We relied on @bentarnoff.com's great new book with @quinnslobodian.com for this piece. We try to offer a real theory on what Musk really means in decrying "suicidal empathy." We argue that his gutting of USAID (also justified by denigrating "empathy") is a test run for much worse to come:
this is not what happened
Turns out you can be bad at watching TV.
Was conservatism always a collection of bespoke dysphorias and eating disorders or is this a new thing.
OK but what did you expect?
No one's a bigger mark than a guy who thinks he's smart.
It's not a hard line to draw.
This is probably right in the short term, but seems disastrous in the long term. Which is unsettling, because the long term is just a sequence of short terms.
Sad to learn of passing of eminent historian Carlo Ginzburg; his "The Cheese and the Worms" is one of the books that had the most impact on me as a grad student, as the writing is lively & builds insight from small, carefully observed details of the historical record en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Che...
"In the United States, Musk had already been experimenting with a consistent trope in fascist rhetoric: seizing on a crime committed by an individual member of a minority group and claiming that it shows the innate murderous tendencies of the group as a whole."
Greg Sargent
Toby Buckle
Julian Sanchez
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Spoke to @gregsargent.bsky.social about Musk's cyborg anti-humanitarianism and why he dislikes the concept of empathy so much newrepublic.com/article/2119...
Michael Lobel
this is, in a very real sense, the most correct post of all time, insofar as it captures the full essence of Officially Sanctioned Reality
Mamdani: "Solidarity with a government that is committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity with people of a specific faith. I'm proud to be a mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in this country."
Quinn Slobodian
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
Lefties get a lot of flak for having too many boxes you have to check, but being a right-winger must be impossibly tiring. There are so many signals you have to send to show you're on the team! Like how Gaines, feeling the audience slipping away, rushes to say she smears her face with beef fat.
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You fucking people made professional actors explain that sometimes make-believe characters do bad things
Ben Tarnoff
I'm basically where this poster is, or where Barro is: a politician's job in 2026 is to win elections against fascists, not change the electorate's mind. If slopulism with little real-world impact wins your elections, do it. bsky.app/profile/lawn... www.joshbarro.com/p/i-said-dem...
‘Petrol on the fire’: Sikhs in UK reconsider Reform support over response to Henry Nowak murder
Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline.
www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...
We relied on @bentarnoff.com's great new book with @quinnslobodian.com for this piece. We try to offer a real theory on what Musk really means in decrying "suicidal empathy." We argue that his gutting of USAID (also justified by denigrating "empathy") is a test run for much worse to come:
Aaron Rupar
Recent success among Sikh voters in doubt after party’s proposed kirpan ban adds to sense of racist scapegoating
The women of 'The Pitt' are addressing the fan backlash to Dr. Robby's treatment of women on the show: 'He’s operating within a system that has misogyny baked in.'
Spoke to @gregsargent.bsky.social about Musk's cyborg anti-humanitarianism and why he dislikes the concept of empathy so much newrepublic.com/article/2119...
newrepublic.com
The violent fascist riots in Belfast reveal the future that the trillionaire really wants. We need an international movement to constrain him.
Kamala Harris's endorsements of some dumb populist economic policies (and also some smart ones) are good signs she is focused on winning. But she has more pandering to do on energy policy.
What if you run a political campaign promising to hunt down glonzo to lower people’s power bill, and once in power you enact a massive solar power investment and people’s power bills go down, but you don’t talk up the solar power, you talk about killing glonzo?
