People don't give the Athenians enough credit for how long they put up with Socrates.

You never really know whether California's elections are stolen legally, with tactics like ballot harvesting that no sane democracy would allow, or illegally, with methods that are technically banned but de facto protected by state laws that stymie enforcement.

I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists. As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them. But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed. After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)? Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate? Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never). Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal? The editors said it was too much, they explained. The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so. It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life. And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it. Still fawning after all these years.

If anything, this comparison is a little unfair to Rura Penthe.

The way this headline is written you'd never know that Mamdani is shortchanging NYC pension funds by $15 billion over the next 8 years so he can spend it on stupid stuff during his term(s) & this will create a $24 billion pension deficit for the next Mayor when they take office

It's all a big grift

Educated people who value civic virtue do not stand with a party nominating an actual Nazi, a guy calling Oct 7 a “false flag,” and whatever that is in Michigan. Criticize Republicans all you like—reject them entirely even—but let’s stop pretending that Democrats are virtuous.

if you shook me awake in the middle of the night and shouted “who is the stupidest person on Twitter,” I would say “Kate Willet/the nimby socialist comedian,” but the actual fact is that her replies are filled with defenders who are maybe even stupider.

Exactly this. One of the things that turned me anti-lockdown was the clear objective proof that population-wide lockdowns *did not work* and I firmly believe we should not do things that do not work

I think I'm fairly engaged, politically. And antisemitism in the left-wing spaces was something I was aware of. But the scope, speed & virulence with which it metastasized, was shoved into mainstream legitimization after Oct 7th, & keeps growing - fuck. That took me by surprise.

Abolishing private property in 2 easy steps Step 1 - Rent control: Rent is lower than costs and taxes so you can't do maintenance. Step 2 - Seizure: You don't have the money to do maintenance and the state uses it as an excuse to take your property.

We are approaching levels of dissembling that no one thought were humanly possible.

Platner is truly the DC-brain idea of a “working class” guy. He went to GW and worked at Tune Inn (iykyk). He’s a trust fund oyster man. But because he talks like like an idiot and has a Nazi tattoo on his chest apparently he’s real and authentic.

The piling-on of Auchincloss for opposing Nazi iconography shows what Platner has already done to the Democratic Party commentary.org/seth-mandel/w…

"‘Why’, I asked Hitler, ‘do you call yourself a National Socialist, since your party program is the very anthesis of that commonly accredited to Socialism?’ ‘Socialism’, he retorted, putting down his cup of tea, ‘is the science of dealing with the common weal [health or well-being]. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists. ‘Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality and, unlike Marxism, it is patriotic. ‘We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our Socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the State on the basis of race solidarity. To us, State and race are one…" - Excerpt from an interview with Adolf Hitler conducted by German-American writer and Nazi sympathiser, George Sylvester Viereck which appeared in Liberty magazine on July 9th 1932.

“LA is headed in the wrong direction. My solution: drive in that direction, but faster.”

An Inconvenient Truth for climate alarmists: Al Gore’s dramatic climate warnings shaped a generation — but 20 years later, the data tell a very different story. Climate-related deaths are down 97% over the past century, polar bears more than doubled since the 1960s, and global burned area has decreased by more than 25% over the past quarter century. That's hardly a success of climate policy though: fossil fuels still provide 81% of world energy, emissions keep rising, and $16 trillion spent on green policies since Gore's movie came out hasn’t changed the trajectory. A good reminder that panic is a terrible policy adviser. newsweek.com/data-vs-drama-t…

“Is there a word that describes a Jew so pitiably afraid of the current whirlwind of hatred that they choose to build a fake past to live in, just so they can pretend that Jews ever had an alternative to Zionism?”

Follow the logic. Women are deluded and naive for thinking predatory and violent men can be kept out of women-only spaces. ‘They can rape you anywhere.’ However, trans-identified men can only be safe in women-only spaces, because no abuser would ever follow them in there.