Meredith Conroy

I’m ready to quit them all

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Great clip of @jamellebouie.net.

It’s exactly right to describe the Trump administration as an embodiment of dominance masculinity.

Sure, dominance masculinity has shaped plenty of presidencies, but the sheer scale and theatricality of it in the Trump administration is a special case.

Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.

“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.

The White House is transforming the Iran strikes into a meme war The White House is using memes that make light of violent combat in Iran, mixing footage of real missile strikes with clips from action films and video games.

New: The White House is transforming the Iran strikes into a meme war. An "aesthetic of bloodlust" that gives Americans the empathy-free, Hollywood, video-game version of deadly combat www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I will. I'll do it!

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

society is crumbling. dude at this coffee shop is listening to his phone without headphones. really makes me sympathetic to the 53% of Americans who say their fellow citizens are morally bad 😂 www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

With a sudden surge of open House sets on the GOP side, we're once again in record territory. Democrats have slowed the pace recently.

CHOTINER: So I'm clear, you ate two burritos in one sitting?

ME: Absolutely not. No. I ate a burrito for lunch yesterday and another one today.

C: But you ordered them both simultaneously?

ME: Naturally I wanted the other one in reserve just in case.

C: Naturally. Just in case.

From the new Epstein drop

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations

It's easy to think of Boomer men as the guardians of "tradition." Yet surveys show GenZ men have more "traditional" ideas about gender roles. 59% of GenZ men, for ex, say men are expected to do too much to support gender equality, compared to 45% of Boomer men.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I can read a bunch of stuff on the computer and diagnose myself, but if a company does that and misdiagnoses me without a medical license they would be liable. This isn’t hard to understand, is there some kind of gas leak happening over there?

How is she so bad at the voice over?

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

"If you think Claude Code is a better social scientist than you, then you’re probably right. But that means, at some point, you stopped trying to answer interesting/puzzling questions and started trying to win the publish-the-most-articles race. That isn’t a game worth saving."

great stuff by @davekarpf.bsky.social

"Journal articles aren’t social science. They’re just a unit of measurement. They’re how we keep score. Producing journal articles isn’t what we are actually meant to be doing — we’re supposed to be learning meaningful things about people, power, and society."

Hahaha nooooooo

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Yes.

When I teach class, it feels like this sketch from Portlandia only the news of the DAY. Did you see what Candace Owens said? What Lauren Boebert did? And there’s no framework for any of it!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=6JLW...

New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak.
(@gelliottmorris.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260301

Congrats!

Sorry but I love it every time that the fraud betting apps go health insurance mode and find the smallest discrepancy to justify not paying out to the inside traders who are its core customer base. Eat shit.

> @covie93.bsky.social

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

Don’t let yourself be used as a political prop by an authoritarian regime. Not complicated.

I have the Pluto pod 😅 I got it for a redeye to Philadelphia. Felt like an idiot, but it worked out!

The Slow Death of American Cool American hegemony rested on cultural reach. That is ending.

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. how many random people around the world built their identity around US signifiers. the decline of American cultural hegemony is going to have long term consequences we're only beginning to see. new post