any entertainment which is in any way, possibly or imaginably, associated with people or movements i do not like is inherently morally corrupt. therefore,

people are pointing out that this is obviously antisemitic, and it is, but one notes that this is sort of the natural endpoint of building your entire political identity around cultural criticism.

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think “I am the protagonist of life” is the main psychological appeal of this kind of conspiracism. You risked nothing, you did nothing, and other real people are suffering the things you’re pretending to think are bad, but in the end you’re the great hero for surviving your imagination.

Cutting money that provides food and health care but spending $300 million to permanently deploy the military to the streets of the capital in times of peace is tinpot dictator stuff

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · last wk.

What could up to 2k illegally deployed troop apartments cost, Michael? $148,000? Each?

johnny cab in total recall feels more apt. ugly dangerous crap designed to steal jobs and pretend to have conversations. at no moment do you consider johnny cab to be pondering concepts

Shady Inference 🌫️@blot.city · 7mo ago

You won't catch me posting matrix or terminator bits in relation to real-world AI deployment because that would constitute a reproduction and endorsement of the foundational marketing lie that these technologies ought to be conceived of as comparable to the "thinking machine" science fiction premise

Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

Well that makes sense of the murder spree. Prosecute everyone.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.

People who are mad about The Odyssey already got their representation in a previous adaptation

lost my shit when he said this

Nicholas knows this but to put a fine point on it: to assuage and exploit the insecurities of people who weren’t successful but won’t blame themselves.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3w ago

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Every day this guy does something like this and every day the same people who dress him up as a terrifying commie destroyer of civilization do a dozen things to sabotage the public good, to murder and destroy and hate and kill, and I can't anymore handle those who won't see the clear difference.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

bostonglobe.com

The Odyssey was pretty good, except the part where Helen of Troy turned to the camera and said "The real fictional Helen, like all women in Ancient Greece, resembled an English aristocrat who's never seen sunlight (except, you know, pretty). How does the wokeness taste? Your kids are communist now."

I think we can see the playbook for this year's midterms.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Tuberville: "We probably have four or five senators that didn't legally win. They shouldn't be up here."

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

roberts et al have a mental model of racism as being defined entirely by the most atavistic mania of the jim crow south. if it isn’t that, if it wears suits and ties and speaks the language of national security and executive authority, then it not only doesn’t count, *it’s not racism*

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It’s incredible that people this dumb get the same number of votes as you do.

every single one of these is an impeachable offense

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3w ago

so, I went semi-offline for half a day and came back to find four stories any one of which could have been a weeks-long banner headline story in the before times.

Happening right in front of us. The world's richest man.

Martha-Ann Alito is flying her Stop the Steal flag at half-staff to honor the late Lindsey Graham.

Hard to put into words how big of an own-goal it is for the United States to normalize shipping tolls at all, much less tolls at 20%. It's the kind of thing that appeals to someone who has only ever known how to run short-term scams.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump: "The USA will be, from this point forward, known as 'THE GUARDIAN OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT,' but as such, and as a matter of FAIRNESS, will be reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped, for costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security ... "

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

when you tell us that the people who murdered comity and civility—who are trying to kill and rob and enslave us—are actually your dear friends, you don’t create civility, but despair; we see you don’t actually believe the danger is real, can’t be trusted to fight the battle that needs to be fought.

To Democrats and their eulogies: If you say that democracy is under attack by the Republican Party—and it is—and you say that the Republican Party represents an authoritarian threat—and it does—then civility and comity have already been murdered, and shows of comity are utterly incoherent.