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[Kaeley Triller @KaeleyT]

It’s been a helluva 24 hours on this platform.

Apparently I kicked a hornet’s nest when I said there’s no such thing as a “heritage American” in any meaningful racial sense. We’re all basically mutts anyway, and deriving a superiority complex from accomplishments to which you personally contributed precisely nothing is vainglorious nonsense.

What’s especially funny is how these self-appointed “heritage Americans” want to inherit every ounce of ancestral glory while accepting none of the shame.

They’ll claim the Founders’ courage, the pioneers’ grit, the soldiers’ sacrifice, and the builders’ industry as evidence of their own superiority.

But slavery? Jim Crow? Racial violence?

Whoa, whoa, whoa. That was other people. Nothing to do with me.

Sorry. If you want to take personal credit for everything your ancestors did well, you don’t get to suddenly become an individualist when the ugly parts come up.

Here’s my hot take:

Preserve whatever is actually worthy of preserving. Save the songs, traditions, recipes, stories of courage, faith, sacrifice, and resilience. Celebrate your heritage freely and without apology. But do it without the bigotry, too.

Leave the racist wickedness in the past where it belongs.

You do not honor your ancestors by embalming their sins.

Better yet, carry your own weight. Make your own contribution instead of freeloading off the accomplishments of people five generations before you while hiding behind a medieval-knight avatar and cosplaying at greatness from your couch.

Character is not hereditary. You want an inheritance worth bragging about? Live a life your descendants will someday be proud to inherit.

You can keep calling me every grotesque name you can invent. Rapist. Mudshark. Fat Jezebel whore. Whatever. I don’t give a flying fig what maladaptive keyboard cowards think or say about me. If the trans lobby couldn’t shut me up, you don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell.

I could be the worst woman who ever walked the earth and the argument would still be true:

You don’t get to cosplay your ancestors’ greatness while contributing none of your own.

Stay mad, fellas.

The truth is resilient.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

We have a full on racist administration, basically endorsing the recent Bo French racist tweet in Texas, and it almost certainly won’t make a single headline or feature in a single Sunday show discussion tomorrow.

More Hasan Piker panels please!

[Fiona @FionaSmall]

Goosebumps.

For all its faults, Western Christian culture is still worth defending

[David French @DavidAFrench]

It’s becoming very clear that when the new right praises meritocracy, the last thing they are is colorblind.

Texas has tried to create a meritocracy that rewards academic achievement regardless of race, ethnicity, sex or religion. It’s far from perfect, but one thing is crystal clear — if you do well enough in school you can go to the best university in the state. That’s a promise.

But now the results are in, and white men don’t do well enough for the new right. After spending years and years complaining when the left used admissions statistics to decry disproportionate racial admissions, the new right is now doing the exact same thing. https://t.co/6iUeuPwVpi

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Distinguished Columbia Univ. Prof. Jeff Sachs on Trump's 35-person cabinet:

“Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science and technology PhDs. We're led by grifters and fools.”

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Karl Rove is voting for Bo French's Democrat opponent. It's the second time Rove has ever voted Democrat in his life, and he's doing it in response to French's racism and the GOP's embrace of that. This is actually the only way to change the GOP. It needs to lose this year. It needs to lose in 2028. It needs to keep losing until the stain of Trumpism has been thoroughly power washed out and people become ashamed to have ever been part of the movement. It'll take sustained, brutal electoral losses.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

Hard to overstate how big a failure DOGE was. The government slashed its workforce without meaningfully shrinking the government’s overall footprint. So taxpayers got a less capable bureaucracy while spending billions paying people not to work. It was mostly performance art.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

He had the right to remain silent, but he didn’t have the ability.

[Art Vandelay @LJS527]

Anyway please watch this video.
And I know some of my most anti-Trump followers will bristle at this cause EE supported Trump. I am asking you to put that aside and just watch.
When someone on the right speaks up like this, you should listen.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Forget the fans in the stands, wait'll he finds out UT did to the team on the field

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Virtually every aspect of life under right-wing rule is worse, but right-wingers tell themselves it’s all worth it because in their minds they’re winning an imaginary race war. And this is the mainstream view on the right, from anonymous posters to Claremont and Heritage, The Federalist and The Blaze. As long as these idiots can tell themselves and each other that the race war in their imaginations is being won, it’s all worth it. The Americans killed in the Iran war. The government being reduced to one family’s personal casino. The new AI powered surveillance state. The fact that their children, if they have any, will inherit an uglier, less prosperous and more unstable country. All of it can be justified and rationalized through this framing.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Anti-Indian racists in America really are the top-tier of racists.

Today they're mad at them for raising kids who get into good colleges and become football fans?

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

This is a small section of a 100,000 seat stadium
These guys are undergrads who almost certainly went to football-crazy Texas high schools, where they most certainly graduated in the top 5% of their class, and have clearly assimilated to Texas football culture

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"Think about how big of a loser you have to be to spend your night after a big UT football win tweeting about how you were crying that there were too many brown students."

@Timodc rips apart white nationalist loser and statewide Texas Republican candidate Bo French:

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

I told Mayor Mamdani that nine-in-ten first responders who died on 9/11 were Catholic.

Here was his response:

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

I love that this clip ends with the economically illiterate Scott Bessent happily applauding Trump's ridiculous, unrealizable bribe. This would amount to a trillion-dollar-plus redistribution scheme.

[B2B CHAMP WEX @lexiebu]

we’re losing the ancient texts

[Clue Heywood @ClueHeywood]

We finally have a statement about that controversial ending, sir

Great. What layout and font should we use?

Definitely “back cover of a 1980s young adult mystery paperback”

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

Congratulations to my friend @PabloTorre: One of the few sports journalists who stands apart from the insider BS coverage that makes up the vast majority of sports media today

[Brandon Wilkinson @brawil86]

It’s over, that’s it… this wins the internet!