discourse addict

editor's note: it was in fact her job

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

You're right, we should keep giving them badges and immunity instead

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

Hegel on physiognomy and phrenology

hes like if that 2016 picture of ted cruz phone banking for trump became sentient

There's something deeply disturbing about EBT/SNAP hate to me. Like just truly bone blanching shit.

IDF reservist detained in Prague over ‘criminal’ alert from France, forced to return to Israel An Israeli who fought in Gaza and Lebanon was detained for hours at Prague airport and denied entry after French authorities issued a 'criminal alert' against him — though he’s never been to France; T...

IDF reservist who fought in Gaza and Lebanon was detained by Czech authorities when arriving to Prague for a vacation and was forced to return to Israel - based on criminal alert issued by France that applies across Schengen zone.

www.ynetnews.com/article/r1ft...

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

Pilk! bottle

I'm going to be pouring each of the trick or treaters that stops by a nice cold glass of Pilk!

The most liberal approach to the Palestinian question from any mainstream Israeli party is that of South African Bantustans, which would actually be a major improvement over the current situation.

Little Carmine

there is no world in which it is unsafe to attend a no-kings protest, which my retired mother will be attending with her unitarian church group, and in which it is safe for either of us to have accounts on this website. you either really fucked up by even making this post, or you're larping.

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

If exploring the possible implications of your own ethics has never made you uncomfortable that means one of two things: you arent taking them seriously or youre too stupid to see where they can lead. Or both!

What would the reaction be if Democratic politicians went on TV every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was, or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is, or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and “God, can you imagine being from there?”

there's a tendency in parts of the left to believe that 'community' is the answer to everything but communities are often horrendous!

I get all my news from the log lady

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it.

Contemptible & pathetic.

The Epstein estate also turned over another letter from the book that references Trump. It came from businessman and longtime Mar-a-Lago member Joel Pashcow, who made a crude joke about a woman that Trump and Epstein socialized with in the 1990s, according to people familiar with the matter. The Pashcow letter included a photo of a posterboard-sized check for $22,500, which had been mocked up to appear that it was sent from Trump to Epstein. Beneath it, a handwritten caption said: “Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women sells ‘fully depreciated’ [redacted] to Donald Trump for $22,500.” The woman’s name is redacted in the image. Photo of three men holding a check for $22,500 made out to Jeffrey Epstein, with handwritten notes discussing the transaction. Pashcow and his attorney didn’t respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for the woman said she doesn’t know Pashcow and has no knowledge of the letter naming her, which the lawyer called a “disgusting and deeply disturbing hoax.”

Letter which reads: "Jeffary showing early talents with money + Women! Sells "Fully depreciated" [Name Redacted] to Donald Trump for 22,500$. Showed early "people skilld" too. Even though I handled the deal I didn't get any of the money on the girl!

Sorry to make it worse but there's a part of the WSJ article that no one is talking about that I had to share with someone.

the other thing that seems weirdly missing from the discourse is that food doesn't taste as good after its been in a car for forty minutes.