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it's probably not even worth the energy to dunk on this. but I started college the year after this guy thinks white men "hit the wall". and looking back, the only moments I felt like there were "no opportunities" for me were the moments when I was being an entitled, lazy, brat.
One problem with this take is the number of high profile white millennial men in the media...

www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
December 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
shout out to loc for doggedly searching their storage for a random copy of artnews from like 1955 that apparently went missing from the shelf. it may have taken 6 months to find but it's a win (i do not remember why i needed it anymore)
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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counterpoint: nothing you post on any social media platform will in any way combat the dangerousness of the right
IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.

The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
an ice delivery guy who thinks the crowd chanting "abolish ice" is just cheering for his business
December 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
genuinely pathetic stuff.
I've found the indoctrination in higher-ed!

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
December 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
fell off an ebike and ripped my pants yesterday to avoid a driver who wasn't paying attention............ call that a micromobility memento mori
December 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
December 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Arguably the worst thing about living in a city is sharing the streets with drivers from the suburbs who treat your 25 mph neighborhood like a suburban stroad!
It is literally life and death if you speed
December 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"revealed" is such a funny choice here lol. this is public and has always been public! famously, anyone can read the discussions about source reliability and you can even join the discussions yourself! like go defend the freak show propaganda rags if you really give such a fuck about this lmfao.
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"

This, this a point
PHILIPSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves immigration detention after federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
still laughing at these Fake Stella posters from a hotel elevator in philly
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
timeline cleanse: paul mccarthy buttplug selfie
December 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”

And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
December 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
got copyright on the brain (can't stop thinking about this lawsuit and the fact that if kim hadn't settled we probably would've watched a good chunk of judd's claimed copyright get voided by the courts)
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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is there a *mr* information?
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Disney is the reason the American copyright system is as strict as it is. They've gone to Congress, court, even international treaty negotiations. They've spent hundreds of millions - probably billions now - on legal fees to bend copyright enforcement to their will.

And now they're just...
Please treat our treasured IP like trash
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
still thinking about that new gallery in georgetown that made local DC artists PAY to apply to "show at art basel miami" (tagged art basel in their posts, extensively used the words "at art basel"). when I asked "that's vague, what do you mean?" they demurred.

it was a pop up show at a hotel....
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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imagine respecting your company's own award-winning audio journalists so little that you would just do this to them out in the open. crazy!
The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."
December 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
'art in the age of mechanical reproduction' more like 'governing in the age of congressional atrophy'
December 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
what does it say about me that a *genuine* highlight of my week was the library telling me this was already on their acquisitions radar and I helped them get it for free instead.
this will ofc be going to the Nat Gallery's library after I read it lol
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM