Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026becoming a vulgar rawlsian. the veil of ignorance isn't perfect, but 'is this how you would design things if *you* thought you might end up here?' is a test that way too many people fail. on everything from criminal justice to public transit, across the ideological spectrum. 1051457
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 13/09/2026gonna add this one to the pmc class neurosis files 832927
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The term that's needed to capture the point behind this satire is *proportionality.* If we analyze the pathologies of the present political agenda through the lens of political judgment, the problem is a systematic failure of opinion-makers to respond proportionally to the issues of the day. 44714
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialNvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Dan Ariely is, by any reasonable metric, a way more significant figure both within his discipline and in the culture at large than Jason Arday ever was 317634
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Maybe some of those "why are you campaigning with an antisemite?" questions could go to Republicans backed by a Sieg Heiling white nationalist. The silence is especially deafening because Musk's involvement helped Republicans lose in WI in 2025, so the press even has its preferred horserace frame. 361857483
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026many "centrists" agree with Cofnas and when they complain about "wokeness" and "political correctness" they often mean that they are not allowed to express this stupid idea — that black people in smart-guy jobs shouldn't be there and should be like, sprinters and jazz musicians instead — explicitly 351921365
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I think part of the pundit crack-up has been that they missed the big call of their lifetimes about which was the bigger threat to America: wokeness or authoritarianism. And rather than admitting that, they are doubling down on wokeness, while ignoring an authoritarianism that does not threaten them 952916656
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026In dishonor of Ross Douthat's last NYT column, I'm breaking my self-imposed ban on reading him—smug bad faith, whiny victimization, and steadfast refusal to let evidence affect opinion—and will screenshot and comment. This is the column if you want to read it yourself (I don't recommend it). 1/xnytimes.comOpinion | Who Is My Enemy? I’m No Longer Sure.Where does the side of the angels really lie? 1382036394
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.nytimes.comThe Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes 342061837
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialDr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 26/04/2026REQUEST: I am looking to start a college prep intensive bootcamp at UAB for rising Juniors from a Birmingham city school (ideally permanent). Are there best practice models/ already existing programs for 1st gen students? These students come from poverty income families, and 0 support. 5244
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Did we know there is a new Boots Riley flick with KeKe?!! I did not! screenrant.com/i-love-boost...screenrant.comKeke Palmer & Demi Moore's New Sci-Fi Crime Movie Debuts With Unanimous Critical Response On Rotten TomatoesKeke Palmer and Demi Moore's thriller debuts with unanimous response. 1422232
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comAmid Trump crackdown on Chinese students, one US university appears to block them altogetherPurdue says no ban on Chinese students exists, but reportedly rescinded dozens of offers after warnings from legislators 261738570
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialBrian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025My column this week. Alabamians often dismiss the bile that comes out of some of our leaders' mouths as performative, or grimly funny. Don't do that with Tommy Tuberville's recent threats against Muslims. He's already signaled that he views many Alabamians as dangers, simply for who they are.alabamareflector.comDon't ignore the threat that is Tommy Tuberville | Alabama ReflectorDon't dismiss the senator's escalating attacks on Muslims as performative. Tuberville has already shown contempt for vast swathes of Alabama. 36124
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/12/2025WELKER: Why talk to Ghislaine Maxwell & not survivors? BLANCHE: What you just said is completely false. We'll talk to any survivor any time W: But have you talked to them? B: Of course! Yes! First of all they have to want to speak with us. I spoke to a victims rights group as recently as Thursday 122554146
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025The @nytimes.com spent weeks on that story because their leadership fundamentally agreed with Chris Rufo that it was insulting that a Black woman led Harvard. We're all supposed to pretend that's not obviously the case, but c'mon. Let's not be stupider than we have to be. 010024
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025many such cases 1043041
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/04/2025The mainstream press viewpoint is that no one mainstream is racist, and therefore, as ideas approach the mainstream, they become less racist 242263376
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/04/2025I learned a few things from this piece by Zak Cheney-Rice about the way the American Nazis have been studying and promoting Bukele’s governance style nymag.com/intelligence...nymag.comThis Is FascismWhat Trump’s affection for El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele reveals about the fallen state of American democracy. 1025992
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025These efforts were discussed endlessly in the nation's most prestigious publications. They were compared to McCarthyism, Stalinism, the Salem witch trials. College activists were framed as an existential threat against which the population required constant vigilance. 202441327
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 16/03/2025This racist conspiracy has been mainstream opinion within the U.S. Right since the early 21st century. It comes out of Islamophobic response to 9/11 and has been propagated by pseudo-intellectuals like Bruce Bawer and Christopher Caldwell, who are broadly embraced by centrist media and think tanks. 1519152
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025not by any stretch the first person to say this but: it is darkly funny how nakedly imperialist Trump turned out to be given the lengths to which some professional opinion havers went to take his "isolationism" intellectually seriously 392813395
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialAustin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Part of the problem with some of these "smart guys" (referring to folks like Thompson) is that they adopt erroneous right-wing talking points to critique right-wingers. 375
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/02/2025i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class 421242933617
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialloreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 22/02/2025🧵 I went to work in Congress with a Member who was raised in South Africa and part of the anti-apartheid movement. She taught me how to optimize the power of the opposition in the House. Like the trimtab on the rudder, members can steer the ship. Here are the six R's of minority power. 10270113
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/02/2025In order for New Yorkers to vote in the closed Democratic Mayoral Primary, they must be registered as Democrats (and not unaffiliated or otherwise) by TOMORROW, February 14th. You CAN do change or update online through the DMV link below with a valid ID: e-register.vote.nyce-register.vote.nycVoter Registration Portal | NYC Voter Registration 3419601031
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialJohn Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 07/02/2025In retrospect and unfortunately, the most accurate take I ever wrote. www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-emergi...unpopularfront.newsThe Emerging Tech-LashThe Politics of Tech Oligarchy 48516
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Cannot say enough about how good the Martian series of Revolutions is. The latest is propulsive, cinematic, staggering, and charged with possibility podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...podcasts.apple.com11.11-The Three Days of RedPodcast Episode · Revolutions · S12 E15 · 42m 1219732
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialAustin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Spencer Ackerman's Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump is a great book outlining the connections between the abject failure that was the War on Terror and the emergence of Trump 2112
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/01/202590% of "serious" American punditry is lying about what Democrats are saying, then telling them to do what they're already doing. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o... 612477426
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 10/01/2025A reporter searches for answers about the former owners of his home in a new podcast from The Minnesota Star Tribune. What he learns reveals a history of Minneapolis he had never heard before.startribune.comA mystery about my house became a five-year project that delved deep into Minneapolis historyThe Minnesota Star Tribune’s first narrative podcast, “Ghost of a Chance,” explores the Black experience in the city. 1298
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/01/2025There is a certain type of journalist — and there are many such cases at The New York Times — for whom it is actually gauche and embarrassing to treat news events and the people affected by them as if they're real. 337167
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialNicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 30/12/2024I’ve always been fascinated by how conservatives turned to South Africa in the late 1960s and 1970s to project racist attitudes and fantasies that had become less welcome in polite white society. 11512166
Reposted by @docanteaus.bsky.socialPhilip Bump @pbump.com · 27/03/2024A reminder that while campus tensions and fights over viewpoints may seem new, particularly to a college student, they are not.washingtonpost.comAnalysis | A warning about colleges focusing too much on diversity … from 1993An essay from three decades ago warns Americans of the same things that we’re being warned about today. 3328