Katherine Alejandra Cross

When I pitched a review of Anton Jäger's Hyperpolitics, I wanted to read it against Fukuyama's End of History and the Last Man because both books tackle similar themes in radically different ways. The result is a double-helix of an essay that is one of the best things I've ever written for LC.

A matchup between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Tampa Bay Rays was considered a “nightmare,” a bloodbath of small-ball hermeneutics. But the two old-school, thrifty teams have turned the Fall Classic into a showcase for what money can’t buy. www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

they're all on xitter and deep frying their brains with "the perfidious jew invented evil gender ideology to groom your kids through steven universe and make the white man a servant to israel" slop so insular they don't even realize how associating these two things looks to people on the outside

When one understands that the Republicans are no longer the party of buisness but of rent seeking, things make way more sense.

Yes the Cenk Uygur ad is antisemitic, yes it is transphobic, but it’s the *interaction effect* between the antisemitism and the transphobia that causes it to give off so many Hitler particles

I, for one, think that Raman should refuse to submit to DSA National's Bondage and Discipline Socialism. And DSA-LA should tell DSA-National to fuck right off. But then, I'm a liberal socialist. A maverick, some say.

Modal outcome here: * Raman wins comfortably * DSA looks weak because their endorsement or its withdrawal doesn't matter * DSA looks even weaker because constant messy intra-factional beefs caused the above

If you closed your eyes and just listened to this clip, you wouldn’t know the Rays are the home team

And on top of all that, Chow won re-election! Shaping up to be a good night.

Speaking overturned calls, what an *eye* on Contreras. I think I've seen that man be wrong once in this Series?

The thing I love about baseball is that there is no sport that is as statistical *while also* making a mockery of mathematical certainty at every conceivable turn.

Updating my priors here. Listening. Learning. The ball is mysterious and has magic powers.

if someone did this to me at my work I would lay down on the floor

Like I said!

A lot of the comments on this petition go pretty hard.

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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.

on the internet people will call almost anything liberalism. war with iraq, death by firing squad, npic infighting, everything. so a few weeks ago at liberal currents, we put out a challenge to all the editors: what is liberalism, actually? today we get our first essay, from lc founder adam gurri:

This is a fucking banger 😍

Nine finger death punch

if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Trabalhadores e trabalhadoras do Brasil, uni-vos. Nós merecemos respeito.

Lula Goes HARD

Of course a win for non-authoritarian leaders or movements does not automatically mean all problems are solved or that authoritarian forces can't come back in future. But it is worth maintaining hope and optimism, because if people succumb to nihilism and apathy then democracy cannot survive.

"You look like you're trying to delete democracy. Are you sure you want to do this?" "Oh fuck, nonononono, cancel! Cancel!"

The kinda shit I'm on rn.

lula

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

That gap is getting wider. We're well out of razor thin territory here, let's see where it lands, but... my oh my.

In the 22 minutes since I wrote that skeet, the lead's flipped back after Lula's been inching forward. I dare not believe, and yet...