So the GOPs position is: teachers, daycare providers, doctors, and park rangers are all villains. Tech billionaires, the criminally convicted ex president of Honduras, Andrew Tate, and the Saudi royal family are all heroes beyond reproach. That about sum it up?

I think an under-appreciated facet to this is that many of these writers are in group chats with Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon and Nick Fuentes and within that social circle they’re being told it’s “cringe” to resist Trump.

Trump ranting about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize while literally committing an act of war is just so perfect(ly stupid)

All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.

This is like the shit you’d see when the Russians looted and massacred Bucha

JUST IN: CBS’s Kennedy Center Honors just hit an all-time ratings low. Preliminary Nielsen data shows only ~2.65M viewers tuned in to the Trump-hosted show, down from 4.1M in 2024. A stunning 35% year-over-year collapse.

It’s just such a wild information environment and power asymmetry when both left and right will demand caution when reporting on this letter (even though it fits everything we know about Trump) and the president and his allies ran his election campaign on “immigrants eat dog and cats”

imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."

“Force multiplier” “warfighters” “kinetic strikes” he’s a 12 year old playing Call of Duty

I feel like whenever I would worry about younger generations forgetting the lessons of WWII, I always thought it would be more like they wouldn't know about Hitler at all or fall for a similar despot, but I did not expect that they would like specifically get *into* Hitler. Like a folk hero.

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Maybe not what Orwell had in mind, but we have reached a sort of “2 + 2 = 5” situation where the White House wants us to believe “87% = 600%” a reality which would derail all of mathematics if true.

Reporters better PRINT OUT TRUMP’S POST ON A GIANT POSTER BOARD so the second Mike Johnson claims he was too busy with his healthcare bill to have seen it they can hold it up and say “read it right now motherfucker”

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

Uh, that's definitely Woody Allen not Bill Gates? @cnn.com

This is a variation on "Twitter isn't real life." As a degenerate who spent the last decade swimming these waters I've followed this story with interest, but I don't think there's a single person in my offline life who has even HEARD OF this story, much less knows the context of any of it.

The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.

Democratic leaders need to unanimously come to Ilhan’s defense. This is non-negotiable. Anyone who remains silent is complicit.

watching all the travelers be diverted around by armed guards so RFK can film himself screaming about baby formula (?) and doing half of one pull up - neither of which are related to his job - is just so poetic.

I think, in general, the level to which people have conflated “I personally support my friend” & “my friend suffering consequences for their actions is mean & maybe even immoral” in the post-MeToo/collapse-of-public/private-self-social-media-age is alarming.

Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"

A feel like the goal of a liberal democracy (and to be the stewards of it) should be to defend people’s right to *be* however they want to be. Demanding people “be more culturally normal” isn’t just stupid it’s also an impossible quest.

Thinking on the phase “a terrorist and his terrorist wife”

Not a big conspiracy guy, never been my inclination, but it seems pretty obvious to me that they keep doing these brazen murders to get people used to the idea when they start doing them against Americans.

Even if we were to take voters at face value that they backed Trump because they wanted cheaper eggs (and we shouldn’t), it would be entirely unacceptable to support someone who speaks about other human beings this way no matter what price he could get eggs to (and he couldn’t)

I’d love to see the parallel universe where Trump ran exclusively on bulldozing part of the White House to build a ballroom with technocrat bribe money because only he was equipped to do it. Promises made, promises kept.

The magnitude of the change over time is striking. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news... via @seattletimes

This is like a Slate post from 2011

lol

An entire argument dismantled in two words.

So republicans agree work from home can be as productive as in office?

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

Trump and JD Vance continue to spread disgusting lies about immigrants eating cats and dogs with zero consequences but CNN can’t say the most obviously guilty person to ever be guilty is obviously guilty

Today's going to be a big day for Speaker Johnson not seeing, hearing about, or reading things. Just a man sitting in his sensory deprivation tank.

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350M x. 2,000. They got 700+Billion laying around but they don't have 40B for snap?

"Look for the helpers"

There is nothing more or less “natural” about a woman cosplaying as an imagined 1950s tradwife than there is about a man “working” as a podcaster like Douthat. And yet it’s always women who are urged to return to the “natural order” of staying home to cook and clean.

It seems worth mentioning that Cuomo ran on an aggressively AI slop-heavy campaign and I don’t think it’s completely unreasonable to conclude that voters subconsciously recognized how lazy and morally bankrupt that approach is and found it revolting. There’s a lesson for brands there.

surprised he knew about that

Look, is the president actively dying? Who knows, but the idea that an 80 year old man never even has a sick day is as preposterous as Ancient Greek statesmen claiming they were descended from Hercules.

As someone who is terminally online, I naturally follow the trials and tribulations of Bari Weiss but I cannot share that hobby with a single person in my normal life because normal people have absolutely no idea who she is. Probably the least in danger person in the country.

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the tone deafness is beyond parody

9 months ago, Congress was asked whether it would be a good idea to put a confessed dog killer in charge of DHS. They took a chance, but I think it’s clear now that the answer to that question is “no.” In fact I may go so far as to say confessed dog killers should be actively avoided.

What if we gave the worst people in the world, the people who are just fundamentally assholes, all the power? What an experiment.