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out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

Brazilians recommending not to amplify right-wing talking points by dunking and quoting, as a winning strategy Next day, my tl is full of people dunking on rfk jr I literally would not have seen the bigotry if it wasn't for y'all repeating it. That's exactly what the Brazilians were on about!

"If something sounds good but isn’t true, then it is not, in fact, good, and it’s not something that people should simply keep repeating."

5⃣Our Plus Five must-watch programs of the week! + Dr. Kao Jekyll + Lara Naki Icebergman + An Ami Nakai in Paris + Consistency got Adam Siao Him Far + Hocke/Kunkel back with Black and Gold bit.ly/4zfN1yG

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

same tbh

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

That’s also why Vivek isn’t exactly lying when he says he didn’t mean to say Acton lied about being raped as a child. He doesn’t think she lied; he thinks that being raped disqualifies her from office, because she belongs to the class of people power is wielded against, not the class that wields it.

Fall in New England really is a thing.

So yeah, you should sign this. I may have also used a survey I received today from USFS to share my thoughts…

one more boost for folks checking in for #GPFigure #GPFrance #FigureSkating - FS4A will submit their open letter on trans inclusion on Thursday. Rec skaters and skating fans are welcome to sign. There is a real chance to pressure USFS into moving back in line with the ISU's trans-inclusive policy

same tbh

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

The red square is the $1 trillion the Republicans cut from Medicaid (over 10 years). The green square is the $50 billion Rural Health Fund they're all so proud of (over 5 years). The blue square is the $190 million that Susan Collins is crowing about in her Maine rural health care ad.

It is in a lot of ways just an abdication of responsibility, of taking a role in forming the political environment. It's the fundamental problem of shallow popularism; you assume you're just a powerless actor reacting to the "preferences" of the "median voter", which is a loser's way of thinking.

What these politicians are doing when they put out dumb transphobic ads or say dumb transphobic things on stage is that they're weakening the movement either out of personal bigotry or out of doing incorrect electoral math, and they really should get shit for it.

There's a constant low-level discussion on English-language bluesky about the electoral consequences of transphobic rhetoric from left-liberals but I think it's honestly worse than "they might not vote for you", it's more like, you're cutting yourself off from political labor and talent.

curiosity

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

A Lula win is great news for those of us who enjoy breathing air, and will probably save several species from extinction

"For better or for worse, my Youtube channel is not the same as my real sense of humour" i dont think that the first date at the table next to us at Ruka is going well

new york forever. FUCK ICE.

i can buy weed at the store instead of some shady guy’s apartment

absolutely my main takeaway from You Can See Everything. laser clear view of what she is getting out of being in a relationship with a controlling partner

#GPFigure Decided to take a side by side look at Davis/Smolkin's FDs since they changed the music... I turned sound off and played both versions side by side. No changes to the choreo elements but the whole thing feels 100000% better to watch without the terribly structured AI music.

Again, it’s important to understand that the transgender terror did not arise organically from the public. It was imposed from above, by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media class.

i'm already calling it. we will have re-banned the cartwheel in ice dance by the end of the season #GPFRA #GPFigure #FigureSkating

One thing I can count on in this world is Christina Carreira suffering some sort of ill fate at the end of a free dance #GPFRA #GPFigure

I’ve said this before, but “Gleb Smolkin” is the most Star Wars name in all of figure skating. #GPFigure