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(Thread) Just read this good sharp essay by @jessesingal from last year on the over-the-top reaction to Dave Chappelle's special "Sticks and Stones."https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/when-we-argue-about-dave-chappelle He touc
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(Thread) Can Biden be "pushed to the left"? The boringly accurate answer is "to some extent, in some areas, depending on what you mean."But I think the glass-half-full way of
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Still processing what happened yesterday and not sure what to think of it all. Definitely don't want to lie and say I have all the answers here. But some preliminary
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(Thread) Before the whole #ForceTheVote spectacle disappears in the usual ways that these things do in the Eternal Sunshine of the Very Online Left, something it might be worth taking
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Just for the hell of it, here's a list of the things I wrote in 2020 I'm most proud of: (1) "What Michael Brooks Meant To Me"https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/michael-brooks-tmbs (2) "There Will
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Thread: I never thought Biden could be pressured after being supported. And I never thought the left could get "leverage" over him by strategically withholding votes. Those two strategies *sounded*
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Thread: Honestly this is an easy thing for anti-war leftists to tell ourselves--it flatters us (we care about the real stuff) and serves as a nice dumb pat cautionary tale
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Thread: Since I started talking about why I think left critiques of cancel culture are important I've gotten several requests for an exact definition. I always give it but most
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