Punching left is all Chait has. He has no novel or useful insights, analysis, research, or prose. Manning the left watchtower for elites is his life’s work. He has no ideological or movement commitments, no first principles, only what helps rich democrats in that specific moment.

there's something so wholesome in people holding hands while they do this sort of thing

Nope it's actually more misogynistic to think girls are being tricked into thinking they're boys than it is to believe trans people exist, hope this helps!

Didn’t have space to say this in the piece but if this case highlights how there are some forms of sexual exploitation that our discourses render unidentifiable as such, then it also shows how some women are deemed unrapable. Daniels’ cross examination today was a case in point.

A tribute to Steve Albini, Notable Sandwiches style, by David Swanson 🦢☀️ : buttondown.email/theswordandthe…

Bradley Onishi Noelle Cook Leslie Dorrough Smith Brilliant article x.com/mobydickenergy…

FINALLY OUT! 'Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s 'Siege'' shows how today’s popular neo-Nazi terrorist manual—the “bible” of the Atomwaffen Division—was created.
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It is 2001. Hollywood is trying to convince you Anne Hathaway is ugly. It is 2006. Hollywood is trying to convince you Anne Hathaway is fat. It is 2024. Hollywood is trying to convince you Anne Hathaway is old.

everything I hear and read about UCLA last week is totally surreal and terrifying lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/may/…

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I cannot think of a funnier way to punish the most left-wing Columbia grads for protesting Israel than by blacklisting their most right-wing classmates from the jobs they most want.

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this is why you can't take the people who say this is all about 'enforcing the rules' seriously. 'no sleeping' is not an actual rule at UF - no one is ever going to get suspended for 3 years for passing out on a bench. these are ex post justifications for punishing protestors

Maybe you disagree with Gaza protests, or some language you’ve heard from them. Do you approve of *militarized* response to civil disobedience? Because going forward that will be the standard response to protest over many issues. 2/

That’s what the Right wants—don’t for a second think US fascists care about “Jewish safety.” This is a longstanding, accelerating attack on higher education. They know it’s not really radical; they also know it’s a soft bulwark against the authoritarianism they aim for. 3/

Going to start referring to things as Male Gossip. Like economics.

I go interact with my loved ones for like four hours and I miss that nepo journalist undergrad trying to boss around a professor at his school because he wasn’t sufficiently deferential to his precious daddy? That’ll show me

The sheer entitlement of this, that because you’re a reporter, people simply must talk to you. There are plenty of ways to report about this protest movement. A lot good reporters have done just that!