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Many people are saying
November 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Many people are saying
Explicit white nationalists "were pushed into exile" after Charlottesville, "only to reappear on X after Elon Musk loosened moderation in 2023, an uncanny alt-right night of the living dead."
www.persuasion.community/p/how-the-in...
www.persuasion.community/p/how-the-in...
How the Internet Made the Far-Right
To understand extremist politics, you have to understand online discourse.
www.persuasion.community
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Explicit white nationalists "were pushed into exile" after Charlottesville, "only to reappear on X after Elon Musk loosened moderation in 2023, an uncanny alt-right night of the living dead."
www.persuasion.community/p/how-the-in...
www.persuasion.community/p/how-the-in...
The Harper's letter signers were right!
In the Harper's Letter, one of the things they got right was this:
"The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy."
So, here it is.
"The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy."
So, here it is.
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The Harper's letter signers were right!
we invented the la-z-boy floating chairs from the movie "WALL-E: Don't Create the La-Z-Boy Floating Chairs"
A new kind of monitor can follow you around the house. "They’re expensive. They’re not for everyone. Yet I can’t help but think they’re really cool," our Wirecutter tester writes.
Your TV Is Cool, but Can You Bring It in the Bathroom?
A new kind of monitor can follow you around the house. Most people won’t need one.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
we invented the la-z-boy floating chairs from the movie "WALL-E: Don't Create the La-Z-Boy Floating Chairs"
Had not actually seen this. This is nuts! open.substack.com/pub/theargum...
November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Had not actually seen this. This is nuts! open.substack.com/pub/theargum...
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I give you 5,000 words on Las Vegas, a city in flux. All year long I read headlines about how tourism to the Strip had sharply declined in 2025, so I went there for 3 days in October to soak in the vibe. Ultimately this is a story about why the city is Good and why the death of Vegas would be Bad.
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I give you 5,000 words on Las Vegas, a city in flux. All year long I read headlines about how tourism to the Strip had sharply declined in 2025, so I went there for 3 days in October to soak in the vibe. Ultimately this is a story about why the city is Good and why the death of Vegas would be Bad.
Jefferson as portrayed in HAMILTON (complimentary)
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Jefferson as portrayed in HAMILTON (complimentary)
Why are people talking about this story. It's completely unremarkable. It shouldn't be covered by the New York Times or Telos News. How dare anyone give any attention to this at all
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Why are people talking about this story. It's completely unremarkable. It shouldn't be covered by the New York Times or Telos News. How dare anyone give any attention to this at all
What perfect album(s, I'm cheating) came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
What perfect album(s, I'm cheating) came out the year you turned 16?
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Of course what is actually noteworthy about the Nuzzi story is how unique it is. The American media class is not at large having sexual relationships with their story subjects, regardless of what Hollywood tells you
November 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Of course what is actually noteworthy about the Nuzzi story is how unique it is. The American media class is not at large having sexual relationships with their story subjects, regardless of what Hollywood tells you
This is weird with the current government but the state has a legitimate monopoly on violence in a way that social media posters do not
okay so why is this post still up & account still existing? actual question. the account isn’t even verified like some of the other fed gov accounts either, but also it shouldn’t matter when they post “we will kill you” along with videos of them killing people.
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is weird with the current government but the state has a legitimate monopoly on violence in a way that social media posters do not
Fox did not run this segment today, this is a fake post
CNN: Trump in Epstein files
NBC: Trump in Epstein files
ABC: Trump in Epstein files
FOX:
NBC: Trump in Epstein files
ABC: Trump in Epstein files
FOX:
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Fox did not run this segment today, this is a fake post
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Sonny Bunch: "The Reagan Revolution inspired a generation of Alex P. Keaton-types to go into congressional offices...to go into public service. And the Trump administration is inspiring a generation of Nick Fuenteses to come."
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Sonny Bunch: "The Reagan Revolution inspired a generation of Alex P. Keaton-types to go into congressional offices...to go into public service. And the Trump administration is inspiring a generation of Nick Fuenteses to come."
