oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...

women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.

there’s some truth in this, but the gap between deep red and blue states isn’t explained by voter suppression alone. the white populations in deep red states vote republican at very high rates. both things are load-bearing.

"Dasha got dropped by Gersh," I say to the elerly woman sitting next to me on the bus. "Can you believe that?" She empties an entire can of mace directly into my face instantly.

sorry but i think it’s newsworthy every time someone wants to fuck rfk jr. and we’re never going to fully understand human psychology if we don’t figure it out

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.

for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...

barely an exaggeration. Chatterton authored the Harper's Letter, which decried "the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty." his latest book has "the age of certainty" in its subtitle and has a whole chapter about "moral clarity." just the same idea over and over.

i now believe that jeffrey epstein killed himself because if i wrote like that i would kill myself

i actually think this read doesn’t quite make sense, or at least isn’t very clear. (1) asked where he’s spending Thanksgiving, Epstein says “eva” (presumably Eva Andersson-Dubin) (2) asked who else is “down there” he lists people including Trump. Really unclear imo

99% of Republicans understand nothing about intraleft politics. they’re still saying shit like “you won’t be so happy when BILL CLINTON is implicated will you?”

one thing i hate is when the president is a pedophile

credit to Larry Summers, doing the “you can’t even hit on women anymore” thing while talking to a full pedophile is next level stuff

this is a rich text but my favorite part is that despite being presumably good at math, her husband is so illiterate that he cannot read a baby's report card

I have been a longtime critic of legal podcasts. I think many have only worsened our relationship with the law. But this @fivefourpod.bsky.social is the best it’s ever been done. Props to @aywarhiannon.bsky.social for producing an incredibly important pod well worth your time.

This month's bonus episode is about Zohran Derangement Syndrome, the dangerous malady infecting newsrooms across the globe.

This week’s episode is an interview with two lawyers who represent Leqaa Kordia, a young Palestinian woman who is in ICE detention for protesting genocide. open.spotify.com/episode/7gid...?

the AI-generated chapter titles for our episodes are making me believe in the power of AI

one of the biggest contributors to Elon’s loser energy is that he desperately wants to be cool, but doesn’t understand that a big part of being cool is appearing unaffected. he’s one of the most affected men of all time.

it’s important to understand that Nate Silver’s entire consciousness is filtered through the lens of being a gross nerd his entire life. the opportunity to feel like he’s one of the cool kids is something he can’t pass up, it’s load-bearing for his dork psyche.

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

My latest premium newsletter is about the failure of the anti-Mamdani media blitz, and what it says about the decaying influence of The New York Times.

this is a good microcosm of being a lefty on twitter now. you can spend hours trying to push Grok to the left if you want, but even if you succeed, Elon’s just going to press a button to move it right back

if you’re only a casual Tesla watcher you might not realize that Elon has mostly pivoted away from cars and is now constantly talking about populating the earth with humanoid robots

My latest premium newsletter is about the failure of the anti-Mamdani media blitz, and what it says about the decaying influence of The New York Times.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

BREAKING: every Republican has died

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

(to the tune of Eleanor Rigby) 🎶socialist muslim🎶

This week’s episode is Garcetti v. Ceballos, where the Court said that free speech is important, but not as important as being able to fire your employees.

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

My latest is about the latest revelations on the failed prosecution of Donald Trump, and why you should blame Merrick Garland more than the Supreme Court.

brett is seeing everyone post about “kavanaugh stops” and he’s losing his mind

i love winding the clocks back an hour. you get an extra hour of sleep and the only downside is several months of horrible despair.

watching a sport you don’t really care about kind of rules. i’m just clapping for good plays and shit.

My latest is about the latest revelations on the failed prosecution of Donald Trump, and why you should blame Merrick Garland more than the Supreme Court.

everything else aside, “i got the issue i cover completely wrong for several years straight, anyway let’s all move on” is an incredible move.

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI! This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

they’re saying i’m not brave enough to get a slice of ice cream cake out of the freezer, eat it, immediately get a tummy ache, and then complain to my wife about it all night. that’s because they don’t know me.

call me crazy but i think inviting someone under federal indictment to an interview, peppering them with questions about the indictment that you know they can’t answer until you cause them to leave, then calling it a “Katie Porter moment” is not good journalism

catching up on @ifbookspod.bsky.social cc: @notalawyer.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

conspiracy to make a cop go slow

baseball will do a 162 game season and then get to the playoffs and act like it’s in a rush to wrap things up. best of 3 playoff series, back to back World Series games. calm down.

this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.

i was all in on mamdani until i found out that he called his dad's cousin his "aunt" instead of using the term we all know and love, "cousin once removed"

in this episode i say what the liberal media has been afraid to say about the White House ballroom: every boy deserves a place where he can dance.

This month's premium episode is the latest entry in our coverage of Eric Adams, from Trump dropping his charges to the collapse of his mayoral campaign to his ex who made an AI-generated trailer for her book about their whirlwind romance.

financially entangling myself with isaac chotiner until it becomes unethical for him to interview me

Showing the world’s greatest statisticians my fantasy team and they’re all in agreement. “Objectively the unluckiest thing the known universe has ever seen,” they’re saying. “Not at all a reflection of your skill.”