Le mot injuste
Because one word often makes the difference.
- What he's telling us is the same thing those of us who _aren't_ fleeing America are saying. And some of us have been warning about Trump for much longer than Tim, too. Our culture celebritizes people like Tim until we can no longer just state clearly that he's abandoning principles he advocated for.
- Right? Anyone still mindful of Professor Snyder already knows what’s up. We needed to be mindful of him now as he led by example into an unknown future. But wait. The example is, run away. As if Yale was suddenly changed.
- Sort of feel like the New York Times is valorizing flight here Everyone has the right to make their own decision on this—but I'm not sure that fleeing the United States deserves a special uncritical spotlight Maybe a daily spotlight instead on those of us who are staying to try to save our country
- Appreciate their work but a lot of folks write about fascism well, and then don’t leave. We need their leadership right now. At protests. On TV from within the US. Knowing what’s happening here, from experience, not from afar. Teaching. Staying is symbolic power. You can’t lead from the rear.
- "A rapist and a murderer share a giggle."
- Someone more adept at photoshop than I really ought to replace that portrait of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in the background with one of Jamal Khashoggi or Virginia Giuffre.
- Byron Donalds implied the pain from Trump’s tariffs are necessary and compared them to working out at the gym
- He’s right. It’s like when you are working out at the gym, in the middle of deadlifting, and your trainer suddenly steals your shorts, kicks you in the crotch, tells you he’s been sleeping with your partner, and runs off to steal your car.
- "First, the plane is 13 years old. You read that correctly. A piddling little Middle Eastern autocracy is trying to bribe our president with a used plane" read @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org on the Qatari 'gift' www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
- Trying?
- We must save oppressed White South Africans from the tyranny of luxury malls.
- My God, what ever are those genocidal monsters doing to these poor, apartheid nostalgic white people?
- TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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View full threadCorruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
- “Without fear or favor.” I guess you might actually believe that, if that’s how you define corruption. But I doubt it.
- Wow. The way he just comes up with these new words.
- Maybe he’d like to apply his new word to civil rights.
- As a former prof, I'll note that you can find this in a lot of undergrad papers, but a senior thesis is different. Also, these are the people who have made plagiarism a major offense again (rightly!), so... www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
- Any type and amount of plagiarism is serious. Just ask Claudine Gay. But for MAGA, we ask instead, IS it serious? Is anything “serious”? One thing is for sure, we don’t want to mitigate seriousness any further by writing, well, undergrads do it a lot, so, not serious—but a senior thesis?! Serious!
- Trump says "only smart people understand" why he would drive a great economy off a cliff.
- Yes, he’s right. Only smart people can comprehend the full scope of his stupidity. It takes a genius to grasp imbecility of this magnitude.
