MAGA people are the most unsatisfied, miserable people in the world and their entire movement is based on making happy people share in their pain
this level of bigotry is genuinely psychotic and reminiscent of rabid antisemites accusing anyone who irritates them of being a jew
I am never going to forgive or forget the way Bhaskar Sunkara, Dustin Guastella, Vivek Chibber and the rest of the "anti-woke" Jacobin crew celebrated the end of official opposition to racism as a victory for working class politics.
a significant driver of the populist negativity towards pointing at GDP growth as evidence that today is better than yesterday is the fact that people mistake the "numbers going up" as the product itself and not a signifier of products
Law enforcement is a make work program for illiterate fail sons.
the extent to which ""leftist"" thought leaders are adopting far-right language about hr ladies tells you a lot about what noosphere they're stewing in
Burning crosses in Chicago, Chud The Builder getting a ton of support in Nashville, and an attempted mass shooting in Georgia. They’re trying to work up their nerve.
ICE is torturing infants. Heads must roll--literally.
Seriously, if any of these babies dies then everyone responsible at that facility should be facing a firing squad by the time an impartial judge and impartial jury are done with them.
Madman theory (the President is negotiating with the voices in his head)
fwiw the two most salient demographic variables re violent crime are gender and age--ie male and youth--far and above race which indexes differential risk factor exposure
antisocial behavior by young men and boys is a delicate problem that needs a better response than throwing them into cages
Brandon Friedman
ben chambers 🏴
its incredibly funny and characteristic of Dolan that he's spending the days that should be the absolute funnest to own the team — which should be some of the funnest days of his own life! — to instead get into and lose a bitter feud with the mayor for seemingly no reason
