William Clare Roberts 🇵🇸

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

Magic bullet theory: Lee Harvey Oswald's bullet not only blew JFK's brains out; it also lobotomized his nephew.

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Go straight to jail, Flávio.

To everyone responding to this with some variation of "well, it's Iowa:" provide literally any amount of evidence that shows Democrats benefiting from opportunistic transphobia. Like you can't even pull the realpolitik > ethics card because it's both morally abhorrent and politically worthless.

Well that's news...

Man, Hegseth's Department of War is even more buffoonish than everything else. Kinda amazed how the US military didn't just have some basic war plans they could activate. Their lack of preparedness is astonishing. meidasnews.com/news/so-much...

a 25 year old could not comprehend how bad the dining options were in the median American town in 1996

Yglesias is admirably clear in expressing his really stupid idea.

holy crap

the vivek ad has crossed an ethical line imperceptible to the human eye

Someone is unclear on the concept “France.”

Just the perfect coda to this story

It’s helpful to have an actual Labour MP saying right out that it’s not what transgender people do or say that is the problem: it’s their presence that she objects to, their existence. Yes, this is what it always was, and these people just keep winding each other up and up to ever more extreme views

It continues to be insane that the mainstream Liberal Zionist definition of apartheid in the US is one that wouldn't apply to South Africa.

People arrested under terrorism legislation are now more likely to be female, older (average age of 59, maximum age of 89!) and white, entirely because of PA.

Per the Middle East Studies Association, since October 7, 76 North American academics have been fired for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. Two-thirds of those people are non-white. 16.5% are Jewish. afi.mesana.org/resource/les...

pitching an article to Jacobin about why we shouldn't let girls into the treehouse

Classic Dante fanfic, such as Over the Garden Wall and Marx's Capital.

That Hemingway quote about hunting men is alarmingly common in police culture. I've seen it on police union merch and on t-shirts and other swag at SWAT competitions and policing conferences.

New Google Maps sattelite images of Gaza, mosque in Rafah, "temporarily closed".

This is the punchline, but the whole thread is something I endorse 110%

The Caucus for a Critical Political Science has become the first US-based association of political scientists to endorse BDS.

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

The whole graf is hilarious The film (that I have not seen) “falls short on every dimension”

Do you think this is a compelling argument? Do you think you're winning anyone over with this?

Israel’s culture minister wants to strip film directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of their Israeli citizenship for their movie Naza, which features testimonies of IDF soldiers admitting to knowingly killing civilians in Gaza

This is some sick stuff.

3 things about Dem politicians who dabble in transphobia: 1. It's wrong, they're wrong, on a moral basis they're being evil 2. It's stupid, they're stupid, they'll never get any credit from the fascists for it 3. It's proof you're not capable of reading or rising to this, and therefore any, moment

if you want to speedrun developing the level of personal and political brainworms that were characteristic of the elites in the Confederacy I highly advise telling a chatbot all your problems

The UK, alongside eight other US allies such as Canada and France, declared today that they will ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements. This is a long overdue but necessary step towards establishing the baseline of accountability against Israeli occupation and apartheid.

@gabrielwinant.bsky.social is saying true things again! "If the center and the right think the working class and professionals don’t belong together, they should make an offer to one group or the other about a better affiliation." dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...