NE -> DC. Progressive politics and college football. Onetime punk, forever a Nebraskan.
This notion that the purpose of writing essays is to have an essay-shaped object to hold at the end of it is just... wild, and incredibly widely held apparently? Have these people never... written an essay?
Charlotte WeatherillThe point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
Besides having the worst politics ever, this guy was married to a woman even Don Jr wouldn't give a ring. More skeletons in his closet than a Spirit Halloween. There is, literally, more oppo on this guy than anyone else in the history of the game. And they'll run one-source stories on the front page
Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)Gavin Newsom would be great as the 2028 nominee if you want to spend the entire campaign defending his personal life www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.
I came here to holler about college football
Root Beer Manbluesky is only kind of a “social media site”; more fundamentally it’s base of operations for the antifascist intelligentsia under a fascist regime. and what do you expect people will usually be talking about? if for no reason other than: it’s what we have in common. but also, why else are we here?
One consequence of the democratising effect of social media is too many people treat “the statements made and endorsed by a social media platform’s wealthy and powerful owner” with the same seriousness as “a random user with no influence or importance”.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
Some non-stories coming out about @kenmartin.bsky.social and the DNC. E.g. midway through this hyperventilating piece: "The DNC’s building was also used as collateral in our prior lines of credit in 2019, 2018, 2014, and many other years.”
The DNC Put Up Its Headquarters as Collateral to Obtain Its Massive LoanIt’s raised concern among members that it’s further evidence of the financial strain the committee is under.www.notus.org
As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
We used to be able to buy things in this countryLocking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazydannykatch.substack.com
The White House Correspondents Dinner is a great example of institutional accommodation to Trump and its payoff - which is a loss of credibility. Trump will no longer be mocked there, but will instead attack journalists both with his speech and using government power.
Keith EdwardsNBC's kristen welker was caught laughing it up with Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller who architected the family separation policy. Stephen Miller who pushed the Muslim travel ban. Stephen Miller who oversaw the killing of Americans by ICE agents. This is why independent media is crucial.
