The national Democratic Party is the farthest left it’s been since before Watergate, and Biden has presided over the most progressive presidency since the Great Society. That’s due largely to the work of dedicated progressives and activists in the Democratic Party. A West run will tilt the election towards Trump and fracture the left for ten years or more. These were lessons that were all learned 23 years ago.

These are all examples of the laws working as designed. The anti-abortion movement cares about precisely one thing: complete control over women’s bodies. An environment where doctors universally refuse to provide care to their patients for fear of incarceration isn’t a quirk of interpretation of an individual statute, it’s these laws working as intended.

And the man who placed the crucial three votes on the Supreme Court that brought us to this state is a toss-up to be returned as president in the next election. People need to wake the fuck up.

Don't threaten us with a good time.

I loathe Chris Christie with every fiber of my being but I will buy him a pair of Springsteen tickets if he files this suit.

I generally like Reich and I certainly agree with his conclusion here, but tbh I feel like this video is not great work. Some of the warning signs he calls out are generally accepted as markers of fascism, but to my mind it would have been better if he had hewed closer to the generally accepted tenets of Ur-Fascism, as outlined by Umberto Eco. It might have made for a longer video, but by fitting Trump to a framework established long before his rise, it avoids some of the just-so nature of the claims Reich lodges against him. Just my $.02.

At this point it's foolish not to consider this as possibly the greatest tax writeoff in history. Elmo is setting himself up to never pay another dime in taxes the rest of his life. Not that he probably pays that much as it stands, but still.

Wilhoit's Law strikes again:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

I'm not averse to some form of this argument — though I'd argue this has been the case as far back as the 1994 midterm election — but this article is just a mess. Democrats look to preserve their gains, but they've won their battles already. LGBTQ issues have broken for the Democrats, except for the backsliding in the states and at SCOTUS this year. The drive to be conservative is being pushed by working-class whites and Blacks, but also by upper-class white professionals. And a day "probably" won't come where the Republicans end up to the left of the Democrats on economic issues, despite some "promising" noises (which are pure posturing) from some unnamed politicians (I'm going to say likely Hawley and Vance, which, LOL).

It's like David Graham is so intent on not giving a single point to the Democrats/being fair to the Republicans that he tendentiously reads everything in the most ludicrous possible light. I'm aware of the establishmentarian bent of The Atlantic, and normally I can read around it, but this is just weaksauce.

I felt like he was very up front about how the current system, as unfriendly to users as it is, is what has made it possible for him to make a living doing what he loves to do. He even comes out at the end and says if big companies can't figure out a post-advertising business model, they'll likely die off, and that means he and people like him are out of a job, 'and that's probably the best scenario for users.' Both ideas — that ad-funded internet ruined the internet, and that ad-funded internet allowed him and thousands of people like him to make a living on that internet — can be true at the exact same time.

I started to type out a huge, involved comment, but I don’t want to come across like mirror-world Patrick Bateman, so I’ll just say here: Genesis. 1970-1976 and 1978-1998 were almost like two completely different bands.

Tubgirl for everyone!

I never stopped using RSS. I follow many sites and blogs using The Old Reader in my desktop browser, with Reeder piggybacking off its OPML file on my phone and iPad.

TOR was designed specifically with compatibility with Google Reader in mind and shares many of the old keyboard shortcuts. It also has rudimentary social features that are in no way in-your-face (good thing, too, because I never really saw the point of them).