I'm sorry but this is a really good profile
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I'm sorry but this is a really good profile
If they win zero votes and lose nonzero votes they should be discarded
my wokest opinion is that land acknowledgements are fine. people knowing a little bit about the land you're on, even if one isn't invested in a land back project, is not particularly worse than the status quo, even if one comes by this info in a way that is somewhat cringe and forced
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If they win zero votes and lose nonzero votes they should be discarded
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What husband swears they don't want gifts?!
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What husband swears they don't want gifts?!
Spanberger had votes that cut both ways. She had one of the most centrist voting records of anyone in Congress, including by breaking with Dems and voting for GOP immigration legislation with titles like the "Detain and Deport Illegal Aliens Who Assault Cops Act"
This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
November 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Spanberger had votes that cut both ways. She had one of the most centrist voting records of anyone in Congress, including by breaking with Dems and voting for GOP immigration legislation with titles like the "Detain and Deport Illegal Aliens Who Assault Cops Act"
wtf I'm MAGA now
Trump officials are taking aim at Dulles’s “people movers.”
- a Trump nominee to the board overseeing Dulles says he wants to kill the distinctive shuttles
- the White House signaled support for the plan Tuesday, criticizing the “notorious” vehicles
- a Trump nominee to the board overseeing Dulles says he wants to kill the distinctive shuttles
- the White House signaled support for the plan Tuesday, criticizing the “notorious” vehicles
Trump airport nominee wants to eliminate Dulles ‘people movers’
The unique shuttles, which have been in operation since 1962, have been blamed for delays and accidents. A White House official Tuesday called them “notorious.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
wtf I'm MAGA now
kind of a mild complaint but this isn't twitter. you can put the link in your post here. i would really like to read this article
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
kind of a mild complaint but this isn't twitter. you can put the link in your post here. i would really like to read this article
Working in actual nonprofits radicalized me to giving cash (and supporting overhead costs)
There’s a flood of (well meaning!) influencers doing splashy shopping trips for pantries and I recall what an abortion provider said: orgs need money, but donors give only what they want to, not necessarily what’s needed. Hence the offers for a couch to crash on post-abortion and not $ for a hotel.
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Working in actual nonprofits radicalized me to giving cash (and supporting overhead costs)
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Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
Read @daveweigel.bsky.social on the widespread societal consequences of Elon's link suppression:
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...
How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Finally got to write about this obsession. Elon pushed people to stop linking the articles they were talking about. He's started to roll that back, but we were left with a culture of people yelling at screenshots of headlines on monetized accounts
Rod Dreher estimates that between 30-40 percent of young conservatives in Washington DC are racist fascist groypers roddreher.substack.com/p/what-i-saw...
What I Saw And Heard In Washington
Groyperism's Spread Among Generation Z Conservative Apparatchiks Is Real
roddreher.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Rod Dreher estimates that between 30-40 percent of young conservatives in Washington DC are racist fascist groypers roddreher.substack.com/p/what-i-saw...
this is a film franchise where the first time they switched actors, George Lazenby looked into the camera and said "this never happened to the other fella"
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
this is a film franchise where the first time they switched actors, George Lazenby looked into the camera and said "this never happened to the other fella"
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Everybody agrees now that "affordability" is the key political issue of our time.
But what does this mean when inflation-adjusted wages and household income are higher than ever?
Trump enters the same pain cave that bedeviled Biden.
www.slowboring.com/p/affordabil...
But what does this mean when inflation-adjusted wages and household income are higher than ever?
Trump enters the same pain cave that bedeviled Biden.
www.slowboring.com/p/affordabil...
“Affordability” is just high nominal prices
I think Trump is totally screwed on this one
www.slowboring.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Everybody agrees now that "affordability" is the key political issue of our time.
But what does this mean when inflation-adjusted wages and household income are higher than ever?
Trump enters the same pain cave that bedeviled Biden.
www.slowboring.com/p/affordabil...
But what does this mean when inflation-adjusted wages and household income are higher than ever?
Trump enters the same pain cave that bedeviled Biden.
www.slowboring.com/p/affordabil...
Oh no the Detroit Lions are MAGA
November 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Oh no the Detroit Lions are MAGA