This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review. For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.

My latest: How Multilevel Marketing Explains Trump's Corruption. A Q&A with @bridgetgillard.bsky.social abt her book Little Bosses Everywhere. We talk abt how MLMs take advantage of U.S. tropes abt success & failure & their ties to right-wing politics. economicpopulist.substack.com/p/how-multil...

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

So now that we all know Trump and his agenda are insanely unpopular, who in the Republican Party or the business world is suddenly going to grow a spine and stand up to him?

Trump is like some demented, self-made version of Hawthorne's Rappaccini’s Daughter. He poisons everyone he touches.

I know everyone is getting a good laugh out of this -- I am too! -- but people in random states showing up at the polls to vote in other city & state elections is exactly what you should expect to happen when the local press is decimated and all politics is national.

That $1 million Intuit, er, donated to Trump's inaugural committee is going to cost Americans billions of dollars in tax prep fees.

🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

ICYMI: Despite Trump's claims that the economy is doing well and that there's "No Inflation," Americans aren't falling for it. "Americans are not fooled by Trump’s reality-show version of the economy," @helaineolen.bsky.social writes in @msnbc.com .

My latest for MSNBC: "Republicans are making the same mistake as Democrats during Joe Biden’s presidency: trying to convince voters that the economy is better than it is. It didn’t work for Democrats, and it won’t work for Republicans and Trump." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

My latest for MSNBC: "Republicans are making the same mistake as Democrats during Joe Biden’s presidency: trying to convince voters that the economy is better than it is. It didn’t work for Democrats, and it won’t work for Republicans and Trump." www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

OPINION by @helaineolen.bsky.social: “The former reality TV star cannot, in fact, bear very much reality.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This piece is utterly horrifying -- how California and Los Angeles's utterly inept and uncaring government does nothing to put a stop to a three-mile strip of underage street prostitution, dubbed the "Kiddie Stroll" by local cops. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/m...

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...

In the next issue of Rolling Stone magazine, @swin24.bsky.social and I go deep on Trump’s war on speech, the left, and any and all dissent. Read it here and come follow our work at @zeteo.com, where we work now! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.

I didn’t know Kaleb Horton, but I loved his writing. Life can be so sad and unfair. www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Good morning— or good afternoon— from Athens.

I'm glad Ezra Klein wrote this, and he's totally right on the path forward. Because of his positioning as an establishment-friendly centrist liberal, maybe Dem leaders will listen, which would be great.

Blue states should start indicting Pulte's relatives where they have jurisdiction. It's the only way to stop Trump's deliberate weaponization of the legal system.

Renewed respect for Eric Adams.

Shout out to all those people — mostly on the other site— who assured me that Trump would leave the Fed alone even as he destroyed the CFPB.

Today’s Must Read. This tale of a busted billionaire friendship — complete with Hollywood adjacent lunacy and a psychic promoter of crypto —is absolutely insane. www.wsj.com/articles/tay...

This is absolutely true… and why I am forever suspicious of people who claim to be “happily married.” Or, as we used to say in journalism, “show, don’t tell.”

There’s a sucker born every minute… and some of them come highly credentialed.

Trump's planning to cook the BLS economic books.

Working class Americans who supported Trump for his trade/tariff plans wanted more American manufacturing jobs and rebalanced trade not tariffs used to boost Big Tech monopolies’ power to crush smaller businesses worldwide, abuse our privacy & hurt kids. American jobs? What jobs?

This is, to me, the defining dyamic of everything the last six months. Any game theory notion of deterrence or the shoe being on the other foot ever is entirely gone. Either 1) They don't think they'll ever lose power again or 2) they're confident Democrats won't ever do the same things back to them

"America is never going to return to a functioning — let alone thriving — democracy as long as we pretend that it’s not a crime to sell access and influence in the White House for coins that go straight into the pocket of the president or his children." share.inquirer.com/csKOvc

Trump Mobile seems like such small potatoes compared to the crypto cash grab. It's almost like a grifters-gotta-grift type offering.

Any Democrat voting for the Stablecoin bill should be absolutely ashamed of themselves.

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

The deals Musk cut with foreign governments while they were facing Trump's tariff threats. A new report by ‪@warren.senate.gov‬ staffers compiles these and other disturbing facts about Musk's 130-day stint in the administration

Exactly this. I am sitting in the peaceful garden of my mom’s memory care center in LA —where many of the hardworking and excellent staff were born born in other countries. Trump is describing a city that exists in his head, not reality.

This is beyond delusional insanity, it needs its own new terminology for how devoid of reality it is. This man is a deranged lunatic. I live in L.A., am out doing errands. L.A. is exactly like it is on any other day, with a few hundred protestors in a couple of spots in a city of nearly 10,000,000

Chilling

The arrest of online fanfic erotica writers (99% young women) in China is still ongoing, some are getting sentenced to 10 years in prison I didn’t see any newer international coverage of this but I saw on Weibo today that more writers are getting sentenced right now amp.scmp.com/news/china/p...

Ugly, ugly stuff. They're collapsing the Department of Veterans Affairs and the largest integrated healthcare system in America.

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

NEW: As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few grasped what was coming. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and @cgaribay.bsky.social

Washington Post "wins" for biggest drop in web visits among top 20 news sites— month-on-month and year-on-year. Source: PressGazette using Similarweb data. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

"If liberals do not concern themselves very seriously and very quickly with the unity of their own philosophy and with morality and the family, they will not merely continue to lose elections but will as well bear responsibility for the success of conservatives" www.theguardian.com/books/2014/f...

BREAKING: New Jersey Transit rail operators have gone on strike. The strike, which has the backing of NJ Gov Phil Murphy, will affect 350,000 commuters. NJ Transit operators say they want to be afford to live in the communities that they serve paydayreport.com/breaking-nj-...

A “We Buy Ugly Houses” former franchise owner is accused of orchestrating a yearslong Ponzi scheme, bilking tens of millions of dollars from investors. “It’s incalculable the amount of damage this guy did. He’s ruined some lives,” said one investor. www.propublica.org/article/home...

“This epidemic is preventable,” a grieving dad said on his first trip to Albany as part of @familiesforsafestreets.org. “It doesn't have to be this way.”