This seems exactly right. I had to think of this recent NYTimes piece. I think it's great that the Times pays attention to California sometimes, and I love NorCal, so happy to see coverage. Still, this is an article all about people feeling politically disenfranchised. (1/6)

Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not

Welcome in 2026! I hope you are having a pleasant start to the new year. I started by making breakfast and listening to the final episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social Project 1933 series. A striking series going through 1933 month by month and tracing how the Nazis established their power.

There are only 45 million foreign-born people living in the United States right now, about half of whom are naturalized citizens. So this ridiculous edge-lord post by taxpayer-funded trolls is suggesting deporting 55 million native-born citizens.

There’s something oddly comforting in the fact that, as they hollow out institutions (like SCOTUS and CBS), our vacuous or fash-curious elites can think of no better argument for themselves than “it’s dangerous actually for you not to respect us”.

In 1961, the National Review, that bastion of "reasonable conservatism" published a pamphlet by L. Brent Bozell (WFBuckley's bro-in-law) making the menacing argument that Chief Justice Earl Warren deserved a punishment greater than censure or impeachment because he'd "made war against public order."

Amazing: “But the Kennedy Center is not the current owner of trumpkennedycenter.org or trumpkennedycenter.com — because back in August, comedy writer Toby Morton registered those two domain names, expecting Trump and his allies to add Trump’s name to the D.C. landmark.”

When 90s conservatives were freaking out about gay men raising children, this was probably not what they had in mind, but my daughter is atm refusing to fall asleep unless we play her the triumphal march from Aida.

perennial complaint, i know: but c'mon if you're gonna spend all that time and money to make a movie and it's about academia, like spend twenty minutes talking to somebody to see if your script makes any sense. this is about sorry, baby.

Being invited to one of my favorite podcasts was one of the absolute highlights of my year. Thank you so much @moiradonegan.bsky.social & @adriandaub.bsky.social for this honor – and thank you even more for your amazing work!

The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.

To close out 2025, we at @inbedwiththeright wanted to take a moment to thank all our listeners and to look back on a super fun and busy year. Between the main feed and the Patreon (please subscribe to our Patreon!), we will have put out a full 68 episodes in 2025 by the time the 31st rolls around!

Any @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social sickos out there: did you see we posted two classics from our Patreon archive as a Holiday treat for y’all? JIC you need to find a reason to shout “I’m sorry I have AirPods in” at all approaching relatives for 3 hours and 10 mins podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Aside from the effortful ahistoricism here I wonder what it would mean for the citizenship of even many native-born Americans to have the nation conceived as a “family.”

This is related to the idea that if white people don't have 100% of high-prestige jobs, awards, recognition etc it's evidence of discrimination against whiteness. It's where "great replacement" logic leads you. bsky.app/profile/donm...

I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US. Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...

Kann jemand entziffern, um wen es sich bei der unterstrichenen (und fantastisch gekleideten) Person handelt?

Yada yada long story short don’t go near the Imagine Mosaic in Central Park now the whole place stinks of emu carcass

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Turns out the Pottery Barn rule applies to the constitutional order too, Brett: you break it, you own it.

People who think evil, corrupt, and incompetent don’t go together have it backwards. Instead of looking to Hollywood to explain real world evil, look to Hannah Arendt. Uncorrupt people of integrity won’t do evil. And evil leaders work to elevate incompetents because that helps ensure their loyalty.

Twas the night before Christmas Eve, so you know what that means

Two young women were shopping right next to me and one said „Who the hell is Neil Young?” The other one didn’t respond, but said “This is the book I was recommending to , it’s weird but I loved it.” The book: E.M. Forster’s Maurice. Young woman #1: “Oh, cool it’s a gay thing!” What a roller coaster!

And the campaign to get a trans person banished from their job and education worked

to Bari (verb): To attempt to bury a damaging political story—only to amplify it massively by drawing attention to the act of censorship itself. Example: “They tried to Bari the segment, but it got Streisanded and everyone watched it twice.”

New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada

Your annual confirmation that Fairy Tale of New York still slaps even though it has an offensive term* in it *NYPD choir

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

“The Free Press”

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Getting real Guy Who Has Only Seen Boss Baby vibes from this tweet

The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.

I wrote about the Trump administration’s ongoing and consistently futile efforts to make the Epstein story go away.

Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.

Trump supporters believe that the left has been embarrassed by Bill Clinton’s association with Epstein because they can no longer conceive of politics being about the role of government versus worshipping politicians like gods

It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media

Bari will use any leaks from within CBS News to throw people out, even though her entire start in “journalism” (using that term very widely here) was essentially live tweeting lightly factionalized versions of NYTimes editorial meetings

I too have had my free speech cruelly ripped away by Woke - I was due to give my illustrated lecture 'Extreme BDSM Themes in Japanese Noise Music' in King Charles' bedroom at 3am every night for the next month, but because of Cultural Marxism I am 'not allowed in Buckingham Palace'.

All she needs is a way to make her quitting look like she was hounded out by the Woke Mob, and we’re well on our way already

This is a great book!!!

Eva Menasse und @pbahners.bsky.social: halten Reden in Zürich Gefühlt das halbe deutsche Feuilleton: „Aus Deutschland sind sie ausgespien für alle Zeiten.“

Respectfully keep our names out your goddamn mouth

2025 was just two dumb LLMs telling each other “exaaaaactlyyyy”

Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism

Free Speech Warrior™️ Bari Weiss strikes again

Vance is not a projection screen so much as an invitation to queasy, slightly nauseated, self-recognition. I'm sure there are voters who want to look at a politician and ask themselves "Does my eyeliner/racism/try-harditude look like *that*?", but I'd bet against it being very large.

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 …