuted? The 1970s. Textual illusions aren’t meaningfully different from visual illusions.

Christ, the anti-piracy frames on Hulu, Netflix, even Kanopy are obnoxious as hell

You can make that argument that a lot of Syrian civil war death tolls are the result of Obama NOT joining the war

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We do not apply this reasoning - that you are responsible when your enemy in a war decides to kill civilians (which is not just some, but most of the deaths totaled here) - to any other war. People have agency and are responsible for their choices, including groups and countries other than the USA.

The truth: He’s got the juice!

joyce carol oates and menswear guy should tape a special together

I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

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Susan Collins is out here taking literal bribes for government contracts but you know what the real story is? gossip from a few salty Troy Jackson staffers! this is some axios-level nonsense. the only thing it’s missing is an “anonymous” quote from Josh Gottheimer complaining about progressives

Calling an ADAS lane assist feature “autopilot” is a clear case of consumer fraud and I’d love to see Tesla prosecuted for it.

This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.

"Do the reading" from a prof (or lecturer 🙃) is really "there are relevant ideas and information that you should know if you want to talk about this" not "shut up until you get a degree"

it's not 'gatekeeping' to say that an uninformed, overconfident averment is uninformed and overconfident

To complain you’re politically homeless to genocide denying Free Press is also a choice.

I keep an eye on Twitter to see what the far right are up to and to keep track of LA politics since local commentators, for whatever reason, still post about it there. But there is no “cultural conversation.” Musk is a straight up Nazi and the site is a fascist cesspool.

Like a very fundamental concept you should keep in your head is that the open rate for letters is something like 3%.

Unironically, we need more polling asking liberals what kind of vengeance they both want and just how far the state could go for it to be acceptable.

serious question whether noah could even identify the text of the 14th amendment or name a single provision of the CRA.

I think Will Stancil basically has oppositional defiance poster’s disorder and that it’s a condemnation of this website that this has led to him in the last several years into assuming a ton of plainly just rational and correct positions

"We asked 683 Democratic voters who they might support in the presidential primary that seems set to start any month now, whether Democratic senators should end the filibuster, and how they would feel if Trump died overnight, plus dozens of other questions." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-are-dem...

This is an amazing and powerful essay. What I am moved by is the number of people who are trying to do the right thing within a public school system that is hard to change.

if you are a Dem who for whatever reason does not feel comfortable actively defending trans rights (which you should) you have two good response options: 1. ignore it! just keep running ads about the economy 2. “I am focused on your pocketbook, my opponent is focused on children’s genitals”

"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!

‘The rules have changed’: has Russia begun to order assassinations on US soil? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

White House correspondents, D.C. bureau chiefs, and media execs: The German government expelled Dorothy Thompson from the country in August 1934. She's remembered and respected today for her important coverage and analysis over the next decade of the German regime. Be like Dorothy Thompson.

Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...

Fuck new Slow Horses is cyan/orange unsubtle like west coast IPA circa 2004

When Marxists tell me there’s no such thing as human nature

Asher Lubotzky joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social today to discuss African perceptions of Israel and Palestine for his book, Shifting Solidarities, new from @uvapress.bsky.social. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

there's almost always some level of work politics based on 'go to this event, hang out with these people if you want to get ahead' and it's never great but it's how social dynamics work that gets a whole lot worse when the event you need to attend is a sex party

BlueSky dot app mercifully refreshed while I was trying to use Wikipedia to estimate the per-pound death average to dunk on Zeteo (10k vs 350m)

We heard you bowl on Sundays

“AI” is a stupid category that is functionally meaningless and just denotes whatever computers someone loves or hates at the moment

To reiterate, "Only white people are capable of empire, slavery or atrocity" - that only white people can do the worst of sins - is itself still a form of white supremacism that imagines white people as the unique protagonists of history rather than recognizing that all people have agency.

If I had a variable that explained the vibecession, I would simply add it to the regression model and demonstrate the residual moving to 0.

Did you know you can preorder @aprilwolfe.bsky.social ‘s “Bury Me in Vegan Leather” from Bookshop.org? bookshop.org/p/books/bury...

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