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The Manchester City of college football …

I'm surprised he didn't just say he hadn't noticed the rise in prices

Ok so you’re not going to do anything about that then?

Border Patrol agent appeared to brag about his accuracy after shooting Chicago woman five times, messages in court reveal

The Supreme Court has to understand that the president is breaking the law in ways I like. Or at least in ways that I'm unwilling to challenge even though they're objectively not achieving their supposedly national interest goals and also breaking the law. So the Court must defer to that.

i think this tidbit is more telling than she realizes

Let's take a peek in at the people who spent the last 50 years calling for patriots to water the tree of liberty with blood, who hung Obama in effigy, who cheered the murders of Michael Brown and George Floyd, who stormed the Capitol to steal an election... Oh look at these fucking snowflakes

One thing that public health and pharma industry people are watching today: whether Trump will *again* question if the GLP-1 drugs work, even as he touts his price-cut deal. (There's considerable evidence they work.) Here's an example of Trump's skepticism:

Why you should never stop the shutdown. Mike saying, out loud, Congress is irrelevant and we will do what Trump tells us to do

Marjorie Taylor Greene just denied on CNN that she's on a "revenge tour" because Trump wouldn't let her run for senate, as AOC has claimed. Greene said it's not true and she doesn't want to run for senate because it's gridlocked and they "get nothing done." Unlike... the House, Marj?

everything else aside, this is kind of a stupid boast if she's *still alive*

Road Rules guy big mad about the elections

Class is supposed to begin in 5 minutes. I've got a bad feeling about this. 🙁

It's worth emphasizing how cowardly these thugs are. It's unprofessional and shitty to escalate a situation and start a fight, but these aren't even fights—if anyone fights back they're facing federal felony charges— it's just beating up totally defenseless people.

my issue with this is that the conservative post-liberal position continues to elude questions of power and political economy: these points are all correct in terms of how most women end up having to deal with the challenges of corporate life, but embedding catholic views on child-rearing doesn't...

yeah this irritates me too. "there is NO AUDIENCE for this", I say as I repost and share the link. it's you. you're the audience. clicks and being talked about are the measure of professional success for these people, and you're sharing their stuff and talking about it.

Oh. Wow. Look, I know ppl say dumb stuff in college, and we have to give ppl room to grow. But: 1. There's "dumb stuff" and there's <but what's 3000 executions? Stop whining>, w the latter far harder to write off as youthful indiscretion. 2. I'm not sure Douthat HAS shown signs of changing much.

There's an interesting throughline here about MAGA identification serving as a proxy for being politically aware enough to know what position your side is "supposed" to have and to adapt your position based on it. (I don't think this is unique to MAGA) www.kff.org/public-opini...

How does affordability align with Trump tripling health care premiums?

social media is half this and half people mistakenly treating other people's arguments about being this

Sounds like it’s a relevance making lunch for everyone besides Mamdani

Holy shit this is horrible news

Abusive non-competes are part of the Plot to Enslave America. They want serfs and slaves. Making it impossible to switch jobs has been an explicit goal of the capitalist class for as long as it's existed.

What a great piece of advice … via @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social (actually, his dad). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

If I were a relief pitcher my entrance music would be Waterloo by ABBA. Opposing batters would be distracted by having the song stuck in their head.

“wokeness is distinctively feminine and feminized”: Ah, here it is — the confident ignorance with which people pluck a word from AAVE, pretend it always meant something else, and then vilify the bogeyman they just made up.

Please please please can we get back to a society that punishes lying like this

[editor returning from vacation] so did that temp yesterday do okay?

Supposed to fly Sunday out of the most disrupted airport in the US.

yeah unlike the other postliberals i still make it a point to read Leah, even if i disagree with her point tremendously. i think it helps that her strand of postliberal gender stuff is written in a way that makes me want to jump out the window, even if i disagree with it 100%

obligatory "if you want to criticize Paul Pelosi's ethics look at the San Francisco real estate, not the long-dated large-cap calls" post

looking forward to more hard-hitting journalism from the times like "Does the Negro Belong in the Modern Office?" and "Do Homosexuals Have a Place in Schools?"

