#pathologies
Fifteen competing pathologies all spilling out in this one clip here.
Asked by Erika Kirk what her advice to young men is, Nicki Minaj says, “don’t be like [Gavin] Newscum.”

Nicki then refers to Trump as “our handsome, dashing president.”

She then referred to JD Vance as “an assassin,” and remembered whom she was on stage with.

Erika Kirk then assures her it’s fine
December 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“Bluesky has awful pathologies” and the pathologies the people in question are always talking about is literally just that they find certain groups of people annoying. Which is a thing on EVERY WEBSITE. You are on the internet
March 3, 2026 at 1:03 AM
This is such a nauseating stew of simmering pathologies and resentments of subnormal techbros.
April 19, 2026 at 1:24 PM
conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity
March 11, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Black folks are not being "mean" to you when we are truthful concerning the historical pathologies of your kinsmen...

Truth is the greatest love
January 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Fantastic illustration of the topic of social construction of pathology -- and of medical progress, since we no longer pathologies this. #socy126 #nosology #lefties #southpaws
January 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Someday someone is going to an interesting study on the brain chemistry of billionaires...what pathologies are required to get there, what additional pathologies are created by becoming so rich you don't feel the laws of human reality apply to you. Here's one smallish brain to start with.
Lutnick pushes fracturing of Canada: "This is about the Liberal Party & Carney trying to use a kerfuffle w/ the US to gai leverage. They've got the sovereign party vote in Quebec on Oct 5. They've got an independence vote that starts the process of Alberta, who always feels ripped off by Ottawa... "
September 2, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Fascinating that even their psychosexual pathologies lack subtext, pretty crazy.
July 23, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Another word I'm sick of, when used in connection with Trump, is "agenda."
Trump has cravings. Trump has impulses. Trump has pathologies. And he can't see beyond himself.
I have a tough time hearing his cravings, impulses, and narcissistic pathologies reframed as an "agenda."
July 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Trump has cravings. Trump has impulses. Trump has pathologies. And he can't see an inch beyond himself.

I generally refrain from using the word "hate," but I do hate it when they reframe Trump's cravings, impulses, and narcissistic pathologies as an "agenda."
August 1, 2026 at 12:47 AM
yeah, the pathologies here are dire
February 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“Fan politics” and “customer politics” are both very bad pathologies.
one significant problem we have is a political culture -- at least in the center-left -- which is adverse, both for cynical and principled reasons, to a political culture on the left which demands anything other than a periodic vote and autopay donations.
politicians aren't "owed" anything. they are public servants. "but i'd be sad if i retired" who CARES.

if you're out here doing the business of political agitation--you too have responsibilities. "but i'd be SAD if i was held accountable for the results of my choices--" tough tuna.
January 29, 2026 at 9:35 PM
so, so much of what people rightly hate about "tech" has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with the pathologies of venture capital outlined in this thread
the thing about VCs is that they don't want the companies they invest in to succeed, necessarily. They want them to either grow rapidly and massively or fail quickly. Slowly building a market? Growing stably and sustainably? These things fuck up the VC business model and are anathema.
Then he discusses when to stop blitzscaling. Looks at companies that got big fast through blitzscaling (Groupon), but then the technique stopped working & they cratered. So, uh, in hindsight, they should have stopped doing it.

Take big risks with your business. But only ones that work out. Got it.👍
May 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Because it’s literally just a collection of psychosexual pathologies masking as a fiscal package.
The GOP megabill includes a tax credit for metallurgical coal, reports @zeitlin.bsky.social. No one knows why.

"Cheaper metallurgical coal would do nothing for American energy dominance, but it would help other countries pump up their production of steel." ⬇️
The Megabill’s Most Bizarre Fossil Fuel Handout
A new subsidy for metallurgical coal won’t help Trump’s energy dominance agenda, but it would help India and China.
heatmap.news
June 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Not only that but do you genuinely hold the idea that somehow Bouie produced the pathologies of the left? Are you genuinely so convinced that without Bouie somehow the left would avoid these pathologies?
March 2, 2026 at 9:26 PM
It really sucks to be ruled by one man’s pathologies.
Great point here from @brianstelter.bsky.social: Trump is now begging for people to show up at his July 4 rally because he fears above all that *he personally* will be ridiculed. Doesn't care about the country.

(discusses my Josh Shapiro interview too)
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June 25, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Another word I'm starting to get sick of (besides %#$@& "mandate") is "agenda." What agenda?
Trump has cravings. Trump has impulses. Trump has pathologies. Trump can't see beyond himself.

It's disturbing and so normalizing to hear his cravings, impulses, and pathologies reframed as an "agenda."
November 26, 2024 at 3:27 AM
Feel like true crime colliding with 24 hour political commentary is the cross breeding of two terrible media pathologies.
July 13, 2026 at 8:03 AM
The thing about ‘national conservatism’ is that it accurately diagnoses a lot of pathologies and then proposes: let’s make all of them worse.
September 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
All that may be true but also this place very obviously has some acute and awful pathologies
March 2, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Another word I'm starting to get sick of (besides %#$@ "mandate") is "agenda." What agenda?

Trump has cravings. Trump has impulses. Trump has pathologies. Trump is all self. A giant "id."

It's disturbing and so normalizing to hear his cravings, impulses, and pathologies reframed as an "agenda."
December 6, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Another word I'm starting to get sick of (besides "mandate") is "agenda." Trump has cravings. Trump has impulses. Trump has pathologies. And he doesn't - and can't - see beyond himself.
I have a really tough time hearing his cravings, impulses, and narcissistic pathologies reframed as an "agenda."
November 18, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Matt is a very good decoder of right wing pathologies -->
Had a great Theory of Change chat with @molly.wiki about the crypto industry and Trump and also the very strong overlap between crypto advocates and Wikipedia haters.

Here's the transcript, audio, and video: plus.flux.community/p/web3-has-b...
Web3 has been great for Republican billionaires—and awful for almost everyone else
Molly White on how the cryptocurrency industry ate Trump’s second presidency and possibly the global economy as well
plus.flux.community
December 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
These people have deep antisocial pathologies. There is something profoundly wrong with them.
Bondi grotesquely claims that Abrego Garcia's wife and child are better off with him gone
April 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
avoiding drinking and smoking is surprisingly effective at avoiding a lot of health pathologies (it's one of the things that drives me crazy about MAHA)
graham was not in great health. he loved to drink and smoke. nothing about this is surprising
July 12, 2026 at 9:13 PM