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Host of @crookedmedia’s What A Day. @nytimes. @CNN. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan.
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Sep 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
So per this piece, I've been seeing a lot of what I would call "evenhanded antisemitism" in publications that would call themselves "conservative" or "traditional" lately. "Evenhanded antisemitism" is what I would call treating outright antisemitism as a normal viewpoint anyone could have.
Sep 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Oh they did? They just ended up dead? Huh. What a wild turn of events. What an absolutely wild and crazy turn of events that is absolutely fucking nonsense. Image Maybe there were some hints as to where this was going.
May 16 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Weirdo Christian Twitter is not a good lens onto how most Christians do things but it is funny how many men on here are told by God that they should have a hot wife who doesn’t work but also never asks for anything and is always sexually available, what a weirdly specific thing for God to tell so many men It’s so odd how God appears to tell so many people to do things they wanted to do anyway
May 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It is incredibly tempting to be a doomer. Doomerism feels accurate (it isn’t) and people who aren’t doomers online sometimes get screamed at. But you absolutely do not have to give in to either performative doomerism or the kind of doomerism that’s just projected depression (a thing I’ve done.) There are people on here who are deeply enmeshed in doomerism and they will glom onto anyone expressing any optimism whatsoever. Some of that is because doomerism gets rewarded. Some of that is (I theorize) depression is a motherfucker and will tell you that your doomerism is good and accurate and I think more people are dealing with depression than we know.
Aug 14, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This child was raped by an adult and the police response is basically “wow, sounds crazy” Like the entire argument certain people made against someone being able to have an abortion in cases like this one was “well how would we be able to punish her rapist” and it turns out they just … don’t
Jul 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Funnily enough the 1945 Nazi film “Kolberg” (a fictionalized account of the Napoleonic Wars) actually did use frontline Nazi troops because Joseph Goebbels was an evil moron Again, they were doing this during like, the Invasion of Normandy.
May 8, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
okay the “why aren’t these kids hornier” thing is getting out of hand nationalreview.com/corner/parents… The person who wrote this graduated from high school in 2012.
May 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
May 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
My oldhead uncle lied about his age to enlist in the Korean War and his obituary described his entire experience of the 1960s and 1970s — during which time he lived in San Francisco — as follows. Image Literally every story he told I had to be ushered out of the room for. He ruled.
Feb 2, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"We would like some police reform please" "I hear you, here's some SEO MLK quotes on some cop cars" 1.) people ask "can i have some police reform"
2.) powerful people are like "no but here's some shit wrapped in kente cloth and a white lady is here to yell at you about something"
3.) now people are mad about the shit wrapped in kente cloth and there's no police reform
Feb 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I say this as a strong critic of law enforcement: sometimes, it’s really good to wait until you know more about why someone was raided by the FBI. Image justice.gov/opa/pr/man-arr…
Jan 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Yeah but 2003 had a lot of great songs for running away from fungus people (who aren't zombies? i think?)
Jan 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I get this! I do! I understand "you've got everything else, why not put in a guy who has Been There Before," but like... you have at least one guy, perhaps two, and Tom Brady is a very specific form of Guy Who Has Been There Before Like I said
Jan 30, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Folks within the MRA (Men's Rights Activist) and MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) communities have long been convinced that some form of technology -- AI, sex bots, etc -- would mean that men don't have to (or wouldn't want to) interact with women anymore See: wehuntedthemammoth.com/2022/12/14/men…
Jan 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Mmhmmm. I see. reason.com/2023/01/19/nor… Image I'm sure this would not be used in a way that would say, ban books about gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender people that mention that they happened to be gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender because that counts as "sexually explicit."
Jan 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Nothing is more important than watching this video from a 1985 CBS children's television special entitled "How to Be a Man". Thank you, @ProfBrianKalt, I am forever changed.
Jan 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
On the long list of "things I wish people got really mad about all the time," the many failings of CPS (and the foster care system) is way up there. apnews.com/article/health… This is a horrifying situation all the way around, made worse by how the foster care system's trainings for potential foster parents can be... lacking (for a lot of reasons). I wrote about that here. nytimes.com/2021/12/18/opi…
Jan 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In general, a thing we tend to do in our politics is assume that 1.) our politics are right and 2.) other people share them, and if they don't, they are lone psychos Many people do not share my politics (which is fine!) so I generally assume that whatever I want to happen, other people will want the exact opposite, but most people do not appear to do this Image
Jan 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Bomani once talked to me about the Bob Marley album “Kaya” for like 45 minutes for a piece that never ran, he contains actual multitudes He’s a dude who can talk about how Bob Marley’s near assassination altered both his music and his perception of his mission and a dude who can discuss when you can and can’t fight in a game
Jan 13, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
CrossFit remains admirably committed to putting its elites in pain. Normal people: I don’t want to suffer or spend hours in the gym

CrossFit people: I wish to taste death and luxuriate in its edges
Jan 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The only reason this is at all interesting is that you can see the shifting Performing Normalcy Incentive, from "boycott the woke leftist NFL, sports are why you are impotent" in 2021 to "the left hates sports, a thing that is untrue" in 2023. ImageImage Also, Blay Mavis is very bad at sports betting. elevenwarriors.com/college-footba…