Gavin Newsom has never had a homeless, a working unhoused, or an affordable housing advocate on his podcast despite governing California. So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.

In this episode we rolled back the clock and did a full retrospective on the infamous Harper's Letter. This conversation with @parkermolloy.com was so much fun and what a trip it was travelling back to seemingly simpler times in the discourse. youtu.be/NF-M3Nz0azE?...

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

Let's normalize requiring people to actually go out into the world and learn about something -- some actual subject matter -- before becoming pundits. The vibe I get from TCW, or Weiss, or [pick a name] is that they emerged from college directly into the mediasphere & know nothing else.

i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states

Hilarious fact about this document: James Earl Ray assassinated MLK jr. When asked if he acted alone, or was part of a larger conspiracy: *66% of white folk say conspiracy *100% of Black folk say conspiracy 100%. Because *some* white folk know about this FBI squad, but *most* Black folk do.

Was Weiss rapping this? "You got an issue with me? Take your shot You never seen my likes, so unpredictable, so heterodox"

very good piece which confirms that weiss is both exceptionally arrogant and totally out of her depth. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

a good day to throw your Ring into a volcano.

I love how much they really love each other 🥲

Now that’s art

it should have happened decades ago, but the press and public should never let the U.S. right wing prattle on about freedom and liberty ever again They should be treated the same way a convicted serial rapist would be after announcing a new home nursing healthcare company

We honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by committing ourselves to the noble struggle for equal rights. Dr. King’s work and words are still as poignant and necessary today as they were during his life.

Abu Ghraib-coded

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING wat CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Very funny that on the night of a GOT spinoff premiere (haven’t seen it yet), Kit Harrington is acting his ass off as a total rich failson on Industry. I love it when TV eps feel like standalone films

The Rip: Joe Carnahan made a helluva Miami Vice

People really really downplay dental health. Cavities are not the worse case scenario here. Poor oral health can kill you

Reminds me of one of my favorite memes:

An underrated part of The Art of Manga exhibit is when they had to try and explain each part of jjba in a short sentence while retaining a museum's register

another one from me today, on Tony Dokoupil's hyped-up nothingburger of a Trump interview, that CBS News post about Jonathan Ross, and how Bari Weiss' tenure has already been even more embarrassing than her critics (including your truly) could have predicted: slate.com/business/202...

Bleach "smells bad" because YOUR BODY IS REJECTING IT, not because the world was just waiting for someone to Disrupt the concept of bleach

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

I only just now saw this @anildash.com piece. It expresses really well the frustration and disappointment many of us feel at business leaders who could be doing much, much better than they are. (And of course “better than they are” is quite a low bar in most cases.) www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/h...

The absolute accuracy of this.

Industry is Non-Mecha Mecha Anime

IMHO, you would enjoy listening to this pod about a guy who is trying to decentralize the electricity grid the same way telecom & internet infrastructure were decentralized.

A follow-up reminder, for folks who might have forgotten how virulently racist Richard Hanania is on the main.

Just because a lot of people are cruel, bigoted, and brainwashed doesn’t mean we have to find a “middle ground” with them or a “compromise” that satisfies some of their racist delusions. We just don’t.

For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply. Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.

This is my favorite thing I've written in a hot minute

Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits

“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough. Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You know, many of us said the post 9/11 War on Terror measures were Orwellian bullshit at the time, from DHS to ICE. The Patriot Act was chilling as well. Some of us objected vociferously. Perhaps we didn't have the mics or the power, but we remember 2001-2005 as a terrible time in this country.

Hey hey, it’d be great if you saw BONE TEMPLE today if you like the 28 Years Later stuff because it is bombing and I’d really like to see the third one. Thank you for your attention.

Every time I see Noem on TV, I think about how a character tell in The Diplomat is Keri Russell's hair is a bit of a mess because she's too busy doing a serious, important job to care that much.

Pluribus reddit discourse is so funny. “Are we supposed to root for Carol” you are supposed to watch how her character interacts with the world “she’s very unlikable” wow that’s crazy can they do that

That David French NYT op-ed people are raving about is the problem with white punditry. Talking about the Nazi dual state without ever mentioning that Nazis learned from white America and its treatment of Black people. Jesus Christ it is painful waiting for y'all to catch up

PLEASE SHARE! The submission period for the photos for the Southern Reach coffee table book ends after Jan 21. Keep them coming. You're taking some amazing shots! Like this one from Ottawa submitted by Anna Parks. Rules: www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...

A terrific article by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social. Great read on a Sunday morning. Or anytime. Double Take: Are people crying Bigfoot when it’s really a bear?

I feel like this pretty much sums up the rot at the core of American civic life as a whole. “Hold the fuck up, cowboy. I signed up for the great power, not the great responsibility when I signed up for the church/media/government/think tank complex/etc.”

Another AI psychosis story. I think understanding genre would actually be helpful for people trying to make sense of LLM outputs. If you prompt it with cosmic / SF / paranoid ideas it will accept that genre premise in the tone of its responses futurism.com/artificial-i...

GPU prices, RAM prices, SSD prices, HDD prices all skyrocketing. You don't hate AI enough.

goddammit

For weeks, I was watching LibsofTikTok and the rest of the right-wing internet post some of the most insane shit I've ever seen about the Minnesota Somali community. "Inciting a pogrom" is the only way I can describe the tone of it. I really do feel like that propaganda has been rejected now

I put myself through the entire interview. Trust me when I tell you that Gavin "dank memes" Newsom agrees with him on EVERYTHING. I literally says "I agree with you" on EVERYTHING. Ben "extremely unpopular even with MAGA" Shapiro gets very combative with him and Gavin capitulates EVERY time.

I love that so many people are finally recognizing that @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social is a hack.