Speaker
Jane Coaston
Appearances over time
1 episodes
Episodes
1
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Quotes & moments
The government prosecuted 22 people in connection with the Prairieland ICE protest, including individuals who were not even present at the event.
Justice Alito found no racism in Trump's anti-Haitian rhetoric while Justice Kagan's dissent catalogued Trump's explicit slurs — a man who once criticized anti-Italian racism in The Sopranos.
Many of the Haitian TPS holders have been in the US for approximately 16 years, having arrived following the devastating 2010 earthquake.
Jane's Costal Nostalgia Theory holds that people believe their personal golden era is simply when they were young and attractive — Vanilla Ice believes the early 1990s were the peak of civilization.
A fringe but growing movement among right-wing figures is calling for repeal of the 19th Amendment — passed 106 years ago — claiming it empowered emotion over order in politics.
The Supreme Court's TPS ruling affects not only Haitians but also people from Syria and other countries on temporary protective status.
An Anthropic economist's paper concluded it is mathematically optimal — using log utility — to accept a 1-in-3 chance of ending all human existence for a 2-in-3 chance of raising living standards by a factor of 55. This is not a philosophy thought experiment; it's a paper from the company building leading AI systems.
Samuel Alito once decried anti-Italian racism in The Sopranos but found zero racism in Trump's documented anti-Haitian rhetoric. Conservative justices can see racism only when it touches them personally — for everyone else, the blinders stay on.
Megyn Kelly told Haitian immigrants to 'go back to fucking Haiti' on her show, claiming Americans don't drunk drive and that Haitians dilute the culture. This isn't commentary — it's a profitable performance for an audience that wants to hear it.
Daniel 'Dez' Sanchez Estrada never attended the Prairieland ICE protest. He was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to 30 years because police stopped him moving a box of anarchist zines from his home. His wife had attended the protest; a recorded jail call linked them.
JD Vance told the Nixon Foundation that if Watergate happened today it would be a 12-hour news story, not a presidency-ending scandal. He compared the 'deep state' that brought down Nixon to forces opposing Trump — getting the story exactly backwards.
Jane Coaston's Costal Nostalgia Theory: people always think the era when they were young and attractive was civilization's peak. Vanilla Ice thinks it's the early '90s. Joe Rogan misses old LA. Commenters in their 70s think 1977 was paradise — forgetting stagflation and the Son of Sam.
Usha Vance explained in a joint interview that she hasn't felt the need to convert from Hinduism because she grew up in a stable household — a pointed implicit contrast to JD's chaotic Appalachian upbringing and his journey to Catholicism via Peter Thiel.
Nixon's aides bugged the DNC, used the CIA to cover it up, funded the whole operation with a White House slush fund, and Nixon was caught on his own tapes. The 'deep state' was Nixon's own apparatus — not the investigators. JD Vance got this exactly wrong.
Calls to repeal the 19th Amendment aren't ideology — they're an admission of failure. If you can't persuade women to vote for you after 106 years, the problem isn't suffrage. It's that lots of women vote Republican, fewer than they used to, and the right would rather strip rights than make a better case.
Conservative media ran wall-to-wall coverage of World Cup fans getting along across nationalities — including Haitian-American fans dancing with Scottish supporters — while simultaneously cheering mass deportations of Haitian TPS holders. The contradiction ran on the same shows in the same week.
JD Vance's Catholic conversion happened to coincide exactly with the political moment when cultural Catholicism became most advantageous on the right. Even the Wall Street Journal noted the conversion narrative appeared 'politically incentivized.' His wife's Hindu family, meanwhile, was just fine.
First-term Arizona Republican Congressman Abe Hamaday has been living with a senior male former-realtor staffer in a relationship described as 'closer than a typical member-staffer dynamic.' Tim Miller declines to speculate, invoking the Downton Abbey precedent set by Aaron Schock's career-ending interior decorator.
The same movement that defended Kyle Rittenhouse's right to carry a rifle to a protest, that screams about First Amendment rights being violated by Facebook, is throwing protesters in prison for 30 to 100 years for leftist literature. It's not libertarianism — it's one rule for us, another for everyone else.
Analysis
What they talk about
- Government 43%
- Society & Culture 43%
- Religion & Spirituality 14%
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