Yeah, I'm not relocating again. If this place goes belly up, I'm gone.

The winner of this year's WaPo Peeps Diorama Contest is "A Shaming of the Shoes." www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

🧵I'm going to be writing a piece called "Why there is no liberal media." Main points: 1) There's plenty of money on the left 2) It's locked up in wasteful TV ads 3) There are some prosperous left media outlets, but they almost never help small or medium people 4) The right wing does the opposite

By nature of how the MAGA movement works, the minute you break with the president on anything, you're no longer MAGA. Which means that any poll of MAGA will always be 100% supportive of the president, down the to the day when it's only Trump, himself, left. Still at 100% approval, all the time.

I have never seen a cross-examination go so badly

A majority of Harris voters lived in Trump states. A majority of Trump voters in 2020 lived in Biden states. Democrats have won 42-46% of the vote in the South in every presidential election over the past three decades. States and regions of the country aren’t monoliths

This, for the love of Pete

Also Marco Rubio: Our shared Christian faith must dictate our most consequential decisions about who gets to enter and join our society

"so successful"

They want to be treated like gods and at the same time try selling us on their infantile understanding of reality. Quite the tight rope to walk! It's BS and the aww shucks I'm just a dumb hockey player approach isn't going to work this time.

Terrific forum here with a lot of leading historians of American religion reflecting on one of my all time favorite OAH presidential addresses and JAH articles. Check it out!

This one hits hard.

"AI will cure cancer" No bro, it is fully on cancer's side

Is it weird that most classical music concerts are just you watching a cover band?

I so dislike Vietnamese food that I’ve decided to start a radical organization to oppose it. I’m calling it Anti-Pho.

If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.

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This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.

@charlieoconn.bsky.social How's about Tippett, Luchenko and a 2027 first for Robert Thomas?

The Carney speech is one that offers hope and a path forward, sadly one that for the first time in a long time that doesn't include us. But if we're lucky we end up like Great Britain, a shell, but still functioning economic power.

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

The shadow cabinet idea was a great idea and should have been implemented a year ago. Would have presented an organized, unified response to the chaos, issue by issue, by people with expertise.

Given the low character you'd have to have to serve in Trump's Cabinet, I've just assumed every single one of them has a big scandal in their back pocket just waiting to be found.

Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.

What’s amazing about this story is that they *reversed* it. It’s not just a treatment that can stave it off or delay it. It *cures* Alzheimer’s. I know lots of research initially seems hopeful in mice and then doesn’t go anywhere, but this could be momentous. I cried.

This is a really nice analysis of the AI bubble, how we got here, and where we might be going. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

started / going

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

Just to clear up any controversy, yes, The Thin Man is a Christmas movie.

Sounds about right.

Important to repost this every time Lizza drops another substack

Eagles sports radio is gonna make the red wedding look like a romantic comedy

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

Well, it works in theory...

Terrific

This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe. Share it widely.

Love in sports when a guy screws up and he pats his chest as if to say, "Yeah, it's on me." No need dude, we were watching. Trust me, we were already blaming you.

I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city. I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.

There really should be a coordinated effort to force Schumer out as Minority Leader as a result of his failure here.

Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings

Imagine how quickly you would have been laughed out of a pitch meeting in the late 80s or 1990 when you said something like... You: I feel like we need a TV cop show and I think if I had a choice, I'd grab Donnie Wahlberg.... Network exec: From New Kids on the Block? You: Yep and maybe Ice-T

This is the perfect distillation of why baseball is great.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

every sports team is a Ship of Theseus