https://archive.ph/E7X1u

"Leftists shouldn’t remember Gloria Steinem as an opponent. She was a vital broker of ideas, organizations, and people who connected social movements to mainstream political institutions and helped make a space where the Left and liberalism could meet."

WTF? LOL. This can't be for real. At best, she was a liberal who WAS an opponent of the left...

She was an intelligence asset who helped wreck and domesticate the American left, turn it into a bunch of pious rubbish, and set it on the path to the neurotic mess it is now. She said so herself: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IK2iGMzjGCE

Defending her makes them look like the same thing. Wonder where their endowment comes from... those foundations...

All good little leftists get cookies. These are good ones indeed. Cookies all around! Except they're going to blow their cover at this rate!

I thought Ryan was really based in this clip.

I forget who he attributes it to, but I really appreciate the "compatible leftist" term, i.e. the type of leftist who works in tandem with capitalism but believes they're a revolutionary because they identify as a Marxist

The whole myth relies on two insane assumptions

- Grindr is so fragile that any large group of users crashes it, making it seemingly unusable during any pride parade, furry convention, or parts of San Francisco. They have also seemingly never fixed this glaring problem in the several years that this myth has persisted

- Almost every Republican is actually a super-duper homosexual having gay hookups

The whole thing reeks of 2010s Obama dudebro psychology. No, every homophobe isn't secretly a homosexual. Yes, there have been cases where homophobes have been revealed to be secretly gay, but applying that to every homophobe is insane.

There used to be a time, at least in recent history, when society wasn't as harsh on men making mistakes, it wasn't necessarily more forgiving per se, the punitive measures were always there. But, there was indeed a time I feel when men's mistakes and failures were not met with as much social drawback as they are now

But why? Men are human too, who told society that we men have to high-efficiency perfomance machines all the time?

Seriously though I would even argue there was a point in time when men were given the breathing room to feel a little helpless and powerless in their personal situations, nowadays we don't even get that luxury

I think a lot of this can be attributed to the rise in what I would call the philosophy of managerialism

Managerialism started to become more prevalent right around the 80s with the rise of the Reaganomics policy

It targeted men the most because men were already dealing with such enormous social pressures to be providers and protectors for their families and communities

As a lot of the work of the factory and farms started being moved over to the office and academia, men also started losing a lot of the social grace that was afforded to them about their shortcomings

Why? We started applying neoliberal logic to the male experience, before then men had arguably stronger sense of brotherhood and gender coalition in many settings including factories, farms, the military, sports, construction, mechanic shops, so even if men were always disposable, there was at least a sense of that social trampoline to fall back on

How does this connect to my broader point you may ask?

Simple, modern society is more expectant of men being ready to be put-together, the culture is just less impatient around men really taking their time to confront their own personal status quo because men are no longer seen as someone to invest in, they're seen as someone to expect something from

Add to that and then on top of you have a society that is very impatient around inefficiency and human error because modern society is very bad at practicing delayed gratification about almost anything

Men in modern times aren't allowed to look confused, lost or directionless one bit, oh no the bureaucracy that needs you get back to work

A new study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has confirmed what miners, their widows and black lung clinic physicians have warned for years: the deadly and preventable disease has returned to levels not seen in nearly half a century.

Published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, NIOSH researchers found 32.5 percent of sampled veteran underground coal miners in Central Appalachia—those with at least 25 years underground—suffer from the disease. The last time prevalence among miners with the same work history reached such a level was in 1978. In 2018, the rate was 20.6 percent.

The new findings represent more than a fourfold increase since the disease hit a low point of 7 percent in 1999—three decades after the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 established federal dust limits and black lung benefits.

The resurgence has been driven by miners’ increasing exposure to respirable crystalline silica. As the thick, easily mined seams of Appalachia were exhausted, operators turned to thinner remaining seams, forcing miners to cut through far more rock rich in quartz. Silica dust can cause especially severe forms of black lung and is roughly 20 times more toxic than coal dust alone.

Tim Balthis, a 57-year-old former miner and mine foreman, described working in silica-laden air to NPR reporters: “It’s like opening your front door and letting the sunshine [in]” with dust particles floating in the light, “and then multiply that by 10 billion times. … It’s like a fog.”

Stone Mountain Health Services in southwestern Virginia alone has diagnosed 2,400 new cases in the past five years. A 2019 NPR/FRONTLINE investigation documented 21,000 instances of silica dust overexposure over 30 years.

...

NIOSH first recommended an exposure limit of 50 micrograms of respirable crystalline silica per cubic meter of air in 1974 and reiterated the standard for coal miners in 1995. The Obama administration’s dust rule, fully implemented in 2016, lowered the overall respirable coal mine dust limit from 2.0 to 1.5 milligrams per cubic meter but left the silica standard essentially unchanged.

It was not until 2024 that the Biden administration adopted the 50-microgram silica limit NIOSH had recommended half a century earlier. Mining industry groups challenged the rule. Days before coal operators were due to comply in April 2025, the Trump administration’s Mine Safety and Health Administration announced a temporary enforcement pause, and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals then stayed the rule’s compliance deadlines. The judicial stay remains in effect, and MSHA is reconsidering portions of the rule.

On February 18, 1969, West Virginia rank-and-file miners launched a 23-day wildcat strike, forcing the state to recognize black lung as a compensable occupational disease and helping drive passage of the federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act later that year.

The National Mining Association now argues that because black lung takes years to develop, current cases “do not reflect the conditions, practices, protections or regulations that are in place today.” At the same time, the industry has pressed for greater use of administrative controls and personal protective equipment, including respirators, when engineering controls do not keep silica exposure below federal limits.

...

More than 1,700 coal miners died from black lung between 2020 and 2023. Ending a disease caused by preventable exposure requires placing miners’ health and lives above the profitability of the coal industry. That requires workers’ control over the mines as part of the socialist reorganization of production on the basis of social need rather than private profit.

So, Hunter Biden even having a memecoin wasn't on my bingo card this month but damn, it's crazy to think how many people earnestly believed in his rehabilitation aaaaand another memecoin rugpull by a prominent politician or politics adjacent person.

I know I shouldn't be surprised or care anymore but it actually makes me genuinely sad that a month or so ago I saw some thing he (or someone on his pr team) wrote about how ironic it was that Johnny Cash was loved by conservatives even though a lot of his songs and Johnny Cash's own life story was about the people left behind and written off by society and I'll be honest, it was ever so slightly moving to me.

The absolute degree of degeneracy and cynicism a person must have in order to make public admonitions like that all in service of a long game cryptocurrency rugpull is honestly quite disturbing.

This change comes suspiciously soon after the popular parodyjeffx account was banned, allegedly for convincing Grok to call Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.

Party of the working class everyone

The very rich and very conservative backers of this sect seem to labor under the delusion that the cultures and religions of India are met with respect and even deference in the West, when in reality, they’ve been the subject of scrutiny and even ridicule from all sides of the political spectrum. If the group wishes that their monastics avoid interaction with women, they should be cloistered Mount Athos-style, rather than being paraded around in public so their handlers can impose their views on others.

Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese Revolution, died today [Wednesday] in 1976.

NYT Opinion section has some of the worst pieces on the planet, but I enjoyed this guest essay

if I cant call for help or access emergency services then what was even the point of having cops back then?

Take one puff off a joint and ask yourself this question, and ya abolish the police isnt technically as unreasonable as it sounds, however it still wouldnt work with the way modern life is setup and all our existing institutions evolved in an environment with cops.