Hakeem Jeffries Doesn't Get It
Or worse yet, maybe he does.
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For The American Right, There's Only One Kind Of Real Work
Putting working class support at odds with "wokeness" is the goal.
Brazil Has A Plan To Combat The Right Wing's Unreality
Brazil's government is trying something weird: Being proactive about election misinformation.
The Fear Machine Churns And Churns
Right-wing media has found Caitlin Clark very useful
The Rich Man Is Projecting
A different way to think about Elon Musk's casual use of dehumanizing language
Trans Sports Bans Are Oozing With Bad Faith
The hysterical effort to stop trans people from playing sports is dishonest to its core
Superman Is A Shitlib
What is punk rock today won't be punk rock tomorrow.
A Working Class Hero Isn't Something To Be
Graham Platner's disgraced campaign illustrated the problems of class dealignment
Tucker Carlson Wants A Good-Faith Conservative Party. Best Of Luck With That.
The American right needs the deodorant of bad faith politics. And Carlson knows that.
Unfortunately We Have To Be Optimists
Why we should follow the example of James Baldwin and adopt essential optimism.
Title IX Is The Ultimate Bad-Faith Weapon
Protections for women's sports have proven to be useful cudgels against transgender athletes
The Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is Far Worse Than You Think
The Roberts Court has legitimized the white supremacist attack on the 14th Amendment
Fascism and Bad Faith
This Data Might Make You Hope-Pilled
It's tough to overstate how thoroughly the courts are beating back the Trump regime
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Alito: There's No Way To Know If The President Is Racist
There are "race-neutral justifications" for the policies Trump pursues, Alito says.
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Fascists Aren't Allowed To Enjoy The World Cup
You don't get to delight in a joyful worldwide sporting event that rejects your shithead politics
Dads, Resist That Authoritarian Impulse
You don't have to be a household dictator if you don't want to be
Careful With That Axe, Eugene
The Epstein Class means whatever you want it to mean.
Stray Thoughts On DOGE And Its Bad-Faith Mission
People want the whole fucking book thrown at Elon Musk's DOGE hackers
Fascism and Bad Faith
The DOGE Boys Are Going To Pay
There is a real and furious chunk of the electorate demanding accountability for DOGE
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BFT Pod: Right-Wing Media Exposes The Bad Faith Of Right-Wing Populism
All brands of populism, it turns out, are not the same.
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How Republicans Lost Men
Men - men! - have turned on Republicans and it's somehow a non-story
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BFT Pod: You're Missing The Point Of D.C.'s Permanent Troop Deployment
Regime officials never meant what they said about occupying the nation's capital
Fascism and Bad Faith
Race Science, Slavery, And The Unreality Of White Supremacy
The unreality that justifies white supremacy has shape shifted
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Democrats Are Mom. Republicans Are Dad.
When mom curses, it's a big fucking deal.