Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
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I think this is a faultline that runs throughout the administration: They have no theory of mind, and are completely baffled by any motivation more complicated than immediate material gain.
I wrote about Zuckerberg's texts with Musk and how they undermine the principles of a fair and equal platform for everyone www.platformer.news/zuckerberg-m...
Casey Newton
I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...
Adam Serwer
New game: Every time you hear someone say they're “working on” or “have been doing lots of work on” themselves… take a shot. (Note: The more people you know in their 30s-40s the drunker you’ll be.)
I legit thought these were… crucifix costumes… like for Easter? And I don’t even know what to say about that. Except I’m so sorry.
First they took our pockets.
Now this.
NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes?
LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else
N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help?
LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead
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Aaron Rupar
Anyone who says public protests don’t matter:
-is cynical and nihilistic af, so you should ignore them.
-has a stake in the status quo, so you should ignore them.
Term limits are bad, actually.
[*ducks*]
As a lady who has done years of therapy & writing about trauma & the self & politics & social science, it is ONLY through the *struggle* of writing that anything new is ever born. The notion that you give AI all your files and it will "know you" and "develop" your ideas makes me profoundly sad.
I am sitting on a big new idea right now, and every day I percolate and take notes and put little scraps together, but the idea is going to take months of STRUGGLE to work through.
And what I think it is NOW is so much dumber and shittier than what it will end up being AFTER that struggle.
