Philip Loring

Dude clearly doesn’t want to lose his job but this isn’t going to trick a aingle
CA voter.

Big swings from one end of the spectrum to another are a signal that a system is nearing a tipping point. I still think that is the case, that radical change is closer than we think and we are just living through the last gasps of the petrostate and white supremacy

The resistance is coming from inside the building

I think what scares me most is that I think it’s entirely plausible that Trump would drop a nuke on someone simply because he really wants to be a president that has done that, wants to know how it feels, wants that distinction no matter how heinous.

With friends like these, who needs enemies? How centrists like Gavin Newsom abet rightward extremism

Yes please conservechange.medium.com/with-friends...

Espresso has entered the chat

If you want to read something wild go look at the history of the rights disputes over the Three Investigators

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Yah this isn't why lots of us Canadians support Carney. Lots of us would be more than happy to support a competent progressive. Also, centrist Canadians are well left of centrist Americans.

There are no doubt legitimate reasons to think badly of specific people and of those people’s supporters and enablers, but thats not incompatible with the hypothesis that we have been manipulated into this level of negative opinion about other Americans in general

The US is the only country in this list where more people think poor of their neighbours than think well of them.

This is something we need to remedy as a precondition to solving any other problems

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

“If I found out this was for sale again I might actually stop what I was doing to go get a box” good.

This was very good cereal.

New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats — and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?

This is an interesting and related poll www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

With friends like these, who needs enemies? How centrists like Gavin Newsom abet rightward extremism

I wrote about the problem with the center here conservechange.medium.com/with-friends...

This right here. And right now it’s pretty clear that progressives are the ones willing to stand up for it.

Don't misunderstand. I honestly don't know what I would do in a presidential with someone like Newsom as the candidate. When I sit down and weight it I get all twisted, and can see multiple arguments which is why I wrote the essay... to try and think it through.

As MLKJr said, moderates, not the right, are the biggest obstacle to progress. The more we pinch our nose and vote for them, the more we allow that fact to remain

I don't think voting moderate helps inch us back to the left. I think it accelerates the right
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This doesn't get said enough. The "vote blue no matter who" is often only expected of progressives.

And honestly I think if centrists would actually do this we'd have a much better chance of getting more progressives into office.
conservechange.medium.com/with-friends...

Culture of Healing Reparation, rehabilitation, redemption, reconciliation, restoration. A necessary taxonomy of healing in an age of unnecessary conversations.

Incidentally if you aren't reading AR Moxon, you really should be. I wouldn't have been able to articulate the ideas in that essay if it werent for his consistently excellent essays www.the-reframe.com/culture-of-h...

Cartoon illustrating how centrists abet the right, primarily by adopting their disignenuous framings of issues, and then slowly moving themselves rightward away from those on the left standing firm on issues of human rights, equality, and equal protection.

Centrists like Newsom abet the right's project of righward extremism into white christian nationalism, first and foremost by accepting their framings of issues, or as @juliusgoat.bsky.social puts it, "telling the abuser's story of abuse"

With friends like these, who needs enemies? How centrists like Gavin Newsom abet rightward extremism

"Imagine thinking it a moderate and reasonable position to chide progressives for being too extreme, for making people on the right feel uncomfortable, while the right is actively demonizing and revoking the rights of queer people every chance they get." medium.com/@conservecha...

So now that OpenAI is all in with the military industrial complex will organizations that have committed to not associating with arms manufacturers walk away from them and their products as well?

Not going to hold my breath but would love to see WHO or some other who has this red line apply it here

“we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species.”

Do you think private places to change don’t exist in schools? Or that cis girls also may want (and do) change in private? And many schools tried to add nonbinary private bathrooms but that also was a problem for the right. Because their policy goal is for the existence of these people to be erased.

It’s like saying people in Springfield who are afraid their pets might be eaten by immigrants is a fear / concern that requires nuance.

We can’t keep letting them make up ghouls and allowing the conversation to be anchored to those disingenuous framings.

The notion that trans participation is a threat to the privacy of cis kids is a made up right wing talking point. That it might not be safe or fair is a made up talking point. They just whip up these ghoulish scare tactics out of nothing to rile up their base.

Pete also said that parents have a legitimate concern when it comes to trans athletes. I agree he has overall a better position but it’s still influenced by right wing framing.

Trans People Do Not Appear to Have Physical Advantages In Sport The work shows a lack of scientific support for banning trans athletes, but also highlights the need for more data about trans athletes' performance.

This latest study would be a great reason for people like @petebuttigieg.bsky.social and @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov and everyone else arguing against trans inclusion in sports to change position and prove they’re not just being phobic or pandering to the center www.iflscience.com/review-of-52...