I think it's funny that Elon leaving is maybe the only way the brand ever could be saved in the long run

I read Leah Libresco Sargeant’s book (and mentioned it in a recent piece) and it’s poorly researched, poorly argued, and totally pernicious. It’s astonishing to me that anyone takes her seriously, but the bar for conservative women has always been lower

ICE got $29.9 billion (with a B) over the next four years to use for purposes that include recruitment. The amount of money that they can shell out right now for this kind of stuff is enormous, so you can expect to see this more and more.

Hard hitting journalism at The Verge lmao

it's sort of an extension of Alasdair MacIntyre's work in Dependent, Rational Animals (a good book) in the direction of a postliberal feminism, i think

Trump tells the GOP that the shutdown is hurting Republicans far more than Democrats and then he tells his transpo secretary to go say this lmao

People online will say this for opinions like “it’s ok that video games cost money” so it’s funny to see it used somewhere where it’s actually totally true.

Nancy watching the returns come in on Tuesday

Let Them Eat My Affordability Message

she elaborates on points like this in other work (like her CLJ interview) where she makes the fair point that contemporary institutions are hostile to women *as* women in terms of their institutional design, and so she wants to argue that both the (classical liberal right) and the...

Liar!

There’s an even chance that the GOP takeaway is that elections are bad and no longer necessary.

I'm gonna need a follow up on what religion says you can't sit down to dinner. First Assholian Church of Christ maybe

The far right, which has disproportionate influence today, thinks a lot of problems stem from the fact that women have the right to vote, and that the world would be better if women knew their place. . No, seriously. As @aselrod.bsky.social details here, they go on and on about it. A lot.

these people mostly voted for the Nazi porn candidate btw

I've tried extremely hard and i'm happy to finally be getting some credit

what sort of fascinates me here is that this is completely compatible with care liberalism: it's not like contemporary liberal theorists post-Rawls have neglected to answer the question of "how does dependency shape life, and how does this reshape our conception of the liberal self?"

Here’s a prediction: The deal offers discounted cash pricing supplemented by manufacturer assistance that already exists and yields no change at all besides Trump taking credit for it.

Pelosi was an incredibly effective House speaker with an impressive list of accomplishments. she was not always very supportive of progressive causes or caucus members.

I find people with coherent philosophies of how society ought to be fascinating because I don't even have a coherent philosophy of how society *is*

A win for justice www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...

e.g. her interview with Notre Dame's Church Life Journal here:

Who were those Mamdani-Trump voters? Largely Latinos, South Asians, Muslims and people from immigrant communities. Good Q&A with @michaellangenyc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

the second one is Leah's position, and it's because of her post-liberal position where she thinks that liberal (secular) feminism denies the essence of womanhood by treating men and women as interchangeable essences

People shit on the ACA for its shortcomings but it was a monumental achievement dragged across the line with tons of moderate and even conservative Dems required support.

why am i cursed with knowing all the postliberal lore

my "women are bitches for reporting me to HR" interview in the New York Times is raising a lot of questions already answered by my interview.

It's a bad newspaper run by people who want to destroy it to advance Trump's politics

the concern here is that white Christian nationalists will be subjugated by Jews. which is...not a real danger, but is a big tell that they are paranoid antisemites.

Nothing bad could come of this, I’m sure.

On the case of Sandwich Guy

This could be us if we weren't strangling the solar industry to help keep oil prices up

This post is specifically for @ethankocak.com and nobody else www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I'm only seeing snippets of this but like, we all know the three point line is in different places for different basketball leagues, right like men in high school, NBA, college/international all use different lines not a gender thing

You can’t convince me that this is an official presidential photo and not the marketing campaign for new HBO drama.

