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Nick the Nevermet@nevermet.bsky.social · 3d ago

There was a time, over 20 years ago, when I thought Brooks had a point, and even if he was wrong, at least he was reasonable. I suspect I have changed more than he has, and I now utterly loath his performative reasonableness fueled by willfully misunderstanding the world.

@herenowandthere.bsky.social · 7d ago

👀 “Moderation is the belief that other people exist. You can't love your country if you hate half its people.” comment.org/podcasts/the...

@herenowandthere.bsky.social · 3d ago

thinking more about this, regarding Sierra Club. i haven’t done a ton of reading on what happened, but feels like current news articles are pretty surface level?

@herenowandthere.bsky.social · 4d ago

thanks for sharing! i’m curoius what your takeaways from this are? i’ll admit as someone who works in ornaginzational infrastructure and finances i’d need more information to be able to say this was “woke culture” and not just shitty leadership. E.g., i’d need to go through this budget referenced

The club said that was meant to address the "problematic lack of diversity and inclusion in the environmental movement and to make the Sierra Club a welcoming and supportive place to work for all employees." "I said, 'We have two ET.E.s devoted to Trump's war on the Arctic refuge, and we have 108 going to D.E.I., and I don't think we have our priorities straight?" Mr. Dougherty said, using the acronyms for "full-time employees" and "diversity, equity and inclusion." Mr. Dougherty said no other board members agreed, and the budget passed.
The Best of All Possible Oaves@erikonymous.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is why you don't go around being like "Woke 1 was crazzyyy!" The path of accepting rightwing framing of any issue inevitably leads to a weakening of the public good.

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3d ago

Remembering that weird period where libs felt it was brave to say, "Y'know who's had it too good for too long? Public school teachers" WAITING FOR 'SUPERMAN' (2010) etc We underestimate how much the school privatization movement was a sharp tip of the fascist spear

Louis Römer@lromeranth.bsky.social · 4d ago

I will add that the performative function of "woke" has become periodizing and exoticizing perennially frustrating features of work and political life. Useless committees? Incompetent bosses? Unfair, nepotistic hiring practices? Social ostracism and bullying? None are unique to the 2020s.

Louis Römer@lromeranth.bsky.social · 4d ago

The things that end up being cited as "excesses of woke" tend to be assorted things people got riled about and associate with the early 2020s. These things have little to no relation to each other. Think about it: did the George Floyd protestors actually demand more sensitivity trainings?

@herenowandthere.bsky.social · 5d ago

when a leftist writer says “to say nothing of the social conditions” it’s their nive way of saying they are about to talk at length about the social conditions

Eoin Higgins@eoinhiggins.bsky.social · last wk.

Tom Nichols has done a good job rebranding in the last decade but now that Democratic voters are embracing more MENA-background candidates he can’t help but indulge the rank Islamophobia he’s always had at the core of his politics

@herenowandthere.bsky.social · last wk.

so in my one foray as electoral campaign staff, we tried to position the candidate as “organizer-in-chief” for the ward. it was 💯 the wrong call for that race, but great to see it being raised up as a serious asset to campaigns, as it’s something the dem party outsources or cannabalizes currently

@herenowandthere.bsky.social · last wk.

like this piece! You don’t even have to agree with framing but you learn something from it! it adds to your knowledge and grapples with what’s actually happening www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/o...

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · last wk.

Trump II has profound consequences that will last a century: -destruction of administrative state & civil service -extreme wealth concentration, tech oligarchy -climate rollbacks -end of rule of law w/o pushback incentivizes future backsliding -Iran Pundits hate this because it sounds shrill

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.

also, describing a lack of legislative capacity as a point against authoritarian consolidation misses the point: the defining feature of Trump’s second term is consolidation of power in the *executive* - the lack of legislative authorization makes him more authoritarian, not less

At the moment, Trump 2.0 has no great popularity, no legislative capacity, no policy legacy that a Democratic successor can't easily roll back.
@herenowandthere.bsky.social · last wk.

also doesn’t account for the fact that resistance has helped prevent some of the consolidation from happening! like saying fears of fire were overblown after firefighters have already put out some of the blaze

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.

This line from Ross Douthat’s final NYT column is something you see all the time from the soft-MAGA right. Sure, Trump’s *most* alarmist critics weren’t correct, but that’s basically true of every president. Trump’s *median* critic did in fact predict his presidency pretty accurately.

Trumpism has flailed and failed, it hasn't consolidated the kind of authoritarian power anticipated by its most alarmed opponents.
@herenowandthere.bsky.social · last wk.

appreciated this @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social piece. Reflecting, i was allergic to being a “joiner” for the first 20ish years of my life, which immediately fell away as i left evangelicalism. i thought it wasn’t too noticeable, but now remembering i got the “doubting thomas” every year at Kanakuk

EVANGELICAL YOUTH GROUPS PRIORITIZED FUN AND ENTERTAINMENT BUT LEFT MANY WITH SHAME AND EXISTENTIAL DREAD. CHURCH KIDS DESERVE BETTER. By Tyler Huckabee Illustrations by Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy