Millions of people have an absolutely insane concept of “critical thinking” that means “making a fully independent judgment on complex questions you are, if you’re at all honest with yourself, comically incompetent to evaluate & demand years of specialized training.”

Marc Veldhoen@marcveld.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.

The media is desperate to find some reason why Elon Musk's politics are complicated or more sophisticated than they seem, because the simple truth is too ugly for them to admit - an actual Nazi is the world's wealthiest person, and his companies hold substantial American government contracts.

Social research finding: "Christian nationalism helps legitimize the economic status quo, unequal as it is, for higher earning Americans by marking capitalism and meritocratic economic values as sacred and the will of the Christian God."

James Goodwin@jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Lot of food for thought in here kettering.org/economic-ine...

Just a US Senator saying that an opposition politician should be imprisoned without trial for committing no crime except disagreeing with him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Tuberville on Mayor Mamdani: "Put handcuffs on him ... send him to Gitmo"

Politicians and pundits giving up human rights of some "in order to win" is like players scoring on their own goal "in order to win." Yes, you're scoring. You've also forgotten the game, and why you're playing, and what winning even is, and you have to be benched in favor of people who remember.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 2w ago

I will not negotiate away anybody’s human rights and I will oppose any politician who thinks that is an ok stance. I don’t care what party. If you’re going to support democrats who oppose transgender humanity the entire thing isn’t worth fighting for. The line must be drawn.

uh...yes?

gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Texas Republicans doing recruitment for us.

Smeagol-Transitioning-To-Gollum has some thoughts about normal people.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

Happy to see the environment going up. Should be much higher, tbh

Polling Canada@canadianpolling.bsky.social · 3w ago

Most Important Issue: Jobs/Economy: 22% (+1) Inflation: 12% (-1) Healthcare: 8% (-) Trump/US Relations: 8% (-) Immigration: 6% (-) Environment: 6% (+2) National Unity: 3% (-1) Housing: 3% (-) Nanos / July 10, 2026 / n=1000 / MOE 3.1% / Telephone/Online (% Change With July 3, 2026)

We need to hear from more leaders around HR country about this grave injustice and brutal killing.

I wrote about the rise and fall of Graham Platner, a candidate whose political appeal rested on him looking like exactly what he turned out to be. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why was the pundit class so quick to defend Graham Platner?

To some of Platner’s most influential backers his swaggering, reckless, and casually brutish masculinity was understood not as a liability, but as a virtue

theguardian.com

Such an important distinction that I wish more people were aware of

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 4mo ago

faux liberalism (ezra klein) vs actual liberalism (mill)

For those who don’t follow sports and haven’t really had the opportunity to get to know Canada men’s national football team head coach Jesse Marsch, he is probably one of the few Americans who addressed the insulting “51st state” rhetoric head-on since day one. ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ 1/3 🧵

this is not why i call musk a fascist

Phenomenal evening in Montreal, at the jazz fest #angine

He’s going to blame Algerians.

Politico@politico.com · 2mo ago

Algae resurfaces in reflecting pool after multimillion-dollar fixes

the most wholesome 🧵 in the history of Internet

Petra Korlević@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate

To quote @juliusgoat.bsky.social … Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step forward. He takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 2mo ago

“Texas Democrats’ failure to calibrate on abortion serves as a microcosm for what’s happened to abortion politics in the party writ large,” the journalist Zaid Jilani writes.

I sure hope to see the day Musk receives legal punishment proportional with the extent of his murders and damage, done directly to people, and to the political discours, which caused indirect damage to so many as well. Whatever that might look like..

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Elon Musk should be mentioned in the same breath as Leopold and Hitler and any other mass-murdering human monster; he should be equated in the public mind with "genocidal racist mass murderer" and little else. And he should be brought to justice for those crimes.

Always pointing out that Elon Musk has deliberately murdered hundreds of thousands of people mostly in the global south and it is estimated that he will have murdered 14 million people via DOGE alone in the next 5 years.

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · 2mo ago

It's just remarkable that if you're white, male, and conservative you are allowed to call for political violence that would get anyone who doesn't tick all those boxes absolutely pilloried. The group with the fewest legitimate grievances in society provided the widest grace to rage. Wild.

Not AI. Penguin Random House created an unburnable copy of the Handmaid's Tale. Printed on fire-resistant paper and bound with a flame retardant cover, the book was auctioned off. The still is from the promotional video where Atwood took a flamethrower to it. Fuck Gilead. #booksky

BREAKING: The Trololo Man has backed out of Freedom 250

🏒 ❤️

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thank you to Marty St. Louis and the Montreal Canadiens for a fantastic season and an impressive and fun playoff run. No shame in falling to a more experienced (and better rested) team. This young, talented Habs group is just going to learn and get better. See you next season, Montreal! #GoHabsGo

That’s an amazing line lololol

Thread on how the Conservatives are weaponizing "diversity" to undermine and break down Higher Education

Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Viewpoint diversity” is a trap For @table.media, I wrote about the Yale report on “Trust in Higher Education” – and why we will not be able to defend academic freedom by accepting the terms set by a rightwing campaign intended to impose reactionary rule. Some thoughts, since it is in German:

it's the same picture

Steven Lucy@slucy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chicago summer has arrived

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

Two people whose ideas I follow and admire, writing on the importance of facing bigots with the truth about how they hurt people and who they really are bsky.app/profile/polp... bsky.app/profile/juli...

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

politicians & press alike insist we can never tell anti-immigrant voters they're wrong—but they are, & we should! my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

Like all of Moxon's essays, this one helps me crystalize my own thinking about a thorny concept. Much as I admire his writing, it's his clarity of thought and determination to drill down into ideas that I'm most envious of.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There came a day when the great emperor fell ill with fever, and none of his doctors could revive him. Now the call went out across the empire, promising great reward for any who could find a cure. www.the-reframe.com/one-thing-yo...

Thread. Does anyone have confidence in the Trump team to grasp, much less handle, these complexities?

Social Distancing Cat@socialdistantcat.bsky.social · 3mo ago

[Long thread warning] 1/ A “deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz” sounds simple. It so isn’t. The Strait is not just a shipping lane right now. It is leverage, deterrence, domestic politics, Gulf sovereignty, Israeli security, insurance risk, and great-power competition all tangled together.

Learn the phrase "I am hated by Republicans and all other kinds of fascists, and I welcome their hatred" and repeat it whenever relevant, and also whenever not relevant.

Eoin Higgins@eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Without a spine, an elected lefty is just another politician."