One of the things that I think is good about the Abundance Agenda (even though I hate that name) is actually something that @mattyglesias said to me when I interviewed him about his book years ago and was nit picking “One Billion Americans.” He said something like “I think Americans need something to be excited about.” A positive vision of the future that isn’t just avoiding catastrophe and gloom. And honestly that is one of the main things politically that this whole thing is getting at

This is legitimately how I felt when I read the book. My mom was dating John Belushi when he died and she is the only person on earth to have seen the video he made the night he died. Woodward was really bad to her bc she wouldn’t turn over the tape

https://twitter.com/jerrydunleavy/status/1895935122907808069

My mom had just married my dad & Woodward wouldn’t stop harassing her and my dad happened to share a lawyer with the head of CBS where Woodward was a contributor and he got him to back off.

No one on the America left would ever actually move to China because the one thing they care about most of all is being able to whine about how they’re victims of oppression and that’s the main thing that you aren’t allowed to do in China They’re too mouthy and they know it. They’d end up in a fucking police station demanding someone call the US embassy within a year.

When California had the drought a decade ago I asked during a Mother Jones editorial meeting where the water had gone and everyone laughed at me and said “everyone knows where it went” and I said “I don’t know where the water went but I know that it didn’t disappear so it went somewhere” and they said “I don’t have time for this” and ran away and it became a running gag internally because I was like “they can’t answer this basic question” and was so obstinate about it that when I ended up having to edit any stories about the drought I would constantly add edit notes like “must answer: where did the water go” and they would have to wait and find another editor to avoid me because they were like “this editor is a moron” and then after five years or whatever I got this text from one of them and they were like “I was talking to a scientist recently and one thing led to another and I mentioned that there this prick at the company obsessed with where the water went and they said ‘actually we just found the water’ and they sent me the study and there is an answer to your question.’” Which led to the longest mother jones edit note in history

Obama didn’t do anything to raise racial tensions. It was 100% the fault of Scared Whites who went insane because he was Black.

https://twitter.com/efagirard/status/1877166173822861821

Obama spent his whole fucking presidency being like “let’s not talk about race” and all these dirty little white cowards (like Donald Trump) were like “no we need to talk about race all the time because you’re not even American”

One thing I’m learning from reading this report is that apparently it doesn’t take much money to be a sugar daddy? Lol. Like I sort of assumed these relationships involved quite a lot of money but all the Venmos here are for $400 and stuff.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1871220479203147947

I am now going down a Reddit hole reading about the sugar daddy culture and, Lordy, it’s dark

As opposed to Nathan J Robinson, a man known for humility, accuracy, prescience, and specificity Matt’s obviously been wrong about lots of stuff and he has some opinions I don’t agree with but he’s a smart interesting thinker whose “wrong” columns still make me think about stuff in new and interesting ways. Nathan J Robinson is just a predictable leftist content machine.

Why in the YELLOWSTONE universe was virtually every single person in Montana in 1923 a first generation immigrant from Ireland or the UK? Who even told these people about Montana Also I’m still entirely unclear how this Dutton is supposed to have gained control of land in Montana “the size of Rhode Island.” When the west was settled with the Homestead Act and stuff you were not allowed to just claim 1.200 square miles of land.

I just spent a zillion hours arguing with trans leftists who were calling me a monster and eventually they were like “there is housing discrimination because some women won’t have roommates who aren’t female at birth” and that is the one that finally got me to tap out. No shit Look, I don’t know what to tell ya, sugar tits, that doesn’t sound like a civil rights violation. They also don’t want me as a roommate.

I mean, the IDF not going into Gaza after October 7 is an insane ask. America wouldn’t have agreed to that if Canada has just done a terror attack in the US. Of course Israel didn’t agree to this.

https://twitter.com/mylordbebo/status/1830225921879773390

The IDF not going into Gaza after October 7th is basically saying “you let us get away with this evil massacre we committed no questions asked”

A lot of the republicans in this awful pizza restaurant are now drunk and screaming endlessly about trans people lol and I genuinely don’t understand how grown adults can pretend to care so much about youth girl’s sports So some girl lost a swimming meet to a trans swimmer. Who cares? Kill yourself.

