Josh Barro said he was scared to go East of Rock Creek Park in DC so I’d say he mostly missed out on the part of education that doesn’t make you a racist wimp.

Barro is a great example of a perfectly mediocre person elevated through social connection, so of course he needs to reduce the pool of potential talent - it’s threatening. He wants to trade L for L among other people of the same status.

the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance

By turning it into a cultural issue rather than a material one with only one cogent side

I have thought about this a lot. If you can find community based on the most repulsive part of yourself and also face exile from that community if you fix it, that’s what many psychologists would call “not good “

Jamelle was cooking. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

The GOATs

welp, that’s enough internet for today

If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.

one of the underlying factors in all the Epstein stuff is that his correspondents - even the ones who likely did not participate in abuse themselves - are completely incapable of imagining his victims as people. he is real to them, the girls aren't.

In a society with shame, a "reporter" with as many black eyes, ethcial lapses and demonstrations of bad judgement would have been drubbed out of the profession forever. Instead we get glamour shots and soft focus features.

They’re not the worst of the worst, but grinning jackasses in expensive quarter zips destroying public goods is pretty representative of how we got here

ban golf

There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.

This whole situation is surreal. We’re having to explain to people whose nominal job is investigative reporting why the world does not disappear when they cover their eyes before working up to the fact that we do not have their actual nose.

“With great power comes great responsibility” is the core moral of what is fundamentally a famous picture book for children. It is quite naturally far too complex a text for our media betters to comprehend.

Really smart piece on how to think about democracy amidst the failure of shared knowledge.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

I have had conversations with conspiracists that were amazing in their accuracy right up until the point where they would have had to grapple with systems and the slow boring of hard boards. Much, much easier to imagine a shadowy cabal, because you can do something about the cabal.

Stop me if you've heard this before: If the NYT still had a public editor, that person would have official standing to ask, WTF??? They axed the public editor. So it's up to the rest of us to ask, unofficially, WTF???

If releasing the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

This headline is journalistic malpractice. This isn't Epstein "alleging" that Trump knew. This is Epstein and Maxwell discussing - in 2011, long before Trump had political salience - how the FACT that Trump knew might play out Both of them took as a given that this was a fact in a private email

Correct, they all gotta go.

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If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?

If you pepper spray a 1 year old you don’t belong in society. I mostly oppose the carceral state but this is a clear exception.

So much cooler now.

Holy moly, these are *incredible* shots.

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

LT seems like the kind of psycho you don’t want to fight

I would LOVE to believe the "election truth" people who claim the 2024 presidential race results have suspicious anomalies that indicate fraud. Politics aside, it would vindicate warnings from my collegues and that elections systems have serious vulnerabilities. But there's just nothing there.

you cannot actually*know*a Republican in the Senate caucus by meeting them offline-just like a lot of women who end up in relationships with reactionary men don't really meet them on dates, because their real lives are on 8chan or whatever. You have to understand that online comes first to know them

the Senate caucus believes meaningful deals can be reached with Republicans on literally anything those of us who are online and can see into the groyper world their staffers live in know that isn't true the *fact that Dems know that physical reality is supposedly primary means they get duped*!

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Nico Harrison trading Luka Doncic is like if Ted Leonsis had hired Adam Proteau to be the Caps GM after 2013.

Why are D senators looking for every single opportunity to roll over and show their bellies?

the reactionary centrists with cushy opinion gigs couldn't make it through a 15 minute live discussion with a randomly selected progressive operative, political scientist or Resistance-era precinct captain

It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct. Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah. Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh. Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count. But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.

just saying if one of the 8 folding Dems wants they can use this as an excuse to change their mind and not give Trump exactly what he wants

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The thing about the "I voted against this" position Schumer is taking is that either he is trying to mislead Dem voters by implying he didn't support reopening right now, or he has no control over his caucus.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

This is absolutely right. The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Maybe if people think the Democratic Party is "weak" it is not because they think that Democrats "care about other people" but that they "fold every single time."

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

Woke up increasingly furious with these gerontocratic cowards. They keep pretending that we can return to business as usual if they surrender hard enough. That option is gone, if it ever existed.

if democrats want to retain any amount of integrity they need to immediately vote out chuck schumer as party minority leader