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There’s almost nothing that Bari Weiss’ Free Press can’t blame on “wokeness.” A white woman who called a 5-year old black boy the n-word has been flooded with well over $700,000 in donations from white nationalists and other monsters? Blame the “woke left.” Right-wing conspiracy queen Candace Owen is cheering on still-convicted-rapist Harvey Weinstein? Blame the “vigilante[s]” of #MeToo.
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Andrew Tate discourse has descended upon Bluesky, where I spend most of my social media time these days, in the wake of a Wall Street Journal article by a high school student named Eli Thompson discussing the appeal of the repugnant manosphere grifter to many of his classmates during what the WSJ editors call a “confusing time for young men.” Many of the Bluesky criticisms are spot on about Tate and the discourse surrounding him. Or at least kind of funny.
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“Dad bods” are stirring up trouble again. Last week, Evo Psych researcher William Costello posted an informal poll on X asking men and women (separately) which version of Olly Murs they thought looked the most attractive–a “normal” version of the English singer, looking basically fit but with a slight hint of a belly, or a muscled-up version of him after 12 weeks of intense workouts at the gym. The poll went viral, garnering some 725,000 views. And not surprisingly, if you’ve ever waded into the dad bod discourse before, the men mostly thought that muscley Murs looked better; women even more overwhelmingly preferred the “before” version.
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[UPDATE: It’s TODAY!!] [Update 2: It ALREADY HAPPENED!]
There are nationwide protests TOMORROW sponsored by a vast coalition of groups. GO PROTEST, if you can! It makes Trump very sad to see huge crowds of people who hate him. And building up momentum with rallies like these can help prepare people for a more militant action like a general strike.
To find a rally in your city, go to Maydaystrong.org and click “join event.”
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“Sick of Weird?” the promo email from the failing Daily Wire asked. “Us Too. It’s Norming Time.”
The link led to a video called “It’s Norming in America,” a sort-of tribute to Reagan’s famous “Morning in America” campaign ad.
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So The Federalist, that bastion of reaction and bad takes, has a particularly inane post up now dedicated to the proposition that “Art Shouldn’t Get A Free Nudity Pass Just Because It’s Art,” as the title puts it. Why? Apparently naughtiness has no place in art.
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Liz Bruenig is an odd duck. Though ostensibly a leftist, the Atlantic columnist is famous for pushing reactionary views disguised as progressive common sense. She has a remarkable ability to make the worst ideas sound innocuous, writing so blandly and “civilly” that readers may not even be aware of what she is doing. She is famously against abortion. In the past, as Jude Doyle notes in an excellent takedown of all things Liz Bruenig, she has suggested that “gay people might still be acceptable in the eyes of God if they stayed celibate” and “that crisis pregnancy centers — fake abortion clinics that promise “help” with unwanted pregnancy, then terrorize patients into promising they won’t get an abortion — could end poverty.”
Trump is moving faster to consolidate absolute power than almost anyone–including many experts on authoritarianism–ever imagined. We need to understand what’s going on, and how it compares to the trajectories of other recent and historical “strongmen” in other countries. And we need to act, despite the risks. We can’t depend on Trump’s stupidity and incompetence to defeat him.
UK TERFs are still basking in the warm afterglow of a UK Supreme Court ruling last week that went in their favor, essentially declaring that trans women aren’t women, legally at least. While the ultimate effects of the ruling are still uncertain, and there are still laws on the books that ostensibly protect UK’s trans citizens, it’s clear that the ruling is a disaster for trans citizens of the UK.
If you weren’t actually out there marching, or compulsively scrolling your social media feeds, you might not have been aware that there were huge protests against the Trump regime all over the US on Saturday, with some estimating a turnout as high as 4 million people. Media coverage was scant; I seem to remember a hell of a lot more coverage back in the day of Tea Party protests drawing only dozens of obvious weirdos. Apparently in 2025, millions of justifiably angry Americans, including a surprising number in tiny towns in red states, standing up to a literal fascist regime isn’t newsworthy.
