I know everyone's gotta have an instant take about everything but I think it's kinda impossible to evaluate this sensibly without knowing what the fan said to him

Congrats to JD Vance for going the full David Duke. We all knew you had it in you.

I’m gonna be real, I get why he has to be suspended or whatever but in cases like this I’m pretty much always gonna be 100% sure the fan deserved it. Putting odds at 1000:1 he used a slur

Suburban Ohio man who wrote a “memoir” about being Appalachian wants to lecture a Black woman about authenticity????

Oh, look there: an editorial-interference canary.

EXAAAAAAAACTLY

I mean, if we're talking about the red meat in the era of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, sure. A diseased product sold by hucksters that wreaks havoc and even causes death, forcing the federal government to step in with harsh regulations? Yeah, man, that works.

Jury nullification is legal and good, part 17. beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

Video essay: That OU Essay Is Supposed to Be Bad I approached the OU essay as an editor and realized it didn’t want to be fixed. Thoughts on craft, refusal, ugliness, and why some writing is bad on purpose. (Weekends are the perfect time for new content, right?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvCm...

It's super weird how "what wins elections" is always exactly what the denizens of opinion pages already believe.

“They’re going to bring back suffering and death,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the infectious disease committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “I don’t say that with any hyperbole, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”

Once upon a time Elise Stefanik was a moderate overachiever. Donald Trump is the worst thing that ever happened to her and she may not even realize it. She tacked far right, lost friends, quit congress to join his admin, didn’t get it, tried to run for gov only to have Trump publicly undercut her

My work crush just sent me this over teams and I am LOSING MY MIND oh my god

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

What about a wealth tax, but just for people photographed palling around with Epstein?

I deleted this post because the search bar appears to be functioning now. There are 617 entries for “Trump.”

This was found in the batch of Epstein files the DOJ released today.

Deposition Transcript of Jeffrey Epstein in which he was asked if he ever socialized with Donald Trump. He answered yes. And then he was asked if he had ever socialized with Trump in the presence of girls under the age of 18. In response, Epstein pled the Fifth.

The end goal is eugenicist. RFK and his ilk know that this will make vaccines more expensive and time-consuming — and therefore marginalized children are most likely to fall through the cracks. This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

If a Jeffrey Epstein “client list” exists, this might be it. “Visitors Massage (P.B.)”

Apoearing in Jeffrey Epstein’s 2004 rolodex is not evidence of guilt. And but also. (There’s one for Charlie Rose, too.)

NEW: A brief Q&A with the guy slapping Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center “Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“ Today, at Law Dork:

The Epstein Files, everybody!

There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office. And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.

That’s illegal

One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.

Something tells me that these are not the "lonely males" everyone is concerned about

One of my trans friends asked me to let people know that the FDA is now sending out warning letters to companies selling chest binders. They are reclassifying them as "medical devices" which will be impossible for most companies to legally comply with. This is the bare-minimum care for trans adults.

100%. They are trying to get an army of robot slaves to serve their every need so they can keep *all* of the money, instead of just most of it, and let everyone else die. Why do think they’re all so obsessed with the apocalypse? They *want* it to happen!

I watched it in grad school and was SHOOK. If you haven’t watched it, I’m not sure you can appreciate the significance of President Woodrow Wilson loving it so much that he screened it in the White House. The first film to be screened there, of course. It is incandescently racist.

“That’s Holocaust shit. Come on.” 👑

NEW, with @dircetoca.huffpost.com: www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

New at The Watch: A comprehensive primer on the drug boat strikes open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...

If you do not support trans people - by actively dedicating your time and money (if you have it) and voice to their cause - you are a failure of morality and humanity and you are not just a bystander but a culpable participant in one of the most violent attempts at eugenics of our time.

Some years back my spouse and I were walking around Eastern Market and David Brooks and his grandaughter-lookin-ass wife walked by. I didn’t even know my healthy partner knew who Brooks was, but as soon as we passed, with Brooks still within earshot, he goes “Clown.” I love my spouse, that is all.

When BARI WEISS is trending because her show flopped, it's a reminder: we don't need more centrist nonsense disguised as 'balance.' The world is hungry for queer, trans and Black voices, not corporate bigots. Let's stop platforming fascists and build media that reflects our communities. ✊🏿🏳‍⚧️🌈

As someone who investigates it, I’m failing to see a difference between this and absolute fraud

Omfg y’all. She’s just another right-wing grifter. She made a crying “RIP Charlie Kirk” video, and she thinks this is Joy Reid!

Wait, the second “unfairly estranged” mom also initiated no-contact!! For what sound like good reasons — except the reporter has made zero effort to substantiate her claims. What is this punk-ass reporting, y’all? If I write about the ICE Gestapo for a leftist outlet I still ask ICE for comment.

Holy shit! I didn’t have a chance to read the whole article until now, and SHE CUT OFF CONTACT WITH HER DAUGHTER!! She says her daughter didn’t want mom at her wedding, so she responded by carpet-bombing their relationship ON her daughter’s wedding day. This woman is psychotic.

“I didn’t put the injection sites on her.” Dying

Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.

Really kind of dispiriting to realize how many men in my world see the women and people of color in their lives as thieves and obstacles to their thriving.

Yeah dude realizes he can be the only right-wing podcaster who can claim to have seen the unredacted epstein files and he's gonna go get his coins

Your kids. Are not. Your property. If you were so shitty to your kids that they cut you out of their life, you deserved it. They don't owe you a goddamn thing.

“This simple economic move has a long history. We could call it, I dunno, ‘living space’ or perhaps ‘lebensraum.’”

Isso aqui me fez mais ainda querer destruir a mídia burguesa. TUDO que seja pra ter dignidade pessoal ou, principalmente, coletiva é atacado por esses sites de merda