Yes, they supported Platner because they fantasized that this would appeal to actual men:
— The Alan Sanders Show 🇺🇸⚓️🐕 (@AlanJSanders) July 8, 2026
This is also why they stupidly thought that Tim Walz would have traction as well. And it’s another example of Haidt’s thesis that the right understands the left far better than vice versa.
It was nice to see a president finally stand up to them.
“…the record is pretty suggestive for Mamdani and Avila Chevalier. But it’s not that way for the other DSA candidates who won recently — Claire Valdez, Melat Kiros, Janeese Lewis-George, and others. On the other hand, all of them are members of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the word “socialist” has always been a key part of the vocabulary of communism, in the 20th century and today. So one could say that Trump’s accusation is reasonably true for some of the DSA comrades who have defeated Democratic candidates and at least adjacent to the beliefs of some others. In other words, it’s close enough for a political campaign.”
Most people forget, or never knew, what the second “S” in USSR stood for.
[Update a while later]
Yes. Socialists should be disqualified for public office for simply being socialists.
I noted on X right after Chevalier’s election that it was hard to see how she could honestly take the oath of office.
And as someone (von Mises? Hayek?) once noted, if socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists.
Thoughts on uncertainty and risk, from Sarah Hoyt. Who is also doing a fundraiser.
At this point, it looks like the administration is just trying to manage things to get past the mid-terms, after which they will have (in Barack Obama’s words to Vladimir) “more flexibility.”
They’re not educated; they’re credentialed and propagandized, and they’re the problem.
“Free Palestine” is the new land acknowledgment—a virtue signal one throws out to avoid being called racist and curry favor with a youth radicalized at fancy universities. pic.twitter.com/kmspLeKFw8
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) July 2, 2026
[Update a while later]
Stop “fighting anti-Semitism,” and recommit to American history.
I always laugh when someone demands to see a “peer reviewed” paper on a topic, as though that means anything worthwhile.
The editors of the world's most prestigious medical journals are sounding the alarm, and nobody is listening.
— MAHA Action (@MAHA_Action) July 1, 2026
"We have peer reviewed, high impact editors in most of the journals that are the most high impact, saying that they don't believe what is being published in those… pic.twitter.com/YxwpgSKKH4
Worth noting, of course, that Michael Mann’s papers were “peer reviewed.”
It’s between the Organized Crime Democrats and the Bolsheviks, and the Bolsheviks appear to be winning.
[Mid-morning update]
“My family fled socialism, and then I voted for Bernie Sanders.”
At NYU, we believed that unconstrained capitalism and “trickle-down economics” were causing the calamity of inequality in the U.S., and it was our moral duty to fight back by promoting social justice and progressive values. We learned about the Iraq war, the Abu Ghraib scandal, and why the U.S. was to blame for the recent right-wing dictatorships in Argentina and Chile.
But this narrative didn’t square with what I knew about Venezuela’s recent history. In 2002, the military had briefly removed Chávez from power; I was taught at NYU that the U.S. government had engineered the failed coup out of fear that Chávez would cut off access to our oil. But my mother had been in the room when members of the Venezuelan media were discussing the possibility of a Chávez overthrow. The U.S. ambassador emphatically told everyone present that the Americans wouldn’t support a coup. Perhaps Latin American history wasn’t as simplistic as I was being taught.
I became acutely aware of how many of my NYU classmates were obsessed with race and identity, and how they believed that silencing Republicans was more important than protecting free speech. It reminded me of how Chávez had shut down the free press (with support from the American and European left) on the grounds that they were a propaganda tool of the oligarchy.
My NYU classmates characterized those who disagreed with them as deserving total exclusion from polite society. They shouted down right-wing speakers. Anyone considered a Republican, or Republican-adjacent, was socially ostracized. I met rich kids who called themselves “antifa,” and heard protest chants like, “How do you spell racist? NYU!” As a Venezuelan in exile, I could see what they couldn’t: U.S. democracy, capitalism, and the rule of law had afforded us unimaginable wealth, freedom, and security.
Also: “You’ll never encounter a Venezuelan in the U.S. who supports Chávez—except in academia. The same is true of Cubans.”
This is an excellent example of the degree to which the Marxists have taken over education, and higher education in particular, and why this is probably the greatest threat to the Republic.
It didn’t lose them by accident.
It’s starting to correct, but it blighted the lives of millions of young people who were misled into debt.
Yes, let’s bring it back.
The SCOTUS ruling should give the administration free rein to clean house.
Is California reaching a crisis point?
Hopefully, the Supreme Court will put an end to some of the voting nonsense, but even if it does, the state may ignore it (as it does with DEI). If so, maybe the Justice Department should step in at some point and declare the state in insurrection.