Opening a lucrative PR firm where for $100k I will hand my wealthy clients a note that says “stop commenting for stories like this”

This, and also: so much absolutely improbable, insane shit has happened in the last 10 years. No one actually knows what could much less what’s going to happen.

One of my rules about management, and about being a decent person, is to never say “how hard could that be?” about somebody else’s job

Dems have to get used to the idea that the goal is to *destroy* GOP megalomania and white nationalism, not “turn the page” from it. A ballroom left standing, even remodeled, is still vandalism and can still be put to corrupt use by the next bad president.

“.. If you need a 'stock market is not the economy' visual, this is a good candidate: Tech stocks relative to the market: all-time high. “.. Tech jobs relative to all jobs: all-time low.” - Schwab

A very Strength In Numbers-coded article today: It looks like Republican Supreme Court justices made a very rudimentary, but willful, statistical error in their effective invalidating of the VRA in the Callais decision. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-08...

Lesson learned: if you want to go to the tiki bar at Gage & Tollner (and you do), make a reservation @clivethompson.bsky.social Max and I agreed we need to return with you and others!

I've always loved this performance because he plays it completely genuinely. he knows the choreography, his costume is tailored and well suited to his body, the entire vibe is silly and celebratory instead of showing quiet distaste for what he's doing, as a lot of men would

I’m aware this is news to CBS and this dude but we were literally shouting about this a year ago, it’s not unearthed, and it’s even stupider than you think: the cruise ships paid their salaries. It literally paid more than it cost. We gave money back rather than control disease because RFK

Trump take burgers

The post-war rally in the stock market has been remarkable, especially considering that, you know, THE WAR NEVER ENDED AND ITS MAIN ECONOMIC HARM IS CONTINUING TOTALLY UNABATED

I made myself dinner tonight (marinated chicken breast in oil and balsamic then breaded and sautéed, baked potato with fake butter and leftover onion dip, steamed frozen veg) and it’s amazing how much more self-care you can do when you’re not emotionally and mentally drained by 5pm

Biden was, in his prime, much better than Obama at *retail* politics. Gabby friendly guy who'd grab your cell phone and call your mom. Clinton still the GOAT of this, even right-wingers will tell you they enter a weird fugue state when he locks eyes and talks to you.

You know what would be really fucking transformative in 2026? Electing statehouses in Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania that will join the Interstate Popular Vote Compact, and designate their EC to the outright winner of the popular vote. That’s a better use of resources than navel gazing at 2028

I would 100% buy a copy of this edition

It’s not enough to condemn these incidents after they occur; we need to proactively prevent them to make NYC safer for Jews and for everyone who calls NYC home.

"Do not kill the part of you that is Cringe. Kill the part of you that cringes."

Whether Biden (and Garland is just a subset of Biden) should have known better isn't really the point in and of itself. It's that because we can see how they failed, now we *do* know better and that's extremely relevant for what we do next.

Happy new Murderbot day to all who celebrate!

if Gwendoline Christie ever disappoints may I not see it. may the gods turn away the sight from me.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Officially THAT BITCH

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

Alexis Goldstein, a former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee, was fired this year for recording DOGE’s incursion into the agency. www.wired.com/story/a-fede...

I spend a lot of my time talking about how we are in a transition to distributed, sustainable, and abundant energy, one that is unprecedented in our existence as a species, and what the implications are for, well, everything. A different, better world is now possible, and we want to live there.

Jimmy Breslin said Rudy Giuliani was “a small man in search of a balcony.” It doesn’t get any better than that.

if you ever feel constrained by the dictum not to speak of ill of the dead, this is a great moment to share your memories of what an abomination Rudy Giuliani is — as in this reminder of his consumate awfulness long before he made himself an absolute grotesque for Trump

His hatred of ferrets was one of the only legitimately funny at the time parts of his mayoralty

What I can’t help but remember is that later on, Gillian Anderson said during filming she had been instructed to always walk behind David Duchovny in hallway shots, etc. (She didn’t, but she was told to.). Remember that if you’re thinking the 90s was a happier, better time.

What a great thread for a trailblazing life. I loved Sylvia!

When the human tried to record you snoring and you’re not mad, you’re just disappointed

I'm no university administrator, but "drove a car into a group of students peacefully trying to talk to him, then falsely claimed the students had blocked him in and were pounding on the car when they hadn't and weren't" feels like part of the sort of sentence that also includes "fired with cause"

This is an abortion ban

One of my favorite Oscar Wilde anecdotes is that he once did a reading and Q&A in a mine. With miners. Like down a mineshaft. He had this crazy idea that everybody of every occupation deserved and could benefit from art and information

I’m still reeling from this one in GQ last month.

I demonstrated two things today: that driving faster increases the risk that someone will die and that, after the pandemic, people started driving like bigger assholes. Gift link: www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

You can always tell when someone has been a graduate student from their attitude towards free food

Rewriting the ending of Of Mice and Men so that George and Lennie open a successful petting zoo

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

Read the whole thread

Turn Sound UP. Go WayBACK. DANCE, Hampster, DANCE ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19990423...

It is almost unimaginable that you could be such a prick that someone tries to kill you and you make a giant fuss about it and your approval rating actually goes down. Getting shot at in this country used to mean a big polling bump.

The crazy thing is that the stock market returns on average 7% a year. Last year it was more like 20%. Even with inflation, since it’s a one-time tax, the hit to any given billionaire is trivial

Washington Hilton "donated the ~2600 dinners that went unserved at WHCD. They freeze dried the steak and lobster for longer shelf life before giving them to 2 shelters for abused women and children." - WHCA President Weijia Jiang

This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

I've been led to understand from decades of US gun violence that there's a variable window of "too soon to politicize this" during which discussions of gun control are verboten. It doesn't seem to apply to advocacy of the illegal demolition of a White House wing to build a party room out of bribes.

This has made my sister into a bird hater, which I (a much heavier sleeper) find hilarious