Sorry but this makes me so happy because there were still a few people who would come in to defend the NYT now and again when I made rude comments and I hope this puts all that to bed now lmao

I am so excited to see Tom Wambsgans play a guy who was kicked out of a cult for being too annoying

Nobody tell my Mexican mom that Zohran Mamdani is younger than me and is mayor and married!

one of the best to ever do it

'85 year old retires' should not be a remarkable headline. She served long, honorably, and mostly well, I hope she gets to have a happy and active retirement.

Helen Andrews believes women are a problem because they keep calling her a terrible, abusive colleague to HR whereas men take the more straightforward approach of going on C-SPAN.

the conventional wisdom was that Mickie Sherrill was running a bad campaign...which turned out to be either wrong or irrelevant. which means either analysts are bad at assessing campaigns, or campaigns don't matter much...or possibly both. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/mickie-she...

Does this mean no more Gatsby parties? Asking for a Mar-a-Lago member who just got a wad of crisp new $100 bills for lighting cigars with.

i put feminist in quotes because i'm not entirely sure an anti-liberal/post-liberal feminism is qualified as what most women would recognize as feminism

When many other Democratic leaders in Congress were cravenly supporting the run-up to the Iraq War, Nancy Pelosi opposed it and whipped votes in the House against it. She has many other career accomplishments but that brave and prescient stand is what I'll remember.

a lot of this comes down to her conversion to a specifically more postliberal kind of Catholicism (shaped by Dreher's Benedict Option) her semi-autobiographical book GETTING TO AMEN talks about this trajectory

Hmm I wonder what has changed in the last year

What could go wrong?

"The AI boom not only normalizes plagiarism, but it also entirely ignores the work it takes to produce great writing." YES.

I feel an acquittal coming on.

Was nice to see Ciattarelli's explicit degrowth campaign flop. The truth is that Sherrill's YIMBY platform was extremely modest and kinda disappointing, but I hope she's emboldened by how poorly the NIMBY attacks on her fared.

Give the man credit! These are the seven wars he stopped!

Calibration is challenging

See, look, he solved another war.

Trump officials keep acting like conditions worsening and Americans suffering on their watch reflects badly on the opposition, and the public will get mad at people without power, because those are the people who care about Americans and want things to run well. I don’t think that’s how it works.

Republicans face a tough choice: do they adapt their policies and message, or do they come out strong against holding elections?

Good morning readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Ukraine has once again been plunged into darkness by Russia's attacks on energy infrastructure. For Ukrainian mothers, like Myroslava, this means dealing with the stress and mess of caring for an infant – with no power.

it's deeply fascinating when you basically know the intellectual history of both the people Douthat is interviewing one is a former atheist-turned-Catholic postliberal "feminist" that wrote a book on Dreher's work the other is Helen Andrews, mostly known for basically the Todd Seavey monologue

Nancy Pelosi voted against the Defense of Marriage Act the President of her own party pushed. She spoke out for human rights activists in China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. She voted against the Iraq War. Thanks to her, people with pre-existing conditions can have health care.

Good piece. The... I'm not sure if "more serious" is right, but the version of it Vance and others more openly advocate... is this crackpot idea of giving extra votes to parents, which I wrote about @theunpopulist.net. Nominally that wouldn't discriminate by sex, but it's unabashedly patriarchal.

The last Republican in Maryland's congressional delegation www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

United understands branding in a crisis

The GOAT - thanks for your incredible service, Rep. Pelosi, and for modeling true selfless leadership by stepping back and making space for a new generation of leaders.

He’s such a sweaty pathetic loser

one of my favorite things is that if you look at Lego ads from 15 years ago they were still trying to market sets like this as for kids, and now they feature pictures of guys who have good accountancy jobs.

Cry harder

Running against a bad, unpopular president doing bad, unpopular things works. Thinking a bad, unpopular president is not worth talking about—one narrow election is forever, he’s magic, no one cares—is ridiculous. Shouldn’t need saying, but here we are, so it’s good @gregsargent.bsky.social does.

I attended Catholic elementary school and we actually attended a Jewish Shabbat dinner as part of our religious education.