I don’t know if I can take four more years of Trump as president. Aside from him being a fucking idiot, I also just am going to be driven crazy by humorless, hysterical liberals constantly using terms like “normalize” and “democratic backsliding” again I get it, you listened to Rachel Maddow interview some academic with a book out and picked up some cutesy little terms to express the fact that you don’t like Trump. Now you want to take them for a spin and drop them in conversation constantly. It is your own little genocide!

These tweets just make me wonder what the fuck these leftists were thinking when they cheered on Hamas in the days after 10/7. Even if you didn’t give a shit about Jews dying, they were cheering something that was obviously going to cause thousands of Palestinians to die I was very upset about 10/7 because of the sadistic horror of it, but also because I am not a fucking moron. It was obvious that it would incur a military response which would involve the deaths of lots of Palestinian collateral damage.

this story is the most fucked up thing I’ve ever read.

Everything about this is fucked up: incompetent doctors, dumbass “experts,” limey cops, tabloid scandalmongers, prick prosecutor, biased jurors, and the country’s evil criminal justice system apple.news/AQLWqyzZWRMuGP… It’s amazing how comprehensive an indictment this story is of everybody and everything involved All the characters are going to hell, and all these British institutions are rotten!

It’s reminiscent in that way of the Cameron Todd Willingham NYer story but for Knife Crime Island

Hollywood doesn’t want you to know this but if we invented dinosaurs and they turned on us I actually don’t think it would be very hard to kill all of them. One regiment of the Oregon national guard or whatever could kill a million dinosaurs with minimal loss of life.

I’m sorry to say but a lot of the liberal media simply can not credibly answer the question “where is the line between acceptable protest and unacceptable lawlessness” after 2020, during which they totaled stanned all these psychotic anarchists who took over entire neighborhoods One of the reasons not to do what they did in 2020 is because inevitably there would be other instances of protest and refusing to call out the obvious bad ones just means that now I don’t trust any of you on this particular question.

this tweet is going to piss everyone off but as someone who has found Biden’s recent criticisms of Israel’s overreach compelling, I genuinely think that if the left had simply not been quite so deranged from the start, they could have convinced people like me to agree with them obviously we never would have agreed 100% but Biden built up credibility and I now take his concerns about overreach seriously. I do not think Joe Biden is a lunatic.

The left’s criticisms I could not take seriously because they called Israel murderers midafternoon on 10/7

I’d be interested to read an article explaining exactly how Kissinger became such a uniquely unpopular person on the internet. I understand all the bad things he did 50 years ago but I’ve never really understood why young people online give a shit.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1730052418694496596

Some of it has to do with the fact that he just lived so long and, unlike a Nixon who resigned in disgrace, Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize and dated movie stars.

But is that it? Or is there a more concrete example like a viral dril tweet from 2011?

Everyone is such a sad sack. Jesus Christ. Everything is fine. We live in a time of plenty.

There are a couple of issues that we got to deal with but they’re relatively minor.

https://twitter.com/chaykak/status/1720101376964133320

“No one has ever suffered as we have suffered” is just especially annoying in this context because actually virtually everyone who ever lived in all of history suffered more than we have suffered.

Has anyone written a good piece about how the left seems to be using the word “genocide” to mean “civilians who died in war while looking the same”? Every single TikTok keeps calling Gaza a genocide and it just is obviously not a genocide. When did everyone decide that the word genocide should have no meaning? Did I miss the memo?

At least 1,400 innocent Israeli civilians were killed deliberately in Hamas’s terrorist attack last week.

That is more than the number of people who have been killed in every single mass shooting in the United States combined since 1982.

motherjones.com/politics/2012/…


So think of every mass shooting you can remember and every bit of anger and grief and frustration that you felt for all of those combined, and imagine them happening on the same day.

And now multiply that by 30 since the US is considerably larger than Israel.